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  • Master List: Authoritarian and Anti-Constitutional Actions by Donald Trump (2025)

    Master List: Authoritarian and Anti-Constitutional Actions by Donald Trump (2025)

    The last update to this was on May 24, 2025. Let me know if I forget to add to it. This post is a rolling chronicle of executive orders, proclamations, federal memoranda, and allied state-level initiatives that legal scholars, journalists, and watchdog groups have flagged as authoritarian, unconstitutional, or corrosive to democratic norms since President…

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  • Day 11 This CAN Happen The Road To Mayor

    Day 11  This CAN Happen  The Road To Mayor

    11 days in and my mind is flooded with things I should do to run a successful campaign for the office of Akron mayor.  The help I have been given within 11 days is breath taking. Amazing. That’s all I can say. I don’t under estimate the tried and true activities of running an Akron…

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  • Sage Lewis for Akron Mayor – There is an alternative.

    Sage Lewis for Akron Mayor – There is an alternative.

    From WKYC: “Unlikely Candidate” “The Mystery Cowboy Candidate” My campaign is simple: You don’t have to accept the way things are. There is an alternative to the same old same old. You can be whoever you want to be. That’s the right of everyone in Akron, Ohio USA THERE IS AN ALTERNATIVE. More is coming…

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  • Day 10 It Feels Bigger Than Me The Road To Mayor

    Day 10  It Feels Bigger Than Me  The Road To Mayor

    I felt something today that maybe I never have felt before in my life. Today this whole mayoral journey felt bigger than just me.  The outreach of help and encouragement I’ve gotten in these 10 days is utterly humbling.  People have written me detailed insight in their experiences running for office. People have suggested books…

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  • Cindy Bechtel Paris on Sage Lewis for Akron Mayor

    Cindy Bechtel Paris on Sage Lewis for Akron Mayor

    Wow Cindy. Thank you! If you truly mean this then no matter how hard I have to work, it will all be worth it.    

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  • Day 9 – The Campaign’s Values – The Road To Mayor

    Day 9 – The Campaign’s Values – The Road To Mayor

       I posted a story yesterday about Dan Horrigan winning the race.  The story wasn’t the problem. I found a picture of him and The Don.  It was one of those pictures that you see of politicians looking like politicians.  I didn’t make fun of him. But I also knew that the picture put him…

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  • Loosen Restrictions On Food Trucks

    Loosen Restrictions On Food Trucks

    photo from: Akron Food Truck Friday | TeaTime with the Mad Artist I evolve my businesses based on one fundamental law of business: You can’t stop progress.  Food trucks are the current evolution of the restaurant business. I love restaurants as much as the next person. But I also love food trucks.  We need to continue…

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  • Akron Will Post Its Checkbook Online

    Akron Will Post Its Checkbook Online

       I recently came across this story: Stow first in Summit County to put citys checkbook online Through the states OhioCheckbook.com website, taxpayers are now able to view every dime Stow spends — from office equipment to asphalt providers to legal fees — in a searchable database. Akron will do this when I’m mayor! We…

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  • Josh Fidel on Sage Lewis for Mayor

    Josh Fidel on Sage Lewis for Mayor

    Thanks so much for this Josh. I REALLY appreciate it!   

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  • Day 8 – Everybody knows this is Dan Horrigan’s Town – The Road To Mayor

    Day 8 – Everybody knows this is Dan Horrigan’s Town – The Road To Mayor

      OK. Politics is weird. It’s only taken me eight days to figure that out. By day 16 I should be really tripped out. Talk to an insider and they will tell you one thing: Dan Horrigan is going to win. He will get hundreds of thousands of dollars to spend any way he wants…

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  • DL Meckes on Sage Lewis for Akron Mayor

    DL Meckes on Sage Lewis for Akron Mayor

    “I think Sage Lewis would make a great mayor.” Thank you DL. Your support means a huge deal to me. 🙂  

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  • Brian Deagan on Sage Lewis for Akron Mayor

    Brian Deagan on Sage Lewis for Akron Mayor

    “If we want Akron to thrive we need to try something different than professional politicians.” Thank you Brian! That’s exactly my thought too. You as a tech entrepreneur in Akron are key to an amazing future for us all. New jobs. New ideas. A new vision.  We can do it! Thank you man.   

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  • George Nemeth on Sage Lewis for Akron Mayor

    George Nemeth on Sage Lewis for Akron Mayor

    “I can’t vote in Akron but if I could it’d be for Sage Lewis.” Thank you George! You were always a great supporter of Northeast Ohio while you were here. Your support means a huge deal to me.   

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  • Lerryn Campbell on Sage Lewis for Akron Mayor

    Lerryn Campbell on Sage Lewis for Akron Mayor

    “Sage Lewis has come to my aid more than once.” Thank you Lerryn! This means a great deal to me. 🙂  

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  • Day 7: Unexpected Opportunities The Road To Mayor

    Day 7: Unexpected Opportunities  The Road To Mayor

    Monday, June 15, 2015 Running for mayor has been some of the most exciting work I’ve had the opportunity to pursue. As I mentioned in an earlier post, I use Mondays to get as much work done as possible. Adding a mayoral campaign to my list of activities has added a decent amount of work…

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  • Akron Sewer System Isn’t A Problem. It’s a HUGE Opportunity

    Akron Sewer System Isn’t A Problem. It’s a HUGE Opportunity

    If there is one thing people seem to be afraid of it’s: How is an outsider with no political experience going to be able to handle the multi-billion dollar sewer system problem? The more I think about it, the more I think I might be able to handle it better than career politicians. Everything in…

