Posted
By Sam Allard
on Tue, Jan 19, 2021 at 6:45 AM
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Martin Sweeney addresses the Lakewood Democratic Club (3/29/18),
A battered region watched in disbelief as one of its slimiest career politicians weaseled his way back into elected office this weekend. Martin Sweeney, the former double-dipping Cleveland city councilman and Ohio state rep with a sordid history of sexual harassment accusations and corruption-adjacent behavior, beat two other candidates in a vote among Cuyahoga County Democratic Party precinct committee members in District 3. Sweeney will now serve the remainder of retiring Councilman Dan Brady's term.
Both the result of Saturday's vote and the mechanisms by which it was achieved should be considered nothing less than travesties. They are the latest and among the most explicit answers to a series of questions which have lately befuddled local leaders: