Pictured are current Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Tim McGinty (wearing green suit), Michael O'Malley (wearing white shirt), who ousted McGinty in Tuesday's Democratic primary election to take the power county prosecutor's seat, 11th Congressional District Congresswoman Marcia L. Fudge, who endorsed O'Malley, and 12-year-old Cleveland police shooting victim Tamir Rice (wearing sweater). (Editor's note: No Republican or Independent entered the race so O'Malley is, in essence, the winner as the upcoming November general election nears)
By Editor-in-Chief Kathy Wray Coleman, a-23-year journalist who trained at the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio for 17 years, and who interviewed now 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
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CLEVELAND URBAN NEWS.COM-CLEVELAND, Ohio- Led by 11th Congressional District Congresswoman Marcia L. Fudge, area Black clergy and community activists, the Black community defeated Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Tim McGinty in Tuesday's primary election, handing the powerful seat to Michael O'Malley, a former assistant county prosecutor and Parma safety director who, unlike McGinty, campaigned in the Black community of Cleveland. (Editor's note: No Republican and no Independent entered the race , so O'Malley is, in essence, the winner). CLICK HERE TO READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE AT CLEVELAND URBAN NEWS.COM OF MIKE O'MALLEY AGREEING TO TAKE HARD QUESTIONS FROM A PANEL OF BLACK ACTIVISTS AND THE BLACK COMMUNITY, A COMMUNITY FORUM THAT SUBSEQUENTLY TOOK PLACE AND WAS ORGANIZED BY THE IMPERIAL WOMEN COALITION, BLACK ON BLACK CRIME INC., AND THE BLACK WOMEN'S PAC
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And at the core of McGinty's humiliating loss is his mishandling of grand jury proceedings relative to the Cleveland police killing of 12-year-old Tamir Rice, and the acquittal last year by Common Pleas Judge John O'Donnell of Michael Brelo, a since fired Cleveland cop who gunned down unarmed Blacks Malissa Williams and Timothy Russell in 2012 while slinging 49 bullets. (Editor's note: Twelve other non- Black Cleveland cops, who together fired the remaining 137 shots. escaped grand jury indictments per McGinty's recommendation).
O'Malley, whose message of criminal justice reforms and a more accountable and more amenable prosecutor's office resounded with voters, did not get a mandate and won with support from the Black community in a county, Ohio's largest of 88 counties statewide, that includes the largely Black city of Cleveland, and is a Democratic stronghold.
Neither candidate was endorsed by either the Cuyahoga County Democratic Party or the Ohio Democratic Party. A former common pleas judge of 19 years whose first four-year-term as a county prosecutor has been turbulent at best, McGinty could not match the wit of O' Malley, nor that of his his campaign manager, Ryan Miday, who understood the necessity of support of black voters and who served as media spokesperson under former county prosecutor Bill Mason, McGinty's predecessor,.
A Warrensville Heights Democrat whose largely Black 11th congressional district includes the city of Cleveland and several of its eastern suburbs, Congresswoman Fudge, who is Black and upset as to McGinty's handling of the Rice case, endorsed O'Malley early on, and she campaigned for him. CLICK HERE TO READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE OF CONGRESSWOMAN FUDGE'S ENDORSEMENT OF O'MALLEY AT CLEVELAND URBAN NEWS.COM
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