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Title: Dennis Kucinich: ‘Stay Tuned’ … ‘I’ll Probably Be Back in Elected Office’ (Dennis Kucinich/Tulsi Gabbard 2016)
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The Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity
URL Source: http://www.ronpaulinstitute.org/arc ... bly-be-back-in-elected-office/
Published: Dec 4, 2015
Author: Adam Dick
Post Date: 2015-12-04 22:14:51 by Hondo68
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Last year there was speculation that Dennis Kucinich would run for governor of Ohio, the state from which he served eight terms as a Democratic member of the US House of Representatives and in which he served previously as a state senator, Cleveland mayor, and Cleveland city council member. That governor run did not materialize. But, in a new interview with Truthdig Editor-In Chief Robert Scheer, Kucinich says he thinks he “will probably be back in elected office” in the future. “Stay tuned” is what Kucinich tells people wondering what he will do next.
Here is the interview exchange in which Kucinich addresses the prospect of a future run for political office: Scheer: Let me apologize, by the way. I love Cleveland, and—I do, I actually do. And my son Joshua, who is, as I said, producing the show, is a fanatical fan; the only thing we don’t like is that they won’t change the name of the baseball team. But what are your plans? Are you going to run for office again? Would you serve in government? What are you going to do?
Kucinich, a Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity Advisory Board member, also describes in the interview how he stood up against war and military build-up spending in the House:
Kucinich: Well, it’s been used before, but “I’ll be back.” [Laughs] And—
Scheer: But do you have any, I mean, could you see—I mean, well, Bernie Sanders could win; you’d probably go into that kind of administration.
Kucinich: Well, let me just say that I made a commitment a long time ago to be involved in public service. You can do that from inside or outside of political office; I don’t need an office to have an impact. But at some point, I think that I’ll probably be back in elected office. I don’t have any immediate plans, but you know, as I make my way around the Cleveland area and around Ohio, I have people who keep asking, well, when are you going next? And I just tell them, stay tuned.You know, when I first came to Congress I was in a congressional hearing where the Department of Defense had to ‘fess up that they had over one trillion, “t” for trillion, dollars in accounts they could not reconcile. There was at that point over 1187 different accounting systems deliberately obfuscating how the money’s spent. Once I had that, Bob, I didn’t vote for a single appropriation for these wars or for the military build-ups. Throughout my entire career, not once did I go along with this, because I knew how the money’s being blown and wasted; and it ends up being, as a fellow by the name of Smedley Butler once said, a racket; “war is a racket.”
Listen to, and read a transcript of, Kucinich’s interview here.
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#1. To: hondo68 (#0)
Didn't he bankrupt Cleveland? Does he want to do the same with the state?
No that's technically impossible, since he's from the Austrian School of Economics. He's on the board of the Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity. He prevented the D&R Mafia from taking over the Cleveland Electric Company. The Maryland (Spiro Agnew) hit man failed, and Kucinich received an award. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Kucinich#Cleveland_mayoralty In the aftermath of the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008, Kucinich called for the Federal Reserve System to be put under control of U.S. Treasury.[105] Additionally, he advocated that banks no longer be allowed to create money, putting an end to fractional-reserve banking.[106] He cites Stephen Zarlenga as the initiator of that proposal.
#2. To: redleghunter, sound money, end the FED (#1)
Didn't he bankrupt Cleveland?
In 1998 the Cleveland City Council honored him for having had the "courage and foresight" to stand up to the banks, which saved the city an estimated $195 million between 1985 and 1995.
Monetary reform
"We (government) need to do a lot less, a lot sooner" ~Ron Paul
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