ALLEN SCHULMAN - A MAN WITH A PASSION FOR COMPASSIONATE GOV'T DIES

According to WHBC News/Talk (1480), Canton City Council president Allen Schulman passed away Friday morning at home.

Allen Schulman's career in terms of time span pretty much paralleled that of this blogger.

Allen Schulman:  1975 through 2018.

Martin Olson: 1963 through 2014 (inactive).

So this blogger knows first-hand of the outstanding qualities that Schulman possessed as an attorney.

When The Stark County Political Report (SCPR, The Report) began on March 12, 2008, a top priority in coverage was Canton City Council meetings.

As council president (since September 28, 2006), Schulman was both diplomatic and pointed in approach.

Schulman (a committed Democrat) was especially considerate of and accommodating to (whenever possible) to those citizens who attended Canton City Council in order to participate in Public Speaks.

But he could draw lines.

Here is a SCPR video of him pointing his Canton City Council president finger at area politicians who had joined Governor John Kasich in 2010/2011 to slash state of Ohio local government funding and took away various other taxes (e.g. the estate tax [eliminated]) that provides/provided revenue for Stark County's cities, villages and townships).

With the election of Thomas West (former 2nd Ward Canton councilman) to the Ohio House Representatives (D, 49) two years ago and re-elected on November 6th, Schulman had to be celebrating that he and Canton council's ward and at-large leadership finally had a willing, aggressive but collaborative state legislator to work with.

Schulman in the opinion of the SCPR was "left of center" politically  as, The Report thinks, is Thomas West.