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March 13th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
Rep. Dennis J. Kucinich (D-Ohio), the two-time
presidential candidate and icon of the antiwar left, suffered a bruising
primary defeat Tuesday as a new Republican-drawn congressional map
threatened to end the career of one of the most colorful figures in
Congress. ~ Video – See Kucinich’s Most Memorable Moments
With most attention focused on the state’s GOP
presidential primary battle, and no Democratic primary for president,
Kucinich was left in a low-turnout race in a newly drawn district
against his once-close ally, Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D-Ohio).
With about 90 percent of the vote in, Kaptur led 60 to 36 percent.
From his stint as Cleveland’s “Boy Mayor” in the late 1970s, including two debt defaults and the forced sale of the city’s electric plant, to his unsuccessful effort to impeach Vice President Richard B. Cheney
in 2007, Kucinich has repeatedly thrust himself into the national
spotlight. Often coming up on the short end of his fights, Kucinich, 65,
never stopped swinging but usually did so in a friendly spirit.
His
defeat, according to lawmakers, was the latest development in a process
that is making Congress a more sanitized, less colorful place. Some of
the institution’s most original characters are either retiring or losing
reelection battles, in part because their positions or personalities
are so easy to caricature. Reps. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) and Norm Dicks
(D-Wash.), for example, have announced their retirements.
“The one thing that’s being tamped down here is, we’re losing characters. When I got here, you had Jim Traficant,
you had Barney, and then Dennis came,” said Rep. Steven C. LaTourette
(R-Ohio), a nine-term veteran, referring to Frank and former congressman
James Traficant, who ended up in prison on corruption charges.
“The place needs character, and characters.”
What’s
next for Kucinich is unclear. He has spoken of possibly moving to
Washington state to run in a Democratic-leaning district. He would need
to establish residency there by mid-April, but it’s not certain he could
do that while remaining in Congress representing an Ohio district.
That dalliance — he flew to the state last May
to consider it — played into the theme Kaptur used that against him,
saying he is more concerned with his quixotic fights against powerful
international forces than delivering for the people of his district.
She
compared his consideration of leaving Cleveland to the mid-1990s move
by the city’s beloved football team, the Browns, and the 2010 departure
of NBA superstar LeBron James — two psychic blows still deeply felt in a
place that bills itself as the “Sixth City” even though it’s fallen to the country’s 45th largest in the last 50 years .
“Looks like next in line to abandon us is Dennis Kucinich,” Kaptur’s narrator said in a radio ad.
The
new 9th Congressional District stretches more than 100 miles from
Cleveland (Kucinich’s base) all the way west to Toledo, encompassing 47
percent of her current district. That gave her an edge, as did her years
of work on the Appropriations Committee, from which she funneled
hundreds of millions of dollars to northern Ohio.
Kucinich’s Most Memorable Moments
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