Pictured is Ohio Lieutenant Governor mary Taylor, also a candidate for the Republican nomination for Ohio governor

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CLEVELAND URBAN NEWS.COM-CLEVELAND, Ohio-Ohio Lt. Gov. Mary Taylor, also a candidate for the Republican nomination for governor,  spoke to Black community activists and community members in general on Saturday at the Glenville Public Library in Cleveland on the city's largely Black east side and in the historical Glenville neighborhood, an intimate event sponsored by the Inner City Republican Movement and led by its president, community activist Donna Walker Brown, a Black Republican.

Walker Brown said that the three other Republican candidates for Ohio governor, Attorney General Mike DeWine, who is a former US senator, Secretary of State John Husted and Congressman Jim Renacci, did not respond to the invitation to meet with Black people in the heart of the Black community of Cleveland, a largely Black major American city.

Walker Brown introduced Taylor as the "second most powerful person in Ohio who would lead the state if, God forbids, something happens to Governor Kasich."

Taylor, who lags behind her three male Republican opponents in raising campaign monies as the 2018 election year for governor nears, told audience members that she is the best candidate and that she will advocate for a better Ohio for all people, including poor people.

"People deserve hope and opportunity for the future," said Taylor, a married mother of grown children, and the daughter of a bricklayer. "And we must break the cycle of multi-generational poverty."

Born and raised in Akron, Ohio and a graduate of the University of Akron, Taylor said that more jobs and economic expansion are crucial, among other platform initiatives she sited.

All of the candidates for Ohio governor, both Republicans and Democrats alike, are White.

Aside form Walker Brown and Taylor, speakers at the gathering included RNC Minority Outreach Coordinator Camilla Prince, Ward 9 Councilman Kevin Conwell, who was gracious but reminded the audience that he is a Democrat, Democrat Mattie Porter, and Porter's son, Alfred Porter Jr, a Republican who leads the Cleveland-based grassroots activist group Black on Black Crime Inc.

Candidates for other offices who were in attendance were Cleveland City Council candidates Gilda Malone and Eugene Miller, also a former councilman, and Cleveland Municipal Court Judge Michael Sliwinski, Malone and Sliwinski Republicans, and Miller, who is also a former state representative, a Democrat.

And though several there were in opposition to her proposed policies and her support of President Donald Trump many, including Walker Brown, said they appreciate that Taylor took time out of her busy schedule to meet with inner city Black people in Cleveland, the second largest city in Ohio behind the capital city of Columbus.

Fifthy-one years old with perrenial youth,  and a former state auditor, Taylor is endorsed by the ter-limited Gov John Kasich but has strayed from him in the dispute with President Trump over heathcare.

Unlike Kasich, she backs Trump's tax proposal, and both the GOP healthcare bill in congress that has yet to pass and the president's recent executive order to stop federal subsidies under the Affordable Care Act that help poor people and others who qualify for the subsidies meet insurance premium deductibles.

A 2016 unsuccessful candidate for president, Kasich says the GOP healthcare plan hurts Black people, and poor people, among others, and phases out medicaid, which he wants expanded for seniors, whom he says need it most.

Asked by activist Mattie Hayes why she supports President Trump's stances on the tax budget and heathcare and to explain what she would do at the state level to compensate for the federal healthcare subsidies that have been stripped from the Affordable Care Act by Trump, Taylor said she supports Trump on those issues, and that she will continue to fight for alternative quality heath care for Ohians.

The president's tax plan, she says, is worth supporting.

"I am excited about what President Trump has prepared from a tax perspective," said Taylor.

In response to a question from ClevelandUrbanNews.Com and the KathyWrayColemanOnlineNewsBlog.Com on whether she would help the Black community lobby the Ohio State Legislature to comply with the Ohio Supreme Court 1992 DeRolph decision that ordered it to revise its unconstitutional public school funding formula that awards money to rich affluent White children, Taylor said money is not the issue and that quality teachers would suffice for the money deficit, one audience member asking if quality teachers could eradicate the fact that Black school children are sometimes poor and need quality educational resources beyond efficient teachers like their well-to-do White counterparts.

