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OLYMPIA, Wash. -- Union members, students, parents and even former presidential candidate Rep. Dennis Kucinich rallied in Olympia on Monday, taking advantage of the holiday to lobby against budget cuts and to show solidarity with Wisconsin's embattled union for state employees. The Washington State Patrol estimated that 2,000 people rallied under the Capitol Dome, said KIRO 7 Eyewitness News Senior Political reporter Essex Porter.Washington state employees chanted, sang songs and waved signs in the Capitol Rotunda in a rally supporting unions and state employees in Wisconsin. Ohio Democratic Congressman Dennis Kucinich addressed the group wearing a union T-shirt from the...

In an announcement that shocked political pundits from Cleveland to Cairo, Rep. Dennis Kucinich threw his hat into the ring in a bid to become the new President of Egypt. At a press conference underneath a rainbow near a pot of gold--Kucinich made the case for his campaign: Look, I want to be the president of something. I ran for President of the United States, of the Dustin Diamond fan club and of our fantasy football league. I lost every race. But this time I have an ace in the hole. Howard Dean agreed to be my running mate....

Ohio Democrat Rep. Dennis Kucinich sent a letter Friday requesting a meeting with Bradley Manning, the imprisoned Army private who allegedly stole classified government documents that were eventually published by the website Wikileaks. Manning is currently detained on a U.S. Marine base in Quantico, Virginia where he has been reportedly held in solitary confinement for extended periods of time since his arrest in May 2010. Kucinich, an outspoken critic of the U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, said in the letter addressed to Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, that he wanted to ensure Manning was being treated properly in custody.

This is the banner for Dennis Kucinich's website (click on it if you can't read the bottom). America's most COURAGEOUS congresman! Wow. I wish there was a pageant so he could wear the sash he probably made for himself. Look at how he looks "forward" from right to the left like we live in an Asian culture. Then again being "progressive" requires backward thinking, so I guess he has that right.If his wife were in congress is it safe to say she would be America's most courageous congresswoman? She would, after all, have to admit to being Mrs. Kucinich.So...

WASHINGTON (CN) - Ohio Congressman Dennis Kucinich says he suffered permanent injuries from biting an olive pit hidden in the sandwich wrap he bought at a House of Representatives cafeteria. He demands $150,000. The former presidential hopeful sued Restaurant Associates, which operates the cafeteria in the Longworth Office Building, its parent company, Compass Group USA, and food suppliers Performance Food Group Co. and Foodbuy LLC. Kucinich seeks damages for negligence, in Superior Court.

With the upcoming round of redistricting threatening to end his career, Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) is taking his case to the court of public opinion in an attempt to stave off the elimination of his district. Kucinich, a two-time presidential candidate just elected to an eighth term in his Cleveland-area seat, is already in reelection mode. He’s reaching out to voters and blasting e-mails to his local and national supporters in anticipation of an uncertain fate in 2012 — a surprisingly urgent pace that reflects the gravity of the situation confronting the outspoken liberal lawmaker. With newly released census figures...

From the producers of "Alan Grayson’s Magic Kingdom" and "At Home with Barney Frank" comes a new television program that brings you the drama, the beauty and the adventure of the Buckeye State "Dennis Kucinich’s Ohio" is a new documentary series that takes viewers into the country’s heartland through the eyes of one of its most famous citizens – Rep. Dennis Kucinich.

Could the voters produce a Republican sweep thorough enough to whisk away Dennis Kucinich? It's hard to imagine. It's harder yet to get one's hopes up. But a very credible Republican candidate is running against Cleveland's unrepresentative representative this year, and residents of the 10th Congressional District should be falling all over themselves to elect him. His name is Peter J. Corrigan. He's a businessman with expertise in the financial side of companies and -- of all things -- physics. In other words, he's not stupid.

[excerpt] These would be the four Democrats [Sen. Barbara Boxer (D, CA); Rep. Henry Waxman (D, CA-30); Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D, OH-10); and Rep. Raul Grijavla (D, AZ-07)] who provided letters of introduction and support to the pro-terrorist groups Code Pink/Global Exchange in 2004.  Those groups used these letters to facilitate their delivery over a half a million dollars’ worth of aid to terrorists in Fallujah actively fighting American troops; which is, by the way, treason by any reasonable interpretation of the US Constitution.... [end excerpt]  

THE WEEKLY STANDARD has obtained the results of a private poll conducted last night in Ohio-10, the Cleveland-area district held for seven terms by Democrat Dennis Kucinich. Kucinich has been widely viewed as safe—even though he fell short of 60 percent of the vote in 2008, and the district has a Cook PVI of only Dem +8. The poll (based on a small but respectable 319 person sample, with a margin of error of 5.6 percent, weighted to eliminate gender bias) shows Kucinich ahead of his opponent, Peter Corrigan, by only 4 percent. The profile of undecided voters suggests they...

