ODP Chairman David Pepper, young Black Cleveland Dems, other Dems to host first Democratic presidential debate watch parties tonight, October 13....Watch parties are in Cleveland and other major Ohio cities...Pepper comments to Cleveland Urban News.Com field reporter Johnette Jernigan.... Cleveland is led by three-term Democratic Black Mayor Frank Jackson....Hosted by CNN, the debate airs live from Las Vegas at 8:30 pm ET....The five Democratic debaters are Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton, U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders, former Virginia U.S. senator Jim Webb, former Maryland governor Martin O'Malley, and Lincoln Chafee, the former governor of Rhode Island...Read here where the debate watch parties sponsored by the Ohio Democratic Party (ODP) will be held in Cleveland and major cities across Ohio tonight.... By Cleveland Urban News.Com, Ohio's leader in Black digital news


Key members of the Cleveland-based Northeast Ohio Chapter of Ohio Young Black Democrats (NEO-OYBD), which is led by Billy L. Sharp (second row at far right), pose with Cuyahoga County Councilwoman Yvonne Conwell, a Cleveland Democrat, (third row at far right), and East Cleveland Councilman Mansell Baker (front row at far left). 



Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson, the three-term Black Mayor of the largely Black major American city that hosted the first Republican presidential debate this summer and will also host the Republican National Convention in 2016.




Ohio Democratic Party Chairman David Pepper
By Field Reporter Johnette Jernigan and Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief, Cleveland Urban News. Com and the Cleveland Urban News.Com Blog, Ohio's Most Read Online Black Newspaper and Newspaper Blog. Tel: 216-659-0473. Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com. Jernigan has been a staff and field reporter for Cleveland Urban News.Com since 2012. Coleman is a 22-year political, legal and investigative journalist who trained for 17 years, and under six different editors, at the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio.  (www.clevelandurbannews.com) / (www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com). 



CLEVELAND, Ohio-  The Cleveland-based Northeast Ohio Chapter of the Ohio Young Black Democrats (NEO-OYBD), Cuyahoga Democratic Women’s Caucus, Cleveland Stonewall Democrats, and the Lakewood Democratic Club will host a watch party on Oct. 13 in Cleveland, Ohio as to the first Democratic presidential debate, Democratic Party Chairman (ODP) David Pepper said yesterday. (Editor's note: The debate will be moderated by Anderson Cooper and airs live only on CNN (Cable News Network). It will officially begin at 8:30 pm ET).

The Cleveland watch party is at P.J. McIntre's Irish Pub at 17119 Lorain Avenue and begins at 7 pm. For more information contact NEO-OYBD President Billy Sharp by phone at (216) 673-4408 or by email at BillyL.Sharp2015@gmail.com .

The ODP is sponsoring watch parties across the swing state of Ohio, including in Columbus, Dayton, Toledo, Cincinnati, and the largely Black major American city of Cleveland, which is led by three term Democratic Black Mayor Frank Jackson.

To Jackson's credit, Cleveland will host host the 2016 Republican National Convention, and city officials, this summer, welcomed the first Republican presidential debate, which is also credited, primarily, to efforts by the mayor and former city council president. (See the list of other debate watch parties in major cities of Ohio other than Cleveland at the end of this article). 

Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, also a former first lady and U.S. senator representing New York, is the clear front-runner for the Democratic nomination for president, followed by longtime U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, who has strong support from Democratic socialists, among others. They will share the debate stage with less known candidates of former Virginia senator Jim Webb, former Maryland governor Martin O’Malley,  and Lincoln Chafee, the former governor of Rhode Island. 


Chairman of the ODP since January of this year, and a former Democratic candidate for Ohio Attorney general who lost  a bid last year to unseat Republican Mike DeWine, a former U.S. senator, Pepper did not give any predictions for the winner of tonight's first Democratic presidential debate.  But he told Cleveland Urban News.Com field reporter Johnette Jernigan in a one-on-one interview last week that he has no predictions either on who might win the Republican nomination for president. 

Pepper said that regardless, he would not bet a dime on any of the Republican presidential candidates ultimately advancing to the White House next year, including front-runner Donald Trump.

"I would not bet money on any of them right now,'"Pepper said of the crowded GOP field of presidential hopefuls, 15 of them now, including Ohio Gov. John Kasich, a two term governor who, in 2010, ousted then Democratic governor Ted Strickland, now a candidate, among others, for a bid for the Democratic nomination for U.S senator in 2016.

Mayor Jackson has not said publicly whether he will join his fellow Democrats at the ODP sponsored watch party in Cleveland, an impoverished yet progressive city that struggles like other big cities with police killings of unarmed Black people, underfunded public schools, poverty, gun violence, and heightened violence against innocent women and children. 

Key debate topics include the economy, gun control, Planned Parenthood, Immigration reform, Obamacare, education, foreign and domestic policy, and Vice President Joe Biden, a potential presidential candidate who is not among the five people debating, an indication, say political pundits, that he will likely not run president.

Below is official data from the ODP as to debate watch parties in Columbus, Toledo, Dayton and Cincinnati: 


COLUMBUS -- Hosted by Clintonville for Change

Studio 35

3055 Indianola Ave.

Columbus

On-site contact: Russ Childers, clintonville4change@gmail.com

CINCINNATI -- Hosted by Hamilton County Democratic Party

Mr. Pitiful's

1323 Main St.

Cincinnati

On-site contact: Tim Burke, tburke@manleyburke.com

DAYTON -- Hosted by Wright State University College Democrats

Wright State University

Student Union, Room 103

Dayton

On-site contact: Baxter Foskuhl, foskuhl.14@outlook.com

TOLEDO -- Hosted by Lucas County Democratic Party

The Attic On Adams

1701 Adams St.

Toledo

On-site contact: Joshua Hughes, atty.jmartinhughes@gmail.com

Contact the Ohio Democratic Party for additional debate watch parties.

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