Kucinich plans to push populism through June primaries
By Brian C. Mooney, Globe Staff | May 10, 2004
He has fewer than three dozen delegates, not a prayer of winning the nomination, but an unflagging will to campaign for issues he thinks will consolidate support from the Democratic Party's activist wing in November.
More than two months after Senator John F. Kerry essentially locked up the Democratic presidential nomination, Representative Dennis J. Kucinich is still out there, bouncing between rallies of liberal Democrats, his boyish energy still strong, his popularity still high in progressive communities across the country.
These days Kucinich can most often be found in Oregon, where a primary will be held May 18.
In the Pacific Northwest, the Ohio populist hopes voters will send a message to Democratic headquarters -- that the party needs "a new direction in Iraq and on trade."
No matter the outcome in Oregon, Kucinich vows to run through the last primaries, in New Jersey and Montana on June 8, and press his agenda at the Democratic National Convention in Boston in late July. His campaign announced that it will officially...(Full Story)
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