Election: Kucinich: the Most Unreported Story of 2004
WASHINGTON – The most underreported story of the 2004 election is the never-give-up, never-give-in campaign of Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) for president. With considerable grassroots support, the Ohio lawmaker has carried his message of world peace, jobs, equality and universal health care across the country. He has done it in the face of a near-total corporate media blackout
Kucinich, campaigning in California, launched the “Other America Tour” from the impoverished Sunnydale public housing complex in San Francisco. “I’m from the other America,” he said, noting that he grew up poor and sometimes homeless in Cleveland, Ohio.
An impressive 15 percent of Maine voters and 8 percent of Washington state voters came out for Kucinich in the Feb. 10 “mini-Super Tuesday” primaries. He also placed second in Hawaii’s Feb. 24 primary.
Sharon Gradischnig, head of the Kucinich campaign in southwest Iowa, is a native Iowan. She told this reporter she was drawn to Kucinich in part because his election could change her own life.
“I pay $637 a month for health insurance so even when I qualify for Medicare, I will need to keep working to provide myself with supplementary health coverage and prescription drugs,” she told the World. “One of Dennis’ billboards up the street says it all: ‘Health care not warfare.’ He is the only candidate advocating universal single-payer health care.”
She said, “This is the voters’ opportunity to tell the nation and the world exactly what kind of nation and world we want. We are a banner for change, for a world that is safe for people here at home and around the world.”
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