Anti-war activists who are crying bloody murder in the streets over the US

occupation of Iraq, parents who can't afford food or healthcare for their

children, people who feel locked out of the political process, anyone who

sympathizes with progressive causes listen up!

Congressman Dennis Kucinich wants your vote in the Democratic Party

primaries next March. Kucinich, once derided in his hometown of Cleveland,

Ohio, as 'Dennis the Menace'and the 'Boy-Mayor' who drove that city into

default some 25 years ago, has risen from relative obscurity as author of a

bill that would create a US Department of Peace. He also led the failed

battle to halt congressional authorization for a pre-emptive strike against

Iraq.

The Department of Peace legislation, supported by 47 members of Congress,

would create an executive branch department advising the president on issues

of peacekeeping diplomacy and address domestic issues of family and

gang-related violence, as well as hate-motivated crime.

But the peace candidate, 56, is no docile puppy when it comes to his

politics. When Kucinich speaks he shakes his fist and shouts to make a

point, then breaks into a cappella renditions of the national anthem. This

five-foot-five vegan gets in people's faces.

"I'm passionate. Being for peace doesn't imply passivity," Kucinich told

the Weekly in an interview on the campaign trail in Los Angeles. "There are

people today who might be uncomfortable with the insistence on peace while

our armies are in Baghdad, but I say it is urgent that we speak out for

peace because the whole world is at risk now. This war is wrong. It's

illegal. It's immoral."

Kucinich, co-chair of the Democratic Progressive Caucus with Oakland Rep.

Barbara Lee, is running on an anti-war platform that also includes universal

health care and strengthened environmental protections. He rails against

President Bush's plans for the economy and has vowed to defend the working

class on every issue.

He aims to be inclusive of minority voters, and has succeeded, said

Congresswoman Hilda Solis, D-Monterey Park, and former California Rainbow

Coalition Caucus leader Ralph McKnight Kucinich has the full endorsement of

Los Angeles Congresswoman Diane Watson and actor-activist Ed Asner, who

called him a perfect candidate and introduced him to some 300 liberal LA

voters at a campaign stop in LA's Koreatown earlier this month.

Those who endorse Kucinich credit him with bravery for his dissent against

Bush. Ed Asner, a regular at anti-war protests in Los Angeles, introduced

Kucinich during a recent stop in LA's Koreatown and fully endorsed him.

"He's letter perfect," Asner told the Weekly. "He's unique in this day and

age with nothing but supreme cowards all around us. His opponents keep

fumbling and fumbling and fumbling. This man has yet to trip."Watson, who

serves with Kucinich on the Progressive Caucus, has given Kucinich her full

endorsement while also condemning other Democrats for supporting the Bush

ddministration's agenda.

AND HE DOES NOT ACCEPT CORPORATE CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTIONS!!

For the entire article, click;

http://pasadenaweekly.com/features/coverStory/coverstory.html

Presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich has recently faced attacks from

George Will and other conservative pundits over his tenure as Mayor of

Cleveland. The truth is that the stand Kucinich took was a profile in

political courage, and his stand has been fully vindicated by events

and even by those who opposed him at the time. As is typical, George

Will and those who dominate American punditry haven't gotten the news.

Please CIRCULATE THIS WIDELY, and help set the record straight when you

see misinformation in the media.

AS CLEVELAND MAYOR, KUCINICH'S FIGHT TO SAVE PUBLIC POWER

Dennis Kucinich was elected Mayor of Cleveland, Ohio, in 1977 at age 31,

the youngest person to lead a major U.S. city. He was elected on a promise

that he would not sell off or privatize the beloved and trusted city-owned

power system, though Cleveland was deeply in debt.

Cleveland Magazine offered this summary: "Kucinich refused to yield to

bankers who gave him a choice -- Sell the Municipal Light System to the

Cleveland Electric Illuminating Co. or the city will go into default.

The mayor said no."

When Kucinich refused to sell Muny Light, the banks took the unprecedented

step of refusing to roll over the city's debt, as is customary. Instead,

they pushed the city into default. It turned out the banks were thoroughly

interlocked with the private utility, CEI, which would have acquired monopoly

status by taking over Muny Light. Five of the six banks held almost 1.8 million

shares of CEI stock; of the 11 directors of CEI, eight were also directors of

four of the six banks involved.

By holding to his campaign promise and putting principle above politics, he

lost his re-election bid and his political career was derailed. But today

Kucinich stands vindicated for having confronted the Enron of his day, and

for saving the municipal power company. "There is little debate," wrote

Cleveland Magazine in May 1996, "over the value of Muny Light today. Now

Cleveland Public Power, it is a proven asset to the city that between 1985

and 1995 saved its customers $195,148,520 over what they would have paid CEI."

When Kucinich re-launched his political career in the mid-1990s, it was on the

strength of having saved public power. His campaign symbol was a light bulb.

"Because he was right!" was his campaign slogan when he won his seat in the

state senate in 1994. The slogan that sent him to Washington two years later

was "Light Up Congress."

In 1998, the Cleveland City Council issued a commendation to Dennis Kucinich for

"having the courage and foresight to refuse to sell the city's municipal electric

system."

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Our country needs a President who will stand up against -- and not with -- today's

Enrons. A President who puts the public interest before private profit. Such a

candidate is Dennis Kucinich, a rare elected official whose political career has

been devoted to winning victories against corporate power on behalf of workers,

consumers, the poor and the environment. He battles for the people, and he wins.

Help spread the word about the Kucinich for President Campaign by making a donation

[https://www.kucinich.us/contribute.php].

For background on the campaign [http://www.kucinich.us/]

Socialism always sucks.

Kucinich is a Socialist and he sucks.

Privatization always beats government owned -- always!

Big mistake not to privatize the Cleveland electric utilities.

Bigger mistake electing Kucinich. The guy is a loser - big time!

BA, glad you're around, with your powerful (not) brain

please take the red pill...

http://la.indymedia.org/news/2003/04/54640.php

http://la.indymedia.org/news/2003/05/56054.php

then please respond with your reasons for still admiring bush if you do.

please take the red pill...

http://la.indymedia.org/news/2003/04/54640.php

http://la.indymedia.org/news/2003/05/56054.php

then please respond with your reasons for still admiring bush if you do.

"Socialism always sucks."

No, dear, YOU suck. And quite well, I might add.

I'll bet I could give Bush Admirer a run for his money, Sir Elton.

...posts in threads I don't even care about.

It's funny when you have conversations with yourself.

You have posted in most all the threads. I'm following you. You are my hero...You don't have to talk to yourself. I may be closer than you think. :->

No. He's MY hero.