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  www.myspace.com/kucinich2008
Kucinich is the only member of the House and the Senate running for President who has consistently voted against funding for the war, based on a principled opposition.
Kucinich first came to national prominence in 1977 when he was elected mayor of Cleveland at age 31; the youngest person ever elected to lead a major American city.
Kucinich is a dynamic, visionary leader who combines a powerful activism with a spiritual sense of the essential interconnectedness of all living things.
www.myspace.com /kucinich2008   (3350 words)

  
  Dennis Kucinich - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Kucinich is a Roman Catholic, an environmentalist, and a vegan.
Kucinich was often satirized in editorials and editorial cartoons as "Dennis the Menace," a reference to the comic strip of that name, Kucinich's name and youthful appearance, and his positions, which in that context were often characterized as extremist and anti-business.
In 1996, Kucinich was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, representing the 10th district of Ohio.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dennis_Kucinich   (4113 words)

  
 NPR : Dennis Kucinich, The 2004 Democratic Presidential Candidates   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
Kucinich nonetheless remains proud of his mayoral record, insisting that he stood up to the business establishment and the big utility companies.
Kucinich says he is in the race to stay, convinced he will win the nomination when the party delegates convene in Boston in the summer of 2004 and then go on to defeat President Bush in the general election.
Had Kucinich been considered a candidate to be reckoned with, such a shift in position would be looked at suspiciously by many in the abortion-rights movement; after all, one still hears criticism leveled at Rep. Richard Gephardt over his initial anti-abortion views, views that changed at least 15 years ago.
www.npr.org /programs/specials/democrats2004/kucinich.html   (1098 words)

  
 Dennis Kucinich - SourceWatch
Kucinich, who used to co-chair the Congressional Progressive Caucus, is a self-described "Wellstone Democrat." He has been praised as "a genuine progressive" by Ralph Nader.
Kucinich served as the mayor of Cleveland, Ohio from 1978 to 1980 in a contentious term that culminated in a recall election that Kucinich barely survived.
In 1996, Kucinich was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives.
www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=Dennis_Kucinich   (1160 words)

  
 DesMoinesRegister.com | News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
Kucinich's call for the return of U.S. troops stands in contrast to former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean, another opponent of the war who has said the United States can't withdraw from Iraq now, because that could lead to chaos.
Kucinich said universal health care can be achieved with a system administered by the federal government.
Kucinich is in the bottom tier of candidates in terms of fund-raising and national polls.
desmoinesregister.com /news/stories/c4789004/21851964.html   (515 words)

  
 Kucinich Makes Media an Issue   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
Kucinich, who has worked over the years for the Cleveland Plain Dealer and Wall Street Journal newspapers, as well as a Cleveland television station, has for many years been a critic of media consolidation and commercialism.
Kucinich wants to limit the number of media outlets one corporation can own in a given medium, such as radio, print, or television.
Kucinich even has an anti-sound bite sound bite: "I don't think ABC should be the first primary.
www.thenation.com /blogs/thebeat?bid=1&pid=1128   (1015 words)

  
 village voice > news > The Essay by Stephen Elliott
Kucinich will tell you that's a self-fulfilling prophecy and maybe it is, but it doesn't give him any more of a chance.
Kucinich refers to the mainstream media as "the Great Mentioner." And you can tell it personally offends him that he's so ignored.
Kucinich takes a while answering and the junkie regularly interrupts him with comments like "That's me," "You got that right," "OK." This is always a problem with far-left candidates.
www.villagevoice.com /issues/0402/essay.php   (1434 words)

  
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Being a Roman Catholic, Kucinich was a longtime abortion foe - a stance that distinguished him from his fellow Progressive Caucus members and most Democrats.
In recent years Kucinich has lent his support to an organization called SOA Watch, whose stated mission is to close down the U.S. Army School of the Americas (SOA), which was recently renamed the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (WHISC).
In June 2002, Kucinich was the leading plaintiff when 31 House members (30 Democrats and one independent) filed a lawsuit against President Bush in an effort to block the president from withdrawing the United States from the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.
www.discoverthenetwork.org /individualProfile.asp?indid=630   (1102 words)

  
 Congressman Dennis Kucinich, Candidate for the Democratic Presidential Nomination - A BuzzFlash Interview
Kucinich: Now the focus must be for the U.S. to seize this moment and end the occupation of Iraq.
Kucinich: The public is becoming increasingly aware of the attempts of the media to try to declare the election over before it's started, and to do so on the basis of polls, money raised and endorsements.
Kucinich: We have to recognize that we've lost 3 million jobs since July of the year 2000 and there are several reasons why.
www.buzzflash.com /interviews/04/01/int04002.html   (2677 words)

