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Hemmons tells the elections board how she criminally impersonated East Cleveland’s clerk and gave them fraudulent records after she was fired

CLEVELAND, OH – In a February 14, 2023 declaratory judgement filing with the 8th District Court of Appeals, private attorney Willa Mae Hemmons (Reg. No. 41790) identifies herself as the “pro se law director” of the City of East Cleveland.  Hemmons wants the appellate court to overturn the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections’ decision not to place three recall petitions on the ballot that she impersonated the Clerk of Council to file with election officials. The recall petitions are an act of retaliation against the three councilwomen who exercised the duties of their elected offices to vacate the office Hemmons…

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Sean Ward won’t be on the ballot for East Cleveland mayor just like he was warned

CLEVELAND, OH – Two would-be candidates for East Cleveland mayor learned they won’t be on the ballot for either the September 14, 2021 primary election or the November 2, 2021 general election.  Neither of the two men who’d turn in petitions to seek the mayor’s office in East Cleveland met the qualifications of the city’s charter requiring mayoral candidates to be qualified residents and electors two years prior to the election. The members of the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections unanimously agreed with activist and East Cleveland Sunrise Co-Publisher Justyn Anderson’s challenges against the mayoral candidacies of Sean Labrett Ward…

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