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Originally Posted by SuperUberBob
Was he the one ****ing kids when he was a teacher? Or am I thinking of a different guy?
dont know anything about it. he was clevelands mayor in the late 70s and he was so liberal and so righteous that he pissed off just about every person on both sides which is about what you would expect since this is just another super corrupt city and it was proly way worse back then with the mob and all.
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After Kucinich refused to sell Cleveland Public Power, Cleveland's publicly owned electric utility, the Cleveland mafia put out a hit on Kucinich. A hit man from Maryland planned to shoot him in the head during the Columbus Day Parade, but the plot fell apart when Kucinich was hospitalized and missed the event. When the city fell into default shortly thereafter, the mafia leaders called off the contract killer.[19] Specifically, it was the Cleveland Trust Company that suddenly required all of the city's debts be paid in full, which forced the city into default, after news of Kucinich's refusal to sell the city utility. For years, these debts were routinely rolled over, pending future payment, until Kucinich's announcement was made public. In 1998 the Cleveland City Council honored him for having had the "courage and foresight" to stand up to the banks, which saved the city an estimated $195 million between 1985 and 1995.[20]
lol didnt even know about the mob hit.
he does have an insanely hot wife who is like 25yrs younger than him and like a foot taller. statuesque redhead. oddest couple ever.
anyway, after that he became a rep and won his district like every year until like 2012 when the republicans gerrymandered his district into another dems district and he lost.
heres my boring story about meeting him. I used to play poker at the so-called "charity" games around town. well there was a massive middle eastern festival on the west side. lots of iraqis and palestinian immigrants. mostly christian I think. they loved to gamble and and iirc there were 12 tables going. 2 15-30 full kill games. I was surprised bc the week before other regulars had made disparaging remarks about the upcoming "arab festival" . I got there a bit late and was buried on the waitlist with really no hope to get in the game which sucked bc these guys were the worst gamblers in the world and they were cash rich. they go on tilt, blow their money and then run to raid their gas station register and come back with a handful of crinkled dollars and 5s. lots of regulars that would follow the games around but this night had the guys who only showed up bc it was their festival.
really crazy atmosphere, hard to describe. just tons of ppl across a big lot and large interior space.
so I go to get a schwarma and Im about the only white guy around until I notice everyone clapping and dancing on the dance floor outside by the vendors. I see in the middle some old white guy dancing up a storm and dancing with all the women and children. it was kucinich. really funny sight, but you proly had to be there. this was proly 2004 or 2006 and I guess the political climate was better than it is now, but I remember a ton of anti-middle eastern and for lack of a better term anti-brown people sentiment. even tho these guys were christian, it not like there were many black or white ppl there and that section of town is really mixed and these game would rotate to churches and italian/greek/irish festivals and had tons of white regs.
so I thought it was pretty cool that he was there and that it was a bit of a risk given the climate and the animosity at the time.
now I see on his wiki that he has been a foxnews contributor and has said some things defending trump and I am kinda scared to look into it more bc I always liked the guy and he was virulently anti-bush and cheney and those guys were crooks that slaughtered millions of ppl for a lie that everyone knew about at the time.