WASHINGTON - A year ago, an activist group from the Seattle area gave Howard Dean (news - web sites) a thin, golden statue of a backbone. The Oscar-like award honored the former Democratic presidential candidate and Vermont governor for standing up against the Iraq (news - web sites) war and other Bush administration policies. Now, as Dean settles into his new role as head of the Democratic Party, that golden spine has come to represent, for many liberal Democrats, Dean's potential to develop a tougher, take-no-prisoners attitude among the party faithful. "There's no gut-check required for Dean. Dean just needs...

Cleveland, OH—In a tear-filled press conference, Dennis Kucinich, D-OH, reported the atrocities committed by Rahm Emmanuel in the Air Force One shower. In a short statement, Kucinich detailed how he was tortured, humiliated and cajoled until he relented to vote for healthcare. According to Kucinich, the tactics—including whipping him with a wet towel—lasted for several hours before reaching their final destination in Cleveland.

In December, I posted ratings for each Democratic Representative based on how they voted on 10 key agenda items in 2009. The idea was to see how each Democrat voted relative to the partisan slant of his district; a Democrat voting for the cap-and-trade bill in a Republican-leaning district would get quite a bit of credit for that, for instance, while one voting for the same measure in a district with a PVI of D+15 would get almost no credit for the vote since almost every Representative from such a district voted for the bill anyway. The analysis concluded that...

George Bush was denounced around the world for allowing his intelligence agencies to install wiretaps without warrants from the courts. But Barack Obama authorises the killing of citizens without any semblance of due process and there’s scarcely a whimper of protest.

-- An Ohio congressman pushed for a new program to add a million new jobs Monday. Congressman Dennis Kucinich unveiled his plan Monday afternoon at his Lakewood office. Kucinich is proposed offering early retirement with social security benefits and health insurance subsides to people as young as 60 years old. He said that will free up as many as a million new positions in businesses that have already shed jobs.

During George W.'s administration, liberals loved to wail over the supposed--but never demonstrated--suppression of free speech. But now we have the spectacle of a member of the Dem majority warning a leading representative of Fox News to stop celebrating his network's success--under threat of reinstitution of the so-called "Fairness Doctrine." On last evening's Factor, Rep. Dennis Kucinich, invoking the possibility of the Fairness Doctrine's return, warned O'Reilly to stop "crowing" about Fox's success. View video here.

Date: Saturday, December 12, 2009 Time: 11:00am - 3:00pm Location: Washington, DC Lafayette Square across from White House (Metro: Farragut West or Farragut North) 10:30 AM YAF will counter protest the 9/11 "inside job" conspiracy theorists. They call it an anti-war rally, but the nuts and bolts are coming from the left coast for this!!! This just cam in last minute!!!! Contact: jordan@yaf.com or 202-596-7923 to join with YAF In Freedom, YAF Come protest the likes of: Scheduled Speakers Dennis Kucinich US Representative (D-Ohio) and former Presidential candidate, www.kucinich.house.gov Cynthia McKinney 2008 Green Party candidate for President, former six-term Democratic...

The DUmmies are in a state of depression. On the heels of the Max Baucus bipartisan Senate bill (bipartisan in that BOTH Democrats and Republicans hate it) a glum Dennis Kucinich is predicting DOOM for any ObamaCare bill containing a public option as you can see in this THREAD, "Kucinich has a diary up at Daily Kos predicting doom for the public option."A side note here before we proceed further. A certain WILLIAMS RIVERS PITT served briefly as the press secretary for Dennis Kucinich in early 2004. Yes, Will finally had a REAL JOB in the world of politics...

Seven House Democrats have written Attorney General Eric Holder invoking a list of grievances from radical Islamist groups and asking that Holder meet with representatives from those groups to hear their concerns, the Investigative Project on Terrorism has learned. The grievances include the use of convicted felons as informants in mosques, alleged religious profiling of Somali Muslims in Minnesota and elsewhere and allegations that the FBI is working with foreign governments to question American citizens who are terror suspects. In the letter, the representatives said: "These concerns raise legitimate questions about due process, justice, and equal treatment under the law....

Too bad this particular report didn't include an expert that was railing against the TARP (Troubled Asset Relief Program) bailout before it was passed last October. They could have said, "I told you so." Global banks lending money to other countries including "the playground of the Middle East" may have angered Congressmen, but Lisa Myers investigation didn't point out that those critics of how the banks lent money voted for TARP (Troubled Asset Relief Program) in the first place. In a segment on March 11 "NBC Nightly News," Myers, NBC's senior investigative correspondent, probed into why three particular banks -...