[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 152 (2006), Part 3]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages 3739-3740]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                IN HONOR AND RECOGNITION OF BRAD NORRIS

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                        HON. DENNIS J. KUCINICH

                                of ohio

                    in the house of representatives

                       Wednesday, March 15, 2006

  Mr. KUCINICH. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in honor and memory of my 
close friend William B. ``Brad'' Norris--beloved husband, father, 
stepfather, grandfather, brother, and close friend to the entire 
community. His passing marks a tragic loss to his friends, family and 
the people that he served in the community.
  From early on, he headed the call to public service. He graduated 
from Culver Academy in Indiana and enlisted in the U.S. Army, He served 
his country with honor and courage, after which he moved to Cleveland, 
where he eventually joined Cleveland law firm Hahn Loeser and Parks.
  Mr. Norris was truly a civil rights activist. He visited President 
John F. Kennedy and also volunteered with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. 
By working with the Cleveland Regional Transit Authority during the 
late 1960's he helped organize opposition to a freeway plan that if 
enacted, it would have split eastern Cuyahoga

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County. He represented the city of Cleveland in a lengthy antitrust 
lawsuit against the Cleveland Electric Illuminating Company, in which 
CEI attempted to put its rival Muny Light Company out of business. This 
would have made CEI Cleveland's only municipal electric system. This 
was also a topic I fought passionately for when I was the mayor of 
Cleveland. He also played an instrumental role in the rebirth of 
Cleveland's first licensed educational, non-commercial public radio 
station, WCPN FM
  Mr. Speaker and Colleagues, please join me in honor and remembrance 
of Mr. William B. ``Brad'' Norris. We remember him and celebrate the 
life that he led. We have experienced a great loss in the Cleveland 
community, and he will be missed greatly. I extend my deepest 
condolences to his beloved wife, Elizabeth; his sons Jack, Todd, and 
Robert; his daughters, Carolyn, Pamela and Betsie; a brother; six 
grandchildren and his friends and colleagues. The life that he lived, 
and the legacy that he leaves will live on in the hearts of his family 
and all the lives that he touched.

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