Eric Brewer understands that the CLECabal has not served our community.  The rise of the gang overlords has recruited young men and women to a scary underworld in cities like Cleveland and Chicago - WAKE UP people. This is not an issue that only affects one community - it effects us nationally and internationally.

From EJB: Three teens shot. 2 of them were 14 year old females. One a 17 year old male. I was dropping off petitions to a friend and we heard shots. These shots were much louder than those we typically hear on the streets if you live in a Cleveland neighborhood. A few minutes later we saw police, ambulance and fire truck lights. That's when we walked to the corner and I decided to share what we were witnessing with you.

We learned that shotgun shells had been recovered. The shooters drove past, fired and turned down Grantwood. I have no idea if the shotgun or a .45 caliber handgun was used in the shootings. You can see from the recording police were combing the area for evidence. My friend and two other residents of the area said there was a shooting at the same location last year. 

I know the area well having lived on both Everton and Olivet. I have family still on Olivet and lots of people I know in the neighborhood. My grandfather ran a block of buildings that included apartments and a bowling alley with stores at E. 105th and St. Clair. Lee Memorial A M E Church is a family church where both my late cousin and sister served as ministers with Rev. Wesley Reid. My uncle was one of the deacons who interviewed Rev. E.T. Caviness for the job at Greater Abyssinia when he was preaching in East Saint Louis, Illinois in the early 1960's.

I'll be honest. E. 105th Street disturbs me because it was once "full" of businesses and people out and about doing things in the neighborhood. Now all the retail space is taken up by about 30 churches along E. 105th Street, probably the holiest street in the city. What was once retail space for businesses is now church parking lots. I told my friend, and my observation was confirmed by another resident of the area, that I've seen prostitutes selling themselves on the steps of Cory United Methodist Church more than once at night.

You cannot have a neighborhood without small businesses. 

I've been talking to people and small business owners. The small business owners are terrified at the violence and really want out of our neighborhoods. I spoke to the brother of the Palestinian merchant who was murdered at store on E. 116th Street near Rev. Eugene Ward's church. These folk are terrified of 13 and 14 year old teenagers walking into their stores, showing them weapons, and taking what they want. 

I'm learning that there are self-emancipated teenagers surviving anyway they can because parents have been incarcerated or have addiction problems that makes them incapable of leading families. As we learned with the death of Breanna Fluett, that some of these young adults, it's not realistic to call them children, are being murdered because of their involvement in crimes their peers want to remain undiscovered. Teens are pimping other teens for sex and profit. They're surviving in the most life-disregarding ways.

Here's what sticks out to me about Cleveland as someone who watched us go from 980,000 to 389,000 people. All the prosperity has left the neighborhoods. They're damn near empty of everything productive. Even if we have failing schools failing students could once find a job in a neighborhood small business. The "hustles" that once existed for people because of small business proliferation in the past are now gone. A totally unskilled person can't walk up the street anymore with a squeegee and wash a small business owner's store windows for $3 and earn $50 or $60 bucks a day serving up to 20 stores. I doubt there are 20 retail outlets on E. 105th Street to compete with the 30 or so churches that are only open one day a week. Even the Glenville shopping center is damn near empty. 

What the crime scene showed me is that there are plenty of "report taking" and "evidence gathering" cops after a crime. I didn't see a single police car as I drove along E. 105th Street just on patrol who's presence might have prevented the shooting. I'm telling you that our neighborhoods, all of them, are not being well-served by our existing police presence, and I have no intention of hiring the 400 more Zack Reed wants. For the size of this city's population we already have enough. 

The problem is that those already on the payroll aren't being properly deployed, and ain't working on solving crimes. It's what you get when people who work for a city don't live in it. It's what you get when councilman are running "their wards" trying to be mini-mayors instead of sitting their asses in city hall investigating departments and employees to see what legislative changes can be made to get more efficient work output from them. Do you see your Congress man or woman running around "their district" trying to be a mini-president? Council is an intellectual and deliberative body and the intellects we got ain't working.

I'm still information gathering. Since I've worked for former Mayor Mike White as one of his special assistants, and I've always covered Cleveland crimes with my newspapers, I have an understanding of the scope of the crime problem in this town, and some ideas that I think will reduce it. We'll discuss those ideas as we move forward with the campaign. 

