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CLEVELAND URBAN NEWS.COM, CLEVELAND, Ohio- Three- term Black Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson, who this year is seeking an unprecedented fourth term among 10 other candidates that want his job, including two write-ins, won the endorsement of the Cuyahoga County Democratic party at an executive committee meeting on Saturday as did some judicial candidates, and all sitting members of city council seeking reelection except Brian Cummins, two seasoned council members, Jeff Johnson and Zack Reed, vying instead for mayor.
All but one of the 11 candidates for mayor, excluding Kilo, and including Mayor Jackson, are Democrats, and the entire 17-member city council is Democratic, nine of them White, and eight Black.
Candidates must garner 60 percent of the vote for an endorsement.
Jackson got 67 percent of the executive committee vote.
Also endorsed was longtime Cleveland Municipal Clerk of Court Earle B. Turner, who is Black.
Lillian Sharpley, executive director of the Cuyahoga County Democratic Party, which is led by chairman Stuart Garson, also an attorney, said in a press release to Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com that 75 percent, or 163, of the members of the executive committee voted Saturday, many of them precinct committee persons and ward leaders.
The non-partisan primary ifor mayor and city counsil seats is Sept 12, the top two vote-getters advancing to the Nov 7 general election, also the election for the city judge seats that do not have a primary.
Cuyahoga County is the second largest of 88 counties statewide, behind Franklin County, which includes the capital city of Columbus.
It is a Democratic stronghold that can predict presidential elections in the pivotal state of Ohio, and includes the majority Black major metropolitan city of Cleveland, and its 385,000 residents.
The county is roughly 29 percent Black.
Currently the councilman of Ward 10 representing the city's Glenville neighborhood and a former state senator Jeff Johnson came in second, though he lost the county Democratic endorsement to Jackson.
Former East Cleveland mayor and journalist and Eric Brewer, an outspoken critic of the mayor, got only two votes relative to his quest for the endorsement.
Cuyahoga County Councilman Anthony Hairston was endorsed to replace Jeff Johnson in Ward 10, and Debra Lewis Curlee was endorsed to replace councilman Zack Reed in Ward 2, Reed being the other member of the 17-member of the all Democratic city council running for mayor in an uphill battle to seek to oust Jackson. (Editor's note:The remaining non-write-in declared candidates for mayor, in addition to Jackson, Reed, Brewer and Jeff Johnson, are state Rep Bill Patmon, who skipped the endorsement session where Jackson, Reed, Jeff Johnson and a few others candidates spoke, Dyrone Smith, and White candidates Brandon Chrostowski, Tony Madalone and Republican Robert Kilo. The two write-in candidates are Jerome Bell and Camry Kincaid).
In addition to endorsements of council seats open in Wards 2 and 10 amid Reed's and Jeff Johnson's departures, all of the other sitting council persons were endorsed other than Brian Cummins in Ward 14, including Black east side incumbents Terrell Pruitt for Ward 1, Kenneth Johnson in Ward 4, Ward 5's Phyllis Cleveland, newcomer Blaine Griffin in Ward 6, TJ Dow in Ward 7, and Ward 9 Councilman Kevin Conwell.
Jasmin Santana, a Latino, won the party's endorsement in Ward 14 over the controversial Cummins.
Kerry McCormack, the council person in Ward 3 who is White and was endorsed was appointed by city council last year to replace the Joe Cimperman when he resigned from city council and took a job elsewhere, which includes downtown Cleveland, was endorsed.
Veteran Councilman Michael Polensek, a White east side councilman who also represents the Collinwood area with a host of Black constituents, was endorsed in Ward 8, and Anthony Brancatelli, also White, but who leads ward 12 on the east side, was also endorse.
White west side council person and incumbent Dona Brady was endorsed in Ward 11, as were other White incumbents, namely Council President Kevin Kelley in Ward 13, Matt Zone in Ward 15, Brian Kazy in Ward 16, and Martin Keane in Ward 17.
The executive committee endorsed for six of eight openings for the 13-member Cleveland Municipal Court, including the seat vacated via this year's age-limit retirement of presiding and administrative judge Ron Adrine, and two unexpired terms, including a seat open due to the sudden death of Democratic judge Ray Pianca.
