is the last CC another drug dealer?
Good for him! Are we finally seeing some community leaders with backbone? First the guy in Charlotte and now Cleveland.
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Polensek, Cleveland’s longest-serving council member with 28 years, wasn’t backing down.
“I don’t regret sending the letter out because I am fed up with what’s happening in this city.” said Polensek, “I am fed up with what’s happening in our neighborhoods with these thugs and these gangbangers.”
Polensek, whose four vans have been stolen from the area, mailed the letter last week after learning that Winston had been arrested in the blue-collar Collinwood neighborhood on July 3 on drug-trafficking charges.
“You are a `thug’ and you know what,” the letter said. “There are only two places you will end up at the rate you are going — that is, prison or the nearest funeral home.” ...
...I’m not gonna loose my neighborhood.” said Polensek, “As long as I breathe air in City Council and represent the people in 11th ward I’m gonna continue to fight for what is right in my community.”
Winston, who was charged with aggravated assault in 2005 and spent three months in juvenile detention, was arrested last year in the alleged assault on an officer but the case was dismissed. He is out on bond on the drug trafficking charge.
Polensek and Winston have a history. Polensek told Winston and his companions last year about complaints of broken glass and drug-dealing in a playground and asked them to clean up after themselves.
Winston, then 17, refused to shake hands, told Polensek to kiss his rear end and said he was heading for an NFL quarterback’s job, Polensek said.
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