The Cleveland Plain Dealer feels need to endorse Kucinich opponent again

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Kucinich and Cimperman on live today in 45 minutes with listener calls 866-578-0903 [e-mail]

on the Cleveland public radio station,9a.m.

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Reporters’ Roundtable Takes on the Tenth, Round Two
Aired Thursday, February 21, 2008
Last week, listeners had a lot to say to two of the candidates for the 10th congressional district. Questions covered everything from jobs to gay marriage to the war in Iraq. This Thursday, we'll give you a chance for a little more quality time with two more candidates: Cleveland Councilman Joe Cimperman and incumbent Congressman Dennis Kucinich. We'll start at 9 o'clock, right here on 90.3.

Guests:
Candidates: Cleveland Councilman Joe Cimperman and incumbent Congressman Dennis Kucinich
Reporters: WKYC Channel 3's Tom Beres and ideastream's Kymberli Hagelberg

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The Plain Dealer endorsed him a month ago,it didn't take so they're all sweaty and panicy and have to run another endorsement today along with a column by their chief corporatist,slurring and trashing another Kucinich opponent,so gullibles will switch their votes from O'Grady to cimperman i suppose,and hoping one or more of the candidates will drop out to improve cimperman's chances.


Editorial: Kucinich and Cimperman - the show horse vs. the workhorse

http://www.cleveland.com/editorials/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/opinion/1203586336198830.xml&coll=2

Kucinich and Cimperman prove yet again that the voters should retire the show horse and hitch up a workhorse

Thursday, February 21, 2008

"(...blah blah lie lie distortion blah blah blah...)"



Brent Larkin: With a friend like O'Grady, how can Dennis Kucinich lose?

http://www.cleveland.com/news/plaindealer/brent_larkin/index.ssf?/base/opinion/1203586254198830.xml&coll=2

Thursday, February 21, 2008
Brent Larkin
Plain Dealer Columnist

...it is almost impossible to imagine Kucinich not prevailing in this five-way race. The only candidate with a remote chance of upsetting him is Cleveland City Councilman Joe Cimperman. Rosemary Palmer, Ferris and O'Grady are merely jockeying for the third, fourth and fifth spots on Election Day...

Kucinich's popularity clearly has eroded. In 2005, a poll of 600 Democrats in the district, conducted by Cleveland-based Triad Research Group, measured how voters viewed his perform- ance as a congressman. The result: 78 percent approved, 15 percent did not.

An almost identical Triad poll taken three months ago got a dramatically different result: 56 percent approved of Kucinich's performance, and 36 percent said the district needed a new member of Congress...



"He speaks to what's in those people's hearts," said respected Cleveland pollster Bob Dykes, who took the two surveys that measured Kucinich's job performance. "Some people get the short end of the stick in life, and they believe Dennis tries to fight for them. True, his support is down, but with four opponents, it's unlikely he'll lose."...










Cuyahoga County Disaster Number One

http://www.clevelandleader.com/node/4770

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Submitted by Roldo Bartimole on February 20, 2008 - 2:54pm.



Are we dealing in plain old political trickery or something a lot more sinister?

There should be a Federal grand jury to examine just how the County Commissioners came to buy the decaying Ameritrust Bank block (Euclid Avenue, East 9th Street and Prospect Avenue) from Dick Jacobs for a new central administrative headquarters, then decided the effort was beyond the County’s financial means, and finally turned it over to a single bidder who now wants to borrow from the County about half its bid price of some $35 million.

That’s the long way of saying something stinks real bad here.

The bid by K&D Group from the beginning struck me as a backroom deal made with at least two County Commissioners – Tim Hagan and Jimmy Dimora – to help them save face on a smelly deal that could have significant financial damage to Cuyahoga County and its taxpayers...

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1. All you have to do to want to vote for Kooch is hear him speak.

All you MORONS who have been harping on PLAGIARIZING over the past week, read the last line of Kucinich's speech that I posted CAREFULLY.

There isn't a single fresh idea that Hillary / Obama / Edwards have had that Dennis Kucinich didn't have first. More than that, he has the courage to take his ideas and write legislation. Look at the candidates' voting records and who has done the most for the USA and you quickly come to realize that the Democratic Party has (reliably) fucked up once again: THIS is the man who should have been the 2008 Democratic Presidential Nominee.

http://www.gwu.edu/~action/2004/dnc0203/kucin022203spt.html

Rep. Dennis J. Kucinich
Democratic National Committee Winter Meeting
Washington, DC
February 22, 2003

We have stepped into the world of George Orwell, where peace is war, where security is control, where bombing innocent people is liberation. This generation of Americans did not travel from the days of duck and cover, where we worked to do away with nuclear weapons, to arrive at the days of duct tape and plastic cover where our nation rearms with nuclear weapons to take on the world. We didn't travel this far to go back to rearming.

Someone must step forward, someone must say stop. Someone must say America must take a new direction. Someone must say it is time for a fundamental change of the kind that FDR brought in 1932. We must shake this nation from its color-coded nightmare of terror alerts and attack on our civil liberties. We must remind America that its historic mission is not found in dark doctrines of unilateralism and preemption but in the light of international cooperation for peace and security. .

We Democrats, we Democrats must remember who we are. We must remember where we came from. We must sound the trumpet and call all Americans back to the party of the people.

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. .

Democrats can move this country forward from a loss of 3 million good paying jobs to NAFTA and we can cancel NAFTA. We can start over, we can start over. We can start over and condition trade with America on workers' rights and human rights and environmental quality conditions. Do you believe we can do that? .

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.