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PLEASANT, LEE & AVALON, HARVARD- LEE, MILES- UNION, UNIVERSITY CffiCLEAREA, READ ON- WRITE ON WARRENSVILLE HEIGHTS, VILLAGES OF NORTH RANDALL,IDGHLAND HILLS AND CITY OF EAST CLEVELAND READ ON- WRITE ON "COVERING THE NEWS TODAY FORABETTER TOMORROW" Nate Gray indicted in scandal Raym.ond Pierce out ofinayor's race sultant Nate Gray, who had previ retrieved from a camera that the FBI By KATHERINEBULAVA during the last several months. ously been linked to the Former East placed in Gray's office and wiretaps The campaign's manager Cleveland Mayor Emmanuel on Gray's phones and those of his Seven weeks after an Paul Patton walked away from the Onunwor's fraud conviction, was business associates. nouncing his intention to run for organization last month and City recently indicted by the federal gov Gray was quoted in the in mayor, Cleveland attorney Ray Council President Frank Jackson ernment on 45 counts of corruption. dictment as saying that 90% of get mond Pierce backed out of the surfaced as a potential mayoral The indictment put Gray at ting public contracts consists of race. candidate around the same time. the head of a secret machine that greasing the palms of public officials. At a new conference re Pierce, however, denies corrupted government official in Gray, 47, obtained techni cently held at Antioch Baptist that Jackson's candidacy or Cleveland, East Cleveland, New Or cally complex contracts for compa Church, Pierce said that he could Patton's leaving had anything to leans and Houston in order to se nies such as Honeywell Inc., CH2M not devote all of the time and at do with his quttting the race. He cure public contracts for his clients. Hill and Camp and Dresser and tention necessary to run a cam said that he had not decided The charges stem from a McKee. paign at this point in his life. whether or not he would back a By KATHERINEBULAVA candidate in the mayoral race at two year investigation into Gray's Gray made a name for him Pierce, 45, is a partner in this time. Prominent Cleveland con- business dealings, including data Continued to Page 8 the Baker & Hostetler law fum and Pierce Jerry Austin, who is has nourished a successfully though his two biggest allies from Campbell's political strategist said growing practice since he joined the 200 l campaign (Stephanie that the mayor isn't worrying her Ca~npbell prepares to defend her post the firm in 2002. Tubbs Jones and campaign manager self about challengers until they By KATHERINEBULAVA intention to run. After graduating from the He cited the need to nur Arnold Pinkney) did not give him make their candidacy official. Campbell has projected a University of Michigan, Campbell ture his relationships with clients their support this time around. Jackson did not want to As the incumbent in the confident air, believing that she is began her career with VISTA (Volun as one of the reasons he could Pierce was criticized for not comment on why Pierce decided upcoming Cleveland mayoral race, in a position to retain her seat at City teers in Service to America) in Racine, not devote enough attention to a having a plan to set forth what he to pull out of the race, but did say Mayor Jane Campbell's position and Hall. Wisconsin and eventually returned mayoral campaign at the press would do differently from Campbell that Pierce has qualities that could strategy are slightly different from Jerry Austin, who is to Cleveland. conference. when he did announce that he would help the city. those of other candidates. Campbell's campaign manager, has Here, she spearheaded and The withdraw! of Pierce, run in Novemberof2004. Coucilman Zack Reed Everytime the mayor has also expressed confidence in the managed WomenSpace, which is a who tallied more than 46% of the Pierce had promised a com (D-3), who has made it known that been approached with questions mayor's chances of reelection and coalition of women's groups who mayoral vote in 200 l, changes the prehensive plan by February and he is considering running for regarding her possible opponents, bluntly pointed out that when it work towards social change for the make up of the campaign. was meeting regular! y with top cam mayor, said that it was shocking she has stated that she will not comes to financing a campaign, betterment of women. Late last year, Pierce was paign advisors, developing a plan to him that someone would so worry about her competition before Campbell is $600,000 ahead of the Campbell helped create the considered one of Campbell's and citywide field operation, and much energy into running and most viable challengers, even assembling a campaign organization then just drop out. candidates officially announce their other possible candidates. Continued to Page 7 No protection for unwed victims under Issue 1 By KATHERINE BULAVA Jeff Lazarus, who is a law Jackson intends to run foF mayor clerk for public defender Robert When Issue I passed this Tobik and the chief architect of the By KATHERINEBULAVA city's residential and corporate citizens. and fees. past November, it became the strict motions to dismiss, said that one Jackson's rates hi s priorities As head of council's Eco est marriage law in the United States. can only be subject to a domestic Cleveland City Council as city council president as jobs for ev nomic Development Committee, The Issue, which was violence charge as a wife beater, not President Frank Jackson (0-5) offi eryone, improving the lives of citizens Jackson spearheaded projects that aimed at denying rights to gay a girlfriend beater. by improving t:he social fabric of neigh brought billions of dollars into the cially announced that he will run for couples and prohibiting them from Issue I has been a law mayor recently. borhoods and creating economic and Cleveland area economy. marrying, has language that may since December I, and a judge has He signed Alan Melamed, community development initiatives that Jackson, 58, was born and who previously ran Lee Fisher's gu help employers, downtown and in neigh raised in the city's poorest neighbor have far more reaching effects. not ruled on any of the cases in the bernatorial campaign, to head his team. borhoods, and offer opportunities to hood, the Central neighborhood that According to the language Cleveland Municipal and Cuya Melamed also headed sLate minority and female-owned businesses. he now represents and lives in to of the amendment, the state will not hoga County Common Pleas courts wide opposition to Issue I, which is Jackson worked to draft the day. recognize any union that alleges to yet. the anti-gay marriage amendment to Fannie Lewis Law legislation, which Jackson, who still lives in the Cen approximate a marriage, including Domestic violence advo t:he Ohio constitution that was on the guarantees Clevelanders employment on tral neighborhood, was first elected unwed straight couples. cates across the state are worried ballot this past November. all construction projects that receive ward five councilman in 1990. The amendment may in fact what the consequences of a judge $100,000 or more in city funding, by At that time, ward five in Maxine Greer, who is City Jackson take away legal protections from ruling for the defendants might be. Council's communications chief, will organizing meetings with union, busi cluded mainly the Central neighbor Last year, under Jackson's lead unmarried victims of domestic vio Cathleen Alexander, who resign next month to work as Jackson's ness and civic leaders to jointly draft hood, but has now expanded to in ership, council approved a $20 million deputy campaign manager. the legislation. clude the North Broadway area and lence.