Cleveland council reduction

George’s puppet says he missed deadline to withdraw petitions for personal reasons

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CLEVELAND, OH – The 70 day statutory deadline Bill Ritter missed on January 7th to withdraw the Cleveland city council reduction petitions he suckered 22,000 Cleveland registered voters into signing as a high pressure scheme he concocted with Tony George to intimidate city council was for good “personal reasons.”  Ritter’s “personal reasons” weren’t identified in a story Cleveland Scene’s Sam Allard wrote after interviewing him to learn why the petitions were being pulled.    What Westlake George’s Cleveland puppet admitted to Allard is that his lawyers have acknowledged the flaw in the timing of his petition withdrawal and are seeking…

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Dumb azzed petition scheming idiots should have withdrawn petitions before January 7th

The only official Bill Ritter can ask to withdraw the petitions to shrink council is the Secretary of State.

CLEVELAND, OH – The “authorized by law” procedure to withdraw the council reduction petition the committee that Westlake resident Tony George financed, and Garfield Heights resident Aaron Phillips met with Bill Ritter to end, is identified in section 3519.08(A) of Ohio’s Revised Code.  It’s in plain English and reads as follow under the heading, “Withdrawal of petition – ballot procedure.” “Notwithstanding division (I)(2) of section 3501.38 of the Revised Code, at any time prior to the seventieth day before the day of an election at which an initiative or referendum is scheduled to appear on the ballot, a majority of the…

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Suppressing Black political growth behind Cleveland’s charter changes since 1937

CLEVELAND, OH – When Carl Stokes tested the Cleveland mayoral waters in his first campaign for the job in 1967, Call & Post Publisher William O. Walker, Jean Capers and Charles Carr paid attention to the city’s demographics.  Politics is “ethnic” not “racial,” and the city’s Black political leaders knew they had an ethnic voting base of 37 percent.  They also knew their Black ethnic brothers and sisters were the city and county’s largest demographic group and voting bloc then as they are today.   So instead of competing with the white ethnic candidates from the Democratic and Republican parties, they…

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Black and Protestant voting rights violator Kelly must go if council doesn’t want 8 seats lost

CLEVELAND, OH – Ex-Cleveland councilman and U.S. soldier Terrell Pruitt stood right next to Kevin Kelley and didn’t utter a gotdamned word when he violated the voting rights of 22,000 majority Black Protestant Cleveland voters.  Right in front of a U.S. soldier, Kelley felt protected when he engaged in criminal dereliction of duty as he exceeded the authority of the office of the council president.  Not a finger was lifted or a voice raised loudly in protest by either mic snatching Jeffrey Johnson or Zack Reed, so-called Black men in authority, as they stood by with their heads bowed and…

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