New Cleveland City Council Ward 12 expands old Ward 11 northward, resembling a stovepipe hat as it reaches from the border with Linndale, flanking both sides of West 117th Street, through parts of West Boulevard, Jefferson, Cudell, and then the Edgewater neighborhood up to the lake.
Incumbent Danny Kelly, 67, a Cleveland native and 45-year member of Laborers Local 310, who has represented Ward 11 since January 2023, seeks reelection, challenged by newcomer, lawyer Tanmay Shah, 29.
Shah, an immigrant from India, earned his law degree from Case Western Reserve University in 2021, and last year quit his job as a Cleveland Legal Aid lawyer to take a part-time truck-driving gig so he could focus his energies on community organizing…