For Immediate Release

CLEVELAND - - Sept. 11(Thurs.) In a major political development with national implications, the Plain Dealer, Ohio’s Largest Daily newspaper, today endorsed independent candidate for Congress, Dennis J. Kucinich, in Ohio’s 7th district.  If Kucinich wins he will likely be the only independent elected to the House of Representatives, in a closely divided Congress.
 

In its endorsement interview, the Plain Dealer quotes Kucinich, the former Mayor of Cleveland, who served 16 years in the House as a member of the Democratic Party: “Is it possible we could have a 217 Republican - 217 Democrat split, with one independent being the deciding vote and that independent being me?  That’s possible, and I would then use that seat to the benefit of the people of the 7th District….”
 

Kucinich, who twice sought the Democratic nomination for President, was gerrymandered out of Congress in 2012, by state Democrats, over his strenuous opposition to the Obama Administration’s war against Libya, a war which President Obama himself came to regret. In 2012, Kucinich’s district was dismantled and a fragment of it was attached to the district  over 100 miles west, in Toledo, Ohio. 

Kucinich has said that if elected he will caucus with both parties.He thanked the Plain Dealer for “considering the totality of my public service in their endorsement.  I am very grateful.”

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