Update: Kucinich Worried His District Will Be Eliminated
- Posted on December 29, 2010 at 10:51pm by
Meredith Jessup
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As we reported a week ago, congressional redistricting following the 2010 Census threatens to edge Rep. Dennis Kucinich, D-Ohio., out of Congress as population shifts shrink the Ohio House delegation.
At the time, Rep. Kucinich shrugged off questions about his future, saying, “I don’t have any control over this process, so I’m not going to worry about it.” But a report out Wednesday from CNN suggests the liberal congressman is taking action to protect his place in Congress.
In an e-mail to supporters Wednesday, the seven-term Democratic congressman and two-time presidential candidate says the Republican-controlled Ohio legislature is likely to eliminate his heavily Democratic Cleveland-area district.
But Kucinich says he’s not just going to stand by while that happens.
“I will not wait until a new Ohio map is produced to begin this crucial discussion of the consequences of congressional redistricting,” writes Kucinich. “I will not wait until the Ohio Legislature produces a new map to start thinking of the options. The question will not be: Who is my opponent? The question will be: Where is my district? Seriously.”
He’s also calling on supporters for ideas on how to proceed:
“We are going to have to prepare for a different kind of election, possibly in a different place because my district may be eliminated. We are going to have to organize in a different way, now. The question will remain: Where? This discussion is consequential. Please participate by providing your insight and advice.”
Kucinich also weighed in on the possibility of early retirement on Fox & Friends Tuesday:
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Comments (94)
timej31
Posted on December 30, 2010 at 1:00amI have been promised that it is history. Bye bye.
Report Post »scout n ambush
Posted on December 30, 2010 at 12:57amthese people should have term limits and only be in session at least 3 month’s out of the year less pay less damage less spending on stupid crap when they have to go back out and be a citizen again.
Report Post »New-American-Saviors
Posted on December 30, 2010 at 12:40amNo Loss- He’s the long standing rubber stamp /yes man/ say anything to please everybody and Got
NOTHING Done but reduced electricity rates for a small number of constituents from a Power Plant that is probably Un-Safe.
Go see your Doctor….. Kucinich and get some end of life counseling from your much supported Obama Care !
Report Post »roostercogburn
Posted on December 30, 2010 at 12:31amI wouldn’t worry about old Dennis, I am sure he stuffed his pockets and bank accounts full of case and won’t starve, would sure be nice to see him retire, just don’t like the fact that he will continue to live off the taxpayers with the big salary and free medical and free just about anything else for the rest of his life.
Report Post »Don’t let the door hit you in the backside on the way out..
drattastic
Posted on December 30, 2010 at 12:25amHey Dennis I got a great idea .Start looking for a job you friggin hack!
Report Post »bcullum1952
Posted on December 30, 2010 at 12:19amAverage budget PER House seat for staff and district offices is $1,500,000. There is no restriction on how they spend it. Plus franking, travel to and from their district, and miscellaneous other benefits.
And it is not a “Toilet Flushing Czar”, it is a Biological Detrius Czar!
Report Post »In-God-I-trust
Posted on December 30, 2010 at 12:15amHe will probably get a non existent job from the Obummer administration though probably and continue to be the menace he is.
Report Post »Carl1
Posted on December 30, 2010 at 12:05amDont worry, Obama needs a toilet flushing czar.
Report Post »jst1425
Posted on December 29, 2010 at 11:53pmHey Dennis…when you officially become a LOOSER…can I have first shot at your wife? She is hot…and she is only using you for your money anyway…Haaaaaaa…Looser!
Wifey pics; http://www.google.com/images?hl=en&expIds=17259,23756,24692,24878,24879,27400&sugexp=ldymls&xhr=t&q=dennis+kucinich's+wife&cp=17&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=univ&ei=1g8cTdLvA8WAlAf1o-T7Cw&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&ct=title&resnum=1&sqi=2&ved=0CCsQsAQwAA&biw=1024&bih=705
Report Post »Islesfordian
Posted on December 30, 2010 at 7:31amNo. She’s a true believer. Look at her bio. You’re better off with someone a lot less hot but a lot more sane.
Report Post »ataxia162
Posted on December 29, 2010 at 11:48pmThat will be one down. Here is a list of some of the others http://www.votethemouttoday.com/cpc.html
Report Post »cgbs6183
Posted on December 29, 2010 at 11:45pmI hardly ever agree with Kucinich on the issues. However, I am tiered of all this redistricting to suit parties. How about we just make a district that is contiguous and reasonable and not interfere with it.
Furthermore I will defend the character of Kucinich, as I feel many will see a Democrat go down here and think it’s all good. Republicans have not been much better anyway, remember that too. Unlike most in his party he actually has integrity and honesty, I just don’t agree with him. I honestly think, he think he thinks all this stuff will work. While at the same time I have seen him unafraid to stray from his party. Despite disagreeing with him he asks good questions and makes points that provoke you think more than the average Democrat. I especially like his stance against the Federal Reserve calling for an audit, just like Ron Paul has who is probably the most Constitutional representative in D.C.
