Former vice president Joe Biden endorses Democrat Kathleen Clyde for Ohio secretary of state.....By editor Kathy Wray Coleman of ClevelandUrbanNews.Com and the KathyWrayColemanOnlineNewsBlog.Com, Ohio's most read digital Black newspapers with some 5 million readers on Google Plus alone. Tel: (216) 659-0473. Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com

Democratic candidate for Ohio secretary of state  state Representative Kathleen Clyde (D-75), a Kent Democrat and strong advocate for redistricting reform and Civil Rights, and former vice president Joe Biden, also a Democrat

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By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief

This article was originally published here on June 24, 2018. It is a reprint as Ohio's Nov. 6 general election nears

CLEVELANDURBANNEW.COM-COLUMBUS, Ohio-Former vice president Joe Biden has endorsed state Rep. Kathleen Clyde (D-75), a Kent Democrat and a strong advocate for redistricting reform and Civil Rights, in her bid this year for Ohio secretary of state, Clyde facing Republican Frank LaRose in the upcoming Nov. 6 general election

 “Kathleen Clyde has fought her whole career for fair districts and fair elections because she knows that voting is a fundamental freedom, and that is why I am proud to support her,” said Biden, a Democrat and vice president under former president Barack Obama, the nation's first Black president. “She understands that all hard-working Ohioans deserve a quality education, affordable health care, and good-paying, reliable jobs, and that fixing a broken system begins at the ballot box."

Clyde said she is honored to have former vice president Joe Biden’s support for her campaign for secretary of state, which is among statewide elections this year for governor, auditor, state treasurer, attorney general,  and two open seats on the Ohio Supreme Court, and elections for Ohio's House and Senate seats.

“For far too long, working people in Ohio have suffered under a rigged system against them," said Clyde. "We’ve seen bad actors try to interfere with our election systems, we’ve seen politicians in Columbus try to limit access to the voting booth, and we’ve seen the most gerrymandered districts in Ohio history.”

The former vice president said that Clyde, who, according to publicly released campaign finance records, has out raised LaRose, will "modernize voter registration while securing the election process, help Ohio entrepreneurs get their businesses off the ground, and bring fair districts and fair elections back to Ohio.”

If she wins, Clyde would replace Secretary of State Jon Husted, the Republican candidate for lieutenant governor on Mike DeWine's ticket, DeWine facing Democratic nominee Richard Cordray in his bid for governor, and Husted up against former congresswoman Betty Sutton, Cordray's running mate.

Biden's endorsement comes on the heels of the U.S. Supreme Court decision that the State of Ohio can continue to purge Ohio citizens from the voter rolls, a ruling that has widespread impact on voters’ rolls across the nation, and one that has angered Democrats, Civil and women's rights groups and unions across the country, among others.

Republicans in general, led by President Donald Trump, have applauded the ruling, which has a disproportionate effect on college voters who sometimes relocate from location to location, poor people, minorities, women and seniors, and Blacks, among a cadre of others. 

The decision in the case Husted v. A. Philip Randolph Institute was decided by the Supreme Court on June 11, a 5-4 decision where the court ruled that states may remove people off the rolls if they skip a few elections and fail to respond to a notice from election officials.

Hence, the high court ruled that Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted did not violate the Voter National Voter Registration Act of 1993 relative to the case at bar.

Clyde has a slew of endorsements, including from service employees and teachers unions, and other union affiliates, the Cleveland Stonewall Democrats, Planned Parenthood, Naral Pro Choice, and the Ohio Democratic Party.

Key Democrats endorsing Clyde include congressional Democrats of Ohio of congress persons Marcia Fudge, Joyce Beatty, Marcy Kaptur and Tim Ryan, and U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown, a Cleveland Democrat.

United States Senator Sherrod Brown,
a Cleveland Democrat

“As a former secretary of state of Ohio, I’m proud to endorse Kathleen Clyde,” said Brown in announcing his endorsement of Clyde earlier this year. “Kathleen Clyde is a leader who will fight back against extreme gerrymandering, foreign cyber security threats, and illegal voter purging."

ClevelandUrbanNews.Com and the KathyWrayColemanOnlineNewsBlog.Com, Ohio's most read digital Black newspapers with some 5 million readers on Google Plus alone. Tel: (216) 659-0473. Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com. Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief, and who trained for 17 years at the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio. We interviewed former president Barack Obama one-on-one when he was campaigning for president. As to the Obama interview, CLICK HERE TO READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE AT CLEVELAND URBAN NEWS.COM, OHIO'S LEADER IN BLACK DIGITAL NEWS.