Reporter Robert Higgs suggested that Kucinich seemed more oriented toward state issues than local ones. (And running for Governor might be more logistically manageable, as the statewide race is next year; the city’s is this year.)
Though there might be an opening in the Mayor’s race — Cleveland.com editor Chris Quinn has suggested that Kucinich would probably control the city’s west side — Kucinich spoke in his meeting about important issues at the state level: cuts to local government funding, the for-profit charter school industry, algal blooms, health care.
When Scene asked Kucinch to address rumors of a mayoral run last week, he did not respond. But an email sent from an iPhone did say that “Mr. Kucinich’s home has always been Cleveland.” (Kucinich and his wife Elizabeth also run a consulting firm in Washington D.C.)
Higgs’ write-up of the Friday editorial meeting appeared in the Metro section of Sunday’s Plain Dealer. Alongside it was a piece by Mark Naymik. It said that Kucinich had finished a book about his brief, contentious tenure as Cleveland Mayor in the 1970s and his battle to save Cleveland’s municipal power plant, Muny Light.
That book, which Naymik reported will likely be published next year, has one of the most bomb-ass (working) titles in the annals of political memoir: “The Division of Light and Power.”
Like Mayor Frank Jackson and President Donald Trump, Kucinich is 70 years old.
This article appears in May 24-30, 2017.
There are serious issues confronting the city — and the mayoral race is heading towards complete buffoonery.
Seriously? I thought we were finally done with this guy. ****.
Look at Dennis Kucinich coming out of nowhere… I honestly thought he died a few years back.