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Zack Reed goes to Dubai; will lecture and hopefully meet princess

Posted by Pete Kotz on Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 5:56 AM

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Zack Reed will be looking good and raising hell
Cleveland Councilman Zack Reed is planning to head overseas at the end of this month to dispense his wisdom on people who could really use it: the residents of Dubai. The desert city — which Reed dubs the “Las Vegas of the World” -- is hosting a conference on city development. The company organizing it, London-based Marcus Evans, first invited Reed to speak about crime. But now he wants to address a much more important issue: decent wages for Dubai’s legions of foreign workers… With all the construction going on in the oil-rich town, migrant workers imported from South Asia are famously underpaid and forced to live in cramped, desert camps. Granted, Cleveland doesn’t even have enough jobs to exploit people over, but Reed plans to give Dubai officials hell anyway. “I’m just gonna go right at ’em,” he says. They might grumble that he has no idea what he’s talking about, he notes, but “ya’ll see that suit he got on?” Reed says he’ll pay for the plane ticket out of his own money, not city coffers (Marcus Evans will pick up the tab once he gets there). And the bachelor councilman is looking forward to his Middle Eastern vacation. He says he might meet an Arab princess and never come home. That’s the Zack Reed we know and love. – Lisa Rab
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Zach see the ways of the Cleveland Clinic. It's easier to chump a sheik for his money then from a from a bankrupted auto worker on Buckeye Ave.

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Posted by dweller on 03/03/2008 at 7:21 AM

Hey Zack, Good for you! Hope you enjoy Dubai as much as I did...It sho' is goood to git out of Cleveland.

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Posted by NorCal Clevelander on 04/10/2008 at 7:02 PM

why would a princess look at you anyways.you are the most ugly person in the world ????

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Posted by sam qasem on 04/11/2008 at 5:53 PM

we don't want you to come home please stay there.

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Posted by No name. on 04/11/2008 at 5:57 PM

I wonder what would happen to him if he got a DUI over there?

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Posted by Beaver on 05/05/2008 at 8:31 PM
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