I do recognize the climate out there for cops is a lot different than it was in the past, especially since it's been learned that they're not killing roughly 450 citizens a year, and that the number is actually closer to 2000. That number and the feelings the public has towards them makes being a cop in this town and others dangerous, so I also have to think about their safety.

None of the youth have died. I just hope we don't end up with more shootings because those who love them might choose to handle the retaliation on their own instead of letting the police do it. I know nothing about the teenagers or why they were targeted. We will know if people talk. Stay tuned.

from Eric J Brewer: Dan Gilbert. Look at the fucking water pipe that's feeding water to homes in Cleveland. It's poisoning us with lead, copper, fecal coliform and some other nasty shit. We've been overly-generous to you as a Michigan resident. You've got your own constitutional amendment as the owner of all of Ohio's casinos. You've had enough. Cleveland isn't investing $70 million of our tax dollars to fund any portion of a $140 million renovation of The Q.

I want all of you folk to take a look at the copper, lead and mineral deposits in the picture of a “household” water line. It's identical to the one feeding water to the majority of our homes in Cleveland; especially those of us who live in “old” neighborhoods. I'm in the 'hood off E. 116th Street. Zack Reed is my councilman though I've never voted for him. I'm drinking the same funky-assed contaminated water Reed, Jeff Johnson and Frank Jackson don't even want us to know is a threat to all our health. It's just like the gotdamned Noble Road dump and the other 9 Cleveland's politicians and Armond Budish, along with the Cuyahoga County council, have all allowed to proliferate our neighborhoods. I hope the feds bust Jim Rokakis' ass along with Gus Frangos and Cheryl Stephens. Fucking scoundrels.

Here's a copy of Cleveland's 2015 water quality report. You need to read it.http://www.clevelandwater.com/2015WQR.pdf

Copper content is poisonous and high. Lead content is at life-threatening actionable levels. This means Jackson and the city council should have long ago coordinated a public education campaign to make us aware that they were so poorly handling water safety duties that our drinking water was poisoning us. I've read water reports from communities outside Ohio and other parts of the state. There's something called “fecal coliform” in our drinking water that comes from human and animal shit that they explain in their reports. Cleveland's water report doesn't identify “fecal coliform.” They call it "organic compounds." Shit is shit.

The entire world but Cleveland remembers Hillary Clinton's words at the DNC that our city's drinking water was worse than Flint, Michigan's. Now the political assholes responsible for protecting us from poisoned drinking and cooking water are running for mayor, and figuring out a way to take $70 million of our money and give it to Dan Gilbert. Bullshit.

The 2015 Cleveland water quality report clearly identifies the problem with why copper and lead levels are so high. Household water pipes from the street to the home. That's it.

When my administration was negotiating with Jackson's during my time as East Cleveland's mayor it was shared with me that Cleveland had replaced all the pipes from the treatment plants to the streets. The lines from the street to the homes were not. Even though “the city” is “the people,” the people leading the city under Jackson and this council took the perspective that “the people” were responsible for the water lines from the street to their homes.

I know some of you are going “what the fuck?” because this information has not been shared with you; and that's the problem. When copper and lead levels reach actionable levels Jackson and the council have no other choice but to inform you according to federal laws: and it's criminal that they haven't. More importantly, knowing the age and income levels of the city's property owners in the “older” neighborhoods, Jackson and the council should have devised a way to finance or appropriate funds to replace water lines from the street to the home since they know poison water is affecting all our health.

So instead of $70 million in Cleveland funds to renovate a stadium that benefits a billionaire who doesn't even live in the state, that money should be invested in replacing water pipes that look like the one in the picture that's poisoning the water we're using for drinking, cooking and bathing. Gilbert's got to wait. This is a citywide health emergency that takes a precedence over all other purposes for “extra” municipal funds.

For you activists who are in opposition to both the county and city's money being used for The Q's renovation. The county council can't fund the renovation alone, so I'm going to focus your attention on Cleveland's “referendum” process as a way to defeat Jackson and council's misappropriation of the city's money.

Section 59 under Chapter 7 of Cleveland's charter authorizes voters to decide any non-emergency ordinance through a referendum to repeal one council has passed. Signatures from registered Cleveland voters totaling 10 percent of those voting in the last “regular municipal election,” when Jackson and the council ran in 2013, is all that's required to start the ball rolling to prevent $70 million to The Q from being appropriated. The signatures must be presented to council within 30 days of the ordinance being passed. Not 31 days.

