Ohio State Senator Nina Turner (D-25), State Representative Sandra Williams (D-11), State Representative Armond Budish (D-9) and State Senator Shirley Smith (D-21)
By Kathy Wray Coleman, Editor, Cleveland Urban News. Com and The Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com, Ohio's No 1 and No 2 online Black newspapers (www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com) and (www.clevelandurbannews.com). Kathy Wray Coleman is a former biology teacher and a 20-year investigative Black journalist who trained for some 15 years at the Call and Post Newspaper. Reach Coleman by phone at 216-659-0473 and by email at editor@clevelandurbannews.com
EAST CLEVELAND, Ohio-Ohio state Sen. Nina Turner (D-25) and state Reps. Sandra Williams (D-11) and Armond Budish (D-9) will host a town hall meeting on House Bill 59, the state budget bill, on Monday, August 5, 2013 from 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm at the East Cleveland Public Library. The event is free and open to the public, though tickets are needed.
Turner, Williams and Budish, all Democrats, say the budget bill impacts greater Clevelanders and other Ohioans relative to a variety of public policy issues effecting middle class and poor people including cuts to Ohio's school funding formula, restrictions by women on access to healthcare increases in sales and property taxes, and decreases in funding for job opportunities and workforce training.
Budish of Beachwood hopes to win next year's Democratic primary for the Cuyahoga County Executive seat now held by Ed FitzGerald, who is running for governor next year. He
faces to date fired former county sheriff Bob Reid and state Sen. Shirley Smith (D-21), the only Black and only female in the county executive race thus far.
Members of the Ohio General Assembly, which is made up of the Ohio Senate and Ohio House of Representatives, adopt state laws.
Turner and Smith are the only Black state senators in the Ohio General Assembly from northeast Ohio.
