[1]By Teresa Albano
CLEVELAND - Volunteers are going house to house in this hard-hit city's West Side, getting out the vote for a candidate who they believe will "shake things up" and bring change to a neighborhood pockmarked with abandoned houses and torn up streets.
It is one of the most intriguing of several hot races around the country that will be decided on Tuesday.
Rick Nagin, a longtime resident of Cleveland's Ward 14, is in a runoff to represent the ward in the City Council. Nagin has deep roots in the ward. He and his wife Ann raised their two daughters there. His resume gives his experience as an AFL-CIO labor candidate school graduate, and the fact he is fluent in Spanish, priority over his PhD from Rockefeller University. Nagin is a member of the Communications Workers of America and a delegate to the Cleveland Central Labor Council. He is seen as the labor candidate, endorsed by the local AFL-CIO and labor's champion Rep. Dennis Kucinich, along with a number of local unions.
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