An odd feature of Councilman Robert Stokes Sr.’s re-election campaign has been the fact that he has raised no money at all – zero since May – and that he hasn’t been campaigning all that hard.

Stokes has been in the only competitive general election race in the city, but he and his supporters are confident he has enough deep roots and political ties in the Black neighborhoods of East Baltimore to beat back Green Party challenger Franca Muller Paz.

“I been knowin’ Robert Stokes for years,” said Catherine Benton-Jones, a community leader who went to Dunbar High School with him.

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