Candidate Challenges Kucinich (OH-10th District)

[Kolesar]

Candidate challenges Kucinich
Republican touts his military experience in seeking House seat
By Juliet Eilperin
Washington Post

CLEVELAND - Rep. Dennis Kucinich's ambitions are set on winning the nation's highest office, but the Cleveland lawmaker may need to turn some of his attention to keeping his House seat -- just in case he doesn't succeed in winning the Democratic presidential nomination.

Republican Edward Fitzpatrick Herman has announced he will challenge the four-term lawmaker.

Herman was a corporate and government consultant before being called up to active military service in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

As a part of a military intelligence task force under Central Command, he interrogated dozens of al-Qaeda operatives in Afghanistan, according to his campaign.
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http://www.ohio.com/mld/ohio/news/6775253.htm

[Doomsayer13]

1. I doubt he can win

a corperate consultant taking the seat of one of the most economically progressive memberts of congress?

[MSchreader]

2. I can imagine the debate between DK and this putz

Herman: I support the War on Terra. I was over in Afghanamuhstan interrogating terra-ists while you were chanting Kumbayah with your liberal anti-Ahmuruhkin peacenik friends.

Kucinich: It's interesting you bring that up. Were you part of the group that threatened to kill them if they didn't talk, the group that indiscriminately shot surrendering Afghan soldiers, or the group that locked "suspected terrorists" in airtight cargo containers?

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Martin

[goodhue]

3. New York Times gets it wrong!!!

States Herman is a democrat! Also makes absurd claim that Kucinich is outspoken because he is unlikely to win and so slams opponents to get his name in newspaper. Hello!? This is the first substantive NYT mention of Kucinich in weeks. What a joke.


http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/14/politics/14POIN.html?pagewanted=all&position=

Meanwhile, Back in Ohio . . .

IN Democratic presidential circles, Representative Dennis J. Kucinich is getting a reputation as perhaps the most outspoken — though some of his rivals might prefer the word "annoying" — candidate in the field.

Still, as someone unlikely to win the nomination, Mr. Kucinich has enjoyed the freedom to say pretty much whatever he wants. Accordingly, he has shown no desire to hold back, slamming his opponents in a way that gets his name in the newspaper.

But now Mr. Kucinich is getting a taste of his own medicine — back home.

It is coming from Edward Fitzpatrick Herman, a Democrat, who announced last week that he was running for Mr. Kucinich's House seat, insisting that Mr. Kucinich was running on a left-wing platform that would be anathema to the citizens in his Cleveland district.

"His call for across-the-board cuts in Pentagon spending doesn't square with how he wants to `support our troops,' as he says," said Mr. Herman, 29, an Army veteran who served in Afghanistan. "Even now, supplies are available in a less timely manner. I know. I experienced it."

Jeff Cohen, a spokesman for Mr. Kucinich, dismissed Mr. Herman's complaints, saying his boss's 50-point margins of victory in each of his last two elections suggest that his constituents are happy.

As for whether Mr. Kucinich might run again for the House, even as a presidential candidate, Mr. Cohen sidestepped the question. "He hasn't thought about it," he said.

[mndemocrat_29]

4. What does he mean that he wouldn't win

He's in a district that went 53.4 percent for Gore, along with 3.7 percent for Bush. I believe that Kucinich ousted an incumbent to get his seat, for crying out loud.

[goobergunch]

5. Correct

Martin Hoke (R) in 1996.

[blm]

6. This is a Rove pick.

No doubt. They know the Repubs are going to be played as chickenhawks in 2004 and so they are desperate to find Repubs who served. It won't work for them. Not this time.

[AWD]

7. I thought Cobbledick was trying for his seat/??

Wasn't some guy with the name Cobbledick (and I thought my name was bad) going after that seat???

[Kolesar]

8. Cobbledick from a previous DU thread

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=108&topic_id=32571