Taylor talked about the heroin and opiate epidemic that plagues Ohio, saying her two sons have struggled with drug addiction and she is thankful they are now sober.

The lieutenant governor also voiced her support for school vouchers and school choice, a Republican initiative sometimes embraced by Blacks who believe America's public schools have failed Black children, though data are explicit in showing that typically charter and choice schools do not fare any better than public schools, and sometimes they actually perform worse academically.

Cleveland has the only public school voucher program sanctioned by the U.S. Supreme Court which, in 2002, upheld them as constitutionally sound and not violating the separation of church and state clause of the 1st amendment because the monies go to the parents of the students and not the students themselves, a ruling that former president Barack Obama, a Democrat and a former constitutional lawyer, told journalist Kathy Wray Coleman in  a one-on-one- interview in 2008 for the Call and Post Newspaper that he does nor agree with.

Donna Walker Brown said that while she is a Republican she does not support all of the Republican initiatives and that she is against school vouchers and school choice, and any of the policies pushed or initiated by President Donald Trump that "offend the Black community."

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CLEVELAND URBAN NEWS.COM- Cleveland activist and journalist Kathy Wray Coleman (pictured), among others, will give testimony before a community panel of the Cleveland Truth Commission on Poverty, Colemans slated to testify on poverty, police brutality, prosecutorial and judicial malfeasance, the heroin and opiate epidemic, racism, sexism and other matters relative to the legal system in Cuyahoga County at 10 am on Sat, Oct 14, 2017 at the Franklin Circle Christian Church in Cleveland, 1688 Fulton Road on the city's west side. For more information call Larry Bresler of Organize Ohio at 216-651-2606. CLICK HERE TO GO TO THE FACEBOOK PAGE OF THE CLEVELAND TRUTH COMMISSION ON POVERTY'S OCTOBER 14, 2017 EVENT

Comprised primarily of activists and anti-poberty advocates the truth commission is not an official venue, but it has clout, and influence.

Hundreds are expected to attend, organizers said Wednesday.

The public forum, which is scheduled to conclude at 4 pm, will include five -minute testimonals from individuals on poverty as it relates to the judicial system, health care, housing, education, and the environment, and is hosted by  greater Cleveland activist groups that are listed further on in this article.

"We invite the community to this powerful public event on poverty and the obstacles poor people face on a regular basis," said Don Bryant, a community activist who leads the greater Cleveland Immigrant Support Network, and a key organizer of the forum.

Others will testify on various issues, including a Black woman whose son was killed in prison.

Coleman is a former 14-year public school biology teacher who leads the Cleveland based -Imperial Women Coalition and who trained as a journalist at the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland for 17 years before becoming the editor at ClevelandUrbanNews.Com and the KathyWrayColemanOnlineNewsBlog.Com , Ohio's most read digital Black newspaper and Black blog. She has an undergraduate degree in biology, two master's degrees, and was all but dissertation with a straight A record at the University of Akron in its doctoral program. She was arbitrarily arrested at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland last July in what she says is retaliation for her activism and writings and for leading community activists in a protest at the RNC on Public Square that day against police killings of Black people and violence against women .

She was charged with misdemeanor resisting arrest and has pleaded not guilty and wants a trial  by jury, though the speedy trial time has expired, data show, and her attorney in the case, Scott Hurley, refuses to move to dismiss the case, allegedly saying he is angry because she will not agree to be quiet on public corruption matters, all while refusing to withdraw from the case.

The case is before Cleveland Municipal Court Judge Charles Patton, a former city councilman, whom she says is stalking her and was handpicked to harass her by outgoing chief judge Ronald Adrine, after judges Michelle Earley, Lauren Moore and Pinkey Carr all withdrew as judges in the case, allegedly because they were asked to fix the case for City Hall, and others.

She said that Attorney Hurley, who is White, is an assistant public defender who operates for the establishment and the prosecution indirectly, and is indicative of how indigent counsel work against the best interest of poor people and Black people.  He has repeatedly threatened her, she says, and has had secret exparte meetings with Judge Patton in alleged violation of the Ohio Lawyer's Professional Code of Responsibility.

