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Dennis Kucinich promised a “major announcement” today in Columbus, and he delivered a promised moratorium on fracking and outright ban on injection wells if he is elected Ohio governor. Kucinich told reporters his goal is to eliminate all oil and gas drilling – not just fracking – in Ohio by the end of his four-year term.
In 1533, England's King Henry VIII secretly married his second wife, Anne Boleyn, who later gave birth to Elizabeth I. On Jan. 25, 1858, Britain's Princess Victoria, the eldest daughter of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, married Crown Prince Frederick William, the future German Emperor and King of Prussia, at St. James's Palace. In 1533, England's King Henry VIII secretly married his second wife, Anne Boleyn, who later gave birth to Elizabeth I. In 1890, reporter Nellie Bly of the New York World completed a round-the-world journey in 72 days, 6 hours and 11 minutes.
In this Jan. 10, 2015 file photo, Dennis Kucinich arrives at the 4th annual Sean Penn and Friends "Help Haiti Home" Gala at the Montage Hotel in Beverly Hills, Calif. Kucinich is preparing to make the Democratic primary for Ohio governor a five-way race.
Dennis Kucinich, former congressman, state senator, and mayor of Cleveland, speaks at Cleveland State University's Maxine Levin Goodman College of Urban Affairs last April. Kucinich said in an email to supporters this week that he plans to announce formally for Ohio governor next Wednesday.
Two Barack Obama alumni will form a gubernatorial ticket Wednesday as Richard Cordray chooses Betty Sutton as his running mate, a source close to the Democrat's campaign confirmed. Cordray was tabbed by Obama as the first head of the federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, a post he left in November to run for governor.
In 2002, the NSA reportedly engaged in "blanket surveillance" of the Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, Utah, collecting and storing "virtually all electronic communications going into or out of the Salt Lake City area, including a emails and text messages" to "experiment with and fine tune a new scale of mass surveillance." NSA officials had denied such a program existed.
Dennis Kucinich was 31 years old in 1977 when he won election as mayor of Cleveland, beginning a tumultuous two-year term that would see him survive a recall election and the city's default. ( Dates in office: 1970-1975, 1981-1982, Cleveland City Council; 1977-1979, Mayor of Cleveland; 1994-1996, Ohio State Senate; 1997-2013, U.S. House of Representatives Career Summary: The so-called "boy mayor" survived a recall election and oversaw one of the most tumultuous terms in city history, during which the city was forced into default after banks called in their loans.
In this Feb. 20, 2012, file photo, U.S. Rep. Dennis Kucinich disputes an point from businessman Graham Veysey during a debate at the City Club in Cleveland. Kucinich, an ex-Ohio congressman, says he found his county's elections board offices unlocked and unoccupied when he tried to cast an early ballot.
Dennis Kucinich stands outside the open back door of the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections on Saturday. Kucinich went to the building to cast an early vote for the Sept.
Democrats who are giddily munching popcorn while watching Republicans struggle with trying to repeal Obamacare may want to put down the tub. They are on the verge of adopting a politically analogous health care plank, one designed to rev up their ideological base in the next campaign, but destined to make the party suffer once in power.
In this March 6, 2012, file photo, U.S. Rep. Dennis Kucinich, D-Ohio, left, with his wife Elizabeth Kucinich, right, addresses supporters on primary election night at Rubin's Restaurant and Deli in Cleveland. A political mapmaking process controlled by Ohio Republicans resulted in the party winning nearly two more U.S. House seats and five more Ohio House seats in the last election than would have been expected in neutral circumstances, according to an analysis by The Associated Press.
There's no pathway to power outside party politics - but hoping for a big win in 2018 could be a death trap Last week in this space, I suggested that liberals and progressives who dreamed of a "blue wave" in the 2018 midterms, a Democratic House majority in 2019 and the impeachment of President Donald Trump shortly after that were deluding themselves, and that this quest for multiple species of unicorn was destined to end badly. Was I shamelessly trolling Salon's core demographic? Heavens, no.
Recently, Truth and Justice Radio was privileged to meet and attend a talk by Dennis Kucinich, antiwar and justice activist, prominent 8-term Member of US Congress, and 2-time Democratic candidate for President. He spoke at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government on 2-24-2017.
In this July 26, 2016, file photo, Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, D-Hawaii, speaks at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia. Gabbard says she met with Syrian President Bashar Assad during a recent trip to the war-torn country.
As we think about the election - what went wrong, what's been unleashed and what we should do about it - please, please, let us expand our vision beyond some technical fix or updated "message." James Zogby , founder of the Arab American Institute and a longtime member of the Democratic National Committee, discussing the Bernie Sanders phenomenon and the future direction of the party, wrote recently: "Many rank and file Democrats had lost confidence in their establishment and were looking for an authentic message that spoke to their needs."
Former Republican U.S. Sen. George Voinovich, a two-term Ohio governor who preached frugality in his personal and public life and occasionally bucked the GOP establishment, died Sunday. He was 79. Voinovich, considered a moderate who opposed the size of former President George W. Bush's tax cuts and later questioned Bush's war strategy in Iraq, died peacefully in his sleep, his wife Janet confirmed.