One of my best friends in the Political World passed on early today....

[WCGreen]

I posted this earlier in the Ohio Forum but I wanted to share some things about a man I respected. When I came down with my severe pulmonary problems in 2000, he offered me a chance to stay involved with Cuyahog County democratic politics.

He needed a treasurer and so he asked me to serve on his team. He kidded that a judge in a wheel chair and a treasurer dragging around an oxygen tank made a good team.

Well he is gone. He was confined in his chair, 60% paralyzed since he was 17, and now he is free.

He struggled in the end but still ran for a seat on the Court of Appeals.

He had been in the hospital since late september and I think he wanted to last as long as he could so that Kasich wouldn't get to appoint one of his cronies to the bench.

http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2012/04/judge_peter_sikora_dead_at_60.html

Here is the Plain Dealer accounting.

[LaurenG]

1. Oh I am truly sorry WC

My condolences.

[monmouth]

2. What a lovely obituary. This man certainly contributed so much to life. I'm so sorry

for your loss..

[Ikonoklast]

3. Pete was a friend and classmate of my older brother.

He was over our house a few times, way back when. He ate like a starving man, he was rail thin when he was in high school.

Pete was a senior at St. Ignatius when I was a sophomore.

One of the best juvenile court justices Cuyahoge County and the State of Ohio has ever seen.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

4. I am saddened to hear this news...

But as you say, now he is free.

Safe passage to him...