I'm guessing, but about 60,000 people voted in Cleveland's mayor and council races in 2013. 10 percent is 6000. Once the signatures are collected council pursuant to Section 60 of the charter must either agree with what the voters want or put it on the ballot for the voters to decide. The ordinance is in a suspended status until voters decide yes or no. There is also no way for council to legally enact a $70 million ordinance to renovate The Q and describe it as a fucking “emergency.”

Here's a link to the charter and ordinances. library.amlegal.com/…/…/cityofclevelandohiocodeofordinances…

Lead and copper poisons every organ in our bodies. It's affecting all our quality of life, and it's robbing our children of their futures. Kidney and liver disease are health effects of drinking the water Jackson and council aren't keeping from being poisoned. It lowers the IQ in developing children and contributes to an infant mortality rate that is higher than that of 3rd World nations right here in Cleveland. It leads to emotionless violent behavior.

I've provided an avenue for activists to battle Jackson and Cleveland city council. All they need to know is that you have the manpower and will to execute a referendum. I have access to space and seating for 300 available downtown for a large group of activists who want to meet.

I'm deadly serious about using the $70 million on the Cleveland side of The Q renovation deal to invest directly into replacing water lines like the one in the picture that's supplying our drinking water. No other purpose makes more sense in my opinion, and this is one of among many reasons that I'm seeking the job of mayor. The assholes we've got leading the city today are focused on the wrong things, and they can't see “right.”

We've got to have other discussions than the one's we're being misled into having by our politicians. Gilbert will understand. He's got to wait.

He can go build that $700 million, 52- story “tallest” building he wants in Detroit with the money he's taking out of Cleveland and Ohio as a guy with his own constitutional amendment in our state. A constitutional monopoly. Politicians who'd rather renovate stadiums than save lives. Boy do we look stupid in Ohio

The buses are traveling again through Public Square because it was explained to Mayor Frank Jackson that he had no legal authority to amend Ord. No. 893 – 03. Jackson saw his name on Ord. No. 893 -03 as one of it's sponsors when he was council president on April 14, 2003. He presided over the council meeting that enacted it.

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Mayor Frank Jackson is about to fuck up the $80 million he got a slim majority of Cleveland voters to support as a half percent income tax increase in November. Seriously fuck it up. What he's spending the money on also shows it wasn't needed. I attended his 12th State of the City Address and all it confirmed was that Frank ain't got a “management” clue. Council would be fools to approve his administrative operational plans. They achieve nothing which benefits the inhabitants of the City of Cleveland.

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Over the past week I've been meeting with campaign supporters, including potential donors to talk about fund raising strategies. One of my supporters thinks we can raise $1 million. I'll settle for $500,000. To the big boys, I'm advising you to hedge your bets. You can't buy this race for Jackson. I intend to win. I'll serve corporate Cleveland, too, but you WILL share. You also won't get everything you want. Cleveland taxpayers will not pay to renovate The Q.

I've registered a web domain for the campaign and started building the site and adding content. My Friends will get a preview first and I'll be seeking your comments. I've got an important meeting coming up about the Noble Road dump that might provide a solution from a big money player. I'm reorganizing aspects of my life to devote more daily time on the campaign. Even today, I'm attending Mayor Frank Jackson's State of the City address. $75 a ticket. The event should be public and free. It will be next year.

I've even been working on my own combination free and low cost health care plan for the residents of Cleveland that will offset President Donald Trump and the Republicans Obamacare changes.

I'm building knowledge about a plan I have to stimulate direct financial support to build neighborhood-based businesses and to replace water pipes from the curb to the faucet.

Thanks for all your insights about my chances of winning. I'm encouraged.

It appears as if I have extremely high name recognition. It comes from 38 years of public involvement. Depending on your generation, my name's association with the public dates back to my first newspaper, Clique, in 1979 and then to the Cleveland Press as a reporter in 1981. From there the Guardian Angels took me statewide and on the cover of most of the state's newspapers, and some magazines. I appeared on television programs in all the major Ohio media markets, and in campus newspapers for both colleges and high schools. I spoke on the campuses of all the state's leading universities, and in council and town hall meetings in the major cities.

