Dennis Kucinich

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Biography

American politician. Kucinich was elected to the Cleveland City council at age 23. In 1977, at age 31, he was elected mayor of Cleveland, at the time the youngest person to be elected head of a major U.S. city. He lost his re-election bid in 1979 when the banks in Cleveland forced the city to default on its loans after Kucinich refused, on principle, to sell the city's municipally-owned electric company to a private competitor.

Fifteen years later, in 1992, he re-entered politics, running for a seat in the Ohio Senate. The “crazy” stance he took against selling the electric company had turned out in hindsight to be a smart move. Taking the light bulb as the symbol for his Senate campaign, he won the election. In 1998, the Cleveland City Council honored him for his "courage and foresight" in not selling the electric system. In 1996, he won his bid for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives with a promise to "light up Congress." Chair of the House’s Progressive Caucus, he announced his candidacy for the Democratic presidential primary on February 17, 2003. His grassroots campaign is established on the progressive principles which he holds dear. Considered a dark horse by many political analysts, Kucinich doesn’t appear to be fazed by his positioning. Rather, volunteers passed out flyers at theaters showing the movie “Seabiscuit,” proclaiming “Long shots do win!” He promises to make non-violence an “organizing principle” by establishing a Department of Peace, to promote and fund universal health care and adequate education for all and to safeguard the environment. Among his supporters are Ralph Nader and Willie Nelson.

The eldest of seven children, he and his family lived in 21 places by the time he was 17 years old, including, he remembers, a couple of cars. He graduated from Case Western Reserve University with a BA and MA in 1973. Kucinich married Sandra Lee McCarthy on January 15, 1977 and they have one daughter; they divorced in August 1986. A vegetarian because he values the sacredness of life, he says, "I live each day with a grateful heart and a desire to be of service to humanity."

For More Information on the Web:

• Interview about Cultural Creatives
  http://www.alternativesmagazine.com/18/ray.html
• Kucinich on the issue vs. the other Democratic candidates
  http://www.kucinich.us/whichway.htm
• The official campaign site.
  http://www.kucinich.us/
• Kucinich on the issues:
  http://kucinich.us/issues/issue_10key.htm
• NPR profile: (For audio and print transcript of an interview with Dennis Kucinich)
  http://www.npr.org/programs/specials/democrats2004/kucinich.html
• For one pundit’s analysis of buzz words by politician (audio file) http://www.npr.org/programs/day/features/2003/jul/buzzwords/

Quotes:

• "We have a duty to assert our human needs as a people and not to yield them for the base concerns of an unresponsive government: We have a right to a job. We have a right to decent housing. We have a right to health care. We have a right to food fit to eat, air fit to breathe and water fit to drink. Peace is a civil right which makes other human rights possible. Peace is the precondition for our existence. Peace permits our continued existence."
• "Poverty is a weapon of mass destruction. Homelessness is a weapon of mass destruction. Lack of adequate education is a weapon of mass destruction."

What Do You Think?

1. What makes this guy willing to enter the world of politics - a world which regularly dismisses and disdains heart- centered values?
2. Can one read Progressive politics in a chart?
3. If you were his campaign advisor, which aspects of his chart would you counsel him to put to full use. Hint: he has four planets in Scorpio, a stellium in the 7th, and a tight Saturn, Pluto, Mars configuration.

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