Undercurrents - they matter.
Though he is still older than the Lorain mayor, Chase Ritenauer. However, in Lowell, there is a city manager - there set up is like Cleveland Hts not Pepper Pike where we have strong mayor-weak council.
I’ll watch from home. If you go, please tweet live? Thanks.
When a six month wait was ordered regarding gas well drilling late last year in Ohio and senior US Senator from Ohio, Sherrod Brown, supported that, Ohio Treasurer and GOP candidate set to challenge Brown, Josh Mandel, wrote and spoke publicly against the halt, saying Brown supports Washington bureaucrats and was a fringe extremist. Politifact said Josh’s pants were on fire but will he lob similar invective at Gov. Kasich now? Honestly.
Kids, if you want a lesson in why you take the time to get buy-in and get it right the first time around and avoid other costs you cannot and should not and do not need to risk, look no further than the fiascos resulting from Ohio’s redistricting process.
Actually, Josh has flip flopped on whether identity politics matter. Early on, he said it didn’t but within the last two years, he has been quoted as indicating that he thinks the religion of a candidate can make a difference for voters. I’ve always said that of course it might - just like gender - but it is FAR from conclusive except for the most rigid one issue voters - which btw can go either way.
And only 21 years after I wrote a site report and evaluation of what was holding back the center’s creation while I was doing graduate school field work in Cleveland City Council!
And the CJN wins for being the first to publish a response from any newly elected public servant from any of the four burbs looking at merging about the merger possibility itself!
Making sure residents continue to follow our city government work as closely as the newly elected council members and mayor did before being elected remains a major goal of mine. When the watchdogs get elected, vigilance continues to be necessary, less complacency or ego take over again.
