ken lanci is a hit with the black community...frank jackson has lost touch with the people
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Ken Lanci, Cleveland mayoral candidate, is hit with
black community, criticizes traffic enforcement
cameras
Pat Galbincea, The Plain Dealer ByPat Galbincea, The Plain Dealer
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on May 30, 2013 at 8:57 PM, updated May 30, 2013 at 8:58 PM
CLEVELAND -- Cleveland mayoral candidate Ken Lanci criticized the new traffic enforcement
cameras to be established in predominantly black neighborhoods and vowed Thursday night
to have an office that's accountable and transparent.
Lanci spoke to about 80 at the Lil Africa Village Party Center on East 68th Street and
Superior Avenue who repeatedly clapped their approval of his speech and answers to
questions.
"It's important for people to know I am a native Clevelander and a self-made
businessman...not a politician," said Lanci, 63. "My job as mayor will be to work for the
greater good of the community."
Lanci received applause when he held up a red and white that read "Stop Targeting East
Siders on Red-Light Cameras."
"I am for programs that increase the safety of our neighborhoods," he said. "I won't support
programs that unfairly target residents who can least afford these punitive measures. These
cameras and resulting fines are nothing more than a money grab from the people least able
to pay."
Lanci, who will run for mayor as a Democrat, said several times throughout the evening that
when incumbent Mayor Frank Jackson took office in 2006, the city had a poverty rate of 27
percent. In the 2011 census report, the city's poverty rate had risen to 34 percent.
"The red-light cameras are yet another example of just how out of touch Mayor Jackson is
with the overwhelmingly difficult conditions facing the residents of Cleveland."
Before he spoke, Lanci marched with members of the Imperial Women and other
organizations for 30 minutes while leaders Kathy Wray Coleman and Black on Black Crimefounder Art McCoy protested the handling of the Nov. 29, 2012 shooting in which police
fired 137 shots in East Cleveland at the end of a nearly 30-minute chase that killed
apparently unarmed Timothy Russell, 43, and Malissa Williams, 30.
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"I don't fault the police or the police chief," Lanci said. "The problem starts at the top...the
chief executive officer of any company gets the glory, but also gets the grief. These people
don't see the mayor as a leader who is solving the city's problems.
"Do I have the vaccine to cure the problem? No, but I have plans and ideas which will help
solve it."
Lanci is CEO and chairman of Consolidated Graphics Group, Inc. of Cleveland, a marketing
company.
He also told the crowd later that he was shocked that Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and
Michelle Knight could be locked up in a Cleveland home for a decade and not have anybody
notice.
"It's beyond comprehension that nobody knew these girls were in that home for so long," he
said. "We need to have all homes that are partially boarded checked out. I plan to be going
in neighborhoods to bring people together so there is trust and interaction between city
officials and its citizens.
"My job will be if you elect me and give me the chance to do it -- to make sure you are
protected," he said. "You can't cut budgets and the number of police on your police force
and make the streets safe."
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