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A Cleveland City councilman defended his decision to spend more than $5,000 of campaign donations on trips outside of Cleveland last year.
Ward 2 councilman Zack Reed’s most recent campaign finance report listed trips to New York City, Washington D.C., Ft. Lauderdale and San Francisco, among other locations. The expenditures included airfare, hotel stays, dinners and cab fare. No other city councilman listed such expenditures.
News 5 attempted to interview Reed for several weeks about the expenses. When tracked down on Tuesday, Reed said the trips were work-related, centered around meetings and conferences with law enforcement and community leaders in an effort to find solutions to reducing violence in the city.
“Every one of those trips that you have, I can justify,” Reed said giving several examples.
“We were trying to get the head of the Centers for Disease Control to come and speak to us about how we can look at this violence from a public health standpoint,” Reed said.
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