No Upsets In Cleveland City Council Races
By Kathy Wray Coleman
(Cleveland, Ohio Area News)
Posted Wednesday, September 9, 2009
The Sept. 8 non-partisan primary race for the 19 Cleveland City Council seats up for grabs brought no surprising outcomes, though the neck and neck race between Ward 5 Councilwoman Phyllis Cleveland and Pernel Jones Jr., an owner an operator of Pernel Jones Funeral Home in Cleveland, is being closely watched. Cleveland, council's majority leader, finished with 674 votes, and Jones with 575.
Like the others council races, Cleveland and Jones, as the two top vote getters, will square off for the Nov. 3 general election, though as Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson's hand picked successor to Ward 5 few would rule out Jackson's active role in campaigning for Cleveland in the general election. He sailed to victory with 72 percent of the vote and will face former Cleveland Ward 8 Councilman Bill Patmon, hoping to retain his job as mayor of the predominantly Black major metropolitan city.
Ward 3 Councilman Zack Reed finished with a commanding lead in Ward 2 winning with 1, 343 votes. Charlene Laster was a distant second with 417. In Ward 8, former Ohio State Senator Jeffrey Johnson led the race, ending with 925 votes. Shari Cloud's had 627, still winning a runoff slot with a second place finish, and by some political standards a disappointing one for the councilwoman just appointed by council months ago to replace Sabra Pierce Scott, who resigned the seat and is now Jackson's campaign manager.
Mamie Mitchell sailed to victory in Ward 6 over second place finisher John Boyd with 1187 votes to his 444, an outcome by percentage that almost mirrors the special primary election held last year where Mitchell and Boyd squared off.
Ward 10 Councilman Eugene Miller, a former Ohio state representative just recently appointed by council when Roosevelt Coats resigned, will face Freddie Moore, a Cuyahoga County Deputy Sheriff.
Hispanic councilman Joe Santiago was the only sitting councilman denied a runoff slot. He lost to Ward 14 contenders Rick Nagin, and Brian Cummins, also a sitting councilman. But Santiago had fought with the Cleveland Plain Dealer, Ohio 's largest newspaper, following its critism of his business relationship with a controversial bar owner in his ward.
All of the remaining incumbent council members either had oneor no opponent, or won easily, with Council President Martin Sweeney, who represents Ward 18 , trouncing his closest opponent, Mary Petranek, 1,880 votes to 349.
(Cleveland, Ohio Area News)
Posted Wednesday, September 9, 2009
The Sept. 8 non-partisan primary race for the 19 Cleveland City Council seats up for grabs brought no surprising outcomes, though the neck and neck race between Ward 5 Councilwoman Phyllis Cleveland and Pernel Jones Jr., an owner an operator of Pernel Jones Funeral Home in Cleveland, is being closely watched. Cleveland, council's majority leader, finished with 674 votes, and Jones with 575.
Like the others council races, Cleveland and Jones, as the two top vote getters, will square off for the Nov. 3 general election, though as Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson's hand picked successor to Ward 5 few would rule out Jackson's active role in campaigning for Cleveland in the general election. He sailed to victory with 72 percent of the vote and will face former Cleveland Ward 8 Councilman Bill Patmon, hoping to retain his job as mayor of the predominantly Black major metropolitan city.
Ward 3 Councilman Zack Reed finished with a commanding lead in Ward 2 winning with 1, 343 votes. Charlene Laster was a distant second with 417. In Ward 8, former Ohio State Senator Jeffrey Johnson led the race, ending with 925 votes. Shari Cloud's had 627, still winning a runoff slot with a second place finish, and by some political standards a disappointing one for the councilwoman just appointed by council months ago to replace Sabra Pierce Scott, who resigned the seat and is now Jackson's campaign manager.
Mamie Mitchell sailed to victory in Ward 6 over second place finisher John Boyd with 1187 votes to his 444, an outcome by percentage that almost mirrors the special primary election held last year where Mitchell and Boyd squared off.
Ward 10 Councilman Eugene Miller, a former Ohio state representative just recently appointed by council when Roosevelt Coats resigned, will face Freddie Moore, a Cuyahoga County Deputy Sheriff.
Hispanic councilman Joe Santiago was the only sitting councilman denied a runoff slot. He lost to Ward 14 contenders Rick Nagin, and Brian Cummins, also a sitting councilman. But Santiago had fought with the Cleveland Plain Dealer, Ohio 's largest newspaper, following its critism of his business relationship with a controversial bar owner in his ward.
All of the remaining incumbent council members either had oneor no opponent, or won easily, with Council President Martin Sweeney, who represents Ward 18 , trouncing his closest opponent, Mary Petranek, 1,880 votes to 349.
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