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Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson wins primary election with ease to face Councilman Zack Reed in November, with Councilman Jeff Johnson finishing third and out of the contest, and as East Cleveland Mayor Brandon King overcomes Una Keenon to win East Cleveland's primary election, all of the sitting Cleveland councilpersons of whom are among the top two candidates for the November general election....Cleveland Ward 1 Councilman Terrell Pruitt will face former councilman Joe Jones, who came in first in the primary, Ward 7 Councilman TJ Dow will face Basheer Jones, Ward 10 Councilman Anthony Hairston will face Eugene Miller, and Ward 14 Councilman Brian Cummins is in a heated race with Jasmin Santana, who finished first in the primary above Cummins....Only 13 percent of registered voters in Cuyahoga County voted in Tuesday's September 12 primary election....By editor Kathy Wray Coleman of Clevelandurbannews.com, Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com, and Imperialwomencoalition.com, Ohio's Black digital news leaders

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Incumbent Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson (left) and Ward 2 Councilman Zack Reed, who will square off in the Nov 7, 2017 general election for mayor of the largely Black major American city, Jackson finishing first in Tuesday's Sept 12 non-partisan primary election, and Reed following in second place and among eight candidates opposing the three-term Mayor Jackson for re-election East Cleveland Mayor Brandon King, who won Tuesday's Democratic primary election for East Cleveland mayor against four challengers, including closet challenger Una Keenon, a retired city judge and president of the East Cleveland Board of Education. King faces Green Party candidate and activist Devin Branch for the Nov. 7 general election. East Cleveland is a largely Black and impoverished suburb of Cleveland, a largely Black major American city ClevelandUrbanNews.Com and the   KathyWrayColemanOnlineNewsBlog.Com , Ohio's most read digital Black newspapers with some 4.8 million readers on

Cleveland Councilman Zack Reed begins 10 day jail sentence for third DUI

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Cleveland Ward 2 Councilman Zack Reed From the Metro Desk of Cleveland Urban News. Com and The Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com, Ohio's No 1 and No 2 online Black newspapers  ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) and ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ). Reach us by phone at 216-659-0473 and by email at editor@clevelandurbannews.com CLEVELAND, Ohio- Cleveland Ward 2 Councilman Zack Reed began his 10 days jail sentence for a third DUI conviction at a Solon, Ohio jail, arrangements made after Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson and the judge in the case supported Reed's request not to be housed in Cleveland jail or any of its facilities. This was to allegedly avoid potential harassment,  according to Jackson spokesperson Maureen Harper. He will be out in time for the November 5 general election for Cleveland mayor and city council. He faces Marcus Henley after he won the nonpartisan primary earlier this month by a landslide. A Cleveland Municipal Court jury found Reed

Cleveland Councilman Zack Reed gets 10 days in jail by visiting retired judge Larry Allen for third DUI, sentence begins September 25, Black clergy, Councilman Johnson support Reed at sentencing, activists still oppose handpicked visiting judges, Ohio Supreme Court Chief Justice O'Connor still handpicking judges to dictate case outcomes against Blacks, others

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Cleveland Ward 2 Councilman Zack Reed From the Metro Desk of Cleveland Urban News. Com and The Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com, Ohio's No 1 and No 2 online Black newspapers  ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) and ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ). Reach us by phone at 216-659-0473 and by email at editor@clevelandurbannews.com CLEVELAND, Ohio- Cleveland Ward 2 Councilman Zack Reed was sentenced to 10 days in jail on Thursday after a Cleveland Municipal Court jury found him guilty last month of a third DUI. His  license will remain suspended until 2015 from his arrest in March after he left a night club in downtown Cleveland. But the Black east side councilman will not begin his sentence until Sept. 25, 15 days after the Sept 10 non-partisan primary election for Cleveland City Council. He served 10 days in 2008 for a second DUI but did no jail time for the first occurrence. Visiting former Willoughby, Ohio judge Larry Allen, whom Republican Ohio Supreme Cou

Cleveland Councilman Zack Reed convicted by Cleveland jury of DUI, talks to Cleveland Urban News.Com about conviction, state Rep Bill Patmon says Reed needs treatment not jail, that he supports Reed's candidacy for reelection, and that the judge that heard the case should have come from Cuyahoga County, retired, visiting, White male judge Larry Allen of Willougby, Ohio in Lake County was handpicked and assigned by Ohio Supreme Court Chief Justice Maureen O'Connor, community activists again call for Ohio state legislature to adopt House Bill 216, sponsored by Patmon, a bill that calls for random draw assignments and reassignments of Ohio trial court judges to cases

