COSE Blog

Some thoughts on the week's activities in the Cuyahoga County Transition process

The Cuyahoga County transition process has always been committed to public engagement and transparency.  The organization of this effort has had a few road bumps as we get going, but there is a commitment to seeing this be an open and inclusive process.

State Senator Scott Brown (R) defeated Attorney General Martha Coakley (D) 52 percent-47 percent yesterday in a special election for the Massachusetts U.S. Senate seat, which was held for 47 years by Democrat Ted Kennedy. This election, widely projected a month ago as a safe Democrat seat, capped three weeks of a pitch perfect campaign by Brown against Coakley, who had committed numerous missteps and was handicapped by lending prior support to increasingly unpopular legislation in Congress such as Health Care Reform, Cap and Trade, Card Check, and increased deficits and unpopular spending.