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By Kathy Wray Coleman: East Cleveland voters to decide mayor at the polls today, Tuesday, October 1, candidates are incumbent Mayor Gary Norton, City Council President Dr. Joy Jordan, and Vernon Robinson, East Cleveland enjoy's General Electric's Nela Park, was where Standard Oil Giant John Rockefeller once owned a home

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East Cleveland Mayor Gary Norton and East Cleveland City Council President Dr. Joy Jordan By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief,  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 )  Reach Cleveland Urban News.Com by email at editor@clevelandurbannews.com and by phone at 216-659-0473 EAST CLEVELAND, Ohio-East Cleveland voters will decide in a primary election today, Tuesday, Oct. 1,  whether to keep incumbent Mayor Gary Norton, who ousted Eric Brewer four years ago as the then city council president, or to install East Cleveland City Council President Dr. Joy Jordan as the new mayor, also a popular figure in the majority Black impoverished suburb of Cleveland. Also in the race, which is a partisan primary of three Democrats with no Republican opponent for the November 5 general election, is Vernon Robinson. Polls open at 6:30 am, and close at 7:30 pm. "It is going