Dennis Kucinich said...

"Darkness yields to starlight, to the light of the rising sun, and to the light of the soul. "

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4 comments to date. The most recent comments:

Ketih Summers from Oklahoma,US (January 14, 2008)
You have had so many wives are you still practicing; playing the field for a new one? The lastest one is so tall and too young for you. What happened to your Roman Catholic upbringing, Dennis? Maybe you need to drop out of the race, you have no big win now or in the future. Sorry Dennis, I'm not with you but for a real true man for the office of President and it's not you! I am a INDEPENDENT AND WILL VOTE FOR MY CHOICE AT THE VERY LAST MOMENT....it is AT THIS MOMENT, MCCAIN...

Sally from Denver, US (January 14, 2008)
I will give my vote to Senator John McCain because he is a go getter, a man of his word and not a skinny little punk like Dennis

Eric Strickland from Charlotte, NC (December 23, 2007)
Kucinich is one of the few remaining True Democrats and is a champion of the underprivileged and the American working class folks. He is truth teller, a rebel, and a spirited fighter for truth and justice. America would do well with a man of this caliber in the White House. He absolutely has earned my vote.

John Ogles from Memphis, TN (October 31, 2007)
D.K. is an assclown. He's an embarrassment. How does he get elected? Are the peopple of Ohio assclowns, too? What of the Democratic party? How does he get to be a candidate for president? WTF?

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He Wants to Impeach Dick Cheney!

Dennis Kucinich is a Democratic Party member who serves the 10th District of Ohio in the US House of Representatives. He was first elected to the House in 1996 and had previously been the mayor of Cleveland Ohio (1977 -1979).

Kucinich is the oldest of a family of seven children; his father, Frank Kucinich, was a truck driver; his mother Virginia was a homemaker. He attended Catholic grade and high schools. He has been married three times. He has one daughter, Jackie, from his marriage to Sandra Lee McCarthy. He married his third wife, Elizabeth Harper, on August 21, 2005.

Kucinich began his political career in 1969 when he was elected to the Cleveland City Council at age 23. In 1972 he ran for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives, but lost to Republican opponent William E. Minshall Jr. He ran for the seat again in 1974, and again lost. In 1975 he became clerk of the municipal court in Cleveland.

He ran for Cleveland, Ohio mayor in 1977. His campaign highlighted the glory days of Cleveland, using the populist philosophies of Tom L. Johnson, a former progressive mayor. At the age of 31, Kucinich was elected the youngest mayor of a major United States city. However, his tenure as mayor marked one of the most difficult in Cleveland's history. His cabinet was criticized for having members who were too inexperienced to handle their positions. In 1978 Cleveland's Cuyahoga County suffered from a major snowfall, the worst blizzard in the city's history.

In his campaign for mayor of Cleveland, Kucinich promised to save Muny Light, the city's 70 year-old municipally-owned electric system which offered customers significantly lower rates than the private utility. His first act in office was to cancel the sale of Muny Light, which had been sold to its competitor, the Cleveland Electric Illuminating Company, prior to Kucinich coming to office. At the end of 1978, Cleveland's banks demanded that he sell Muny Light as a precondition of extending credit to the city. Kucinich refused to do so, leading the Cleveland banks to force the city into default. His stand on this issue destroyed his political career, as he was demonized as the mayor who bankrupted Cleveland. He lost his bid to reelected mayor of Cleveland in 1979.

After a long hiatus from politics he was elected an Ohio state senator in 1994. In 1996, on his fifth try, he was elected to U.S. House of Representatives representing the 10th district of Ohio, defeating two-term Republican incumbent Martin Hoke. He serves on the Congressional Education and Workforce Committee as well as the Oversight and Government Reform Committee. He is chairman of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, which has 54 members.

Kucinich had suffered from Crohn's disease since he was a child. In 1995 he took his health into his own hands, on the advice of his friend Yelena Boxer, and eliminated a diet of meat and dairy in favor of a vegan diet containing no animal products. That together with Chinese herbal medicine restored him to good health. He is one of very few vegans in Congress.

He was one of 125 members of Congress who voted against the 2002 act to authorize President George W. Bush to go to war against Iraq. He also voted against the USA PATRIOT Act. In February of 2003, Kucinich appeared on the television program "Meet the Press" and argued that oil was a key causal factor for the war and that our troops would be trapped in a costly door-to-door war. Richard Perle, a neoconservative and Bush administration apologist, described Kucinich's comments as "scurrilous" and "an out-and-out lie." Richard Cohen of the Washington Post agreed with Perle, calling a congressman who saw no evidence of WMDs and did see oil as a cause for war a "fool." Others said he was a "clown" and worse for not seeing the clear evidence of WMDs in Iraq.

In April 2007, Kucinich announced his intention to file impeachment proceedings against Vice President Dick Cheney. He held a press conference on April 24, 2007 to describe US House Resolution 333, containing three articles of impeachment against Cheney. He charged Cheney with manipulating the evidence of Iraq's weapons program, deceiving the nation about Iraq's connection to al-Qaeda, and threatening aggression against Iran in violation of the United Nations charter.

In 2004 Kucinich ran for the Democratic Party nomination for U.S. president. He pursued the nomination again for 2008, without much success.