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The Cuyahoga County Democratic Party officially announced a few minutes ago that Nick Martin has been tapped as the new ED of the country party. Nick’s primary mandate will be to modernize and rebuild the party infrastructure. The release specifically mentions the anti-SB5 efforts and the upcoming 2012 elections.
Full Story... →On WKYC’s Between the Lines this morning, Bill Mason showed up with assistant prosecutor Dan Kasaris (weird. why?), and called the Scene story about his impending resignation “embarrassing”, saying there are no facts to support it. Not really a denial there, Bill. On the FBI investigation into the coroner’s office hiring of Strongsville councilman Pat Coyne, Mason sold his buddy Coyne down the river, threw him under the bus, ran over him in forward and then reverse, you name it, telling Tom Beres that all those other losers are “responsible for their own conduct.” Mason and Kasaris repeatedly defended their [...]
Full Story... →Time to check in on the Cuyahoga County races. It’s not pretty.
Our nominee for county executive, Public Official #14 himself, Ed Fitzgerald, has one ad on his Youtube channel, which claims to have aired in September. That probably means the first week of September, right before the September 7 primary, because I have yet to see it on Cleveland TV during the general. Meanwhile, Republican Matt Dolan’s ads are running all the time, featuring, you guessed it, Public Official #14.
Ken Lanci, the much hyped independent who had promised to spend whatever it took to win, is [...]
Full Story... →Former John Kasich staffer, Homeland Security consultant, and lifelong suckling of the government teat, Jon Keeling, has proven every single day of his John Kasich inspired blowhard blogging career that he is, in fact, a clueless shill. Modern does a fine job pointing that out. When Kasich loses, Keeling will probably never blog again, and retire to begging his government funded employers for ever more taxpayer money to fund the very personal hypocritical hour by hour contradiction that is his “career”. But I digress.
Yesterday, Keeling pretended to know Cuyahoga County, which is what he does on all matters [...]
Full Story... →Starting this morning, you can go down to your local board of elections and vote in the November election. Seems like a good moment to take a look at early vote impact on my own election September 7. There are a couple lessons for Democrats.
About 56% of the turnout in District 7 was early vote. We were expecting higher, given that the May primary had a 60% early vote turnout, the September election was the day after Labor Day, and there was a lot of media attention paid to this increased use of early vote. I suspect the 56% [...]
Full Story... →Not so much.
(Tim went down to the courthouse to snap this picture.)
Cleveland Scene reports that Judge McCafferty’s fundraiser tonight has been cancelled. And yes, she’s up for re-election this November. And yes, she has a GOP opponent.
Full Story... →Ok, this is finally bloggable.? After our very own ResignationPalooza a while back, people were wondering what the hell happened….why didn’t Bill Mason resign?? Who knows.? But this weekend, there appears to be some blood in the water, and the sharks are circling.
WOIO Channel 19 ran a two part series in the 6pm news slot on patronage in Bill Mason’s office yesterday, and today (which isn’t online yet).? We’re hearing that a few more stories are about to drop, perhaps a big one in the Sunday PD.? We’re staying tuned, so should you!
Full Story... →Only at the Independent.
Such a bill introduced in the Cuyahoga County Council will draw this same opposition from corporate interests, and then some. Without doubt, the very people who bankrolled Issue 6 to create this council for the specific purpose of economic development, will challenge this council?s jurisdiction to legislate on what is an economic development issue at its core, jurisdiction they themselves created, even wrote into the charter with their own Mont Blanc pens.
No doubt, we will be greeted with the deliciously perverse irony of Dan Gilbert, himself an ex-offender, clutching his voter-installed, constitutionally-enshrined, government created [...]
Full Story... →Here’s the Indy story detailing how Zanotti lied about his gambling junkets with J. Kevin Kelley.? Below is the tape – the vid starts at James Renner’s question.? You can clearly here Zanotti say “ZERO” in a very irritated tone.
Full Story... →Henry Gomez writes a good roundup of the challenges facing the Cuyahoga County transition.? However, in his coverage of the February 17 meeting, Gomez missed one very important point – transition advisory group co-chair Martin Zanotti lied to a reporter during the meeting.
Zanotti watched from the sidelines at a public meeting for the government transition process held at CSU February 17. After several audience members lobbed softball questions at the group of Democrats in control of the meeting, I stepped to the mic and addressed Zanotti directly. I asked him to go on record to confirm or [...]
Full Story... →Budget Watch
