Mayor hopeful reports threats

Associated Press

AKRON

A woman seeking the Democratic nomination for the Akron mayoral seat has reported receiving threats that she’ll be blackballed and run out of town if she doesn’t drop out of the race.

Political novice Janice Davis filed about two weeks ago to run as the third candidate in the party’s primary for Akron mayor. The Akron Beacon Journal reports she filed a police report June 24 about threatening phone calls, emails and visits made to her home and her mother’s home.

Akron Police Lt. Rick Edwards says Davis declined to offer the name of a potential suspect.

Davis, 58, faces incumbent Mayor Don Plusquellic and Akron Councilman Mike Williams in the Sept. 13 primary.