Muny Light

 

Muny Light

This is another sight that caught my interest but no one else's. I thought the CEI plant on the other side of the freeway was Muny Light. That has been torn down. Most of it. This does not look like the old, defunct power plant that some people called it.    

During the "70's" this was the subject of a mayoral election,  special election, and some people claim it was a factor in Dennis Kucinich defeat for re-election as Cleveland's mayor.



It was Cleveland's Municipal Light plant that many people referred to as "Muny Light." When Mayor Kucinich campaigned to keep it from being sold to Cleveland Illumination Company a person printed shirts with the slogan "Muny Lite is not a beer."



This was built after 1900 when Tom Johnson was mayor of Cleveland. The banks said they would keep the city in good standing if Kucinich put the power plant up for sale. He refused. He told voters that 700 million dollars is a lot of money for a defunct light plant but a very good deal for a monopoly. Voters listened, the plant did not go up for sale and the city went into bankruptcy.

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