The six endorsed were incumbent judges Pinkey Carr and Michelle Denise Earley, both Black and unopposed, Jasmin Torres-Lugo, the only Hispanic running, Lynn-McLaughlin- Murray, a White magistrate who lost to Carr in 2010, Ann Clare Oakar, and W. Mona Scott, who is Black and running for housing court.
McLaughlin Murray was endorsed for judge over Shelia Turner McCall, a Black female, and former councilman Craig Willis, who, like Turner McCall, is Black, and lost his council seat to Conwell in 2001.
Judge Ronald O'Leary, whom Gov. Kasich appointed to replace Pianca, a Democrat, is running in hopes of hanging on to the seat over Scott and candidate Heather McCollough.
The non-endorsements came in the judicial race of judge Joseph Zone, a former councilman who is running unopposed, and the other race that includes Cleveland NAACP President Michael Nelson Sr, an unsuccessful 2005 mayoral candidate, former judge Pauline Tarver, whom 11th Congressional District Congresswoman Marcia L. Fudge has endorsed, Marlene Ridenour, and current judge Michael Stiwinski.
Gov Voinovich last year appointed the Republican Stiwinski to replace then judge Ed Wade, a popular Black Republican who unseated Tarver in a close and controversial race in 2015.
A prolific campaigner, Wade died last year after a long battle with prostate cancer.
Declared candidates for Cleveland mayor for the Sept 12, 2017 non-partisan primary, the two top vote-getters advancing to the Nov. 7 general election, are as follows: (Reference at wikipedia.com).
James Jerome Bell (write-in)
- Eric J. Brewer, former mayor of East Cleveland[
- Brandon Edwin Chrostowski, CEO of Edwins Leadership and Restaurant Institute
- Frank G. Jackson, incumbent Mayor of Cleveland[
- Jeff Johnson, Cleveland City Council member and former state Senator[9
- Robert M. Kilo, a former candidate for mayor in 2009
- Camry S. Kincaid (write-in)[
- Tony Madalone, CEO of Fresh Brewed Tees]
- Bill Patmon, state Representative and former Cleveland City Council member[
- Zack Reed, Cleveland City Council member
- Dyrone W. Smith Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com , Ohio's most read Black digital newspaper and Black blog with some 4.5 million views on Google Plus alone.Tel: (216) 659-0473 and Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com. Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief, and who trained for 17 years at the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio. We interviewed former president Barack Obama one-on-one when he was campaigning for president. As to the Obama interview, CLICK HERE TO READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE AT CLEVELAND URBAN NEWS.COM, OHIO'S LEADER IN BLACK DIGITAL NEWS.
CLEVELAND URBAN NEWS.COM, CLEVELAND, Ohio- Three- term Black Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson, who this year is seeking an unprecedented fourth term among 10 other candidates that want his job, including two write-ins, won the endorsement of the Cuyahoga County Democratic party at an executive committee meeting on Saturday as did some judicial candidates, and all sitting members of city council seeking reelection except Brian Cummins, two seasoned council members, Jeff Johnson and Zack Reed, vying instead for mayor.
All but one of the 11 candidates for mayor, excluding Kilo, and including Mayor Jackson, are Democrats, and the entire 17-member city council is Democratic, nine of them White, and eight Black.
Candidates must garner 60 percent of the vote for an endorsement.
Jackson got 67 percent of the executive committee vote.
Also endorsed was longtime Cleveland Municipal Clerk of Court Earle B. Turner, who is Black.
Lillian Sharpley, executive director of the Cuyahoga County Democratic Party, which is led by chairman Stuart Garson, also an attorney, said in a press release to Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com that 75 percent, or 163, of the members of the executive committee voted Saturday, many of them precinct committee persons and ward leaders.
The non-partisan primary ifor mayor and city counsil seats is Sept 12, the top two vote-getters advancing to the Nov 7 general election, also the election for the city judge seats that do not have a primary.
Cuyahoga County is the second largest of 88 counties statewide, behind Franklin County, which includes the capital city of Columbus.
It is a Democratic stronghold that can predict presidential elections in the pivotal state of Ohio, and includes the majority Black major metropolitan city of Cleveland, and its 385,000 residents.
