Darryl, yes, Representative
Dennis Kucinich is one of the Democratic candidates for the 2004 presidential election.
He represents the 10th district of Ohio, in his 4th term
in the House (2 year terms), first elected in 1996. In the last election he got
74%, according to the information at Congress.org, which also says he sits on
the Education and the Workforce and Government Reform committees. Personal information includes:
(please see http://www.congress.org/congressorg/bio/?id=468&lvl=C)
Party: Democrat
Residence: Cleveland
Marital Status: Divorced
Prev. Occupation: College Professor
Prev. Political Exp.: Cleveland City Council, 1969-75; Mayor of
Cleveland, 1977-79; OH Senate, 1994-96
Education: BA Case Western Reserve University, 1973; MA
Case Western Reserve University, 1973
Birthdate: 10/08/1946
Birthplace: Cleveland, OH
Religion: Catholic
MoveOn.org is
conducting a first-ever online primary (today and tomorrow) of the Democratic
candidates, planning to endorse the candidate who receives 50% of the votes
from online voting. The top three
candidates (from a straw poll taken May 29) were Gov. Dean, Sen. Kerry, Rep
Kucinich (listed alphabetically), who were given the opportunity to post
through MoveOn.org’s internet mailing list their letters of appeal/ statement
of beliefs. I have pasted the
links to all of them, below.
Lastly, copied below is text from my email ballot
received this morning (link only works once so that it cannot be shared). Hope this is informative and
encouraging for everyone. –KWC
“By midnight on Wednesday, hundreds of thousands of MoveOn members
will have indicated who they want MoveOn to support. If any candidate gets over
50% of the vote, MoveOn will endorse that candidate and immediately start
organizing and raising money for him or her. If no one gets over 50%, we'll
highlight all of the campaigns and continue the process.
Here's why voting in the primary is so
important:
- EVERYONE'S WATCHING. From the Washington Post to CNN, major media
outlets are ready to report on the results of the primary. Your vote will
help determine the outcome, which could have a big impact on how different
campaigns are perceived in the press.
- ORDINARY PEOPLE CHOOSE. In most primary processes, pundits and big
donors choose the nominee long before ordinary folks get a chance to vote.
If we work together, we can change that dynamic, and remind campaigns that
they're ultimately accountable to us. The more people that vote, the more
valid the outcome will be.
- THE POWER OF NUMBERS. Many of us may be involved individually in
the primary process. But with over a million of us working together, our
impact will be exponentially more powerful. The MoveOn Primary will help
us work together to elect the best Democratic president possible in 2004.
- BEATING BUSH. A lot of people will be looking at this primary to
gauge how energized and excited folks are to beat Bush. If lots of us
vote, we can send a message that Bush's opposition will be organized,
active, and powerful.
- LAST BUT NOT LEAST: MAKE YOUR CANDIDATE WIN. Your candidate will
need every possible vote to do well in the primary. Vote for him or her. “
If you'd like to get to know the candidates more before you cast
your vote, we have letters to the MoveOn membership from each of them on our
website, as well as their responses to MoveOn members' questions. From www.moveonpac.org:
Ambassador Carol Moseley Braun: www.moveon.org/pac/cands/braun.html
Governor Howard Dean: www.moveon.org/pac/cands/dean.html
Senator John Edwards: www.moveon.org/pac/cands/edwards.html
Congressman Dick Gephardt: www.moveon.org/pac/cands/gephardt.html
Senator Bob Graham: www.moveon.org/pac/cands/graham.html
Senator John Kerry: www.moveon.org/pac/cands/kerry.html
Congressman Dennis Kucinich: www.moveon.org/pac/cands/kucinich.html
Senator Joe Lieberman: www.moveon.org/pac/cands/lieberman.html
Reverend Al Sharpton: www.moveon.org/pac/cands/sharpton.html
Darryl wrote: Hi.
Thought some of you might be interested
to know what is being tossed around in the U.S. This was sent up to us today by
a friend in Minnesota.
Has anyone from the U.S. heard of a
Kucinich who may be running for Pres. in the next election.
