The Dennis! vs. Kaptur race has become less tender and friendly in recent days, which is to say that each campaign has resorted to shit-slinging.

The general feeling is that Dennis! is doomed to lose. That will upset us and our keyboard greatly: we really have no need to use exclamation points except when writing about him.

Anyway, here’s a shot by Steve Wainstead from 1986 of a guy wearing a shirt that reads “Dennis Kucinich is Still God.” Maybe this fella can dig out the shirt again after Dennis! loses.

(Via here)

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This article appears in Feb 22-28, 2012.

Vince Grzegorek has been with Scene since 2007 and editor-in-chief since 2012. He previously worked at Discount Drug Mart and Texas Roadhouse.

13 replies on “Pic of the Day: ‘Dennis Kucinich is Still God’”

  2. As a former strong supporter and campaign worker for Congressman Dennis
    Kucinich I must state why I am no longer supporting him and why I am
    supporting Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur.

    I worked on the 1994 Kucinich State Senate campaign against Anthony Sinagra
    and the 1996 Kucinich Congressional campaign against Martin Hoke. During
    those campaigns I came to know Dennis quite well. I had just completed a
    run for Cleveland City council in Slavic Village and wanted to continue in
    politics. In fact, I still hold the record for most yard signs placed
    during a State Senate campaign.

    What concerned me then and concerns me now is why Kucinich failed as Mayor
    of Cleveland and still fails to succeed as a Congressman. The only common
    denominator is his lack of people skills. He does not now {nor did he then}
    have the critical ability to communicate properly with constituents, fellow
    lawmakers and the media in general. Some politicians are able to “re-make”
    themselves. Sadly, Kucinich has chosen not to and look what this has
    resulted in for the previous 10th Congressional District.

    On the other hand, Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur reminds me of the type of
    congressperson we desperately need during these troubling economic times.
    She truly cares about her constituents. From the moment you meet her you
    can’t help but be struck by her well-honed people skills. She has
    utilized these skills very effectively and look at the difference it has
    made in Toledo and the surrounding area. On Tuesday, March 6, please
    support Marcy Kaptur for Congress and help give the new 9th Congressional
    district a start on the right track.

  5. Steve Waintstead, who took that photograph, fled Cleveland shortly after finishing his education. Like so many before him (Cleveland has lost more population in recent years than any city that wasn’t hit by Hurricane Katrina). And who can blame him? Politicians like Dennis Kucinich ran Cleveland into the ground and made it one of the most impoverished, violent, and depopulating cities in the entire industrialized world. Way to go!

  6. Cleveland isn’t even close to being “one of the most impoverished, violent, and depopulating cities in the entire industrialized world.” What in the hell are you smoking?

  7. KEEP IT UP AND KEEP IT CLEAN. BUY THE WAY DID THAT RAG OF A NEWSPAPER DO IT AGAIN. INSTEAD OF REPORTING THE NEWS AND ACURATE INFORMATION IT IS TRYING TO BUY VOTES FOR THEIR CHOICE LIKE THE DID FOR KO SICK. REPORT AND GIVE INFORMATION BE AN ETHICAL MEDIA BUSINESS AND KEEP YOUR NOSE OUT OF THE POLLING BOOTH the plane dealer.

  8. This is singer Jello Biafra of the Dead Kennedys performing at the Variety Theater; the year is correct, and thanks for the photo attribution (I did take this photo).

    I wouldn’t say I “fled” Cleveland so much as saw the chance to live somewhere else for a while, and that “while” has turned into fourteen years (minus Oct 2010 – June 2011, when I lived in downtown Cleveland). Don’t count me out yet, as I may still return!

    Cleveland has a hell of a lot going for it. In my trips home in the last few years I’ve been really impressed by the growth of areas like Ohio City while equally dismayed by projects like the Medical Mart and the casino.

    And cheer up: you all live next to one fifth of the world’s available surface fresh water. That’s worth more than all the oil in the earth. Protect it.

  9. US census data: Cuyahoga County lost approximately 136,500 residents from 1990 to 2010. Thats approximately 9.7% of the county population. Cleveland lost over 10% of its population during the same period. To give you an idea of what 9.7% equates to, its equal to the populations of Parma, Parma Heights, Brooklyn, Seven Hills and Independence COMBINED!!!

    Now practically all of the major political positions within the the county and Cleveland were held by democrats. The last 20 years were an average of prosperous times and lean times. What has the democrat party leadership accomplished, besides the ability to get the voters to change the style of county government and feed the Plain Dealer with political corruption headlines?

    Lets look at what this one party control has accomplished:
    1) A 9.7% county population loss over 2 decades.
    2) The highest sales tax rate (7.75%) of all of Ohio’s 88 counties. At least 1.0% more than Franklin County (Columbus) and 1.25% more than Hamilton County (Cincy).
    3) Business losses to the point that there are now only 5 Fortune 500 Companies in the county.
    4) 26,000 vacant homes in the county. Housing prices in Cleveland have dropped 50% since 2005.
    5) Over 30 politicians / public employees across the county affiliated with the democrat political party implicated by the Federal Government, including 2 judges, a commissioner, an auditor, county sheriff, school officials, and others whose names appeared in the Dimora case that have been convicted and others that have yet to be implicated. Lets not forget a county prosecutor that liked to trade jobs with other political offices for relaitves and friends.
    6) The Cleveland Public School system that is ranked as one of the top ten worst…NATIONALLY.

    Thats what one party control gets you. Are YOU proud? Dennis had since 1996 (a 16 year span) to address some of the issues I’ve mentioned. But no, twice he ran around trying to get elected president with 1% of the democrat party vote. Not the US voter count, just 1% of the democrat voter count.

    The guy needs to ride off quietly into the sunset.

  10. I am positive every election people from California move to Cleveland and register to vote just so they may vote for Dennis the Menace and keep him a Country away from themselves at home.

  11. I fled Ohio. Just in moving to Indiana I essentially saved myself one year of work for every 9.5, just on the difference in taxes. One year of my life! It isn’t just Cleveland and Cuyahoga County, it’s Ohio too. Roll them all up together and it’s a tremendous savings just to leave.

    These governments severely overvalue their services, and severely underappreciate that the more anyone makes, the more they preserve in leaving. Ohio, Cuyahoga, and Cleveland compete very poorly on this front. Unless this gets fixed, I would never come back, even if global warming turned Lake Erie into Miami Beach.

    I go back to Cleveland about every 6 weeks or so to visit family and I am not impressed at all. It’s heartbreaking. Every time somebody does something constructive- like the revitalization of the Collinwood arts scene- dummy politicians come in with some taxes to help kill it, like the admissions tax the Beachland is struggling with. It’s idiocy.

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