The Observation Deck

The first election this fall will be the Ward 1 Council primary on September 10.
The race, which is expected to very competitive, has four candidates.
One of them is working with disgraced former County Executive/Gubernatorial Embarrassment Ed Fitzgerald.

Tess Neff, who entered the contest relatively late, hired FitzGerald's firm for "consulting" on the campaign.
"Democracy Advisors" is another name for Fitzy's "Great Lakes Strategies" business. (see pdfs)
As many folks recall, "Great Lakes Strategies" is the company that published "Lakewood Neighborhood News", the infamous 2015 "fake newspaper".

https://www.cleveland.com/brooklyn/2015 ... ecuti.html

Neff claims to be running on a platform of transparency....but it's very obvious that she's just another cog in the corrupt, deceptive FitzGerald Machine.

Michael

Ed's not back, Ed never left, his fingers have been in everything Summers does.

How bad is it. Well here is one everyone should think about this election.

Ed FitzGerald grabs "onelakewood" for his campaign slogan, after getting elected to Mayor he sells the domain to the city. He also works with his appointed right hand Mike Summers to close Lakewood Hospital in secret. 8 years later he ends up with over $7 million in property, where he will build "ONE LAKEWOOD" with the help of Carnegie. PLUS - his supporters get all of the $$$$$$$ into their private foundations.

Accident?

Lakewood, you have been played wake up, time to flush the system.

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If anyone needs a refresher course on Fitzgerald’s disastrous campaign for governor of Ohio, which basically handed Ohio to the Republicans, here is a PD article summarizing. Please note the arrogance of Fitzgerald throughout the debacle - he insisted he could win despite clear signs he was in trouble. As Henry Gomez notes, the trouble was all of his own making.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.clevel ... utType=amp.

Most agree that FitzGerald's mess is largely of his own making and that Monday's staff exodus stems from pronounced disappointments and disagreements that emerged in recent weeks amid a torrent of damaging revelations and negative publicity.

Anything Fitzgerald has his hand in is for HIS OWN benefit and no one elses’s.

The fact that he’s backing Neff should be a warning to run the other way!

Need more reminding of the disaster that is Ed Fitzgerald?
This is a an accurate description:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cleves ... AMP%2bHTML

The trend of FitzGerald nabbing jobs for which he seems personally unsuited given his track record continued with this week's news that the Cuyahoga County Democratic Party has hired FitzGerald and his firm, Democracy Advisors, to be the party's fundraiser.

The guy has had more jobs than there are hands out grabbing the hospital foundation money.

Ed Fitzgerald dealt in fake news long before the Russians.

Wonder if he’ll do it again to boost Neff.

https://m.clevescene.com/scene-and-hear ... o-election

Jim O'Bryan wrote:Michael

Ed's not back, Ed never left, his fingers have been in everything Summers does.

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Yep, you're right. A better title would have been "Drivers Ed is back on the campaign trail"

Bridget Conant wrote:Ed Fitzgerald dealt in fake news long before the Russians.

Wonder if he’ll do it again to boost Neff.

I wouldn't be shocked if "Lakewood Neighborhood News" makes some sort of return in 2019. Team Summers has lots of cash to burn, and their stable of candidates (led by Sam The Sham O'Leary) is desperate.

Don’t forget Ed Fitz has his leftover gubernatorial cash which he said he’d use to back his favored candidates.

https://www.cleveland.com/open/2015/07/ ... chall.html

It's a political campaign fund, and my intention is to use it for campaign purposes, which will be for political candidates

Think he’ll help out his client Tess Neff?