Cimperman Is Doing Corporate Work

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Submitted by Roldo Bartimole on February 26, 2008 - 8:56pm.


Boy, they really want to kill him off this time.

It’s like “stick the silver dagger” in the little guy’s heart. Let’s get him once and for all, cry the corporate thugs, the Pee Dee and Brent Larkin.

Some big bucks are out on the street to finally ice the little bugger.

How can one tell? Just take a gander at the money flowing from downtown developers and Cleveland’s elite to Joe Cimperman, the main opponent to incumbent Congressman Dennis Kucinich. They can’t stuff his pockets with enough, as this look at his end of 2007 financial report shows.

There’s really only one reason they want to get Dennis. He doesn’t do their bidding. Never did. Never will...

http://www.clevelandleader.com.nyud.net:8080/files/10th.%20district1.jpg



http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/02/26/705504.aspx

Those watching the debate on local Cleveland TV got treated during the commercial break to a familiar face from debates long ago -- Dennis Kucinich. He's also on the ballot next week and so he's on the air now running TV ads for his bid for renomination for his Congressional seat. In fact, he dropped his White House bid in part because he was facing serious opposition for the first time. Unlike '04, he may not have had an easy plan B to hold on to while he kept rabble rousing.


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Dennis Kucinich is the man that should've been the Democratic nominee. Unfortunately the media via corporate interests are systematically chosing the nominee for us. This is no longer a democracy, but an oligarchial capitalist society. The only hope now; Kucinich 2012.

Anthony Prasad, Seattle, WA (Sent Tuesday, February 26, 2008 10:37 PM)



Cleveland Corporate Media vs. Dennis Kucinich
David Swanson

http://www.losangeleschronicle.com/articles/53547



February 26, 2008
Cleveland, Ohio's corporate media has passionately opposed the progressive populist efforts of Dennis Kucinich for decades. This week marks the climax of its most ferocious crusade to remove him from Congress.

Unable to be confident of motivating enough Democrats to vote against Kucinich in Tuesday's primary, Clear Channel right wing radio station WTAM (these guys http://www.wtam.com/pages/personalities/#newsstaff ) is openly encouraging Republicans to participate in the Democratic primary and vote against Kucinich.

My advice to such infiltrators is to take care or they may get stuck with a Republican nominee who believes the world is more than 6,000 years old. Don't risk it, folks. Vote for Huckabee!

Of course, leading the charge against Kucinich is the Cleveland Pain Dealer. Oops, I mean Plain Dealer. Having savaged Kucinich for years in reports and editorial for, among other things, failing to raise more money, the Pain Dealer attacks him in its latest anti-Kucinich editorial (the third in the past week) for having raised too much money: http://tinyurl.com/yv46uv...



Cleveland Limbaugh station drags out old Republican quarterback to endorse DINO Cimperman

Former Cleveland Browns quarterback Kosar endorses Cimperman

http://www.wkyc.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=84054
Kim Wendel
Created: 2/26/2008 7:12:56 PM
Updated:2/26/2008 7:20:55 PM

CLEVELAND -- Former Cleveland Browns quarterback Bernie Kosar announced on Mike Trivisonno's WTAM-AM/1100 afternoon talk show today that he is endorsing Democrat Joe Cimperman in the upcoming 10th Congressional District primary.

"Yes, Bernie was a football player but now he is a local businessman," Cimperman said. "He wants northeast Ohio to grow and prosper. I'll take the support of our hometown local heroes, residents and business people like Bernie over Hollywood stars any day."

Cimperman is challenging an incumbent Democrat, six-term Congressman Dennis Kucinich in the March 4 Democratic primary, along with North Olmsted Mayor Thomas O'Grady and local activists Rosemary Palmer and Barbara Ferris.

The "Hollywood stars" reference is to the Hollywood actors and actresses, like Sean Penn and Shirley MacLaine, who have endorsed Kucinich in his two unsuccessful runs for U.S. President in 2004 and 2008...



Kosar supports Cimperman in congressional race

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

Posted by Molly Kavanaugh February 26, 2008 18:26PM


...In the past Kosar has supported such candidates as former Florida Gov. Jeb
Bush, a Republican.



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Posted by NewsToYou on 02/26/08 at 7:13PM

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Bernie Kosar is a Republican. Does he live in the district?
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Posted by jibbguy on 02/26/08 at 8:41PM

Well that makes it 7 articles now (not counting editorials).

...The number of times sincing knowing, that the Plain Dealer has not mentioned that Cimperman's earlier set of TV ads were false, and easily proven wrong.
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Posted by NewsToYou on 02/26/08 at 9:49PM






http://www.campaignmoney.com/political/contributions/bernie-kosar.asp?cycle=04

Bernie Kosar
Political Campaign Contributions
2004 Election Cycle
Contribution Totals




Cleveland Limbaugh station urges Republicans to register as Democrats to defeat Dennis Kucinich


http://zzsimonb.googlepages.com/kucinich2

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - Monday, February 25, 2008

CLEVELAND, OH - The #1 most powerful Rush Limbaugh radio station in Ohio and the Midwest - Clear Channel WTAM 1100 AM - is urging its Republican listeners to switch their party affiliation to Democrat for the March 4th primary election to "vote against Dennis Kucinich ... and make sure he doesn't make it out of the primary."

Ohio Congressman Dennis Kucinich, facing the toughest re-election campaign in his tenure in the U.S. House, has been targeted by the Republican Party and by corporate interests in the Cleveland area who are heavily funding his opposition.

In a promotional campaign that began last night, WTAM radio host Bob Franz skirted with an outright corporate-sponsored endorsement by declaring, "If I weren't a responsible radio talk show host, I would say ..." At that point, he continues with a strongly partisan political message that includes a call to action to vote against Kucinich http://www2.kucinich.us/files/001257.mp3 . (Audio supplied by WTAM Radio)

WTAM Program Manager Ray Davis insisted that the Franz promo was "a talk show host's opinion." When challenged by a senior Kucinich campaign official as to whether the message reflects "the opinions of the management, ownership or sponsors of WTAM radio," Davis responded in an email, "Those are your words ... (not mine). My words are: "It's a talk show host's opinion." Please don't misquote me."

Various media watchdog groups are exploring whether WTAM and Clear Channel have violated Federal Communications Commission rules and guidelines, Federal Elections Commission rules, or federal laws prohibiting corporate contributions to election campaigns.

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