'That Person Is Nina Turner': Progressive Nabs July 4 Endorsement of Largest Ohio Newspaper
Citing the "pioneering civil rights legacy of the late U.S. Rep. Louis Stokes of Cleveland," who served constituents in the district that spans portions of Cleveland and Cuyahoga County for 15 terms from 1968 to 1999, the Cleveland Plain Dealer endorsed Turner on July 4th by saying she would be the best candidate to replicate Stokes' ability "to speak out for the rights, needs and interests of urban, largely poor constituents of color, too often neglected in the business of the U.S. Congress."
According to the paper's editorial:
Who best among the 13 Democrats on the Aug. 3 special primary ballot seeking the Democratic nod for this overwhelmingly Democratic district to carry on that legacy?
There is one person in this crowded field who has shown she isn't afraid to stand up to power and to partisan shibboleths, who has the guts to say what she thinks and do what's right for her constituents and country, who is passionate about public service and knows the issues, the personalities, the challenges better than anyone else in this race.
That person is Nina Turner.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/07/05/person-nina-turner-progressive-nabs-july-4-endorsement-largest-ohio-newspaper
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But it's nice to see I'm so important that you keep track of my past posts.
another black woman for his seat is the very disingenuous fucking FAIL! 
I would think he would be very proud. Changing something does not mean destroying something. ALL things change, even political parties.
Nina destroying the Dem party?
a vote. It up to the people in that district and I also think the people who have endorsed Turner have already weighed the individual candidates and decided on her, an individual candidate. 
Turner has a lot of support. Myself, I think hate is DISGUSTING but knock yourself out while yelling about respect.
automatic media attention.
Well done! Very fast on this thread
She should get a pass on likening the Democratic nominee to half a bowl of shit... why, exactly? If her words are coming back to haunt her, perhaps she shouldn't have said them.
To know who is and who is not, examine their behavior.
So basic.
Anyone can look up video of her on TV saying to national audiences that she wouldn't vote Democratic, and more effort would turn up other old videos and writings of her to anti-Democratic audiences and groups.
It's understandable if non-Democrats trying to defeat the Democratic Party approved her then and support her now in this race. This congressional seat will be won by one of the people running on the Democratic ballot. But that's them.
....renowned union buster. Under his watch hundreds of union workers were laid off.
It makes sense that it was a legendary muckraking journalist, Upton Sinclair, who coined the truism about how hard it is “to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” And it’s not so surprising after Advance Media’s brutal round of union-busting layoffs at the Plain Dealer last week that the company’s top editor in Cleveland, Chris Quinn, is having a tough time understanding, or pretending to not understand, why everyone is so upset.
With last week’s layoffs having completed a process by which a PD newsroom of 350 union-backed journalists has been decimated, over a decade, to 63 non-union reporters under the banner of Cleveland.com, there has naturally been an outcry over the death of journalism in Cleveland. As Sam Allard observed last week in a scathing assessment of these developments in these pages, an already overburdened Cleveland.com newsroom is now much more so, with legitimate journalism sure to be increasingly “drowned out by torrents of brain-numbing clickbait and sponsored content, and further cheapened by a truly abominable social media presence.” And with news outlets nationwide having been subject to similar cuts, it’s been widely observed that “our political campaigns are [increasingly] guided by out-of-state donors and consultants, not candidates and voters, our legislative chambers are gerrymandered, [and] our court races are politicized in ways that are dramatically at odds with how they were designed to be run.”
In other words, with 80% fewer journalists in Cleveland to fulfill the essential function of uncovering stories to inform the public, it stands to basic reason that the public will be 80% less informed.
The problem here is obvious and critical. To everyone but Quinn, anyway, who took to the pages of Cleveland.com this weekend to pen a wildly defensive and Orwellian column claiming not only that journalism isn’t “dying in Cleveland” but that in fact it “thrives,” and anyone suggesting otherwise has “dubious motives,” and “appear[s] to be unafflicted by truth.” The relevant paragraphs, where Quinn also lashed out at critics, former colleagues, and the very notion of adversarial journalism, are as follows:
The people I work with just keep their heads down and produce the stories, photos, audio and video that you so clearly value — you engage with it in huge numbers.
I find so much dignity in my cleveland.com colleagues. They do the work. Diligently. Accurately. With quiet determination. Without bias.
There’s a danger in your not getting to know them, though. Some people with dubious motives – people who appear to be unafflicted by truth — would have you believe that journalism is dying in Cleveland. That’s false, of course, as any objective review of cleveland.com’s coronavirus coverage would prove. Journalism thrives in Cleveland in the form of our 60-plus reporters and editors.
Note to hosts: only four copyright paragraphs are posted - the rest is a quote from Chris Quinn himself from elsewhere.
Thanks!
https://www.clevescene.com/scene-and-heard/archives/2020/04/13/clevelandcom-editor-chris-quinns-corporate-toolery-is-the-opposite-of-journalism
No Democrat or progressive should be proud of an endorsement from The Cleveland Plain Dealer
"Wheeling and dealing" comes to mind. 