Dennis Kucinich raises nearly $700,000 in six weeks in bid to keep seat in Congress

[Algorem]

Source: Plain Dealer

Big money givers from outside Ohio
Friday, February 22, 2008
Molly Kavanaugh
Plain Dealer Reporter

U.S. Rep. Dennis Kucinich's plea to supporters to send money has paid off.

In the past six weeks, Kucinich raised nearly $700,000 in his bid to hold onto his 10th Congressional District seat. That brings his total to $735,000, the most he has amassed in a congressional race, including his initial bid 12 years ago against incumbent Martin Hoke.

His top rival, Cleveland Councilman Joe Cimperman, reported total contributions of $487,000, a little over half which was raised this year.

Thursday was the deadline for congressional candidates to file pre-primary finance reports with the Federal Elections Commission. To check the reports go to fec.gov...



Read more: http://www.cleveland.com/news/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/news/1203672761265370.xml&coll=2

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Friday, February 22, 2008
Kucinich gets rousing support from Steelworkers union

http://www.whitehouse51.com/2008/02/kucinich-gets-rousing-support-from.html

Link to this video:
http://videos.whitehouse51.com/link/?HRxZ64Z7poE


CLEVELAND, OH -- Ohio Congressman and Democratic Presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich, the only card-carrying union member among the Party's Presidential hopefuls, drew thunderous, standing-ovation support from about 900 members of the United Steelworkers Union this afternoon as he laid out his plans to guarantee health insurance coverage for all Americans, cancel trade agreements that have eliminated millions of jobs, repeal a federal law that allows the government to intrude into union activities, and proceed with the impeachment of Vice President Dick Cheney for "lying us into the war in Iraq." Video by Chad Ely .

Author: Kucinich2008

Link to this video:
http://videos.whitehouse51.com/link/?HRxZ64Z7poE


http://blog.cleveland.com/openers/2008/02/kucinich_supporters_donate_nea.html

Kucinich supporters donate nearly $700,000 in six weeks
Posted by Molly Kavanaugh February 21, 2008 22:07PM

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Kucinich is effective Cleveland advocate

http://toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080222/OPINION03/802220322

Rep. Dennis Kucinich's grass-roots presidential campaign was a source of inspiration for many who long for vision and integrity in American public life. While his uncompromising idealism has led cynics to caricature him as a left-wing vanity candidate, the truth is that he is a man of gravity whose presence in the debates gave voice to the forgotten mainstream of the Democratic Party.

Mr. Kucinich was the only Democratic candidate to oppose the war in Iraq from the start and oppose funding it 100 percent of the time. He was the only candidate to support a universal, single-payer health-care system. He was the only candidate to support canceling the North American Free Trade Agreement and conditioning trade on workers' rights, human rights, and environmental-quality principles. And while other Democrats were banging war drums against Iran, Mr. Kucinich was calling for a new foreign policy doctrine of "strength through peace."

As his focus shifts to his congressional re-election campaign, critics allege that he has taken his district for granted. But the people of Cleveland know this is a lie. Since his election in 1996, Mr. Kucinich has been a tenacious and highly effective advocate for Cleveland. He has successfully fought to reopen shuttered community hospitals and rescue the city's steel industry. And the constituent service provided by his office is second to none...

In running for president, Mr. Kucinich stood up for the practical aspirations of working people throughout this country. The media may not recognize that. But Cleveland will.

Ben Krompak

Jefferson Avenue

Editor's note: The writer is a former consultant for the Kucinich campaign.

[Kolesar]

1. I hope Dennis can make good use of the money that quickly!

:loveya:

[cyclezealot]

2. thanks for posting

Kucinich is at his best with his Hafta plan. How can labor not know when they have a real fighter.

[Earth_First]

3. This is significant.

We NEED his voice!

[Omaha Steve]

4. Marta and I kicked in after the note from Dennis from the PDA

K&R!

[AnOhioan]

5. Great news, K&R

[NikolaC]

6. I'm Glad

It's really good to hear that he has enough of a war chest to fight off the challengers. I wish him luck.

