CAMPAIGN 2015 ELECTION SERIES: 'INDEPENDENT' BERNABEI VERSUS 'DEMOCRAT' HEALY FOR CANTON MAYOR

There is clearly a different tone to the Bernabei and Healy campaigns for mayor which will be decided by Canton voters on November 3rd.

The SCPR has already predicted a Bernabei win. (LINK)

But The Report has over the nearly eight years of writing this blog marveled at how William J. Healy, II has extricated him out of one seemingly impossible situation after another after another after another ad nauseam.

Healy is clearly "the envy of the proverbial cat of nine lives!"

So it would be foolish for anybody to totally count Healy out in gaining a third term as mayor of Canton.

A true indicator of who the "real" players are in terms of putting money where their mouths are will be forthcoming on October 22nd as that day is the day that Ohio campaign finance law mandates that the candidates file a list of campaign contributors (CFR) through October 14th.

Cantonians should pay close attention to this list.

For it will tell who will have the ear of the election victor come January 1, 2016.

And the foretold that Healy would defeat Democratic challenger and Canton treasurer Kim Perez as soon as early January, 2015, to wit:

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There are some interesting things to look for in the respective upcoming Bernabei and Healy reports.

For Healy:

• Who among the "organized" Stark County Democratic Party officialdom (both party officials and elected Democrats across Stark County) show up on the list,
• The scope and largesse of organized labor as contributors, and
• The out-of-town factor

For Bernabei:

• For beginners, the same as with Healy:
• Who among the "organized" Stark County Democratic Party officialdom (both party officials and elected Democrats across Stark County) show up on the list,
• SCPR Note:  to the extent that well known and especially recognized as pretty much committed to the "organized" Stark Dems' supporters appear on Bernabei's list will be a leading indicator that the Stark County Democratic Party apparatus is fractured making a Healy re-election unlikely,
• Whether or not any "organized" labor connected contributors appear,
• The extent to which the generally recognized and identify by the public "civic leadership of Canton" are willing to step out of the shadows of political involvement and declare that they have broken with the official leadership of Mayor Healy and cast their lot with a new approach to solving the manifold problems of Canton

The SCPR will be all over those report and anybody who wants an in depth political analysis of the significance of the Bernabei/Healy pre-general CFRs will want to be on the SCPR early in the morning of October 23rd.

And, of course, the SCPR will be Cantonians "place to go" for all the important news and information on the Healy/Bernabei matchup over the remaining month of the campaign.

In the meantime, readers should keep up with campaign activities of the respective campaigns at these links:

• Healy,
• Facebook page,

• Bernabei,
• Facebook page,