The Real Deal Press first reported that Frazier, who pens a column for CoolCleveland.com and hosts a weekly radio show on WTAM 1100, would challenge Dow.
“The situation has become intolerable,” Frazier wrote in a press release, referring to concerns about safety and development in Hough.
Frazier is a regular and open critic of Dow’s, as is Cleveland.com’s Mark Naymik, who has charted some of Dow’s more ignoble achievements and stances during his council tenure, including Dow’s failure to pay property taxes, his failure to file campaign finance reports, and his failure to spur development in his ward by trying to legitimize a community development corporation run by friends and family.
Most recently, Dow expressed reservations about a soda fountain at League Park, prompting Naymik to wonder if Dow was “the only elected official in America to be against baseball and ice cream.”
Frazier joins challenger Basheer Jones, who also ran in 2013, and Demar L. Sheffey, the two other candidates in Ward 7 who have filed valid petitions. Jones’ residency was recently called into question by Channel 5 — he claims to live and pay rent at a home that was foreclosed four months ago.
The well-known Frazier stands a fighting chance.
This article appears in Apr 12-18, 2017.
I would say “anyone but TJj” but now I say WE MUST ELECT BASHEER! He is young, savvy, great intentions, a brilliant public service future!
Dow is the type of goof – a harmless lightweight who is no threat to the downtown business interests – that Kevin Kelley might want to keep him around….and the biggest job of the council president is making sure that bundles of campaign cash are properly allocated.