[cyclezealot]

7. Cimperman had a head start.

Hope he can use it fast enough to catch up. / Anyone listen to the whitehouse 51 speech before labor. It was enthralling. Please listen/ watch it./ I wish our current presidential candidates would adopt his style. Compared to last nights Democratic debate. We need a little more spark to win come November.

[AlertLurker]

8. Congress NEEDS Kucinich. USAmerican needs Kucinich.

Case in point, how is it that Obama has managed to be the "Yes We Can" candidate? Here's how:



"We are the party of Lyndon Johnson and the Great Society. We are the party of John F. Kennedy and the New Frontier. We are the party of FDR and the New Deal. We are the party of the people. We are the party whose president faced a broken nation--a nation of people without jobs, without homes, without health care, without retirement security--and he exhorted our people to have courage. Seventy years ago, FDR stood before a fearful nation and said, We have nothing to fear but fear itself. And he ignited a nation to reaching its promise and that brought almost a hundred new Democrats into the House. It enabled a sweeping mandate to bring deep, transformational change to our social, our political, and our economic structures.

It remade a government of the people and for the people. That kind of change is needed today. We can empower a new beginning.

Democrats, I remind you that we have nothing to fear but fear itself. We need a new faith in America and in ourselves. Faith that we can change the present condition; faith that we can change the outcome; faith that we can regain the confidence, the optimism, the whole world has identified with America; faith that it is the Democratic party that can once again lead the way to a better day, to a better America, to a better world.

Democrats, Democrats can move this country forward from a condition where of 8 million people out of work to a full employment economy with a living wage for all. If you believe our party can do that, let us tell this nation yes we can. (scattered response "Yes we can.").

...

Democrats can move this country forward from 40 million people without health insurance to a single payer system which provides quality health care for all. Do you believe we can do that? .

Yes we can. Si se puede.

Democrats can move this country forward from underfunded schools, underpaid teachers, and undereducated youths to
making education our top funding priority and providing free college education for all. Do you believe we can do that? .

Democrats can move this country forward from a condition where our air, our water and our land is now being ruined
by multinational corporate interests; where we can demonstrate that environmental protection is our path to sustaining the life of the planet. Do you believe we can do this as a party? .

Yes we can. Si se puede.


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http://www.gwu.edu/~action/2004/dnc0203/kucin022203spt.html
Rep. Dennis J. Kucinich
Democratic National Committee Winter Meeting
Washington, DC
February 22, 2003

[mikelgb]

17. bingo

and I am proud to have contributed to that $700,000

congrats Dennis and kick that little rat's ass

[pattmarty]

9. These shitbag "DLC types" trying to put Kucinich out of office.

If the majority of our Congress & Senate were people of the caliber of Dennis and Bernie Sanders this truly would be "the greatest country on earth".

[burrowowl]

29. That's for damn sure!

[BumRushDaShow]

10. This is excellent news!

Good for Dennis. :thumbsup:

[peace13]

11. Go Dennis! NGU!

Thank you for this news! Peace,Kim

[annabanana]

12. Good Good Good.

I'd hate to see a good man lose his job for trying to bring progressive politics further along...

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[NikolaC]

14. Couldn't Help Trolling Huh?

You know I would rather have someone in office who said that he may have seen a UFO, while he introduces articles of impeachment against Bush/Cheney, voted against the Iraq war, has a bill that would give the US a single payer healthcare system over the cowardly DLC jerks who would do none of those things any day. Obviously enough people feel that way since they gave him over $700,000 to fight for his seat.

[AlertLurker]

15. It's just another shitty smear site.

Misquotes, deliberate misinterpretations, logical fallacies, improper attribution, etc.

In short, it's BULLSHIT - most of it from the PeeDee.

Go piss on someone else's thread, asshole.

[lovuian]

16. Go Dennis

We need ya
:woohoo:

[Pastiche423]

18. Good news

We can't afford to lose such an important voice.

[cyclezealot]

19. So afraid we got wrapped up in the

Obama , Hillary thing; and forgot who started our populist revolt. I say a big thank you to all who cared. I can't wait until the FEC website is updated to track down our contributions to the congressional campaign.

