Sunday, May 16, 2004

Kucinich makes Boone stop
04/07/2004 By Scott Nicholson

U.S. Representative of Ohio and Democratic presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich, in a Boone campaign stop Saturday, made a point of admitting that Sen. John Kerry already had his party’s nomination locked up.

“Look, I can count,” he said, referring to the primaries and delegates that have assured Kerry of the Democratic spot on the general election ballot. “The nomination’s assured but the direction of the country is not, nor is the definition of what the Democratic Party stands for.”

Kucinich’s speech at Appalachian State’s Rosen Hall received enthusiastic reception from an audience of several hundred. He had made an earlier stop at the Hospitality House in Boone.

Kucinich’s message was a mixture of optimism and challenge, and though he made no apologies for his liberal views, he also urged understanding of...(Full Story)

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