MEET THE BLOGGERS EPISODE 6: MICHAEL NELSON

George, Tim and I interviewed Cleveland mayoral candidate Michael Nelson this afternoon. The resulting hour-long podcast (in three parts) is posted at Brewed Fresh Daily.

Nelson, an attorney, former teacher and community activist who hasn't run for office before, is one of the candidates who are lumped into "other" in the polls. He isn't going to make it into the general -- this time, anyway. But he's smart, he's been around Cleveland politics for twenty years, and he's a voice you should hear.

I say this knowing full well that when he announced I called him a "Wal-Mart candidate".

In the interview Nelson discussed his Steelyard Commons support (in a way that doesn't square exactly with the newspaper account quoted in the last link) and his belief that the city -- the Black community, in particular -- should still have an elected School Board. He also talked about the spread of HIV among African-American women, which makes him the first candidate we've interviewed to mention a public health issue. Lots of other topics, too. Check it out.