Cuyahoga County Democratic Party retains Shontel Brown as its chairwoman, Brown winning over C. Ellen Connally, who is also Black.... Brown is the first Black and first woman to hold the powerful post....A Congresswoman Marcia Fudge protege, Brown said she is truly grateful for those who watched and witnessed her sincere desire to unite, grow and strengthen the party and that she looks forward to carrying the momentum into the November election and elections to come.....Former president Barack Obama carried Cuyahoga County, a Democratic stronghold, in 2008, and when he was reelected in 2012, and Democratic gubernatorial candidate Richard Chordray, an Obama ally, will need strong Democratic support as he faces Ohio Attorney General Mike Dewine, the Republican nominee for governor, in the general election on November 6, 2018....By editor Kathy Wray Coleman of ClevelandUrbanNews.Com and the KathyWrayColemanOnlineNewsBlog.Com, Ohio's most read digital Black newspapers with some 4.8 million readers on Google Plus alone. And the ClevelandUrbanNews.Com website stats reveal some 26 million hits since 2012. Tel: (216) 659-0473. Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com
Cuyahoga County Councilwoman and Cuyahoga County Democratic Party Chairwoman Shontel Brown, the first Black and first female to hold the powerful post, and of whom executive committee members of the county Democratic party voted to retain as chair via an election on June 9, 2018 C. Ellen Connally, a retired Cleveland judge and former Cuyahoga County Council president who lost an election on Saturday, June 9, 2018 in her bid to unseat Shontel Brown as chair of the Cuyahoga County Democratic Party ClevelandUrbanNews.Com and the KathyWrayColemanOnlineNewsBlog.Com , Ohio's most read digital Black newspapers with some 4.8 million readers on Google Plus alone. And the ClevelandUrbanNews.Com website stats reveal some 26 million hits since 2012. 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 Bar