The county is roughly 29 percent Black.
Currently the councilman of Ward 10 representing the city's Glenville neighborhood and a former state senator Jeff Johnson came in second, though he lost the county Democratic endorsement to Jackson.
Former East Cleveland mayor and journalist and Eric Brewer, an outspoken critic of the mayor, got only two votes relative to his quest for the endorsement.
Cuyahoga County Councilman Anthony Hairston was endorsed to replace Jeff Johnson in Ward 10, and Debra Lewis Curlee was endorsed to replace councilman Zack Reed in Ward 2, Reed being the other member of the 17-member of the all Democratic city council running for mayor in an uphill battle to seek to oust Jackson. (Editor's note:The remaining non-write-in declared candidates for mayor, in addition to Jackson, Reed, Brewer and Jeff Johnson, are state Rep Bill Patmon, who skipped the endorsement session where Jackson, Reed, Jeff Johnson and a few others candidates spoke, Dyrone Smith, and White candidates Brandon Chrostowski, Tony Madalone and Republican Robert Kilo. The two write-in candidates are Jerome Bell and Camry Kincaid).
In addition to endorsements of council seats open in Wards 2 and 10 amid Reed's and Jeff Johnson's departures, all of the other sitting council persons were endorsed other than Brian Cummins in Ward 14, including Black east side incumbents Terrell Pruitt for Ward 1, Kenneth Johnson in Ward 4, Ward 5's Phyllis Cleveland, newcomer Blaine Griffin in Ward 6, TJ Dow in Ward 7, and Ward 9 Councilman Kevin Conwell.
Jasmin Santana, a Latino, won the party's endorsement in Ward 14 over the controversial Cummins.
Kerry McCormack, the council person in Ward 3 who is White and was endorsed was appointed by city council last year to replace the Joe Cimperman when he resigned from city council and took a job elsewhere, which includes downtown Cleveland, was endorsed.
Veteran Councilman Michael Polensek, a White east side councilman who also represents the Collinwood area with a host of Black constituents, was endorsed in Ward 8, and Anthony Brancatelli, also White, but who leads ward 12 on the east side, was also endorse.
White west side council person and incumbent Dona Brady was endorsed in Ward 11, as were other White incumbents, namely Council President Kevin Kelley in Ward 13, Matt Zone in Ward 15, Brian Kazy in Ward 16, and Martin Keane in Ward 17.
The executive committee endorsed for six of eight openings for the 13-member Cleveland Municipal Court, including the seat vacated via this year's age-limit retirement of presiding and administrative judge Ron Adrine, and two unexpired terms, including a seat open due to the sudden death of Democratic judge Ray Pianca.
The six endorsed were incumbent judges Pinkey Carr and Michelle Denise Earley, both Black and unopposed, Jasmin Torres-Lugo, the only Hispanic running, Lynn-McLaughlin- Murray, a White magistrate who lost to Carr in 2010, Ann Clare Oakar, and W. Mona Scott, who is Black and running for housing court.
McLaughlin Murray was endorsed for judge over Shelia Turner McCall, a Black female, and former councilman Craig Willis, who, like Turner McCall, is Black, and lost his council seat to Conwell in 2001.
Judge Ronald O'Leary, whom Gov. Kasich appointed to replace Pianca, a Democrat, is running in hopes of hanging on to the seat over Scott and candidate Heather McCollough.
The non-endorsements came in the judicial race of judge Joseph Zone, a former councilman who is running unopposed, and the other race that includes Cleveland NAACP President Michael Nelson Sr, an unsuccessful 2005 mayoral candidate, former judge Pauline Tarver, whom 11th Congressional District Congresswoman Marcia L. Fudge has endorsed, Marlene Ridenour, and current judge Michael Stiwinski.
Gov Voinovich last year appointed the Republican Stiwinski to replace then judge Ed Wade, a popular Black Republican who unseated Tarver in a close and controversial race in 2015.
A prolific campaigner, Wade died last year after a long battle with prostate cancer.
Declared candidates for Cleveland mayor for the Sept 12, 2017 non-partisan primary, the two top vote-getters advancing to the Nov. 7 general election, are as follows: (Reference at wikipedia.com).