East Cleveland Mayor Acknowledges She Killed a Man 22 Years Ago, Says She Acted in Self-Defense

AP ^ | Sept. 25, 2004

[El Gran Salseron]

So East Cleveland has a convicted felon, ( murderer, no less, ) as a mayor? Incredible! Into what is this country evolving? I don't even recognize it anymore.

Self-defense doesn't wash. No one gets convicted for a self-defense crime.

Of course, she would never unseal the records lest the people of East Cleveland find out the truth about their "mayor."

[CzarNicky]

She is a democrat but she replaced a Republican as mayor. East Cleveland really should be put out of its misery and annexed into Cleveland except that Cleveland is in such a poor state that it would not be able to bring East Cleveland up to Cleveland's low standards.

[jackbill]

Goggins was married at the time and not involved in politics. She told the newspaper that she recalled being convicted but said she could not remember the charge. She declined to say whether she was jailed. She said she petitioned a judge to seal the records in September 1991.

Please tell me that she's not a DemocRAT!

Can't remember the charge??? Was she high on coke at the time?

[nuconvert]

See # 12

[meyer]

Any pic of Saratha????? Is she Chinese, French, Swedish, Irish?

It's East Cleveland, so I doubt if she's any of those nationalities.

[cajungirl]

Yep, convictions for murder sort of get lost in one's mind like the name of your first grade teacher and such. And she has "moved on",,,hahhahahha

[TASMANIANRED]

"She told the newspaper that she recalled being convicted but said she could not remember the charge. She declined to say whether she was jailed. She said she petitioned a judge to seal the records in September 1991. "

You get convicted and can't remember the charge. Got to be a Democrat.

[LadyPilgrim]

I do not know how to post photos.........

but go to:
www.marcusgarveyacademy.com/administration.htm. And scroll down to see Saratha Goggins.

It's what you expected. But look at some of the things she has said on:
www.noacinfo.org/article5.html

[hoosiermama]

Look at it this way: The democrats behavior is so debauch, that it is common place for them to commit murder, tell lies, steal (elections or money), adultery, etc. etc.....It is nothing new or unique.....For a Republican to do the same thing is so rare and almost unheard of it becomes newsworthy.....Thus the double standard.

[ArmyBratCutie]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAHAHAHAHHA

[bonfire]

And you would be correct!

[John Lenin]

Stabbing is usually a crime of passion

You can say that again, you have to keep the person at arms lenght and it usually takes more than one stab to kill a person.

[Rightwing Conspiratr1]

She is a democrat but she replaced a Republican as mayor.

The mayor was a democrat who switched parties after he was being investigated. I have no clue why. The guy was a Nigerian immigrant. This bribe thing is apparently part of the tribal culture.

[Weirdad]

From http://www.noacinfo.org/Article5.html for fair use in this duscussion:

Walking in E. Cleveland, anti-war demonstrators question Bush's motives

03/03/03
Joseph L. Wagner 
Plain Dealer Reporter 

East Cleveland- This impoverished city sent a blunt message to President Bush yesterday. 

"If you want a war, come to East Cleveland. We can show you a war," said Councilwoman Saratha Goggins, sending some 500 people protesting the possible invasion of Iraq to their feet cheering. 

Goggins, Mayor Emmanuel Onunwar and others said the city is fighting drugs, crime and deteriorating schools, as well as housing and health problems. They invited Bush to apply his passion for war to domestic problems. Their message was that it makes no sense to spend billions of dollars to bomb Iraq, then rebuild it, when recession-wracked urban America desperately needs the cash. 

The rally, held in Christ the King Catholic Church on Noble Road, at times seemed like a religious event, and at others, a Democratic National Convention. Labor union officials reamed the president for ignoring domestic concerns. 

"This war is a fraud," said Chris Farran, president of Local 546M of the Graphic Communications International Union. Farran said Osama bin Laden "must be jumping with joy" at the thought of an invasion and what it would do to further incite terrorists. 

"Do you want to send your children to Iraq to die?" asked former East Cleveland Councilman Nathaniel Martin. 

"Bush, send my son home," pleaded Robert Hill of Cleveland Heights whose son, Brandon, is in an Army engineering company en route to Kuwait. 

The protesters then marched a half-mile down Euclid Avenue to Shaw High School. 

They battled a stinging-cold wind and driving snow, chanting themes like, "Hell no, I won't die for Texaco" as they marched past condemned housing, sidewalks strewn with broken glass, and boarded-up shops. 

Realizing that other Americans were supporting Bush at a rally downtown, Greg Coleridge, spokesman for the Northeast Ohio Anti-War Coalition of Akron, said his coalition extends beyond the large numbers of blacks and labor participants seen at the anti-war rally in East Cleveland. 

"The resistance today is greater than during the Vietnam War," he said.

[nuconvert]

Thanks

[mylife]

Her predacessor

got convicted on 22 counts of public corruption

[Guillermo]

She told the newspaper that she recalled being convicted but said she could not remember the charge.

Yeah, I forget about my murder convictions all the time. So much on my plate, hard to keep track.

[nuconvert]

Maybe they ought to just hang out at the jail and sign up candidates next time?

[nuconvert]

[HitmanLV]

An immutable law of AP is that when reporting nasty political scandals, when the political party of a politician is not mentioned in the first four paragraphs of the story (or at all), there's a 99% chance that the story is about a Democrat.