Kucinich's brother running in neighboring congressional district

http://www.cleveland.com/newsflash/cleveland/index.ssf?/base/news-23/1140564249315440.xml&storylist=cleveland

2/21/2006, 6:15 p.m. ET
By THOMAS J. SHEERAN
The Associated Press

CLEVELAND (AP) -

...Gary Kucinich, brother of Dennis Kucinich, the former "boy mayor" of Cleveland and current Democratic congressman, is running in the nine-way Democratic primary for the congressional seat being vacated by Sherrod Brown. Brown is seeking the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate.

Eight Republicans are running in the GOP primary.

Gary Kucinich, 55, who lives in Strongsville in the middle of a district that wraps around Cleveland's western and southern suburbs and past Akron, said Tuesday that he had discussed his campaign with his brother and won Dennis' endorsement. The district is to the west and south of the district that Dennis serves.

"I'm happy to have his support," said Gary Kucinich, a former elected Cleveland school board member and former Cleveland city councilman who works for a car dealership...

if he's anything like Dennis he's gotta be a great man. :)

Hope he wins...

and I have the 5th vote that will put it there!

http://www.cleveland.com/weblogs/openers/

War, peace and ethics

Gary Kucinich's son, a 19-year-old private in the Marine Corps, shipped out for Iraq Wednesday, but that hasn't affected the 55-year-old congressional candidate's sharp dislike for the war.

"Our sons and daughters are dying in a war based on lies," said Kucinich, a Democrat running for the 13th congressional district seat. "It's chaos there now. We don't belong there."

Kucinich, younger brother of Rep. Dennis Kucinich, said opposition to the war will be the cornerstone of his campaign. But he is also focused on Capri Cafaro, the Youngstown shopping mall heiress who many deem to be the front-runner for the Democratic nomination that Kucinich and many other candidates are seeking.

Kucinich said in an interview in a Strongsville coffee shop that Cafaro has integrity problems because of her connections to imprisoned former U.S. Rep. James Traficant. If Cafaro is the Democratic nominee, Kucinich said, the Republicans will hammer her on that issue in the general election...

:cry: Not to be anti-military but I hate to hear of these young men going to that hellish situation.

Go Gary!

I mean with a nine-way Dem primary and eight-way Rep primary. It seems like it could get a wee bit confusing.

Anyway, we do need another Kucinich in Congress so I wish him the best of luck!!