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From the Metro Desk of The Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com (www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com) Carr (www.pinkeycarr.com) is endorsed by the Cleveland Plain Dealer, Ohio's largest newspaper, that says: "Carr brings an infectious energy that tilts the decision in her favor. On a court known for innovation, Carr's work ethic and strong personality would be an excellent fit." --Read the endorsement at www.cleveland.com ... "The Imperial Women thank Assistant Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Pinkey Carr for bringing Serial Killer Anthony Sowell to justice with class, style and brilliance via closing arguments in the case".........Kathy Wray Coleman, The Imperial Women From the Metro Desk of The Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) The Imperial Women urge voters to vote for Assistant Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Pinkey Carr for Cleveland Municipal Court Judge on Nov 8, 2011. Carr was the lead prosecutor in the A

Former Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas Judge Timothy McGinty, who has resigned from the bench, effective Oct. 31, and is running next year for the county prosecutor's office vacated by Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Bill Mason. Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Bill Mason, who has opted not to seek reelection next year. From the Metro Desk of The Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com (www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com) Below is the online introduction piece article by Plain Dealer Columnist Mark Naymik that runs in the newspaper on Oct. 31, 2011 as to the race for Cuyahoga County Prosecutor since Bill Mason is not running for reelectioon. Comments below the story by bloggers at Cleveland.Com, the newspaper's online news venue, are being scanned for McGinty's benefit and Journalist and Community Activist Kathy Wray Coleman hereby would request that the comments below be posted like others. She also urges Cuyahoga County voters and the Cuyahoga County Democratic Party to se

U.S. Rep. Marcia L. Fudge (D-OH) Ohio Republican Gov. John Kasich Belinda Prinz, Director of Communications for Congresswoman Marcia L. Fudge Debbie Kline, Coordinator of Cleveland Jobs With Justice Harriet Applegate, executive secretary of the North Shore AFL-CIO Federation of Labor Ohio State Sen. Shirley Smith (D-21) Ohio State Sen. Nina Turner (D-25) Ohio State Rep. John Barnes Jr. (D-12) Ohio State Rep. Bill Patmon (D-10) Ohio State Rep. Barbara Boyd (D-9) , also president of the Black Women's Political Action Committee Ohio State Rep. Sandra Williams (D-11) , also president of the Ohio Legislative Black Caucus Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson By Kathy Wray Coleman, Editor of the Kathy Wray Coleman Online NewsBlog.Com ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com) U.S. Rep Marcia L. Fudge (D-OH), Cleveland Jobs With Justice Coordinator Debbie Kline, and a host of Democrats and unions from across the state of Ohio are asking voters to vote "No, No, No in November." They say

Former Cleveland Ward 8 Councilwoman Sabra Pierce Scott From the Metro Desk of The Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com (www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com) Former Cleveland Ward 8 Councilwoman Sabra Pierce Scott, who was Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson's 2009 reelection campaign manager, pleaded guilty yesterday in federal district court to conspiracy to commit bribery and has agreed to testify against others as part of an ongoing corruption probe of City Hall operatives. Pierce Scott, 52, who abruptly resigned in 2009 and is now pursuing a master's degree at Case Western Reserve University, is the first Black elected Cleveland official to be charged. She joins a long list of more than 50 countywide officials and their affiliates that have either pleaded guilty or been convicted of corruption- related crimes in office in connection with a neverending FBI investigation made public three years ago. She appeared before Federal District Court Judge Christopher Boyko in Clevel

Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson Editorial by Kathy Wray Coleman, Editor of the Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com (www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com) (Editor's Note: The Imperial Women, the People's Forum, the Greater Cleveland Immigrant Support Network, Stop Targeting Ohio's Poor and a host of other grassroots organizations support Occupy Cleveland and its mission to continue camping out at Public Square in downtown Cleveland at least until the end of the year to bring attention to the disenfranchisement of poor and middle class people through corporate greed and malfeasance. Leave the young and peaceful protesters alone or city officials shall hear from seasoned community activists) Editorial: Will Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson take on the Occupy Cleveland protesters who say they will camp out at Public Square in Cleveland at least until the end of the year with or without the city's renewal of the permits required to be there and to pitch tents for overnight

