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Cleveland City Council President Kevin Kelley officially joined the 2021 mayoral contest Thursday, making his announcement alongside his family at a sparse event on the steps of City Hall.
While candidates call every election the most important one in voters’ lifetimes, Kelley said, he believed the statement is true for the 2021 municipal races.
“Cleveland is mired in a recession, the second in the past 10 years,” he said. “We are coming out of a global pandemic that has afflicted thousands. It has taken over 400 Cleveland lives and has left countless others unemployed or without hope. Making matters worse, this has been the most unequal recession in history.”
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Cleveland City Councilman Ken Johnson stripped of chairmanship, removed from committees in wake of federal indictment
Updated Feb 23, 2021;
Posted Feb 23, 2021
Cleveland City Council President Kevin Kelley on Tuesday stripped indicted Councilman Ken Johnson of his chairmanship of council’s Municipal Services and Properties Committee.The Plain Dealer
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CLEVELAND, Ohio – Cleveland City Council President Kevin Kelley on Tuesday stripped indicted Councilman Ken Johnson of his chairmanship of council’s Municipal Services and Properties Committee and removed him from his committees.
Kelley announced the changes Tuesday afternoon. Councilman Kevin Bishop will take Johnson’s place as chairman. Bishop has been a member of that committee.
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New day for an old proposal: An effort to end the death penalty in Ohio now has support from a group of both Republican and Democratic lawmakers, who believe they have the votes to make it happen, Jeremy Pelzer reports. But Republican House and Senate leaders would have to let such a bill get to the floor, and that could prove a challenge, given that Senate President Matt Huffman and House Speaker Bob Cupp are both death penalty supporters. But both said they are open to a legislative discussion of the issue.