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Cuyahoga County Executive Ed FitzGerald to run for Ohio Governor in 2014, will announce it tomorrow and he will likely run against Republican Governor John Kasich, FitzGerald must first win the Democratic primary next year with Ohio Democratic Party Chairman Chris Redfern as his chief supporter, State Senator Turner likely to run for Ohio Secretary of State on ticket with FitzGerald

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Cuyahoga County Executive Ed FitzGerald 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 news venues  ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) CLEVELAND, Ohio-Democratic Cuyahoga County Executive Ed FitzGerald, a former FBI agent, will make stops in Cleveland, Columbus, and Cincinnati on Wednesday April 24 to announce that he will run for governor of Ohio in 2014 against incumbent governor John Kasich, if he wins the Democratic primary. And that might be a likely posture since his candidacy is supported by Chris Redfern, head of the Ohio Democratic Party, and perspective contenders such as former Ohio Congresswoman Betty Sutton, and former Ohio Attorney General Richard Cordray, now the U.S. Consumer Bureau chief, have bowed out. Chris Redfern Kasich is the front runner polls show and is ahead of FitzGerald by 10 points. But political polls can and often do change during the course of an election a

Larry Woods calls Kimberly Brown a hater for opposing Mayor Jackson's education plan, Cleveland schools levy

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By Larry Woods, Guest Columnist CLEVELAND, Ohio-I am a high school drop out named Larry Woods. I saw Kim Brown's comments to the mayor's education proposal and was struck by the brevity and the negativity. (Editor's note: This is an editorial by Larry Woods in response to the one that ran in Cleveland Urban News.Com on July 4 by Kimberly Brown, a former Cleveland mayor candidate and unsuccessful candidate for Cuyahoga County Council who opposes Cleveland Mayor Jackson's education plan that is now a state law that strips Cleveland schools teachers of seniority in exchange for merit pay and hands public monies slated for the school district to charter schools, among other provisions. Signed into law two weeks ago by Republican Gov. John Kasich, the education plan also calls for a levy on the November ballot, something Brown also criticized. Read Brown's editorial at Cleveland Urban News.Com and also here at the Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com at http://www.

Gov. Kasich comes to Cleveland to sign Mayor Jackon's Cleveland schools education plan into law that takes away teacher seniority, hands public money to charter schools, places Cleveland schools levy on November ballot, Community advocate Kimberly Brown writes editorial against levy, Cleveland Urban News.Com welcomes guest editorials for or against the levy and the controversial education plan at editor@clevelandurbannews.com

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Cleveland Urban News.Com Guest Editorial Writer Kimberly Brown Cleveland Urban News. Com and Thea ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) and ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) CLEVELAND,Ohio- Kimberly Brown, a former Cleveland mayoral candidate who also lost a bid for Cuyahoga County Council, writes the guest editorial below against a levy in November that woud support the financially strapped Cleveland Municipal School District. This editorial is that of Brown's and does not necessarily represent the views or the position on the matter of Cleveland Urban News.Com, Ohio's leading online Black news venue. Cleveland Urban News.Com and the Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com welcome editorial letters on this most important issue and will take a stand on the matter publicly in the near feature. Send editorial letters to editor@clevelandurbannews.com. On Monday Ohio Republican Gov John Kasich made a special trip to Cleveland to meet with Democratic Mayor Frank Jacks