Dayton, Ohio Mayor Nan Whaley announces run for governor, Whaley a keynote speaker for International Women's Day in Cleveland on March 8, 2021....Photos by Eugene Miller....Cleveland activist Kathy Wray Coleman, who has organized every International Women's Day march and rally in Cleveland since 2017, said "we thank Mayor Whaley for marching with Cleveland women earlier this year for International Women's Day and wish her the best of luck in her bid to become Ohio's first woman governor"....By Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com, Ohio's Black and alternative digital news leaders
Keynote speaker Dayton Mayor Nan Whaley (third from left in front row), poses with some of the other speakers of the fifth annual International Women's festivities in Cleveland on March 8, 2021 at Market Square in Ohio City were honored with flowers from Mattie Hayes floral shop. Front row from left: Ohio House Minority Leader Rep. Emilia Sykes, who was also a keynote speaker, state Rep. Juanita Brent of Cleveland, Cleveland activist and organizer Kathy Wray Coleman, who was the head organizer of the event and has organized each annual event since 2017, the Rev. Pamela Pinkney-Butts, and Cuyahoga County Democratic Party Chairperson and Councilwoman Shontel Brown
Activist and organizer Kathy Wray Coleman of the Imperial Women Coalition leads women in a march at the fifth annual International Women's Day festivities held in Cleveland on March 8, 2021. Coleman has organized every International Women's Day rally and march in Cleveland since the first march and rally in 2017
From left: The Rev. Pamela Pinkney Butts, Nate Simpson of Black Lives Matter Today, Cuyahoga County Democratic Party Chairwoman Shontel Brown, Cleveland Ward 1 Councilman Joe Jones, and Dayton Mayor Nan Whaley
Photos by Eugene Miller
Dayton Mayor Nan Whaley
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CLEVELAND, Ohio-Coming off an event in Cleveland at Ohio City at Market Square as a keynote speaker on International Women's Day on March, 8, 2021, Dayton Mayor Nan Whaley, who is not seeking reelection as mayor of Dayton this year, announced on Monday that she will make a run for governor in 2022, Whaley the first Democrat to make such an announcement.
Whaley, 45, is making her second bid for governor after dropping out of the Democratic primary in 2018, among others, and for Richard Cordray, a former Obama administration consumer watch dog and former Ohio attorney general who went on to win the primary, but lost lost the general election to current Gov. Mike DeWine, a popular Republican who is also a former Ohio attorney general.
“The people of Ohio deserve better. The same politicians have been in charge for 30 years as Ohioans have fallen further behind. It’s time for a change,” Whaley said in a statement. “We deserve an Ohio where one job is enough to provide for your family.”
In an announcement video, the mayor said that "it’s time for a mayor who’s been on the front lines of Ohio’s toughest challenges. It’s time for a little bit of Dayton toughness in Columbus.”
Whaley was first elected to the Dayton City Commission in 2005.
She won the election for Dayton mayor in 2013, and was reelected in 2017.
She is an ally of U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown of Cleveland and the first Democrat to officially announce a 2022 run for governor, though Cincinnati Mayor John Cranley is a Democrat and plans to to run too, he has said.
Gov, DeWine has already said he is running for reelection.
Led by Cleveland activist and organizer Kathy Wray Coleman of the Imperial Women Coalition, greater Cleveland women hosted the 5th Annual International Women's Day March and rally and march on March 8 and Whaley was one of three keynote speakers for the event, also including state Rep. and House Minority Leader Emilia Sykes of Akron, a city some 30 miles south of Cleveland and the hometown of Los Angeles Lakers megastar LeBron James.
Coleman has organized the International Women's Day rallies marches in Cleveland since the first rally and march in 2017 in the largely Black major American city and said Monday after learning that Mayor Whaley is running for governor in 2022 that "we thank Mayor Whaley for marching with Cleveland women earlier this year for International Women's Day and wish her the best of luck in her bid to become Ohio's first woman governor."
Both Whaley and Sykes spoke on International Women's Day this year in Cleveland on women's rights and affiliated public policy, or the lack thereof, as comunity activists stood with them on stage wrapped in symbolic chains to bring attention to the long term oppression of women.
Whaley also spoke in Cleveland that day on her opposition to stand your ground legislation in Ohio and gun violence, including the high profile mass shooting in Dayton in 2019 by 24-year-old Connor Betts, who shot and killed nine people and injured 17 others.
She did not mention that she would be a candidate in the 2022 gubernatorial race in Ohio when she marched with Cleveland women earlier this year, but sources said then that it was a likely option.
Events were held across the world on March 8 to celebrate International Women's Day, a day of civil awareness for women worldwide that is designed to combat sex and race discrimination and promote women's rights.
The purpose was also to recognize the accomplishments of women, and to push for public policies across the board for the betterment of women and girls, organizers said.
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