The greater Cleveland, Ohio Black Women's -PAC announces endorsements for the November 3, 2015 general election, and endorses Cuyahoga County Issue 8 while opposing statewide marijuana legalization Issue 3....Cleveland Black judges Hewitt, Tarver, Moore and Groves are endorsed, as are Black suburban mayors Brad Sellers and Fletcher Berger...Annette Blackwell, who is Black, is endorsed for Maple Heights mayor, and Ruth Gray, also Black, for South Euclid mayor....In East Cleveland, Councilwoman Thomas is endorsed as are Una H.R. Kennon and Dr. Mary Rice for the East Cleveland Board of Education, and all three of them are Black....Lakewood Judge Patrick Carroll is White but also won an endorsement, as did a few other White Democrats....Read here, the full list of BWPAC endorsements....Paid for by the BWPAC, Una H.R. Keenon, president....By Cleveland Urban News.Com, Ohio's leader in Black digital news

 (These herein noted endorsements are official endorsements of the Black Women's Political Action Committee (BWPAC) and are not those of Cleveland Urban News.Com, which takes no official endorsement position to date, pro or con, of the state or countywide ballot issues or political candidates relative to the November 3, 2015 general election).

CLEVELAND URBAN NEWS.COM-CLEVELAND, Ohio-Following are endorsements of the Black Women's Political Action Committee of greater Cleveland (BWPAC) for the November 3, 2015 general election in Cuyahoga County, Ohio,  a county of some 59 municipalities, villages, and townships that includes the largely Black major American city of Cleveland and its neighboring suburbs. The endorsement assessments are relative to select state and countywide  issues on the ballot, including the statewide marijuana legalization issue, of which the organization opposes, and select municipal-level judicial, mayoral and city council candidates across Cuyahoga County, a Democratic stronghold  that is 29 percent Black, and is Ohio's largest of 88 counties.  Also included below are BWPAC endorsements for the East Cleveland Board of Education. (Editor's note: The elections for Cleveland City Council and Cleveland mayor are in 2017, and the presidential election,  for which local level politicians across the pivotal state of Ohio will also have a voice,  is in 2016. And Cleveland will host the Republican National Convention next year, a credit, both financially and otherwise, to Frank Jackson, the city's three-term Black Democratic mayor). 
Black Women's Political Action
Committee President Una H.R. Keenon,
a retired East Cleveland judge, and currently
president of the East Cleveland  Board of Education

Paid for by the Black Women's Political Action Committee (BWPAC) of  greater Cleveland, Una H.R. Keenon, president

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BWPAC ENDORSEMENTS (PER MAJORITY RULE AT A SEPTEMBER 12, 2015 BWPAC MEETING)

(READ THE HISTORY AND MISSION OF THE ORGANIZATION AND THE NAMES OF THE FOUNDING MEMBERS OF THE BWPAC BELOW THE FOLLOWING ENDORSEMENTS)

STATEWIDE ISSUES ON THE BALLOT IN OHIO

Issue 3- Ohio Marijuana Legalization Initiative: Vote No  
(Editor's note: No pro or con position was taken by the BWPAC on Issue 2, 
a counter initiative to Issue 3, a constitutional amendment measure on the ballot in 
Ohio).


COUNTYWIDE ISSUES ON THE BALLOT


Issue 8 -Arts & Culture Works in Cuyahoga County: Vote Yes

SELECT NON-PARTISAN MUNICIPAL COURTS AND MAYORAL AND CITY COUNCIL RACES OF GREATER CLEVELAND OF CUYAHOGA COUNTY, OHIO, AND THE EAST CLEVELAND BOARD OF EDUCATION

ENDORSED CANDIDATES FOR JUDGE OF MUNICIPAL COURTS IN GREATER CLEVELAND


Cleveland Municipal Court, term commencing January 1, 2016- James H. Hewitt III

Cleveland Municipal Court, term commencing January 2, 2016-Lauren C. Moore

Cleveland Municipal Court, term commencing January 3, 2016-Pauline H. Tarver

Cleveland Municipal Court, term commencing January 4, 2016-Emanuella Groves

Bedford Municipal Court- Deborah Turner


Lakewood Municipal Court- Patrick Carroll


ENDORSED CANDIDATES FOR MUNICIPAL MAYORS OF GREATER CLEVELAND

Bedford Heights mayor- Flectcher Berger

Maple Heights mayor- Annette M. Blackwell

South Euclid mayor-Ruth Gray

Warrensville Heights mayor-Brad Sellers

ENDORSED CANDIDATES OF CITY COUNCILS OF GREATER CLEVELAND 


East Cleveland City Council, ward 2- Barbara Thomas

Euclid City Council, ward 1-Stephania C. Caviness

Maple Heights president of city council-Aaron Mitchell

Maple Heights City Council, district 1-Stafford L. Shenett

Maple Heights City Council, district 3-Ebony M. Miller

Lyndhurst City Council at large-Barb Linear

South Euclid City Council at large (elect three)-Dennis Fiorelli, Marty Gelfand and Jason Russell

ENDORSED CANDIDATES FOR MUNICIPAL PUBLIC SCHOOL BOARDS OF EDUCATION OF GREATER CLEVELAND


Member, East Cleveland Board of Education (elect two)- Una H.R. Keenon and Dr. Mary Rice

By: THE BLACK WOMEN'S POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE OF GREATER CLEVELAND (BWPAC), UNA H.R. KENNON, PRESIDENT

The Black Women's Political Action Committee(BWPAC)of greater Cleveland, which is led by its president, Una H.R. Keenon, who is also president of the East Cleveland Board of Education and a retired East Cleveland judge, was organized in the fall of 1983 to give Black women more input relative to political decision making.

The organization's mission, said Kennon, is also to help qualified women obtain better paying jobs and receive local, state, and national appointments. 


The founding mothers of the BWPAC include, among others, Keenon, former state Rep Barbara Boyd, retired Ohio Eighth District Court of Appeals Judge Sara J. Harper, Eighth District Court of Appeals Judge Patricia Ann Blackmon, the late Vivian Cantrell, Dr. Denise McCray, the late Katherine Adams, Phyllis Burton-Scott, Lynn Spencer, and the late Shirley Hawk, a former Cleveland school board member. 


Membership in the BWPAC is selective, requiring prospective applicants to secure the sponsorship of a current member for admission. Prospective members are evaluated on their commitment to and involvement in health and welfare matters, political action and education agendas, and their concern for African- American women in general.
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