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Rep. Dennis Kucinich (5)
Congress Will Be Diminished by the Departure of Dennis Kucinch
Written by John Nichols | The Nation
Dennis Kucinich has had many political lives. Elected to the Cleveland City Council in 1969 at age 23, he was in 1977 elected as that great American city’s “boy mayor.” Kucinich’s refusal to bend to the demands of the downtown banks and the utility corporations that wanted him to privatize public services led to a withering electoral assault that would eventually force him from office.
Kucinich Gives his Final Floor Speech of the 112th Congress
Written by Congressman Dennis Kucinich | Press Release
Calls for a New Politics
Washington, January 2, 2013 –
Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today called for a new politics in his final speech on the House floor of the 112th Congress. The video can be seen here. The text follows:
Giving Dennis Kucinich His Due
Written by Katrina vanden Heuvel | The Washington Post
A certain kind of politician is becoming a dwindling breed. I’m not thinking of the over-praised and frequently eulogized centrist, the kind who spends a career watering things down and gets lionized for having done so.
For progressives, there are always a few great challengers we hope to send to Washington. Incumbents, we assume, can take care of themselves.
But in Ohio, redistricting has thrown two well-respected incumbents into one district – a heavily Democratic district designed by Republicans to guarantee other districts to the GOP. The two incumbents are both Democrats.
Mitt Romney did not invent predatory capitalism. It’s been around for a while.
Predatory capitalism was already alive and well in 1978, in Cleveland. That was when the One Percent who controlled the banks, and pretty much everything else of value, decided that they wanted to steal the local power company from the people of Cleveland.
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Democratic Massachusetts Rep. Jim McGovern last Tuesday proposed two Constitutional amendments on the House floor that would overturn the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision, which lifted limits on political spending and unleashed a flood of funding into political organizations starting in 2010.
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Written on Tuesday, 22 January 2013 20:31 Read more...
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'We the People’ Can Overturn Citizens United
Written on Saturday, 21 January 2012 18:29 Read more...
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