Following her arrest at the RNC last year, she was jailed for three months in the Cuyahoga County Jail without bond, after her bond was paid where she said she did an extensive investigation on issues ranging from ineffective assistance of counsel to poor people, to fraudulent and fixed indictments on criminal charges against innocent Black people, excessive bonds, law enforcement abuse, racism, sexism,  judicial corruption, the heroin and opiate epidemic, and prosecutorial malfeasance.

"Poor people, women, Blacks and others are at risk by a legal system in our county of Cuyahoga, in municipal, common pleas and other courts, and in our country that is broken across the continuum and is a detriment to the survival of the Black community," said Coleman. "No justice. No peace."

Cuyahoga County includes Cleveland and is roughly 29 percent Black. It is the second largest county in Ohio, and a Democratic stronghold.

Coleman says she has been under attack for years for her activism and writings, the most recent threats being that she will be illegally arrested and jailed unless she agrees not  to lead the annual anniversary rally of the Imperial Murders of 11 Black women on Imperial Avenue by serial killer Anthony Sowell, which is scheduled for 3 pm on Oct 29 at 12205 in front of where Sowell's home once stood. CLICK HERE TO GO TO THE FACEBOOK PAGE FOR THE 8-YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF THE IMPERIAL AVENUE MURDERS RALLY AND VIGIL

Coleman said the Imperial Avenue Murders rally, which she has led for the past seven years, all but one year, will go forward with or without her leadership, though she will be there if not jailed per the initiative of corrupt Cleveland City Hall officials, racist cops, judges like Judge Charles Patton, and other scumbag politicians, both Black and White alike, who have wno scruples.

Pictured is Euclid police fatal shooting victim Luke Stewart

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CLEVELAND URBAN NEWS-COM, CLEVELAND Ohio- The family of 23-year-old Luke Stewart, a Black man killed by a Euclid, Ohio cop in March, has filed an excessive force and wrongful death lawsuit against the city, the cop that killed him and a host of other defendants, including the city's mayor, Kirsten Holzheimer Gail

The suit says in relevant part that Rhodes was unnecessarily beaten by officer Matthew Rhodes, tased and fatally shot, simply because he tried to drive away from cops that approached him while he was asleep in a parking lot.

Rhodes was not indicted by a  largely White grand jury for fatally shooting Stewart, who was unarmed and Black, which is routine in Cuyahoga County, from the fatal police shooting of 12-year-old Tamir Rice by Cleveland police in 2014 to a host of other Cleveland police killings in the past five years, including Tanisha Anderson, Malissa Williams, Timothy Russell, and aspiring rapper Kenneth Smith.

Led by Black Lives Matter Cleveland, activists temporarily shut down a Euclid City Council meeting this summer after city council and the mayor ignored their concerns relative to what they say is clearly excessive force by police.

"That was my son and we want justice," said Stewart's mother, Mary Stewart, to ClevelandUrbanNews.Com and KathyWrayColemanOnlineNewsBlog.Com editor-in-chief Kathy Wray Coleman at the city council sit-in rally last Monday at Euclid City Hall.

His sister, Tierra Stewart, told ClevelandUrbanNews.Com and the KathyWrayColemanOnlineNewsBlog.Com that "we need officer Mathew Rhodes off the streets."

Euclid is a middle class Cleveland suburb of some 50,000 residents that is roughly 60 percent Black.

An attorney for the Stewart family said that the young man's family members had hoped grand jury proceedings would be fair, but to no avail.

The office of Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine, who, among others, is seeking the Republican nomination for governor next year, handled the investigation and presented the case to the grand jury after Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Michael O'Malley passed on investigating the matter, partly because of political implications, sources said.

O'Malley ousted then county prosecutor Tim McGinty in an election last year and campaigned, in part, on his posture that the office of the Ohio attorney general investigate such controversial shootings by police, although it is also within his job purview to take such cases before grand juries.