The Imperial Women: Fighting for justice for Black and other women, and on other community issues of public concern Serial Murderer Anthony Sowell The home on Imperial Ave. in Cleveland, Oh. of Convicted Serial Murderer Anthony Sowell where the remains of 11 Black women were found beginning on Oct. 29, 2009. From the Metro Desk of The Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com (www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com) The Imperial Women, Survivors/Victims Of Tragedy, Black on Black Crime, Stop Targeting Ohio's Poor, the Cleveland Chapter of the New Black Panther Party, the Oppressed People's Nation, the Greater Cleveland Immigrant Support Network, Peace In The Hood, the Family Connection Center, the Office of Congresswoman Marcia L. Fudge, the National Organization For Parental Equality, the October 22nd Coalition To Stop Police Brutality, Cleveland City Council Members, Black members of the Ohio State Legislature, the Joaquin Hicks Real People's Movement, the Northeast Ohio Po

Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas Judge Timothy McGinty, who has resigned from the bench, effective Oct. 31 From the Metro Desk of The Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com (www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com) After winning reelection just last year, and after serving nearly 19 years on the common pleas bench, Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas Judge Timothy McGinty, 60, has resigned, effective Oct. 31. By state law, Ohio Republican Gov. John Kasich will appoint his replacement. "Now that he has resigned he has a lot of time to think about all of the unfair and wrong decisions he has made," said longtime Community Activist Ada Averyhart, 77. "I hope he can sleep at night." Once called "a cheap- shot artist" by then judge Sam Zingale, whose seat he took in 1992 following a mudslinging campaign, and infamous for recusing himself from the Anthony Sowell capital murder case after handing the since convicted serial killer's medical and mental h

Cleveland NAACP President and local Cleveland attorney George Forbes, who will not speak up about the blatant harassment and disrespect by corrupt White judicial men like Berea Municipal Court Judge Mark Comstock against innocent Black women with bogus misdemeanor charges and harassment without jurisdiction. And Forbes also will not speak out against the malicious prosecutions and other legal system malfeasance against Blacks and others in Cleveland, Shaker Hts, Lyndhurst, Berea and other area municipal courts, and in the Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas where felonies and other criminal matters are heard. Democratic Berea Municipal Court Judge Mark Comstock is under fire by community activists because he chooses the Berea Municipal Court jury pool at his pleasure to allegedly taint at his will, and presides over cases that belong in the Middleburg Hts. Mayor's Court to allegedly target innocent Blacks, area journalists, bloggers, and community activists. And, he outright d

Former Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas Judge Steven Terry Former Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas Judge Bridget McCafferty U.S. District Court Judge Sara Lioi Community Activist Art McKoy From the Metro Desk of The Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com (www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com) Former Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas Judge Steven Terry, who was one of two Black men and three Blacks on the county's 34-member common pleas bench, was sentenced Tue. by U.S. District Court Judge Sara Lioi of Akron to the maximum sentence of 63-months in prison, causing outcries of racism in greater Cleveland's Black community since former Cuyahoga County Judge Bridget McCafferty, who is White and also convicted of crimes in office, only got 14 months from the judge, though she faced 50 years in prison. "I'm so upset," said Ada Averyhart, 77, a longtime community activist. "He's a Black man and she is a White woman and he has never got in tro

Endorsed for Judge of The Cleveland Municipal Court-Assistant Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Pinkey Carr (Note: Carr has also been endorsed by the Cleveland Plain Dealer, Ohio's largest newspaper, Congresswoman Marcia L. Fudge, Black Cleveland area state legislators, a majority of the Blacks on Cleveland City Council, and a host of others. ) No endorsement-Cleveland Municipal Court Judge Lynn McLaughlin-Murray Endorsed-Cleveland Municipal Court Judge Angela Stokes No endorsement for Cleveland Municipal Court judge, but respected-Cleveland Attorney Ed Wade Endorsed for Clerk of The Cleveland Municipal Court-Phil Paverini Jr. No endorsement-Cleveland Municipal Clerk of Court Earle Turner Endorsed-Cleveland Municipal Court Judge Joseph Zone Endorsed-Cleveland Municipal Court Judge Michael John Ryan No endorsement-Cleveland Municipal Court Presiding and Administrative Judge Ron Adrine No endorsement-Cleveland Municipal Court Judge Michelle Earley No endorsement-Lyndhurst Municipal Court Ju