So you see we can find points of commonality with all if we try hard enough. I stress I don‘t like his positions but I don’t like the partisanship of this redistricting will create, when the parties are the problem too. So I say let the People in Ohio decide, not a party that wants to redistrict people out of representation to service their will more than the people in the area voting. I would rather get people out by proving the invalidity of their arguments and convincing the plurality of the voters, not some redistricting game.
Report Post »RoBoTech
Posted on December 30, 2010 at 2:39amHey, is that the world’s smallest violin playing “my heart bleeds for you”?
Report Post »Nah.
Commonality? Whew, it’s too late for that. The ideology of this Country has went out to Uranus, and YOU find “commonality”?
It’s going to take 10-12 years of HARD LINE Conservatism just to bring it back to center. America will never be the same as before 2010 again.
And you find “commonality”?
OooooKaaaaay.
cgbs6183
Posted on December 30, 2010 at 8:26amWow Robotech, that was intelligent.
Report Post »sdemascio
Posted on December 30, 2010 at 8:37amlisten if you want to kiss this nutjobs rear do us a favor and do it ont he Ed Schultz website. he like the rest of the progressives need to be taken out of washington either by redistricting/elections, or byt the aliens that dropped them here. but he does marry well……
Report Post »cgbs6183
Posted on December 30, 2010 at 10:30amSo sdemascio; here in Kentucky the way Democrats have kept power at the state level is try and redistrict Republicans out of it. Is that right, do you like that? No I bet you don’t. However, now it seems okay for a party to abuse the Representative electoral process to get someone out of office we don’t agree with.
Did anyone even read what I said. I said, I don’t agree with him, but that he is not the worst and in fact one of the better at least when it comes to being a principled human being. And that there is one point of commonality and a very big one at that, and that is auditing the Federal Reserve, we are not going to get rid of them all. At least not in an election cycle or two or even 50 years, as Beck says this will probably take 100 years as that is how long it took them. We will need some of them to drag the others across that finish line on important issues. We want them to cross over to our side of the aisle not us to theirs.
That’s not called butt kissing, that’s called being realistic.
Would you rather not win an election without tricks like redistricting and win it on principle, the ability to advocate your position and point out the flaws in the oppositions argument. If not then maybe we are not better than the Democrats/Progressives and if that is the case then we are doomed.
Ed Schultz is a complete idiot BTW. I guess though anyone on this board that exercises any restraint in going all partisan hack crazy over stuff must be a left wing nut job and that Ed Shultz is the only person I could possibly identify with. Ain’t that a tactic of say Saul Alinsky…just demonize and degrade the opposition. Heck I am not even the opposition, I probably agree with you on many things, but my point of view on this particular subject matter is different and therefore must be made a mockery of instead of actually challenging the core issues of my post, which is stop the political gamesmanship and just represent.
You want to know my cred as a Conservative/Libertarian/Constitutionalists
Report Post »I am a Kentuckian and despite the Democrat Party control here we have a lot of Blue Dogs (which is why we are turning Red on the Federal Level.) I am a Republican. Guns and God since 1776 Baby.
cgbs6183
Posted on December 30, 2010 at 10:39amAlso might I add, I know because of the Census there has to be redistricting, in case anyone thinks I am ignorant of that fact. However this gerrymandering has to stop on both sides. Make the Districts contiguous and reasonable.
Report Post »Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on December 30, 2010 at 3:54pmCome on crybaby CGBS6183,
Report Post »You wouldn’t even be posting if it were a Republican, admit it.
cgbs6183
Posted on December 30, 2010 at 7:02pmAnon T. Nope I would be. I have lived in a state where every time you turn around the Democrats try and write the Republicans out of power somehow. I call a spade a spade though not matter who is doing it. Why don’t someone admit on this board that if it happened to a Republican they would not be happy one bit about the redistricting? This partisan BS has got to stop.
Crybaby…again no one willing to actually address the points I made, just another slander. Nice!
Report Post »cgbs6183
Posted on December 30, 2010 at 7:12pm“The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge natural to party dissention, which in different ages & countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism. The disorders & miseries, which result, gradually incline the minds of men to seek security & repose in the absolute power of an Individual: and sooner or later the chief of some prevailing faction more able or more fortunate than his competitors, turns this disposition to the purposes of his own elevation, on the ruins of Public Liberty.” — George Washington, September 19, 1796
Report Post »Chris
Posted on December 30, 2010 at 9:08pmI would like to see congressional districts required to be as close to simple rectangles as possible. The Voting Rights Act will put some constraints on the placement of districts, and geography will keep the districts from being strictly rectangular but eliminating the gerrymandering would be a step forward.
Than being said, Dennis can’t leave office fast enough for me. He has been an embarrassment to Cleveland politics since he was on Cleveland City Council in the 70s. Each recent congressional challenge gets a little closer to getting him out but if it takes the mismanagement of Cleveland and Cuyahoga County to encourage enough people to move out for him to lose his district than that is a happy side-effect if you ask me.
