Cleveland City Councilman seeing dollar signs for city: “USS Refugee ship is coming to port. Get on.”
Councilman Joe Cimperman: Hurrah! Here come the third worlders to colonize Cleveland!
If you live in Cleveland or any other Rust Belt city this may be the most important article you will read this year (or for years to come). I simply haven’t the time to analyze it all for you, but for any activists concerned with the future of your community, this reporter ( at The (Cleveland) Plain Dealer has done her homework.
You now must demand full transparency from local elected officials and if necessary figure out where and how to throw a shoe in the machinery of government! Find out who is going to benefit financially from the re-development in this public-private partnership scheme to colonize Cleveland.
How much does Presidential candidate and Governor John Kasich know about the plan to welcome refugees to Cleveland?
If I lived in Ohio, I would also be trying to find out right now how “welcoming” Governor Kasich has been to this plan. He surely knows about it!
Before you read “Dream neighborhood….,” please go to a story we posted exactly two years ago yesterday about how Welcoming America had come to Cleveland to get this ball rolling.
Somalis will be invited to be part of the “Dream” neighborhood! Will they live in one big happy multicultural melting pot along side Hindu Bhutanese and Christian Ukrainians?
Changing America by changing the people! Story, sounds like a blueprint for Obama’s plan to “seed” your cities and towns with “New Americans.”
Here is how Ms. McFee begins her report at The Plain Dealer (hat tip: Julie).
CLEVELAND, Ohio — Kat Oberst Ledger and her husband, Art, recall when West 48th Street teemed with drug dealers and sounds of gunfire peppered the night. Now their street, near the intersection of Cleveland’s Stockyards and Clark-Fulton neighborhoods, is quiet at sundown. Empty houses sit, windows boarded, awaiting demolition. A hummingbird sanctuary and gardens have sprung up on vacant lots.
During the last decade, the Ledgers say, the neighborhood has improved. It also has emptied out, thanks to foreclosures, abandonment and urban decay. But the Ledgers could be welcoming new neighbors – hailing from places as far-flung as Bhutan, Somalia and Ukraine – over the next few years, if a consortium of community leaders, nonprofit groups and public officials has its way.
These newcomers, refugees fleeing danger or persecution in their home countries, need places to live. Cleveland has plenty of empty homes ...
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