I was a Cleveland school board candidate in 1983 and received 17,000 plus votes citywide. That's about 2000 votes less than what Jackson got in 2005 when he beat Jane Campbell for mayor in the primary. That was the same year I defeated Saratha Goggins and got 85 percent of the vote in East Cleveland's general election.

Some may remember me as the Call & Post's leading political reporter in 1984-85. 25,000 copies a week for a year is 1.3 million newspapers that featured my bylined name on the front page.

Some may remember me as CMHA's spokesman in 1989 and 1990, and appearing often on the news to speak on behalf of George James and the board led by Robert Townsend. I've hosted radio shows on WRMR AM850, FM108 when it was WDMT and on WERE when I was "the most dangerous man in Cleveland radio."

In speaking to a friend this week I reminded her that in 2003 I mailed Cleveland Challenger to every single one of Cleveland's 197,000 households. It was the largest single edition of any newspaper EVER distributed in the city. Between 2002 and 2005 I printed and distributed about 1 million copies of the Cleveland Challenger. I've published 12 newspapers. The total number of copies I've put on the streets has been close to 2 million. Just imagine that as Cleveland Life's editor in chief we were circulating 50,000 copies a week. 200,000 a month. 1 million in 5 months and my name appeared in each and everyone of them. The friend told me "we all have read you" when she spoke of my audience.

I think most Clevelanders who know my work in East Cleveland know I was the only mayor who kept the city out of fiscal emergency. They know I cut crime by 40 to 75 percent and that the city was headed in the right direction. They know it fell after I left, but they also know it wouldn't have fallen if I had remained.

The drag thing isn't a "ding" on my record, just a point of reference. Consider that despite the controversy, it was the number 3 story in this media market behind the bribery scandal involving David Letterman and Tiger Woods getting caught cheating on his wife. The story went national and international, and hit all the major online news sites. Politico, Huffington Post ... you name it. Former Late, Late Show host Craig Ferguson did a week's long monologue about my 2009 re-election campaign.

So while the drag thing for some is a distraction, it makes me just that much more well known over my potential opponents. It also gives me a better in with the LGBT community. All Gary Norton, Art McKoy, Mike Smedley and Ralph Spotts did to hurt me only made me stronger and better known. Most people don't go through that kind of shit and come back. I love being under-estimated. I also got to dump a bunch of fake-assed "friends" and "false loyalties." Nothing like going through a cleansing. Keeps like simple.

I've learned that Jackson's approval rating is about 18 percent, which means he's in the same boat as Tim McGinty. It's "anybody" but Jackson, the public just isn't sure who "anybody" is since there are so many contenders. It means for me this campaign will be one based on who can deliver the most popular "ideas." It won't be a personality contest because I think voters are looking for substance.

From what I hear, Jeff Johnson and Zack Reed might as well quit. Bill Patmon and Michael Nelson generated fewer than 1000 votes each when they challenged Jackson and Campbell in 2005. The voters view Johnson and Reed in the same light as they view Jackson. They want most of council gone. They're sick of them. That's all I've been hearing.

There's a "white candidate" push but who? Two restaurant owners? One from New York and another from Russia? A Republican? Okay. I owned a restaurant. I didn't learn a thing running it that would help me as mayor. My back and feet hurt, and I smelled like food. Couldn't walk past a dog without them mutha fuckas drooling. I'll never do that shit again and my hat's off to anybody who does. That work is "hard."

I've got my negatives. In my opinion they're not based on truth but perception. It could be something I've written about someone a critic liked. It could be connected to something I've written with which a critic disagrees. I might not have returned a phone call. It could be I fired or caused them or someone they know to be prosecuted; or that I didn't deliver on something someone wanted and that I couldn't give. It could very well be the sum total of every lie that's ever been shared about me by a reporter, or facts they omitted that would have shared a truer light on my role in a public matter. I've got 38 years of off and on public eye living. There is a wrong fact or information in every article published, including the good one's.

Hell. The council I dealt with in East Cleveland, that Gary Norton led as president, described me as arrogant; especially after I criticized them for missing anywhere between 35 and 70 meetings each in less than four years. They made a part-time job even more part-time. It explains why Norton couldn't fill my size 13's. Elected office is a "job." Not a "title."

