Jimmy dimora biography
Jimmy dimora house...
Life of the Party
The most social of leaders, Jimmy Dimora built a career on connections and loyalty.
Jimmy dimora biography
It helped him turn Cuyahoga County’s Democratic Party into a nearly unbeatable machine. It may also be his undoing.
Jimmy Dimora built a nearly invincible Democratic Party machine and had the receiving line to prove it.
Hundreds of people — union leaders, Cleveland city officials, suburban mayors and councilpeople, grassroots Democratic Party members, county contractors, even Republicans — came to see him at his last campaign fundraiser, an immense Sunday brunch two Octobers ago.
They all waited in a line that stretched across Executive Caterers at Landerhaven’s glassy lobby, just to shake his hand. Like a proud father of the bride, he greeted every one of them with a joke, a smile, a slap on the back.
He knew them by name, had gone to their parents’ funerals, their kids’ birthday parties, their own campaign fundraisers, their charity event