Lee and the Urban Poor

From Phillip Morris of the Cleveland Fish Wrapper:

Fisher spoke acidly about how Blackwell has a history of suppressing voter participation and how he is using his current office to advance his gubernatorial ambitions. He offered no evidence of such, but still called on Blackwell to recuse himself from overseeing this year's gubernatorial election.

The irony of this borderline race-baiting is the fact that Fisher is the only man in the contest who has spent most of his adult life understanding and advocating for issues of importance to the poor and minorities. Fisher is the only politician among the candidates and their running mates who has earned the respect of urban Democrats with his actions as well as his words. It was Fisher who tapped Michael Coleman, then Columbus' City Council president and now its mayor, to be his running mate in the 1998 gubernatorial race.

So how does Lee Fisher care about the urban community? I assume Phillip is talking about his work for his Cleveland-based charity, Center for Families and Children.

But Lee Fisher is paid about $350,000, plus perks, from his charity. I bet you would start caring more about poor urban communities if they paid you as much as they pay loony Lee.