WCPN Ward 7 Cleveland City Councilman Basheer Jones was a featured speaker at the Stand in Solidarity march in the East Side neighborhood of Hough in June 2020.
Cleveland City Councilman Basheer Jones joined the race for mayor Thursday, announcing his campaign to supporters from the steps of the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections.
Jones represents Ward 7, which includes Cleveland’s Hough, Asiatown and St. Clair-Superior neighborhoods. He first won election in 2017, defeating incumbent T.J. Dow and becoming city council’s first Muslim member.
At his campaign launch, Jones said he would work to improve safety, transparency and the administration’s relationship with both residents and local businesses.
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Last Friday evening in Old Brooklyn, Cleveland City Council President Kevin Kelley walked up and down West 50th Street asking for neighbors’ signatures.
“How are you doing?” Kelley said at one woman’s house. “Good to see ya. I’m your councilman, Kevin Kelley, and I’m running for mayor. And I just wanted to stop by to say hello and see if you’d consider supporting me.”
But before this voter signed Kelley’s petition to get on the ballot, she had some business to bring up.
Citing the city’s pandemic-related economic losses and other issues, he said the claim holds up.
Among the many issues the mayor faces is battling rising violent crime and decaying city neighborhoods; overseeing the Cleveland public schools; and shoring up stadium financing and guiding downtown development.
Kelley said he will immediately focus on crime by adding police officers, getting the department better equipment and focus even more on community policing. He said that includes possibly reopening neighborhood police stations.
“When you do a foot patrol with officers and you ask how someone is doing, you learn things you might not otherwise,” he said.