Report Post »cgbs6183
Posted on December 30, 2010 at 9:28pmFinally someone gets it. Thank You!
Report Post »M 4 Colt
Posted on December 29, 2010 at 11:42pmThis guy is another worthless spend and tax left wing den that wants to take our hard earned money and give it to people who wont work for it so i say GOODBYE, SO LONG, and if i ever hear for you again it will be TO SOON!!! What a loser
Report Post »walker1812
Posted on December 29, 2010 at 11:38pmListen Idiot. Do you know what redistribution of voting districts is? Come to our socialist state of Illinois. Look at what the liberals have done with their redistricting here. Dems can’t loses in this State ever but the taxpayers are paying out their butt for letting liberals taking control of our finances. Wake up America. Don’t become a bankrupt State as we are. We’re f”d. And… will be taxed to the kazoo. Move to Arizona.
Report Post »bak2basics
Posted on December 31, 2010 at 3:32pmI to am from Illinois, And when I tell you they started looking @ redistricting 2 days after the election I’m NOT kidding. We did toss more then a few Dems out or prevented them from entering office. Pat Quinn only won because of Chicago, the rest of the state did NOT vote for him. That says alot about what Illinoians wanted. Wish we could succeed from Chicago.
Report Post »bigdaddybernie
Posted on December 29, 2010 at 11:35pmThey’re opening a district in Texas for him………….maybe he’ll do better there.
Report Post »commonsenseguy
Posted on December 29, 2010 at 11:33pmsee ya later, and please let the door hit you in the but on the way out!!!!!
Report Post »one left wing commie down, and we will get the others too!!!
TheRealElvis
Posted on December 29, 2010 at 11:30pmWhat he’s really worried about is $174,000 a year. And all I can say is; it’s a start.
Report Post »MCFergy
Posted on December 29, 2010 at 11:29pmFinally, a way to get this dolt progressive out of office…
Report Post »Sunnyr
Posted on December 29, 2010 at 11:26pmHey Dennis, can you say TERM LIMITS? Go find a REAL job for a change, like the rest of us peons.
Report Post »annieoakley
Posted on December 29, 2010 at 11:22pmWe can only hope!
Report Post »Bill Wallace
Posted on December 29, 2010 at 11:21pmAh, the aliens are coming to take him home anyway. What does he care.
Report Post »82dAirborne
Posted on December 29, 2010 at 11:21pmEnough already! I urge all Blazers to NOT download this stuff.
Report Post »Sledgehammer
Posted on December 29, 2010 at 11:19pmMy heart is breaking for him, oh wait that’s just some gas! Never mind. Mean while our country is being eleminated!
Report Post »BoilitDown
Posted on December 29, 2010 at 11:19pmCongratulations go out to Ohio. That’ll be one for my 2011 Thanksgiving list.
Report Post »thepatriotdave
Posted on December 29, 2010 at 11:19pmNo, he’s worried about being eliminated!
Report Post »CatB
Posted on December 29, 2010 at 11:33pmKind of like the jobs the dems have killed.
Report Post »seeker9
Posted on December 29, 2010 at 11:57pmOne man‘s worry is another man’s hurrah!
Report Post »grandmaof5
Posted on December 30, 2010 at 3:10amHe might have to get a “real job, in the real world, standing next to the little people”, oh my.
Report Post »82dAirborne
Posted on December 29, 2010 at 11:17pmBye-bye Bi#$@
Report Post »TruePatroit
Posted on December 30, 2010 at 12:47amamen……LMAO just wait to see it…….sounds familiar
Report Post »joseph Fawcett
Posted on December 30, 2010 at 1:19amThat is what I say too, Bye, Bye! I use to live in Ohio and I am glad to see a change there on the state level to more republican. It was a conserative state when I lived there way back when. Hopefully the republicans are not progressives there and things can change for the better not only for Ohio, but for all the states. God only knows and I pray that He blesses us with his grace and mercy in our endevor to reclaim the United States as our founding fathers structured this country.
http://www.josephfawcettart.com western artist
Report Post »CYCLONE
Posted on December 30, 2010 at 3:49am….somebody, PLEASE, take my Congressman !!!!
Report Post »Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on December 30, 2010 at 3:49pmYAY! Voinobitch is gone! Now it’s time for this bastich to leave!
Report Post »Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on December 30, 2010 at 4:06pmYay! Voinobitch is FINALLY gone, now let’s get rid of more trash!
Report Post »C.C.D.
Posted on December 30, 2010 at 8:26pmI wish we could keep his wife though, lol Gold Digger
Report Post »Lunar
Posted on December 31, 2010 at 3:24amUhhh duuh, what did you think was going to happen. They were so dug in like ticks they had no idea the gravy train would end… They didn’t look ahead for things like this that were obvious. Now we just need to swing the senate further towards the people and truly end this communist hell.
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