Jay Westbrook (born 1947) is an American politician of the Democratic Party in

Cleveland Cleveland is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Cuyahoga County. Located along the southern shore of Lake Erie, it is situated across the Canada–U.S. maritime border and approximately west of the Ohio-Pennsylvania st ...

Ohio Ohio ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern region of the United States. It borders Lake Erie to the north, Pennsylvania to the east, West Virginia to the southeast, Kentucky to the southwest, Indiana to the ...

. For 34 years, he was a member of

Cleveland City Council Cleveland City Council is the legislature, legislative branch of Local government in the United States, government for the Cleveland, City of Cleveland, Ohio. Its chambers are located at Cleveland City Hall at 601 Lakeside Avenue, across the str ...

representing wards on the west side of Cleveland. He was first elected to council in 1979 and served as its president from 1990 to 1999. Some of his political positions included being pro-

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and pro-

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. He was also considered to be a

consumer advocate Consumer protection is the practice of safeguarding buyers of goods and services, and the public, against unfair practices in the marketplace. Consumer protection measures are often established by law. Such laws are intended to prevent businesse ...

, particularly with regards to

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. Westbrook retired from Council on December 31, 2013. Following retirement, he worked for the Thriving Communities program of the Western Reserve Land Conservancy starting in 2014.

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