{"id":110,"date":"2020-01-13T20:01:21","date_gmt":"2020-01-13T20:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/powertothepublic.org\/?p=110"},"modified":"2026-01-17T18:25:21","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T18:25:21","slug":"state-of-the-public-power-dennis-kucinich-and-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/powertothepublic.org\/index.php\/2020\/01\/13\/state-of-the-public-power-dennis-kucinich-and-friends\/","title":{"rendered":"State of the Public Power! Dennis Kucinich and friends!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Dennis Kucinich speaks at the Thurston Public Power Initiative launch on February 4th, 7pm, at the Olympia Community Center!<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<form action=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/cgi-bin\/webscr\" method=\"post\" target=\"_top\">\n<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"cmd\" value=\"_s-xclick\">\n<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"hosted_button_id\" value=\"MEX33C5PM785Y\">\n<input type=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.paypalobjects.com\/en_US\/i\/btn\/btn_donateCC_LG.gif\" border=\"0\" name=\"submit\" title=\"PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online!\" alt=\"Donate with PayPal button\">\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.paypal.com\/en_US\/i\/scr\/pixel.gif?resize=1%2C1&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\">\n<\/form>\n\n\n\n<p>Former US Representative Dennis Kucinich will be pumping up the crowds with his characteristic passion <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/593455908160934\/\">launching our Thurston Public Power Initiative. <\/a>Kucinich got his start in politics fighting and winning a battle to keep public the Cleveland municipal electric company which was on the verge of being privatized during the early onslaught of neoliberal vulture capitalism. He has been a passionate expert on protecting public utilities and fighting a system that works to benefit the few rather than the many. Kucinich is known for his passionate belief in nonviolence, running his 2004 campaign for President to end the war in Iraq. His leadership is needed more today than ever! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Join Kucinich and friends as we demand Power to the Public and the submission of this foreign owned monopoly Puget Sound Energy to the people\u2019s will! Come join in this battle for control of our electric utility. It&#8217;s time to defeat PSE&#8217;s band of corporate lawyers and foreign financiers that drain away our shared wealth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We&#8217;re fighting them in an election rigged by unlimited corporate money. PSE will spend millions of dollars of the rate payers money in bribing politicians, bribing news media and creating fake citizen groups to sew endless propaganda to scare the people into not voting for their own interests. We need a huge movement of the public to courageously fight them! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is a great alternative to Trump\u2019s State of the Union Speech! Come and be inspired! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Who is Dennis Kucinich?<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>\nDennis J. Kucinich is an\nindependent, iconoclastic thinker who has charted a singular approach\nthrough  the jungle of American politics, continually upending the\nstatus quo, not a path to sure success, but one which today\nidentifies him as having been \u201cahead of his time\u201d (Rolling Stone\n1\/9\/2020) and \u201cthe future of politics\u201d (Washington Post Magazine\n4\/9\/18).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Elected\nto City Council at the age of 23, he challenged Cleveland\u2019s\npowerful downtown business interests and demanded city neighborhoods\nbe given priority in city planning and spending.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He\nled the way in exposing wasteful spending on white elephant projects\nin Cleveland such as a jetport in Lake Erie, a people mover in\ndowntown Cleveland, floating hotels and a jai alai fronton.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He\nwas best known as America\u2019s youngest big-city Mayor, at age 31,\nKucinich was elected on a promise to overturn the sale of the city\u2019s\nmunicipal electric system.  He canceled the sale when he took office.\n In 1978 Cleveland\u2019s banking community attempted to force Kucinich\nto sell the utility, refusing to renew the city\u2019s credit unless he\napproved the sale.  The banks plunged the city into a fiscal default\nwhen Kucinich resisted.  \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\nlater was revealed that the lead bank was a business partner of the\nprivate utility which would have been handed a monopoly through the\nsale.  Kucinich withstood tremendous pressure, assassination\nattempts, condemnation by corporate media and still refused to sell. \n \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He\nlost the next election, sacrificing the mayor\u2019s office because of\nthe controversial default.  He failed to regain major public office\nfor 15 years, until he was elected to the Ohio State Senate in 1994. \n(His battle on behalf of \u201cMuny Light\u201d is the subject of an 800\npage book due to be released next year.)  Two years later Kucinich\nwas elected to the US House of Representatives, representing the\nCleveland area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In\n1998, the Cleveland City Council honored Kucinich for having \u201cthe\ncourage and foresight\u201d to refuse to sell the municipal electric\nsystem, a decision which has saved Clevelanders hundreds of millions\nof dollars in utility charges and taxes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In\nCongress, Kucinich quickly earned a reputation defying his party\u2019s\nleadership by organizing an effort to deny President Clinton\nauthority to continue to bomb Serbia.  In time Kucinich would emerge\nas the conscience of the Congress, relentlessly leading efforts\nagainst war, the threat of war, intervention or occupation in Serbia,\nIraq, Iran Libya, Syria. His research in opposition to the Iraq War\nled him to submit Articles of Impeachment against President George W.\nBush and Vice President Richard Cheney.  \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He\nis the author of legislation to create a cabinet-level US Department\nof Peace, to place peace-building as a central function of domestic\nand international policy.  His efforts on behalf of peace, his\nseeking out and meeting world leaders in conflict areas, earned him\nnumerous awards, including the Gandhi Peace Award.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A\nstaunch civil rights advocate, Kucinich carried the legislative fight\nagainst the Patriot Act, \u201cbecause I read it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In\n2006, he and Congressman John Conyers, then-top Democrat on the House\nJudiciary Committee,  introduced and organized for HR676, the\nConyers-Kucinich National Health Insurance Act.  This prompted a\nnational debate which ensues to this day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kucinich,\nwho represented a blue-collar, working class district in Cleveland\nunderstood the shortcomings of US trade policies and was a leader in\nattempts to place workers\u2019 rights, human rights and environmental\nquality principles in all trade agreements.  He attempted to defeat\nthe China Trade deal, and tried to overturn NAFTA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kucinich\u2019s\nleadership against war, for peace, for health care for all and for\nfair trade led him to seek the Democratic nomination for President in\nboth 2004 and 2008.  \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He\nserved 16 years in Congress, including a stint as chair of the\nDomestic Policy subcommittee of the House Committee on Government\nOversight, where he investigated the subprime meltdown and the\n2007-2008 financial collapse.  He opposed the bailout of the banks\nand sought administrative policies which would help protect\nhomeownership.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\nKucinich is pursuing several\nwriting projects, including the re-release of Courage\nto Survive, a\nchildhood memoir of the life of a large family struggling to make it\nin Cleveland\u2019s inner city; A\nTime for Peace, a\nrecounting of his career-long exploration of the nature of war, the\ntragedy of American interventionism, paths toward conflict\nresolution, and the necessity of making peace-building a permanent\nfunction of government;  The\nCleveland Diet,\nKucinich\u2019s health struggles and his exploration of veganism, which\nbegan 25 years ago; and The\nDivision of Light and Power,\nthe epic, successful fight to save public power in Cleveland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He\nand his wife, Professor Elizabeth Kucinich, a native of London\nEngland, travel between home in Cleveland and Washington, DC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mrs.\nKucinich is an internationally known for her championing of \nregenerative agriculture, land restoration and protection of the\nenvironment. 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