CLEVELAND, Ohio-Following the Cuyahoga County prosecutor candidate forum from 5 pm to 7 pm at the Laborers Local 310 Hall, 3250 Euclid Ave in Cleveland, grassroots leaders, college sorority and fraternity members, elected officials and others will gather Tues. Jan 24. at 8 pm at President Barack Obama's reelection campaign headquarters at Shaker Square in Cleveland, 130100 Shaker Blvd.
The purpose is for a watch party before the president's long anticipated State of the Union address at 9 pm. Other watch parties will also be held throughout the Cleveland metropolitan area.
Candidates for the March 6 Democratic primary are invited to come pass out literature before the State of the Union begins, campaign officials said . The contact for the event is B. J. Tucker, Obama's Cleveland campaign operations manager at 216-416-2017.
"We will show it on big screen on the wall and will have coffee, hot chocolate, tea, pastries and chips." said Tucker, who once ran a campaign office of two term Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson when he won his first term. "We welcome those that have not stopped by already to the campaign headquarters."
The county prosecutor's forum is sponsored by the Northshore AFL-CIO Federation of Labor, which is led by executive secretary Harriet Applegate, and some from that meeting are scheduled to attend the watch party, including a few of the five candidates, which are Subodh Chandra, Stephanie Hall, Tim McGinty, James J. McDonnell and Robert Triozzi. The contact telephone number for that event is 216-310-7657
The soon-to-be nominee for the Democratic Party for reelection to president of the United States of America, Obama will likely square off in the Nov. election against either Mitt Romney, the former governor of Massachusetts, or former U.S House Speaker Newt Gingrich, both Republicans.
"I am coming because I 'd like to see the State of the Union and I want to socialize with campaign supporters, women and other progressive groups," said Elaine Stone, a Maple Hts District 5 community activist.
Tucker said that if time permits a discussion will be held after the State of the Union and that the gathering is scheduled to be a lite mixture of socialization and education via Obama's state of the country address to the American people.
The Cleveland campaign office is the hub. Other locations will open soon in Euclid, Parma and other cities with E. Cleveland Obama supporters wanting a campaign office in that city.
"I hope the Obama campaign will open an office in E. Cleveland ," said Betty Mahone, owner and operator of the Chateau in E. Cleveland and leader of the Women's Federation. "I will be at the watch party tomorrow."
In addition to Obama's campaign team members like Andre Saint Cyr, a tentative list of just some that are slated to attend the watch party include Charles E. Bibb Sr., Democratic Party Campaign Chairperson and Director of the City of Cleveland Community Relations Board Blaine Griffin, E. Cleveland Councilwoman Mildred Brewer, Jeane Joy, CNN Hero and Anti- Domestic Violence Advocate Laura Cowan, Cleveland Ward 6 Councilwoman Mamie Mitchell, Attorney Michael Nelson Sr., Marlene Statler, Community Activist Participants and Leaders Khalid Samad, Denise Taylor, Brett Jackson, Michael Nelson, Ada Averyhart, Kathy Wray Coleman, Debbie Kline, Ernest Smith, Patricia Rowell, Angelique Cunningham, Reketa Barringer, Veronica Williams, Ann Foster, Tiesha Foster, Amy Hurd, Genevieve Mitchell, William Clarence Marshall, Willie Stokes, Marvetta Rutherford, Frances Caldwell, Jean Whitte, Marva Patterson and David Patterson.
