TASK DEFINITION: Given a document and an entity the task is to select the author's sentiment towards the entity. Sentiments can be Positive, Neutral and Negative. Select Positive if the article expresses a positive view towards the given entity or praises its quality or skills. Select Neutral if the document expresses no clear view towards the entity or has equal amounts of positive and negative statements or expressing some fact/quote by someone else. Select Negative if the article expresses a negative view towards like harsh remarks, criticizing entities action/decision etc. Note that URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].
PROBLEM: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity John Fritchey ? Shuftan made his comments after Commissioners John Fritchey and Luis Arroyo Jr.  both Chicago Democrats  announced they would introduce a resolution next week to put the question on the March 20 primary ballot.
After his announcement   Fritchey  made the rounds of the county boardroom at an unrelated committee meeting  asking for support.
A longtime advocate of making recreational marijuana use legal   Fritchey  pointed to the legalization and taxation of recreational marijuana in Colorado and Washington. State and local governments in Illinois could expect to bring in $500 million a year in pot taxes based on those statesâ experiences   he  said.
âItâs about unclogging a court system that is overburdened â  Fritchey  said. âIf we can take these cases out of the court system  we will be doing a tremendous service not just to the individuals but to the court system as well.â
âAlmost 90 percent of these cases get dismissed  doing nothing but leaving individuals with an arrest record â  he  added. âWe are wasting court resources. We are damaging lives. And we have the ability to do better.â
Fritchey â a former state lawmaker â also said  he  hoped a successful ballot question in Cook County would spur legislators to take a vote on a potentially thorny issue during an election year in 2018.
Sen. Heather Steans and Rep. Kelly Cassidy  both of whom like  Fritchey  live on the cityâs North Side  introduced legislation in March to allow the possession of up to 28 grams of pot  or about an ounce  and to grow five plants. Their proposals call for a tax of $50 an ounce  plus the standard state 6.25 percent sales tax. Local governments like the city and county collect their own sales taxes  so they likely also would bring in more money as a result of legalization.

SOLUTION: Neutral

PROBLEM: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Corey Lewandowski ? Corey Lewandowski  appeared on Tuesday's episode of "The View" to promote  his  new book  "Let Trump Be Trump " co-authored with David Bossie.
 Lewandowski  immediately started screaming at her.
âWhat I say is   he âs tough!  He âs a killer! I want a killer as president!â  he  screamed.
âAbsolutely! I want to make sure that we are the toughest  greatest in the world and that we are safe â  Lewandowski  continued to shout.

SOLUTION: Negative

PROBLEM: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Yuri M. Luzhkov ? This capital city was on the brink of collapse when Yuri M. Luzhkov became mayor in 1992  with food shortages  trash-strewn streets and rampant crime. Cigarettes  one of the few luxuries available to the masses in the Soviet era  were in such short supply that Muscovites blockaded the city's main thoroughfares in protest.
 Eighteen years later  as Luzhkov steps down after being fired Tuesday by Russia's president  Dmitry A. Medvedev  he is leaving behind a humming metropolis of skyscrapers  luxury boutiques and traffic jams. Opponents also describe a legacy of corruption and nepotism that has left the mayor and his circle exceedingly rich -- and  possibly  disgraced.
 Not a word has been heard yet from Luzhkov  whose motorcade sped out of city hall shortly after the news was delivered. Even after a blistering smear campaign in the Kremlin-controlled media in recent weeks  Luzhkov had been defiant  vowing as late as Monday to hang on to power. It was clear he was not yet ready to speak of his legacy.
 But those who have followed the long arc of the mayor's career  and who took stock of his tenure Tuesday  spoke of two Luzhkovs.
 They described the mayor of recent years  who ran Moscow like a personal fief  crushing opponents while surrounding himself with a small team of allies who enriched themselves through their control of the city's main avenues of commerce. Under his leadership  his wife  Yelena Baturina  a billionaire real estate developer responsible for many of the new high-rise buildings in Moscow  became Russia's richest woman.
 But those who knew Luzhkov from his earliest days as mayor also recall a tireless crisis manager  who largely through the blunt force of his will pulled this city through the chaos of the Soviet collapse.
 "Frankly speaking  he simply saved Moscow in 1992-93 when there was a total deficit of everything " said Sergei B. Stankevich  a political analyst who worked with Luzhkov in the city government in those early years.
 simply saved Moscow in 1992-93 when there was a total deficit of everything " said Sergei B. Stankevich  a political analyst who worked with Luzhkov in the city government in those early years.
 "Unfortunately  the late Luzhkov was another man " he said. "But the early Luzhkov is still my friend."

SOLUTION:
Neutral