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Former Cleveland NAACP President George Forbes summons Black elected officials, leaders to meeting at Cleveland Clinic with Gov Kasich to push Mayor Jackson's education plan, only 4 Black elected officials show, Rev Caviness, SCLC members attend though previously taking on the governor for initially having no Blacks in his cabinet, Black leaders want Obama to be more hands on with them, meeting reveals, some Democrats stayed away saying their presence might be perceived as anti-Obama , Kasich wins some friends at the 50 person meeting, community activist calls meeting suspect

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Former Cleveland NAACP President and Call and Post Newspaper General Counsel George L. Forbes Ohio Governor John Kasich The Rev. E. Theophilus Caviness Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson United States President Barack Obama By Kath y Wray Coleman, Editor, Cleveland Urban News. Com and The Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) and ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) CLEVELAND, Ohio-Former Cleveland NAACP President George L. Forbes, also a former Cleveland City Council president and currently a part time local attorney who is also legal counsel  for the Call and Post Newspaper, Ohio's Black press, still has clout, at least with Ohio's governor. Forbes summoned Black Democratic leaders of Cleveland and Cuyahoga County to a meeting with Republican Gov. John Kasich last week to the renowned Cleveland Clinic, though only about 50 people showed, and only  four of them were Black elected officials, with some others question