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by John Nichols
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/0... / ---snip--- The Plain Dealer’s distaste for Kucinich is institutional. Since the 1970s, when he was the 31-year-old “boy mayor” of Cleveland, Kucinich has rubbed the city’s economic elites - for whom the Plain Dealer has often served as a friendly newspaper of record - wrong. Kucinich never behaved as the Plain Dealer’s editors expected a mayor to behave. He refused to bend to the demands of the downtown bankers and the corporate CEOs who had gotten used to local officials - Democrats and Republicans - making populist noises but doing as they were told when it came time to choose between the boardrooms of the city’s office towers and the ethnic neighborhoods of the city and its working-class suburbs. Kucinich’s refusal to permit the privatization of Cleveland’s municipal power plant was a classic battle between a city’s economic, political and media elites on one side and an almost unimaginably principled official on the other. The business community and its media mouthpieces tossed every charge they could at the mayor and most of them stuck. He was ultimately driven from office with a reputation so smeared that, when I arrived in Ohio as a young newspaper reporter in the 1980s, one of the first things I “learned” was that Kucinich was probably a bit unbalanced and certainly “finished forever” in politics. Only after meeting and interviewing the former mayor did I come to the conclusion that what the Plain Dealer and many other Ohio media outlets saw as instability was a rare commodity in that state’s stilted politics: a principled determination to stand against entrenched power, even at great political expense. . . . ----------------------------------- One day a new entry will be made to the English dictionary, the word kucinich. It's meaning will be: To be neither corruptible nor subject to intimidation. Most of our politicians, national, state, and local, are sorely lacking in kucinich -- and this is precisely why he is so deeply and unjustifiably resented by so many of them.  |
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