About Dennis Kucinich
Dennis John Kucinich is an American politician. A U.S. Representative from Ohio from 1997 to 2013, he was also a candidate for the Democratic nomination for president of the United States in 2004 and 2008. He ran for governor of Ohio in the 2018 election, losing in the primary to Richard Cordray.
From 1977 to 1979, Kucinich served as the 53rd mayor of Cleveland, a tumultuous term in which he survived a recall election and was successful in a battle against selling the municipal electric utility before being defeated for reelection by George Voinovich.
Due to redistricting following the 2010 state elections, Ohio’s 10th congressional district was redrawn in southern Ohio. Kucinich faced Representative Marcy Kaptur in the 2012 race for the U.S. House, Ohio’s 9th congressional district has absorbed part of Cuyahoga County. Kaptur defeated Kucinich. In January 2013, he became a contributor on the Fox News Channel appearing on programs such as The O’Reilly Factor. In December 2020, Kucinich filed paperwork to run in the 2021 Cleveland mayoral election.
The Division of Light and Power
Private, investor-owned utilities in Texas, Ohio, California, Illinois, and elsewhere are crushing consumers with sky-high rates, price gouging, and criminal behavior.
The Division of Light and Power is the thoroughly documented, true story of one courageous American mayor who fought, and beat, a utility monopoly in an epic battle that involved corporate espionage and sabotage, bank co-conspirators, extortion, political corruption, organized crime, mob-directed assassination attempts, congressional investigations, and media cover-ups.
The “powers that be” tried to buy him, and when he couldn’t be bought, they tried to kill him. When that failed, the utility’s bank gave him a choice: Privatize the city’s electric system or the city would be thrown into default. The mayor said “no” to extortion, never gave in and saved over a billion dollars in assets for his city and its people.
Meet Mayor Dennis Kucinich of Cleveland, who fought to give power to the people. Battling his way up from the streets of the city, he and his family lived in twenty-one different places by the time he was seventeen, including a couple of cars. By the age of thirty-one, as America’s youngest big-city mayor, his stand to protect Cleveland’s Muny Light against a utility monopoly and its banking partner drew international attention and praise as “The outstanding public official in America,” an award presented by Bob Hope.
This is Mayor Dennis Kucinich’s story, but if you want to know why your utility rates are so high, it may be your city’s story, too.
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