Williams plays “Race Card” on Boardman and Austintown to force JEDD Annexations

[Maggy]

Absolutely not!

Being at meetings in Boardman and Austintown...long before Mr. Calhoun even decided to run for office...the distrust was solely directed to the mayor and finance director...not to the people of Youngstown...no matter what their ethnicity.

The race card is overused...not about black or white, the only important color is GREEN.

[Towntalk]

Absolutely!

When you hear Brad Calhoon's scare tactics coupled with your own, there is no other conclusion.

[Frank Bellamy, MAP Masters of Applied Politics]

Williams plays "Race Card" on Boardman and Austintown to force JEDD Annexations

Williams the mayor of the city of Youngstown announced last Saturday on Herman Hill's morning radio show that Race was one of the reasons why Boardman and Austintown was rejecting his JEDD ideas.  He inferred that those communities have a problem doing joint ventures with Black people.

Is this a fair assessment by Williams?... Or are those communities expressing a distrust of Williams' personal and management motives in pushing the JEDD issue to enhance the city budget?

What do You think?