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East Cleveland voters recall Mayor Gary Norton, city council president in response to their efforts to merge the Black city with Cleveland....East Cleveland Councilwoman Barbara Thomas tells Cleveland Urban News.Com that precluding a merger with Cleveland is the next step, says a merger is not a good fix....Norton and Wheeler were up against retired East Cleveland judge Una Kennon, now president of the East Cleveland Board of Education and also president of the Black Women's PAC, and others....The recall was close with absentee votes still coming in that could change the outcome....The chocolate city of East Cleveland remains intact for now....By editor-in-chief Kathy Wray Coleman of www.clevelandurbannews.com, Ohio's Black digital news leader

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East Cleveland Mayor Gary Norton ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ). Ohio's most read Black digital newspaper and Black blog.Tel: (216) 659-0473 and Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com By Editor-in-Chief  Kathy Wray Coleman, a-24-year journalist who trained at the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio for 17 years, and who interviewed now 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 .  (Note: A former biology teacher and longtime Cleveland activist, Coleman is the most read reporter in Ohio on Google Plus with some 3.3 million views). CLEVELAND URBAN NEWS.COM-EAST CLEVELAND, Ohio -  East Cleveland voters  on Tuesday recalled two-term Black Mayor Gary A. Norton Jr. and the mayor's ally, city council president Thomas Wheeler, in a special election spu