How Ed FitzGerald Restored People’s Trust in Cuyahoga County, Ohio
June 3, 2013
The county executive has been key to helping it bounce back after a massive corruption scandal. Now he’d like to lead the whole state.
Ed FitzGerald can’t help but laugh as he looks forward to this month’s ribbon-cutting for Cleveland’s new convention center. FitzGerald, the county executive of Cuyahoga County, Ohio, is proud that the $465 million project is opening on time and under budget, but he recalls that not long ago people harbored serious doubts about it. “How about that guy shouting out at the groundbreaking that this would never open?” FitzGerald says. “What took nerve was that he was working on the project.”