  
 Little Big Man
Kucinich claims that as he sat in that meeting what he really heard in his head was a childhood memory of his parents counting pennies on a chipped porcelain table in the kitchen.
Kucinich sprouted a sense of humor -- announcing the three pillars of civilization were polka, bowling, and kielbasa, showing off his ventriloquist skills with a W.C. Fields dummy.
In 2001, Kucinich introduced a bill to outlaw space-based weapons that featured "radiation, electromagnetic, psychotronic, sonic, laser, or other energies...for the purpose of information war, mood management, or mind control of such populations." Also to be included were "chemtrails," the vapors left by jets, which some believe change weather and cause other mischief.
www.motherjones.com /news/feature/2003/11/ma_562_01.html   (4315 words)

  
 Democratic Rep. Kucinich plans another presidential bid - USATODAY.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
Kucinich, 60, scheduled a press conference Tuesday at City Hall to formally announce his 2008 campaign.
Kucinich joins Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack, a fellow Democrat, in declaring his candidacy for the presidential nomination.
Kucinich was elected mayor of Cleveland at age 31, the youngest leader of a major American city.
www.usatoday.com /news/washington/2006-12-11-kucinich-bid_x.htm   (479 words)

  
 Following the Kucinich campaign - - MSNBC.com
Kucinich told me that the deal with John Edwards was in the works for a few weeks prior to the Iowa caucuses and certainly well before his big surge was launched by the endorsement of the Des Moines Register.
Though Dean has recognized Kucinich’s opposition to the war during nationally televised debates, as recently as yesterday Kucinich was citing materials distributed by the Dean campaign that tout the former Vermont governor as the "only candidate who opposed the war from the start." That hasn’t sat well with the candidate, the campaign or his supporters.
Kucinich told a cub reporter at Ames High School later in the day, where an energetic student organizer packed 100 students into their cafeteria, that he’s not thinking about who his chief opponents are, rather leaving it to the people of Iowa to decide on Monday.
msnbc.msn.com /id/3130153   (14379 words)

  
 Congressman Dennis Kucinich
Congressman Dennis Kucinich Announces Millions of Dollars to the Region, Bringing Jobs and Services to Northeast Ohio
Congressman Kucinich will announce millions of dollars in additional funding for Northeast Ohio that will create new jobs in the region and provide...
Kucinich Praises Appropriations Committee Effort To Protect NIEHS
kucinich.house.gov   (81 words)

  
 David Enrich on Dennis Kucinich & Abortion on National Review Online
But a less conspicuous issue — Kucinich's shifting stances on abortion — could come out of the woodwork to haunt the candidate, and perhaps his party.
Kucinich's pro-choice makeover "is testament to the fact that he realizes the power of this issue, certainly within the Democratic camp," says David Williams, political director of Planned Parenthood.
Another possible sign that Kucinich's morphing position could push abortion into Democratic debates: Democrats for Life, a national group, is urging members to contact Kucinich to tell him "to stick by his principles and continue his strong pro-life advocacy."
www.nationalreview.com /comment/comment-enrich022003.asp   (959 words)

  
 US Representative Dennis J. Kucinich, a Democrat of Ohio
His is a powerful, ethical voice for nuclear disarmament, preservation of the ABM treaty, banning weapons in outer space, and a halt to the development of a 'Star Wars' - type missile defense technology...Kucinich was born in Cleveland, Ohio on October 8, 1946.
Kucinich wrote that a War with Iraq would be a "waste of up to $1.9 trillion in our tax dollars, wrecking our economy while, at the same time, the Administration gives out a trillion dollar tax cut to the wealthy."
Congressman Kucinich states on his website that he "strongly believes all students, regardless of economic background, deserve an opportunity to attain a higher education." It is Congressman Kucinich’s goal that the option to attend college or a career school is possible for all students and adults.
selectsmart.com /president/Kucinich.html   (931 words)

  
 AlterNet: The Dennis Kucinich Polka
If you were to really just get down to the issues, you would know that Dennis Kucinich is the only candidate--unless you take into account Carol Moseley Braun and Al Sharpton, something I'm not inclined to do--who is in favor of universal health care, as opposed to universal health insurance.
Cleveland held onto its electricity and Kucinich wouldn't be able to hold office again for fifteen years.
He was invited to run for office again and won a seat in congress that he held for four terms, that he still holds today, which is why he has two Blackberries, one for campaign email and one for congressional business.
www.alternet.org /story.html?StoryID=17575   (2045 words)

  
 Kucinich Takes Roads Less Traveled in Bid (washingtonpost.com)
Kucinich, the only Democrat besides Sen. John F. Kerry (Mass.) left in the race, is still campaigning as though he were a viable candidate, sort of.
Kucinich has seemed determined to visit places most candidates would ignore as not rich enough in potential voters.
Kucinich is hoping that those delegates will help give him a platform on which to discuss why the country should leave Iraq, and how.
www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A20705-2004Jun6.html   (749 words)

