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He was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut.
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Roldo Bartimole
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In 1991, he was the recipient of the second annual Joe A. Callaway Award for Civic Courage. At one point, more than 1,700 people subscribed to lieutenant He frequently wrote about Cleveland politician Dennis Kucinich, who would later be a candidate for United States. president
At age 21, during his first campaign for public office in Cleveland, Kucinich told Bartimole he aspired to run for president of the United States some day.
Bartimole"s coverage of Cleveland politics and especially his coverage of its city council made him a controversial figure at city hall. In 1981, Council President George Forbes, angered by an article Bartimole had written, ordered him to leave a city council caucus meeting that Forbes said was not a public meeting.
Bartimole refused. Forbes then confronted Bartimole, grabbed him and forcibly ejected him from the hotel meeting room.
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He worked for a series of newspapers, including The Wall Street Journal and The Cleveland Plain Dealer, before founding his own newsletter,, in 1968. Upon his induction in 2004 to the Cleveland Journalism Hall of Fame, Editor & Publisher described him as "Cleveland"s most famous and iconoclastic media critic." He has been a critic of the Cleveland, Ohio, political scene since "s founding and continues to report and comment on Cleveland politics today. Bartimole published his newsletter,, for 32 years.
"s subscriber base was at its peak during the time that Kucinich was Mayor of Cleveland.
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Politicians, social activists, journalists and members of the business community comprised much of the readership.