[The Stranger]

20. I hope Dennis Kucinich utterly crushes Cimperman.

It will be a lesson to others in the future.

[Truth2Tell]

21. Great news!

A Kucinich loss would be a body-blow to the progressive movement.

[Phred42]

22. Good on DK! We NEED him in there fighting

:kick:

[Stevepol]

23. I'm one who contributed to DK and I don't regret one penny,

and I don't care what the outcome of the race is either, that is, the alleged tallies of the votes (because the only way he will lose is if the voting machines are twisted and tilted almost upside down), Dennis has done himself and the country proud and I'll be proud I supported him.

[Eric J in MN]

24. Good. Win or lose, at least he apparently won't be shouted down...

...by a candidate with more money.

I donated to Kucinich. Now it's up to the people in his district.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

25. I'm proud that part of that money came from me

(a very small part)--and I bet there were a lot of folks like me who could only give a few bucks. The fact that he's gotten $700K is significant, I think. Shows he has support all over the country.

[LWolf]

26. Wonderful news!

I wholeheartedly support his tenacious efforts for us in Congress.

I would love to see him as Speaker of the House.

:thumbsup: :thumbsup:

[Breeze54]

27. Thank You for posting this, Algorem! - I have been worried...

about his being re-elected and I haven't been keeping up in the last week or so.

I needed a smile, so Thank You for posting this!! :D

[goforit]

28. Can he take money from supporteres out of state???

[slipslidingaway]

30. YES! Links below...

http://kucinich.us/

http://kucinich.us/contribute.html

[cyclezealot]

31. Clevelanders smarten up

Kucinich says his subcommittee will investigate how the airlines insider trading , benefited from the 9-11 tragedy . Please smarten up. the whole nation needs his leadership, that includes Cleveland too. Kucinich also says he will hold hearing on the treatment of New York's responders who are now without medical attention. Don't the American people know when someone is on their side.

[slipslidingaway]

32. It will be interesting to see which area of trading is investigated.

Did you see the video of one of the 9/11 responders asking Dennis to help? He did keep his word about meeting with them which took place in February.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQE4ZY8lW5U


"Don't the American people know when someone is on their side."

:( :(

[cyclezealot]

34. no I missed that

thanks for posting.

[Zorra]

33. Suck eggs, DLC. Give it up. You're not gonna beat Dennis. n/t

[cyclezealot]

35. I pray you are right

Cimperman had a head start with his tv lies, thanks to the realtors 500K. Dennis needs to play catch up, and take on Cimperman's lies.

[Algorem]

36. Plain Dealer's starting to foam at the mouth today

I guess this would be their 3rd editorial endorsing Cimperman,and in the print version this one mimics Kucinich's bright yellow "Dennis!" campaign signs,it's all on bright yellow with "DENNI$!".


Editorial: Kucinich's far-flung fans fatten his finances

http://www.cleveland.com/editorials/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/opinion/1203931906124321.xml&coll=2

Monday, February 25, 2008

Dennis Kucinich can't plead poverty anymore. Since posting an Internet video warning that "cor porate interests are con verging on Cleveland to knock me out of Congress," Ku cinich has raised $700,000 to defend his hold on the underrepresented people of the 10th District.

Not surprisingly, most of his biggest donors live in other people's districts. Other people's states, in fact. Maybe viewed from Newton, Mass., or Hanapepe, Hawaii, Kucinich looks pretty good. Maybe when you see Cleveland only during playoff games, it seems just fine.

But people like spiritualist Marianne Williamson of Nipomo, Calif., really ought to try living here. Then maybe they might understand why a lot of the people who are actively investing in Northeast Ohio's future have also given money to challenger Joe Cimperman. They're not out to silence Kucinich. They just want someone in Washington willing to help push a very big rock up a very steep hill.





