Laketa Cole
FameRank: 3

"Laketa Cole" was a member of the Cincinnati City Council in Cincinnati, Ohio She first ran for council in 2001 as an independent. She came in tenth, losing narrowly. In April 2003, she was appointed to council to fill an unexpired seat. With incumbency on her side, Cole was able to win election to council the same year. In 2005 she was re-elected to council with a 3rd place finish out of 31 candidates. In 2007, she ran as a democrat, seeking a fourth and final term on council before she was term limited. Cole left city council in 2010 to work for the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio (PUCO), appointed by then-Governor Ted Strickland.

Cole expressed a desire to run for a seat in the Ohio House of Representatives for the 33rd district before accepted the job with PUCO.

A native Cincinnatian and current Bond Hill resident, Cole is a graduate of the Cincinnati Public School system. She attended Wittenberg University where she received a B.A. in Political Science in 1995.

More Laketa Cole on Wikipedia.

If I have a constituent who takes the time to sit down and write a letter, they deserve a response. If I don't know the answer, I ask the city manager.

Eventually, if we raise the caps so much, we're going to have to raise the office budgets, which we just did.

We're definitely going to need them to really help us out solving these murders so we can get these people off the street.

I think the the senseless murders were a wake up call to the community, to focus on what is going on.