Jim is unique around here in that he is not only a savvy politician but also a reader and a thinker who can be our very able advocate in speaking and in writing. He’s also a great networker and seems to have generated a lot of good will. He has a skill set that few others do, honed in the Cleveland Public School System when it was excellent, and at Oberlin later, and at Cleveland Marshall after that. He’s a local product that speaks to the best of what is possible around here. Like Gloria, I have no idea of why he has an opponent, except that the Bill Mason gang of political lowbrows and thugs (the machine that really isn’t) thinks they can pull a power play.