These are my up close Cleveland mayoral campaign observations. Don't expect to see this information in a Brent Larkin or Mark Naymik column in the Plain Dealer because they're not going to boost me by sharing these truths. The media right now is dancing all around me for a variety of reasons of which you folk and Harry Boomer already know.

So expect me to be downplayed by the mainstream media but know that it doesn't matter. There are a lot of things that have happened since I left East Cleveland in 2009 that puts me in the driver's seat of defining myself without their help.

Thanks for all. Keep talking me up.

Here's why Nina Turner decided to resign her membership from the Cuyahoga County Democratic Party's “executive committee.” She's still a DNC member.

Three nights ago on Sunday two awards in the name of the late U.S. Rep. Louis Stokes were handed out at the $200 a ticket Cuyahoga County Democratic Party dinner. One was for leadership the other for courage. Nina was given the “courage” award.

There was no mention of the award in Lou's name printed on the program. No biographical information. No video highlights. Cuyahoga County Democratic Party chairman Stu Garson did a half-assed introduction of the reason the award existed. He treated the entire Lou episode like an after-thought. Nina and the other awardee were given up to 60 seconds to speak.

The flu bug that's got a lot of us coughing, hacking and running through boxes of tissue, me included, had taken Nina out. Nina's husband, Jeffrey, wanted her to attend and receive the award. Nina wanted to stay at home. She decided to attend and they arrived right before the program began.

I'll share why white ethnic Democrats should have been more reverent towards Lou.

Up until Call & Post editor and publisher W.O. Walker's death in 1981, Descendant of Slave (DOS) voters voted for their own; just like the other ethnics still do today. At that time we were taught just like the other ethnics not to give a shit about either party. We then tossed up between the white ethnics from either party if an ethnic coalition could be created that would result in patronage jobs, contracts and political board appointments. This is how all the segregated ethnic groups operated. I've written about the Black Plans, but there are the Latino Plans, Irish Plans, the Italian Plans, the Polish Plans, the Hungarian Plans, the Jewish Plans and so forth. Women got Women Plans and today we have LGBTQ Plans. Retired Cleveland municipal court Judge Ralph Perk, Jr. told me that's how his father won the city's mayor's race in 1974 against Arnold Pinkney. He created a bloc of ethnic political coalitions.

Because of Cleveland's large immigrant population, members of each ethnic and religious group moved into segregated neighborhoods and supported candidates from their own communities as their numbers grew. The bigger and more organized the ethnic group grew the more political offices they took from each other. When any of the ethnic groups grew to be larger than the politically dominant one, the politically dominant group would seek to divide the larger group by cutting deals with its leaders. Most of the times it was done through gerrymandering.

So when W.O. died and the DOS community lost the cohesiveness his editorial leadership of the Call & Post offered, Stokes and other Democrats abandoned ethnic loyalty politics and they became “Black Democrats.” DOS's like Peter Lawson Jones became Democrats who just “happened” to be black. W.O. used the Call & Post similar to the way I use Facebook.

After W.O's death Black Elected Democrats of Cuyahoga County (BEDCO) eventually replaced the 21st Congressional District Caucus. Operation Alert and Operation Big Vote that Cheryl Wills ran out of the Call & Post's 4th floor eventually died. BEDCO damn near single-handedly wiped out any semblance of political loyalty that black voters once had to black candidates. This county's DOS voters became brainwashed Democrats. Black Republicans were recast as Uncle Tom's so white ethnic Democrats became okay.

Many of us were furious when Lou supported four white ethnic Democrats over four DOS Republicans, George Trumbo, Bobette Ousley, Craig Cobb and Larry Smith, Jr., for Cleveland municipal court in exchange for Democratic party support of his daughter, Angela. Lou gained a lot of praise because of the overall “quality” of his public service. But his switch of allegiance from Black to Black Democrat empowered a lot of white ethnic Democrats to defeat Republicans who were DOS. DOS political unity was gradually eroded.

I'm summarizing and condensing a lot of history, but I'm sharing this information to underscore just how much white ethnic Democrats owed Lou for their political progress in the DOS community. It's why he should have been more than an honorable mention at the Democratic Party's $200 a ticket dinner. His name should have been on the program in big-assed boldfaced letters with a big fucking “THANK YOU LOU” from every white ethnic who's benefited from blind “straight D” voting in Cuyahoga County's DOS community.