  
 Pulse of the Twin Cities - Locally Grown Alternative Newspaper
Kucinich’s depth on issues was further revealed in his pro-choice position, which included preventing unplanned pregnancies with access to contraceptives and sex education—both of which are under right-wing Christian attack.
Kucinich is the only candidate with the courage to elmininate waste in the Pentagon budget, which is nearly equal to the yearly defense budgets of all other countries combined.
Kucinich offers much and those of us who follow give much to see that this new light will shine the way to the new dawning of how we can bring about an AMERICA that will be respected by all.
www.pulsetc.com /article.php?sid=583   (7071 words)

  
 CNN.com - Kucinich throws support to Kerry - Jul 22, 2004
Kucinich, an Ohio congressman, had sought the nomination but never garnered enough support to be a serious contender in the primaries.
Emphasizing the importance of the party uniting in a common effort for change, Kucinich said his volunteers will be enlisted to help the Kerry-Edwards campaign.
Kucinich comes from Ohio and knows the devastation of the economy in his state, Kerry said.
www.cnn.com /2004/ALLPOLITICS/07/22/kucinich.kerry/index.html   (366 words)

  
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Kucinich had opened a campaign as an anti-war candidate seeking the Democratic presidential nomination last year, making an initial stop on the Valley Isle last October and returning again in February.
Joy Brann of Keokea, a Kucinich delegate from Maui to the Democratic convention in August, said she’s hoping to get direction from Kucinich on the kind of mindset people should have as the general election draws nearer.
Cassandra Fraser of Kuau also greeted Kucinich at the airport and said she believed predictions of a tight presidential race may be unfounded.
www.mauinews.com /story.aspx?id=2738   (488 words)

  
 Lawrence Lessig   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
Congressman Kucinich is the Unicorn among a herd of thoroughbreds.
One can reconstruct Kucinich’s employment history, or at least the way he tells it, from this Nation article “Kucinich is the One” (April 18, 2002) and this biography from Politics1.com.
Kucinich strikes me as the only candidate with any track record that shows he can’t be bought cheaply.
www.lessig.org /blog/archives/001426.shtml   (4904 words)

  
 Space Politics: Kucinich on Bush policy rumors   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
Dennis Kucinich, another Democratic candidate for President, spoke out on the rumors of a new Bush space policy initiative during a mini-debate in Washington DC on Friday.
Kucinich betrays his ignorance, as most scientifically and philosophically illiterate politicians do, when making trite comments about complex problems.
I respect anyone who is critical of the President's space policy (and any policy, for that matter) and is capable of pointing out specific problems with the policy and solutions to mitigate them.
www.spacepolitics.com /archives/000009.html   (322 words)

  
 Congressman Dennis J. Kucinich (D-OH)
WASHINGTON -- January 31 -- Congressman Dennis J. Kucinich (D-OH), the Ranking Member on the House Government Reform Subcommittee on National Security, Emerging Threats and International Relations, today demanded a broad investigation of the $9 billion in missing reconstruction funds in Iraq, including a criminal investigation and Congressional hearings.
Kucinich will send two letters today calling for a full investigation into the missing $9 billion in funds in Iraq.
Kucinich's actions followed a report issued yesterday, by the special inspector general (IG) for Iraq, Stuart Bowen Jr., which stated the U.S. occupation authority in Iraq was unable to keep track of nearly $9 billion in funds it transferred to government ministries between October 2003 and June 2004.
www.commondreams.org /news2005/0131-11.htm   (387 words)

  
 Politics1 - Profile of Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH)
In the speech, Kucinich said that it was "patriotic" to dissent against the purported extra-constitutional measures the Bush Administration wanted to use in the War on Terrorism.
That speech launched the "Draft Kucinich" effort which, in turn, encouraged Kucinich to formally enter the race.
Some of the speeches contain the New Age rhetoric of which Kucinich is so fond ("Spirit merges with matter to sanctify the universe.
www.politics1.com /kucinich.htm   (325 words)

  
 Congressman Dennis Kucinich
Kucinich Statement On The Passing Of Pope John Paul II Apr, 2 2005 - Congressman Dennis J. Kucinich (D-OH) issued the following statement on the passing of Pope John Paul II: “Today I join the world community in grieving the passing of Pope John Paul II.
Kucinich, Ranking Member of the House Government Reform Subcommittee on National Security,...
Kucinich, Ranking Member of the House Government Reform Subcommittee on National Security, Veterans Affairs and...
kucinich.house.gov /news/DocumentQuery.aspx?CatagoryID=1564   (586 words)

  
 Who's Afraid of Dennis Kucinich?
In the epic novel of this election, whose tragic theme is the unavoidable humiliation of the sane in a kingdom of idiots, Edwards appears as Kucinich's foil, his Dostoyevskian opposite.
For every step Kucinich takes, Edwards is seemingly there to remind him that a man cannot succeed in a world designed for children.
But here is Kucinich in a crowd full of 19-year-olds, explaining the intricacies of our militarized system of government and inviting his audience to join in a movement whose roots date back to Thoreau and Emerson and Gandhi.
www.thenation.com /doc/20031027/taibbi   (645 words)

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