How We Will Reach One Million Votes
The Each One, Reach One Campaign
Dear VoteToImpeach Member,
Last month Ramsey Clark appealed to the 250,000 VoteToImpeach
members to help build the campaign. Now, we are launching a new initiative to
take this campaign to the million vote mark.
The framework of the initiative could not be more simple. It is captured in its
name: Each One, Reach One. We are asking all VoteToImpeach members
to commit to getting just one additional person to vote to impeach online. We know that many members will do more.
But if each of us got one person to vote this month we would pass the half a
million mark, and if we do the same in the following months, we will have
reached the million mark.
These million votes will be taken to the House Judiciary Committee. Twenty-nine
years ago next month, the House Judiciary Committee, with sharp division, voted
for Articles of Impeachment for Richard M. Nixon. Within a month, on August 9,
1974 Richard Nixon resigned rather than face impeachment. Let us not forget
that Nixon's near-impeachment and resignation came a year and a half after he
won one of the biggest landslide elections in U.S. history.
Among the Articles of Impeachment, Nixon
was charged with "making or causing to be made false or misleading
statements for the purpose of deceiving the people of the United
States...." The relevance of the Nixon impeachment proceedings
with the case against George W. Bush et al., was noted recently by John Dean,
the former counsel to President Nixon in a June 11, 2003 article titled
"The Case for Impeachment."
Responding to the growing public outcry regarding Bush's lies and deceptions
that were used as the rationale for the invasion of Iraq, Dean wrote, "To
put it bluntly, if Bush has taken Congress and the nation into war based on
bogus information, he is cooked. Manipulation or deliberate misuse of national
security intelligence data, if proven, could be a 'high crime' under the
Constitution's impeachment clause. It would be also be a violation of federal
criminal law, including the broad federal anti-conspiracy statute, which
renders it a felony 'to defraud the United States, or any agency thereof in any
manner for any purpose.'
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" It's important to recall that when
Richard Nixon resigned, he was about to be impeached by the House of
Representatives for misusing the CIA and FBI. After Watergate, all presidents
are on notice that manipulating or misusing any agency of the executive
branch improperly is a serious abuse of presidential power."
Dean asserts, "in the three decades since Watergate, this is
the first potential scandal I have seen that could make Watergate pale by
comparison. If the Bush administration intentionally manipulated or
misrepresented intelligence to get Congress to authorize, and the public to
support, military action to take control of Iraq, then that would be a
monstrous misdeed."
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When George W. Bush addressed the nation
on March 17, 2003, to announce that war against Iraq had become inevitable and
imminent, he stated, "Intelligence gathered by this and other governments
leaves no doubt that the Iraq regime continues to possess and conceal some of
the most lethal weapons ever devised."
Bush administration officials systematically lied to the people of the United
States, to Congress and to the United Nations. Tens of thousands of
Iraqis have now been killed and maimed. Iraq society has been plunged into
chaos and misery. Its sovereignty shredded by an illegal
occupation. Hundreds of US GI's have been killed and wounded.
While waging an illegal war against the people of Iraq, the administration has
carried out a war home -- an attack on the civil rights and
liberties of the people of the United States and on the Bill of Rights itself.
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The VoteToImpeach campaign is a critical
effort. As Ramsey Clark stated in his May 12 address
at the National Press Club that was broadcast nationally on C-Span: "When
people vote to Impeach it is important. It reminds Americans that the
Constitution provides the means for removing an Imperial President and
officials who commit high crimes."
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The administration's crimes, including its
lies and deceptions, are becoming increasingly exposed in the public discourse
and media. Pressure is growing for Congressional hearings on the
Administration's lies and deliberate manipulation of "intelligence
data" related to the much ballyhooed connection between Iraq and Al' Qaeda
and the patently false claim about the "grave and imminent threat"
posed by Iraq's alleged Weapons of Mass Destruction. Under these circumstances
it is all the more important to expand the grassroots VotetoImpeach campaign.
Participate in the Each One, Reach One
initiative, and by clicking here
you will be taken to the Each One, Reach One page where you can send an email
inviting one or more friends, family members or colleagues to join the Impeachment
movement.
Let's keep the pressure on!
All of us at VoteToImpeach.org
DJB
