Saturday, March 13, 2004

Kucinich Still Wants To Influence Dems' Platform


Saturday, March 13, 2004, 6:30 p.m.

By Bob Roberts
WBBM Newsradio 780

(Chicago) -- Although John Kerry appears to have sewn up the Democratic presidential nomination, don't tell that to Dennis Kucinich, who is campaigning across Illinois until Tuesday's primary.

Kucinich tells voters he's not worried so much about attracting delegates as he is influencing the Democratic platform.

"While the nomination may be a foregone conclusion, what we stand for as a Democratic Party is not a foregone conclusion," Kucinich said.

In a highly-charged speech Saturday to the Rainbow-PUSH weekly forum, the Ohio congressman said he has "dragons to slay" and issues to present.

"I could have helped George Bush find those weapons of mass destruction," Kucinich said. "He could have just come to the neighborhoods of any city in America. We could have helped him find the weapons of mass destruction because poverty is a weapon of mass destruction."

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