Kucinich discloses $20,000 speaking fee from pro-Syrian group
Source: The Columbus Dispatch
After initially not including details in his financial-disclosure forms about the payments he had received for speeches, Democratic gubernatorial candidate Dennis Kucinich revealed Tuesday that he was paid $20,000 for traveling to England last year for a speech to a group sympathetic to the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad.
Paul Nick, executive director of the Ohio Ethics Commission, which handles the disclosure forms, wrote Kucinich on Friday, asking him to correct last week's "incomplete" filing by identifying the person or entity paying him for what he had listed only as "paid speeches."
Kucinich, a U.S. House member from 1997 to 2013 and a former Cleveland mayor, responded Tuesday by listing three speaking fees totaling $33,000, including $20,000 from the Association for Investment in Popular Action Committees, of El Cerrito, California.
The group is listed in federal records as holding the trademark to the Syria Solidarity Movement, which opposes "imperial interests" intervening in the Syrian civil war. As both a congressman, and again last year, Kucinich visited Syria to meet with its president, attracting criticism in some circles. Kucinich says he supports efforts to bring peace to the war-torn nation.
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True Blue American
(17,984 posts)Dennis. Been nice to know you.
pnwmom
(108,976 posts)7962
(11,841 posts)this is a really stupid move
paleotn
(17,911 posts)Nice. You're done, Dennis. Done. Go home.
Mr. Sparkle
(2,932 posts)Owl
(3,641 posts)Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)True Blue American
(17,984 posts)The guy in charge of fixing the banks,Pay day lenders!
Kuchinick! Blame IPad SC!
https://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/07/us/politics/after-ohio-primary-kucinich-loses-seat-in-congress.html
irisblue
(32,967 posts)www.joeforjobs.com
He has many policy points I can agree with, he is young, 38 & from southeast Ohio, an area that was once was Democratic, but has gone red. While he is the current Minority Leader for the State Senate. An up & coming talent
True Blue American
(17,984 posts)I have read little about him. Will check.
I know one thing,I do not want Mike DeWine!
He is buried in the past.
Demsrule86
(68,552 posts)irisblue
(32,967 posts)A self aggrandizing mendacious RW a hole who has never gotten past being beaten by Sen Brown in 2006. The list of things he has not done for the state & the list of things he has done to the state for his own benefit are both equally long. And the combination of DeWine & Husted( I have 3 drops of respect for Husted) is a toxic mix.
True Blue American
(17,984 posts)After a scandal about him living in Columbus instead of a house he pretended to live in here, ran for higher office where no one knew him.
DeWine ran to drug clinics they were closing, but never solved the horrendous family massacre in South East Ohio. Was there every day until the cameras left.
Demsrule86
(68,552 posts)Demsrule86
(68,552 posts)We have to win in order to end the gerrymander. Sen. Warren has endorsed him.
True Blue American
(17,984 posts)Show him with President Obama praising him for his work.
Wonder if DeWine will have Trump?
Demsrule86
(68,552 posts)lost another shift...now only one shift...
True Blue American
(17,984 posts)At Lordstown.
Bengus81
(6,931 posts)dalton99a
(81,451 posts)Cha
(297,150 posts)Javaman
(62,517 posts)True Blue American
(17,984 posts)Something happened to him along the way. Money?
Demsrule86
(68,552 posts)I am voting for Richard Cordray.
Upstate One
(83 posts)Go Cordray.
Demsrule86
(68,552 posts)True Blue American
(17,984 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,674 posts)Historic NY
(37,449 posts)jberryhill
(62,444 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,674 posts)why so many people supported him. He espoused some progressive ideas (which I agreed with), but he also said a lot of things that were wrong, nuts, or both.
hotrod0808
(323 posts)I was an admirer of Kucinich for a long time. This torpedoes every warm thought I had about him.
xor
(1,204 posts)Seems to be inline with what I'd expect from him. At least he's consistent.