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Cleveland Ward 2 Councilman Zack Reed From the Metro Desk of Cleveland Urban News. Com and The Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com, Ohio's No 1 and No 2 online Black newspapers  ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) and ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ). Reach us by phone at 216-659-0473 and by email at editor@clevelandurbannews.com CLEVELAND, Ohio- Cleveland Ward 2 Councilman Zack Reed was convicted of DUI this afternoon by an eight-member majority White Cleveland Municipal Court jury before retired, visiting former Willoughby, Oh. judge Larry Allen, whom Republican Ohio Supreme Court Chief Justice Maureen O'Connor personally handpicked out of Lake County to hear the case after the original judge, Cleveland Judge Pinkey Carr, refused it. Carr, who is a Black Democrat like Reed and was an assistant county prosecutor and a  lead attorney for the prosecution in the 2011 capital murder trial of since convicted serial killer Anthony Sowell, said that Reed had cont

Cleveland Councilman Zack Reed to hand out pepper spray tonight, August 7, for Black, other women after self defense training class, activity comes on heels of the victims of child rapist and kidnapper Ariel Castro, the 11 Black women murdred by serial killer Anthony Sowell on Imperial Avenue in Cleveland, and 3 Black women murdered in East Cleveland at the hands of accused serial killer Michael Madison

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Cleveland Ward 2 Councilman Zack Reed By Kathy Wray Coleman, Editor, Cleveland Urban News. Com and The Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com, Ohio's No 1 and No 2 online Black newspapers  ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) and ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ).  Kathy Wray   Coleman is a former biology teacher and a 20-year investigative Black journalist who trained for some 15 years at the Call and Post Newspaper .  Reach Coleman by phone at 216-659-0473 and by email at  editor@clevelandurbannews.com CLEVELAND, Ohio - In the wake of heightened violence against women in greater Cleveland from the victims of child rapist and kidnapper Ariel Castro, to the 11 Black women murdered on Imperial Avenue in Cleveland by serial killer Anthony Sowell, to the three Black women whose bodies were found in East Cleveland wrapped in garbage bags last month allegedly at the hands of accused serial killer Michael Madison, graduates  from Cleveland Ward 2 Councilman Zack Reed and the

Cleveland Councilman Zack Reed's DUI case is at risk for case fixing victimization: Reprint of November 14, 2011 Cleveland Urban New.Com judicial corruption article as to documented corruption by Berea, Ohio Municipal Court Judge Mark Comstock and with help from Republican Ohio Supreme Court Chief Justice Maureen O'Connor, who has personally handpicked a retired visiting judge from Willougby, Ohio for Reed's latest DUI case, O'Connor handpicks Ohio common pleas and municipal trial court judges, most from outside of Cuyahoga County, who sometimes come to town to violate the law to harass select Democrats, Blacks, women and community activists, Reed is Black, and he is an activist, and a targeted Black elected official, state Rep Bill Patmon has introduced House Bill 216 that requires that Ohio trial court judges are assigned and reassigned to cases at all times by random draw, Attorney George Forbes as the then Cleveland NAACP president would not speak out against documented judicial bias and impropriety

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Outspoken Cleveland Ward 2 Councilman Zack Reed Cleveland Urban News.Com News Brief (www.clevelandurbannews.com): Below is a  reprint  of a November 14, 2011 article by Cleveland Urban News.Com.  Recently Republican Chief Justice Maureen O'Connor of the Ohio Supreme Court assigned Willoughby retired judge Larry Allen to the Cleveland Councilman Zack Reed case, a third D UI arrest for the Black councilman, who was charged earlier this month of March 2013. But Ohio Revised Code 1901.10  is a state law that requires that retired visiting judges, such as the one the replaced Cleveland Municipal Court Judge Pinkey Carr  in this last D UI case for Zack after she recused herself and the other Cleveland judges would not take the case, must come from the territorial jurisdiction of the court. In Cleveland the territorial jurisdiction is Cleveland and Bratenahl not Willoughby.  Community activists  call for the FEDS that are in town to investigate deadly Cleveland shootings, to invest