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Vote-rigging election officials and Cleveland councilmen have lost their outlaw minds

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CLEVELAND, OH – Personal self-motivation is one thing.  Abusing a public office under the “color of law” to enrich oneself right in front of the public and other officials like everyone is stupid is another. What’s not “off” the ballot for March 17, 2020 is an Issue 6 pay raise for Cleveland city council that’s tied to the highest percentage municipal legislators vote to give the city’s public employee “unions.”  Democracy at its “anarchist” finest.  Budget-protecting lawmakers so greedy they’ve created a motivation for employee unions to demand even more money from negotiating mayors in wages for more senior employees,…

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WOIO reporter didn’t understand warrantless pursuit law and her conclusions are wrong

CLEVELAND, OH – WOIO reporter Hannah Catlett’s “investigation” of Ward 2 Councilwoman Juanita Gowdy’s letter to Cleveland council president Kevin Kelly missed the point of the query.  Gowdy is a new elected official and she’s been going through records in East Cleveland’s clerk of council’s office to validate oaths, contracts and credentials of the employees and official with whom she’s interacting. Catlett obtained Gowdy’s letter and decided to answer her question to Kelly about whether a written agreement between the two cities existed that allowed law enforcement officers on either side to cross municipal borders to make arrests.  Catlett’s not…

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Dirty council president. Dirty law firm. How Porter Wright Morris Arthur screwed a client.

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CLEVELAND, OH – Two Russian oil and gas investors in Naples, Florida sued the law firm that employs Cleveland Council President Kevin Kelly’s for malpractice in 2017. One of the council president’s Porter, Wright, Morris & Arthur “partners” let Oleg and Andrey Tolkachev invest $5 million in a real estate deal without telling them the client they’d advised them to invest with had been hit with huge claims and settlements.  Attorney W. Jeffrey Cecil is alleged to have fleeced the two Russians when he withheld the information. The Tolkachevs, according to their claim in the Middle District Court of Florida,…

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Jones “shakes down” grocer, Dave’s, for 50 baskets of food

Shaking down Dave's supermarket for free food so he can make himself look good is not a duty of a member of council. Basheer Jones has not personally-written any "pro the people" legislation. He's just good at running his mouth.

CLEVELAND, OH – While federal agencies are investigating officials in Cleveland, East Cleveland, Cleveland Heights and the Cuyahoga County “land bank” for accepting “things of value” from individuals representing companies doing business with the local governments, Ward 7 Councilman Basheer Jones used the office of a councilman to shake down the down owners of Dave’s Supermarket for 50 baskets of food.  https://www.facebook.com/BasheerJonesofficial/videos/534470893720896/   Jones’ “shake down” of Dave’s came less than a week after building department employees were ordered by Mayor Frank Jackson to stop taking asking for and receiving gift cards and food from individuals representing companies doing business…

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