Oh-10 -- Paul Hackett endorses Kucinich challenger
While Dennis Kucinich travels around the country on his presidential pursuit, some in Ohio's 10th congressional district (Cleveland's West Side and West inner-ring suburbs) are becoming disenchanted...
View ArticleOH-10: Ugh
Just wanted to point that Dennis Kucinich joined a horde of Republicans to vote against the SCHIP bill in the House. Apparently, it wasn't perfect enough. One of his two primary challengers, Rosemary...
View ArticleKucinich is not our candidate, but he's not our enemy either
I just want to show people something that's missing from Kos's recent diary regarding Kucinich's vote against the SCHIP bill: "I cannot support legislation which extends health coverage to some...
View ArticleDennis Kucinich is a really good sport
It just occurred to me as I was driving home today from our county (Cuyahoga) Democratic endorsment meeting (in which the executive committee, mostly precinct captains like me, agree who the county...
View ArticleFor All the Right Reasons
No doubt about it: If our son Augie hadn’t been killed in Iraq in 2005, I wouldn’t be running for Congress. His death forced us to take a closer look at how the political decisions made in...
View ArticleFiling Deadline Passes In Ohio--Here's The List
As a certified political junkie, I actually have the filing deadlines for each state on my calendar. Yesterday, Ohio's filing deadline came and went. Unlike Texas, which saw nine of their 32 incumbents...
View ArticleOhio Congressional Candidates
I've previously posted on the Illinois and Maryland Congressional candidates where the filing deadlines have passed. I hope to post the listing of Texas candidates in a few days. I've left out any...
View ArticleOh-10: Big Dennis Announcement
No, no -- get your minds off the presidential race for a minute. Tonight a throng of enthusiastic supporters packed the basement meeting room at Laborers Hall, headquarters of numerous union locals, on...
View ArticleAnother one bites the dust: Dennis out
The Cleveland Plain Dealer is reporting the Dennis Kucinich will announce tomorrow the official end of his presidential campaign. http://blog.cleveland.com/...
View ArticleKucinich Drops Out, Shifts Focus To Saving House Seat
It's amazing how a primary challenge can focus an incumbent's vision on the thing that matters the most -- namely, retaining one's job. On the same day that the Washington Post ran an item about the...
View ArticleKucinich: IntegrityNow.Org!
Dennis Kucinich, in a speech today, dropped out of the race for the Democratic Presidential nomination. He is going to concentrate on winning re-nomination and winning his congressional seat.
View ArticleProgressive Blogosphere Challenge: Help Dennis Kucinich Keep His...
For those of you who've already donated to Dennis' congressional campaign, thanks! We know he's one of the leading progressive voices in Congress, and it would be a shame to lose his voice in the House.
View ArticleDennis Kucinich asks for your support in his re-election bid! w/poll
Dennis, who dropped out of the race for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination, is facing a well funded corporate campaign to get him out of Congress. In this video, he asks for your support in...
View ArticlePresidential straw-poll caucus in Cleveland, Oh
Tonight a whole batch of Cleveland-area city and ward clubs (mostly west side) and other Democratic organizations held a caucus in Lakewood at the Masonic Temple to take a straw poll of presidential...
View ArticleDennis Kucinich: The Progressive's Congressman! w/poll
Dennis Kucinich, former presidential candidate, is running for re-nomination in Ohio's Tenth District. He's also arguably, on the national stage, the most progressive member of Congress. We need as...
View ArticleThe thousand other races out there
Politics is like baseball, its never over till the third out in the ninth. But Clinton is down to two strikes, no runners on and trailing by 10-0. So maybe its time we turn to the other races that will...
View ArticleFreedom Rider: Democrats Target Kucinich for Defeat w/poll
Via Blackagendareport.com and by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley. It's an interesting look at what's going on with his re-nomination campaign in OH-10.
View ArticleOh-10: Chill, Kucinich supporters. Disaster isn't imminent
Many supporters of Congressman Dennis Kucinich (Oh-10) have been sounding the alarm about the fact that he has four primary challengers including one, Cleveland city councilman Joe Cimperman, who...
View ArticleProgressive help needed in Northeast Ohio
No, not for Barack Obama, who seems to be doing gangbusters here in Greater Cleveland, but for kos' favorite ex-presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich, who is facing a determined opponent with strong...
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