"a lot of the people who are actively investing in Northeast Ohio's future have also given money to challenger Joe Cimperman"? I guess paying off politicians to move mass quantities of public money into your own bank accounts = "actively investing in Northeast Ohio's future"



they showed Cimperman on channel 3 news yesterday claiming his contributors that are being complained about by Kucinich supporters are "the arts community" and "small business"


i don't even think Cimperman supports small business by going to a barber,looks like he cuts his hair with a Flowbee


the local weekly Sun newspapers endorsed Kucinich on Thursday,even though they're owned by same company as the Plain Dealer-

Pick Kucinich, Trakas in 10th District

http://www.cleveland.com/sunstar/editorials/index.ssf?/base/opinion-0/1203537163253150.xml&coll=4

Thursday, February 21, 2008
The Sun Star

In an extraordinarily crowded Democratic field, four challengers are hoping to prevent 12-year incumbent Dennis J. Kucinich from advancing to the Nov. 4 contest. Despite some misgivings, we're sticking with Kucinich in the Democratic primary...

Say what you will, Kucinich, a longtime maverick politician, always stands up for what he believes, even when the causes are unpopular. Consider the controversy surrounding his decision not to sell Cleveland's electric company when he was the city's mayor 30 years ago. Now called Cleveland Public Power, the facility is alive and well, serving thousands of residents and businesses.

Some of his ideas are unconventional, such as his proposal for a cabinet-level Department of Peace. Right from the start, he was an outspoken opponent of the war in Iraq, which claimed the life of Edward "Augie" Schroeder, the son one of his opponents, Rosemary A. Palmer.

Despite criticism over his run for the presidency, Kucinich spotlighted many important issues in the district, especially those of the working class. Meanwhile, he continues to set the standard for constituent service...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Newspapers

Sun Newspapers is a chain of 25 weekly newspapers serving 82 different communities in the Greater Cleveland and Akron, Ohio areas. While some cover portions of the city of Cleveland, most of its papers are focused on suburbs and exurbs in Cuyahoga, Geauga, Lorain, Medina and Summit counties. Its main offices are in Valley View, with branches in Beachwood, Berea, Medina and North Olmsted.

While some of the papers in the chain date back, under previous ownership, to the early 20th century, the company was founded in its current form in 1969, as part of SunMedia, which also publishes weeklies in the Milwaukee suburbs. In 1998 it was sold to Advance Publications, part of the S.I. Newhouse media empire, which also publishes the Plain Dealer, the region's major daily. It is now the largest chain of paid weekly newspapers in the United States.

http://www.sunnews.com

[cyclezealot]

37. A proud union member for Kucinich

from Michigan. Anyone clicked on the FEC website. I did . I am so proud of our contributions to Kucinich. The FEC site does not update. I just like seeing my name listed for Dennis. So I did not see our names.

[Algorem]

39. what's the address again?

Kucinich stands with union truck drivers for jobs

http://www.pww.org/article/view/12568/

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Author: Rick Nagin


People's Weekly World Newspaper, 02/25/08 18:20


CLEVELAND – Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) has gotten behind embattled truck drivers and warehouse workers fighting to recover jobs from a union-busting beer distributor.

When Superior Beverage took over the delivery contracts in the Cleveland area for Coors, Great Lakes, Iron City, Molson, Fosters and some smaller brands on Jan. 7, it refused to hire all but six of the 42 workers, members of Teamsters Local 293, who had worked for the previous company, many for 30 years or more.

This marked the first time in 75 years that any non-union beer has been distributed to bars, restaurants and stores in Cuyahoga County. The union called for a boycott of the brands handled by Superior and invited Kucinich to attend its February 21st meeting.

Kucinich, whose father was a truck driver and member of a Teamsters local for 35 years, told the workers that he had “Teamster blood flowing” in his heart and understood well from his own life experience the pride that drivers take in their work, the struggle they face and the need for unions to protect the well-being of workers and their families...

[cyclezealot]

40. Kucinich often marches with union workers

Only presidential candidate who himself is a union member. He marched with Teamseters in Seattle, as I recall. He marched with Border's workers. Who knows how many times he has marched with labor. thanks Not too late to help.
www. kucinich .us

[cyclezealot]

38. They are really upset small contributors

might upset their corporate power base's ability to elect yes men. We all need send the Pee Dee editor our best tranquilizers.