Dennis Kucinich
Dennis Kucinich is running in the Democratic primary for governor of Ohio in 2018. Kucinich was elected to Congress in 1996. He previously served as a member of the city council and as mayor in Cleveland, the city where he was born in 1946. He earned bachelor's and master's degrees from Case Western University. He has been married since 2005 to Elizabeth Harper. He was married twice before and has one child. He withdrew from the presidential race on Jan. 25, 2008.
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Says of disclosing his $20,000 speech about Syria, "there was no hiding. I released it."
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The default rate for college students has grown from 40 percent 10 years ago to about 50 percent today, and "perhaps as many as 800,000…
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Says Richard Cordray directed an Ohio commission to "permit an armed group to have a rally on the statehouse grounds, even taking the extraordinary step…
"Fourteen million Americans' mortgages are greater than the value of their homes."
Says the tax code is effectively subsidizing "the marketing efforts of fast food and junk food companies by as much as $19 billion over 10…
"The top 10 most well-paid CEOs in America received a combined $770 million in 2010, while the average American worker’s wage rose just 2 percent."
"About 57 percent of registered Democrats in the new (9th Congressional) district come from my old district."
"The Fed created $1.2 trillion out of nothing, gave it to banks, and some of them foreign banks, so that they could stabilize their operations."
Says that in 2009 ExxonMobil "paid no federal income taxes, received a $156 million rebate."
"Social Security didn’t cause the debt crisis. Social Security had nothing to do with the debt crisis."