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  • Akron Will Become An Entrepreneurial Center of America

    Akron Will Become An Entrepreneurial Center of America

    This is the initiative I am most excited about. And it’s the initiative I have the most experience with.  We have a declining population.  We have brain drain.  We have a lower than Ohio average median household income.  All of this is fixed with jobs.  Small businesses are the leading creator of new jobs in…

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  • Self-Imposed  2 Term Limit

    Self-Imposed  2 Term Limit

    I declare right here, right now that I will not run more than 2 times for Akron Mayor.  If aliens possess my body and I somehow get mad for the hunger of power please use this post to do everything in your power to stop me from running.  I will also do everything I can…

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  • Day 6: The Details The Road To Mayor

    Day 6: The Details  The Road To Mayor

    Sunday, June 14 2015 We had a really great weekend in Hocking Hills. It’s a very cool and fun place. I love checking at all the interesting places in the world. Our friend who has worked on some campaigns in the past drove home with us back to Akron.  She started going through all the…

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  • Immediately Tie the Mayor’s Salary To The Median Household Income

    Immediately Tie the Mayor’s Salary To The Median Household Income

       This is a quick and easy one that I’ll do on day one as Akron Mayor.  I will make the salary of mayor double whatever the median household income is.  Want more money as mayor? Figure out how to raise the median household income in Akron.  According to City-Data the median household income in…

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  • Day 5: Slogans – The Road To Mayor

    Day 5: Slogans – The Road To Mayor

       It’s Saturday. I often use the weekends to think. I avoid the phone and email as much as possible so I can take some time to think.  Every small business owner knows this fact: As a small business owner you are the General, the front line soldier and the cook. You have to be…

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  • Internet is not a luxury. It’s a fundamental right. 

    Internet is not a luxury. It’s a fundamental right. 

       You don’t need a big study to prove that kids who have Internet access at home will have a significant edge over kids who don’t have Internet at home.  We need a way to get Internet access in the homes of every kid in Akron.  Now, you need to understand something about me. I…

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  • Day 4 – WAKR – The Road To Mayor

    Day 4 – WAKR – The Road To Mayor

    I was so excited about day 4 (Friday, June 12 2015) that I couldn’t sleep. Indy and I had just went to check out Jurassic World at the HIghland Theater the night before. It was so good I couldn’t stop thinking about it. But at 9am on day 4 I was to have my first…

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  • We don’t have to accept the same old same old 

    We don’t have to accept the same old same old 

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  • Day 3 – Web site, Social Media & Paypal – The Road To Mayor

    Day 3 – Web site, Social Media & Paypal – The Road To Mayor

    It is now 11pm on day 3. I wrote day 1 and 2 just now because Greg gave me this idea today. Day 1 and 2 were so interesting. I wanted to make sure I had them recorded. This site is running on WordPress. It’s easy to find a new theme and install it for…

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  • Day 2 – Getting Signatures to be on the Ballot for Mayor

    Day 2 –  Getting Signatures to be on the Ballot for Mayor

    Greg and I thought there would be nothing to this part.. I mean, how hard could it be to get 50 signatures? We were wrong. People refused to sign. People didn’t live in Akron. Endless people who don’t vote and will never vote. There were countless hurdles. I was laughed at. I was told there…

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  • Day 1 – Deciding to Run for Mayor of Akron

    Day 1 – Deciding to Run for Mayor of Akron

    Greg Habermann, my campaign manager, had a brilliant idea.. as he often does. He thought it would be cool to blog my journey of becoming Mayor of Akron. He also thought that other people in our town might find this journey interesting. That future people whom might want to run for office might find this…

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  • Akron Mayoral Candidates Online Accounts

    Akron Mayoral Candidates Online Accounts

    [cmsms_row data_padding_bottom=”50″ data_padding_top=”0″ data_bg_parallax_ratio=”0.5″ data_bg_size=”cover” data_bg_attachment=”scroll” data_bg_repeat=”no-repeat” data_bg_position=”top center” data_color=”default” data_padding_right=”3″ data_padding_left=”3″ data_width=”boxed”][cmsms_column data_width=”1/1″][cmsms_image align=”none” animation_delay=”0″]22|http://www.sagelewis.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/akron-mayor-social-media.jpg|full[/cmsms_image][/cmsms_column][/cmsms_row][cmsms_row][cmsms_column data_width=”1/1″][cmsms_text] I thought it would be interesting to check out the Akron mayor candidates online profiles. I very well could have missed some. And if I did please tell me. Also, I didn’t include government sites that were built…

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  • Twitter Updates for 2010-10-01

    Twitter Updates for 2010-10-01

    Stocks – best September since 1939 – (when Germany blitzkrieged Poland and started World War II). http://bit.ly/d58hGn # Does she really say: "gettin slizzard sippin sizzurp"? Song makes no sense but it sounds great. I want to feel like a G6. # I've got a couple quotes in: Technology Review: Guerrilla Webfare http://bit.ly/cbLiop (a great…

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  • From SageRock Blog: : And the …

    From SageRock Blog: : And the …

    From SageRock Blog: : And the winner is… http://www.sagerock.com/blog/and-the-winner-is/

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  • I’ve got a couple quotes in: T…

    I’ve got a couple quotes in: T…

    I’ve got a couple quotes in: Technology Review: Guerrilla Webfare http://bit.ly/cbLiop (a great article by Antonio Regalado).

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