Cleveland councilor Santiago is challenged by Plain Dealer stories

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http://www.gaypeopleschronicle.com/stories08/may/0509086.htm

May 9, 2008

Councilor Santiago is challenged by newspaper stories


by Anthony Glassman

Cleveland--The city’s daily newspaper launched an all-out assault on Cleveland’s first openly gay city council member on May 2, rehashing a number of allegations of his support for “problem” bars.

The series of articles also notes three anonymous sources who claim to have been interviewed by FBI agents in a probe of Ward 14 councilor Joe Santiago’s support for the establishments and other businesses...



“Although we should expect better from the PD, we know that it has a history of ‘going after’ political leaders it disagrees with,” he noted. “Like many of you, I recall how it libeled our then-Congresswoman Mary Rose Oakar using anonymous sources in a false story, and I recall how Mary Rose later sued the Plain Dealer and won.”...


“We all know how the PD has been on a crusade for years to defeat our current Congressman Dennis Kucinich seeking to drive him from office,” Santiago continues in the letter. “But we know Dennis--and we how the Plain Dealer operates--and we will return him to Congress again.”...