In case you missed it, here was the Cleveland Plain Dealer column putting the lock on the Mayor's office for Jackson for four more years.

Timing is everything and it is very important to the regional industrial leadership to establish Jackson as "made" for four more years, as he is their man and with him in office they can route over $1 billion in urban redevelopment money to come from the Obama administration to the usual corrupt club. 

By the PD declaring Jackson winner at this early stage, before Obama has a chance to really evaluate how money should be spent in Northeast Ohio, this is a defacto endorsement of "stay the course" by the citizens here, so why should Obama et al think about changing things here.

4 more years of public money being diverted to rich, greedy, industrial leaders, and their projects, like the Lakefront Boulevard gift to Marous Brothers waste of carbon and tax dollars, and the Opportunity Corridor freeway and MedCon gifts to Cosgrove et al that are such F*CKING obsessions with all these white suburbanites and their politicians ... that is what this column is endorsing... 4 more years of corporate charity, philanthropy for the rich, underperformance by poor and at times stupid leaders, and continued economic depression in our community...

Is this the message you want DC to get about Cleveland, when they think about where and how to spend economic development funds...

When Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson seeks re- election in 2009, he is likely to face just one serious opponent: himself.

Three years after he handily defeated Jane Campbell, there is no real movement to knock him out of office. Not among black voters on the city's East Side, nor white voters on the West Side. Not among business leaders. Not among clergy. Not among labor leaders.

 

Disrupt IT

Norm, how about you for Mayor,  I think everybody is just numb.  nobody kows where to go - I don't - I just about decided to throw all the names up in the air and see which ones fall in the hat. 

No matter who I vote for, I get fooled.  "SIMPLEMAN"  Cimperman turned out to be one of the the biggest disappointments in my time.  And the more I investigate into political corruption - everybody is covering everybody else's ass - everybody is promising everybody else credit or favors - everybody is giving somebody little pieces of property - and for what?  What is at the end of the rainbow?  We sure ain't gettin' any of the gold. 

There's an old song that says "who's car is parked next door,"  well, you drive around Tremont and it "who's name is on who's signs."  Look on the Old Bank Building on Professor - it says "another STOREFRONT RENOVATION" sponsored by: Councilamn Cimperman, Mayor Frank Jackson, Martin Sweeney, and, of course, Tremont West Development Corp., Drive down to Sammy Catania's Literary Bluff's Condo's that says Lori Properties, and what does it say,  LITERARY BLUFFS - LORI PROPERTIES, COUNCILMAN JOE CIMPERMAN.  But if you look it up in the County records - the good  SII Development Director Sammy Catania is an owner of Lori Properties.  Wow, you think maybe conflict of interest here.  

Anybody want to take a guess as to why Rosemary Vinci gave our SII Develoment Director/Project Manager a parcel of property  (commercial vacant lot) (11/03/03) on West 19th Street for $0 dollars.  (County Records verifies)   Last time I checked even rich folks didn't give away property.

OH AND BY THE WAY, JUST IN CASE YOU DIDN'T GET IT, I'D SURELY VOTE FOR YOU AND CAMPAIGN FOR YOU TOO!!!!

  As my representative Kucinich did nothing to stop the senseless destruction of the Fulton Rd. bridge, did nothing to regulate banks locally, contributed to the deafening silence on the mortgage industry and banking fraud until it was too late, and to, top it all off, wasted millions of federal dollars in his narcissistic quest for presidential power.  

I like Ron Paul and don't think that he should be characterized in the same vein as Dennis Kucinich.   Frankly, we need to completely reinvent Congress and the role of federal government in our lives.

Who are you suggesting Laura? Would you run? You live in the city and certainly have ideas about what needs fixing. Couldn't vote for ya unless it was a county seat though as I live in Cleveland Heights.

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