Posted on 12/10/2007 2:03:01 PM PST by lowbridge
It was December 1978, the darkest period in Cleveland history.
Just a year earlier, 31-year-old Dennis Kucinich had been elected mayor. Now the city was in bankruptcy. Six hundred jobs had been slashed, including 400 policemen and firefighters. The neighborhood development corporations, once the backbone of Cleveland's renewal, had been drained of their funding. And City Hall had been overrun with an army of novitiates, whose qualifications began and ended with their loyalty to the mayor.
The man charged with averting disaster was the city's 24-year-old finance director, whose only work experience was a nine-month stint at Merrill Lynch. The acting police chief was a 21-year-old college coed with wispy bangs. The inevitable implosion of Kucinich's scorched-earth rise to mayor had arrived.
As a city councilman, he had climbed the ranks of Cleveland politics through a strategy of nonstop combat, fighting everyone from colleagues to businessmen, bankers to bureaucrats. He accused them of being corrupt, lazy, and unsympathetic to the city's white working class — his largest sect of voters. If council was for tax abatements, Kucinich accused them of being in the pocket of business. If they wanted housing for the East Side's black poor, he castigated them for ignoring the West Side's ethnic whites. If you weren't with him, you were his enemy, and Kucinich spared no sound bites in illuminating your sins.
(Excerpt) Read more at clevescene.com ...
He is also a card carrying member of the Workers Party.....communist organization.
Dennis John Kucinich should get the Democrat
nomination for POTUS.
Kucinich is a nut - pure and simple. One look at his supporters should dispel any doubt about that.
Sounds like the Best the Democrats can put forward!!!
I thought he and L. Ron Paul-ard were going to make up the ticket?
One of the worst Mayors in the United States in the 20th century.
“Kucinich is a nut”
WRONG! WRONG! WRONG! He’s a shrewd con-man. He knows how to appeal to a group of people that would never donate to anyone else. He gets those nitwits to finance his never-ending vacation trips, er, presidential campaigns. He gets our mentally compromised West-siders to vote him into office over and over. He’s living in the lap of luxury! And will retire to that same lifestyle.
A nut? Hardly!
Funny, I can’t remember anyone in the msm ever asking Dennis Kucinich about his tenure as mayor or about that city’s bankrupcy. I guess I just missed it.
Thanks for posting this. It’s worth the time to read the entire article.
The King of Spain has some words of advise for the King of Spin: "¿Por qué no te callas?"
I'll second that.
“Thanks for posting this. It’s worth the time to read the entire article.
I’ll second that.”
Abdo-lutely! Shows he’s not nuts. Just a con man.
Fascinating article. Thanks for the post.
I think that is what that Gravel guy was trying to say when he stared into the camera and threw the rock in the water. Like, telepathically, or something.
Something that translates to, "you will all become deaf mutes and it will be like a meteor fell from the sky and destroyed your cities if you vote for that Evil Elf fellow."
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