Imagine now being Nina and knowing information like this is part of Cleveland's DOS political history. You're also sitting at a table waiting for an award you didn't ask for, on a night when you're sick and would rather be at home. To top it off, not everybody in the room is your friend. Among them are enemies and detractors. Your success only underscores their inferior mediocrity. Let's be real. Ohio's 88 Democratic Party organizations are statewide losers. This is clearly a Republican-controlled state thanks to these losers and the state organization in Columbus now led by David Pepper. The party has developed no stars or ideas.

You think about Lou's party loyalty sacrifices and your own, and not only are they disrespecting him they're disrespecting you. You also know their asses are going to come running for your endorsement because they have done nothing to “earn” the DOS vote. And when they come the same assholes dissing you will run that “party loyalty” bullshit and expect you to “buck dance” to the beat.

Y'all have no idea what Nina and Jeff experienced nationally, statewide and locally from Democrats. Some of the shit they've shared with me would instantly reverse any loyalty we have towards Democratic Party candidates and elected office holders.

Nina didn't support a Republican when she backed Bernie Sanders. She supported another Democrat. But in the Ohio and Cuyahoga County Democratic Party organizations, the DOS's are still seen by the once pro-slavery party as property without an independent thought. We can't support the Democrats of our own choices. We have to support only the Democrats that “they” support. So for Nina to support Sanders was wrong. Supporting Hillary Clinton was right. That's the type of mindless control drama you're dealing with inside the Cuyahoga County Democratic Party and it's not the only thing bothering you.

Today at this moment in history Nina is Ohio's best known and most nationally-respected Democrat. Consider that Nina's now hosting “The Nina Turner Show” on the Real News Network and her first guest is actor Danny Glover. She's a CNN Correspondent. We all know she's been a regular since the Obama campaign on MSNBC's The Ed Show, and on shows with Rickey Smiley and others for the past 5 years. She guests on other shows often. She speaks all over the nation and she's so closely-aligned to Sanders it caused a national disturbance at the DNC when Hillary Clinton and John Podesta didn't let her speak on his behalf. Nina was so powerful a Sanders surrogate Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein wanted her as a vice presidential running mate.

Now. And I'm not trying to be dismissive when I write these words. Let's take Richard Cordray, Nan Whaley and Connie Pillich. Roll them all up together on the national and statewide recognition scale. Do you know them? I don't. Who are they? Google search their names and they in no way have more content than Nina. What makes them more credible Democratic candidates for governor or leader than Nina, especially since they're running to her for support? What about State Senator Eric Kearney or John Barnes? What about Kelli Prather or even Tara Moseley Samples? What does it take for a Democrat who is a DOS to be credible enough to be included on the statewide ticket? What? All we get to do is vote. We're not asked to play. The GOP has elected or appointed DOS's to Secretary of State, Treasurer and Ohio Supreme Court. Two DOS Republicans have served as state treasurer.

What gnaws at you the most is that for them to win these mediocre and virtually no name Democrats need Nina and every other DOS politician I named being “party loyal” and making an introduction.

On the day of the $200 a ticket dinner, interim Cuyahoga County Democratic Party director Lillian Sharpley called Nina on behalf of Garson to ask if she'd announced her candidacy for governor because he was only recognizing “announced” candidates she said “no.” If those were the ground rules, no problem. Nina's got a new national television show and a deal with CNN. Announcing a candidacy eliminates an opportunity to grow an even larger name before an official announcement is necessary.

So when Garson announces the “announced” contenders for Ohio governor, and then announces those who have not announced and leaves out Nina, at some point all the slights and mean-spirited shit Democrats have put you through becomes just too damn much. It's like, “What's the point?” But when this asshole is signaled by State Rep. Sandra Williams that Nina is in the room, Garson says something like “Nina now wants to be acknowledged.” No. She didn't want to be acknowledged. What anyone would have expected was for him to play by the rules she'd been told by Lillian that he was operating under. That's the thing with these disrespectful assed Democrats. They fuck up. You're wrong.

So as Nina and Jeff are walking towards the door to leave after receiving a half-assed delivered award in the name of another DOS the Cuyahoga County Democratic Party was pretending to honor, and a Democratic woman who supported Hillary makes an ignorant and snide remark, and another before you get out the door, you throw up your hands and say “Fuck it. I'm out. Effective immediately.”

