For Immediate Release
KUCINICH FILES ACTION TO ENFORCE LAW HE WROTE
TO PROTECT TAXPAYERS' INVESTMENT IN BROWNS AND
TO HELP KEEP THE TEAM ON CLEVELAND'S LAKEFRONT
CLEVELAND, Oct. 21 (Mon.) -- Dennis J. Kucinich today sent a taxpayer's demand letter to Cleveland Law Director Mark Griffin, preliminary to Kucinich filing suit to force the Browns owners to comply with a law he wrote as a State Senator, which is aimed at protecting the investment which taxpayers have made in the team and opening the door to prospective buyers who will keep the team in the city.
Kucinich's taxpayer demand, a requirement under Ohio Law and the City Charter, bids the Cleveland Law Director to follow an ordinance passed by Cleveland City Council earlier this. year, which specifically directs Mr. Griffin to enforce ORC 9.67, also known as the 'Modell Law,' in remembrance of the Browns owner who moved the team to Baltimore in 1995, in a move which stunned the city. At the time the city had no legal recourse.. The law Kucinich wrote changed that.
"As a state senator, I wrote ORC 9.67, (which went into effect on June 20, 1996), to protect the large investment which Cleveland taxpayers made in professional sports teams and to spare Cleveland or any other Ohio city another heartbreaking move of a team which is part of the soul of the city," Kucinich wrote Griffin. "ORC 9.67 remains in effect and you have the obligation to enforce it on behalf of the City of Cleveland. I file this taxpayer’s demand consistent with that spirit."
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Kucinich Files Taxpayers' Demand to Keep Browns in Cleveland
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