 From Eric J Brewer - candidate for mayor- City of Cleveland: 

I am right. 18,000 water lines from the curb to the home will be replaced in Flint, Michigan based on a federal court order. The US EPA will kick in $100 million. $87 million will come from the state of Michigan. It's estimated to take until 2020 to complete the project. Lots of plumbers will be working. This is what I want for Cleveland and it's a topic that's not on the agenda of any candidate for mayor; especially Mayor Frank Jackson and councilman Jeff Johnson. They haven't ever in over 30 years of elected office spent a dime in Cleveland funds to deal with a comprehensive curb to the faucet water pipe replacement program to protect us from drinking water contamination. That is my plan and I want the plumbers and pipefitters unions to train Cleveland students and "residents" as apprentices.

So I'll renew my opposition to investing a combined total of $282 million in city and county tax dollars under Jackson and County Executive Armond Budish on renovating The Q for Dan Gilbert and the Cavaliers. Hillary Clinton said during the presidential campaign just last year that Cleveland's drinking water contamination was worse than Flint, Michigan's. I drink this shitty-assed water and so do you. Jeff's getting his drinking water from pipes in his $500,000 nearly-new Twinsburg home where he lives with his wife and step-daughters as a Summit County resident.

The pipes from the curb to the home in Cleveland can and must be replaced, but it has to be the will of the people in order for it to be the will of the elected officials. A federal judge in Michigan sees replacing pipes from the curb to the home as the responsibility of the federal and state government; as well as the municipality.

The federal court ruling confirms that my thinking about this topic is correct, and that I have properly assigned responsibility to the right parties. It is my belief that the ultimate goal of water testing is to ensure that it's safe for human consumption. It makes no sense for Jackson, Johnson, Kevin Kelley and the rest of council to spend millions, billions over the years, to clean and test water, and replace pipes to the curb, when the water entering the faucet from the curb to the home through old lead-filled pipes is re-contaminated.

Jackson, Johnson, Kelley and council have failed to deliver clean water to Cleveland inhabitants no matter how many times its tested daily. It's why their unlawful and voter suppressing emergency ordinances are so malicious. They want to join with Budish and the county council and spend $282 million in public funds while using legislative trickery to strip Cleveland voters of an opportunity to vote yes or no to their decision.

Think of how viciously uncaring elected officials are who would justify taking $282 million from the poor to give to a billionaire who in Russia would be called an "oligarch." It's even more insidious when those who are supposed to advocate for the poor advocate against them under the guise of advocacy for cash.

The national NAACP joined the battle for environmental justice in Flint with a 103 page class action suit on behalf of the contaminated residents last year. The Cleveland NAACP chapter embraces spending $282 million to renovate The Q instead of that money being spent to support the environmental health needs of this town and county's life-threatened residents.

Ridiculing The Q renovation's critics for wanting to have $282 million in public funds spent on people and not a billionaire casino owner's interests is misguidedly wrong. Belligerence is not leadership. Scorn is not wisdom. People who support the fucking over of people may not have received the memo. 2017 is different. No one's loyal today to the past. This town and all its real inhabitants are feeling the pain and the people are "war-like angry." Wars come with casualties. Sometimes one has to hurt and heal to see.

30 years of Frank and Jeff and billions spent to deliver water that makes us sick under their watch. Responsibility for water safety rests with the mayor and council. I was born in 1953 drinking Cleveland water. I'm drinking it today in 2017. Whatever is in it has fucked me just like it's fucked you. If what Frank told me when we cut the deal for Cleveland to provide direct services to East Cleveland residents, and that water is clean to the curb; I'll find the money to make sure it's cleaned to the faucet.

People want to know what I plan to do. I think it's better they know how I think. Thoughts like these are what occupies my mind. I took the blue pill. Serving as East Cleveland's mayor changed me and what I learned about managing a challenged urban city won't go away. I can lead Cleveland with my eyes closed. What's aggravating for me is that I see solutions when I hear Frank, Jeff and council's excuses.

I know my petitions haven't reached everyone who's requested them, but we are moving forward with my campaign for mayor. I believe we're on schedule to have petitions completed by the end of April. If you haven't been reached out to please reach out again. There's a stronger infrastructure of people around me who are anxious to step up.