Why I'm voting for Kucinich tomorrow

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Subj: WHY I'M VOTING FOR KUCINICH in Tue Primary

3/1/04 3:19:12 PM Pacific Standard Time

marr (Marr Nealon)

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marr (Marr Nealon)

 

Please share this email!!!

 

official Kucinich site: http://www.kucinich.us <http://www.kucinich.us/>

read Dennis' platform: http://www.kucinich.us/issues

his inspiring Prayer for America speech:

http://www.kucinich.us/speechs/speech1.html

 

 

WHY I SUPPORT DENNIS KUCINICH FOR PRESIDENT by Marr Nealon

 

First of all, Dennis Kucinich is the most courageous person I have ever

met. He has

unjustly been dealing with ridicule and avoidance from members of the

press and

some of his peers, yet he perseveres. He speaks out boldly in Congress

and debates

and interviews, about how to right the wrong actions of this administration.

 

 

If all the people who say they love Dennis, but don't think he has a chance,

thus they're supporting someone else, would just GET behind their first

choice,

Dennis would be farther along!! It seems to me that we are soooooo

accustomed

to settling for a so-so candidate, soooo used to being a VICTIM of the

system, that

our brains can't compute there actually being a true public servant

running for

office!! Our hearts connect with him when we hear him speak or read one

of his

many motivating speechs, but then people say he's too short or has bad

hair or

doesn't have " the Presidential Look. "

 

 

To hear these things makes me embarrassed to be amongst such thinkers.

The shallow

Americans who are saying such things are not listening to Dennis

Kucinich with their

heart. When I hear him speak he feels ten feet tall to me. And I

wouldn't care if his

head were bald. And when I feel his passion for doing what is for the

good of the

people, his steadfast commitment to what is right, his compassion for

animals and the

environment---it makes me certain there couldn't be a better candidate

in every way.

He is a down to earth, real person, committed to his goals of making

this a functional

nation again--that makes him very appealing to those of us who value

character, not

just surface impressions.

 

 

The person I want as President has a quick brain, a huge heart and and

an amazing

soul. Name me one other politician who would have sacrificed his career

for the

good of the people as Dennis did in Cleveland many years ago, when he

did not let

the utilities get sold to Muny Light. NO ONE else ever has or would do

that!

 

 

I know it's shocking & so very hard to believe, but yes, we actually do

have a man

running who wants to cut the extremely blown out of proportion military

budget & put

it into a workable universal, not-for-profit health care plan & into

free K thru college

public education for all; who realizes that NAFTA & the WTO are sending

jobs overseas

& wants to abolish them; who knows that genetically modified foods are

not progress,

they are unhealthy for us & for the planet; who is co-chair of the

Progressive Caucus,

the largest caucus ever in Congress; who proposed the Dept. of Peace, to

resolve

international conflicts in a civilized manner without bloodshed; who is

committed

to advancing alternative energy sources, to reduce our dependency on

foreign oil;

who proposes an end to capital punishment at a time when we know that in

some

states the error rate is as high as 65%; and who proposes an end to

nuclear weapons

globally.

 

 

Dennis was the youngest mayor of Cleveland at age 30. He is now 57. He

has a strong

foothold in DC. It means a lot to me that he is an active, VOCAL part

of our government--

that he has hung in there within the system, with the beliefs that he

has---truly listening to

& working for his constituents, going after what is best for the world,

as well as the US,

regardless of his opposition. He has been the relentless voice on the

Congressional floor,

debating the concept of war for a year before 9-11, and now, saying get

the UN in, US out,

and---continuing to repeat the question: " Where are those WMD that we

were so definitively

told we'd find?? "

 

 

A representative who flat out will NOT take corporate bribe money is NOT

the norm

on the Hill. A former lobbyist friend of mine told me: " It's not

whether the reps can be

bought--it's a matter of for how much. " Kucinich is the rare exception

to this unwritten rule.

 

 

And the press tells the public he can't be a serious candidate because

he's got such low

funding. We're a nation that is concerned about the great divide

between the classes,

and the unfairness of the tax cuts, yet we hesitate to respect a

candidate who won't

take money from major corporations who he would then be beholding

to--who is a

friend of the working class American, always supporting their rights,

their benefits,

& fair treatment by their employers?

 

 

It is rather hard to swallow that we have a humble man running. Someone

who has

less in the bank than many of you reading this. Someone who did not get

into politics

for power & money--quite the opposite. I found that shocking, and

inspiring. He's in

this race to do what's right for the people of the country he loves.

 

 

I do not have children, yet I am deeply concerned about the future as

well as the present.

Those of you who are teens or college age, or who are the parents of

young people, you

have all the more reason to pay attention to what's happening to our

rights, to the national

debt, to the environment, to the financial climate. How can you not

make the time to be

involved in shaping the future??

 

 

We seem to be at a time of reassessment on this planet...visible thru a

resurgence of

protest marchs and internet campaigns. Bit by bit, people are

acknowledging the pain

they feel at having their lives & their planet taken advantage of.

 

 

For the first time in my voting life, a candidate has truly given me

hope that I could stop

looking down on our system. For the first time, we are all able to put

the words INTEGRITY

and POLITICIAN in the same sentence. Dennis breaks the mold. I do not

believe there will

be another candidate like him within our lifetimes. This is the moment

to seize. We can hold

our breath no longer. I am so incredibly proud to be voting this

Tuesday for the man who can

bring positive change to our future---DENNIS J. KUCINICH!!!!!!!!

 

--Marr Nealon marr <marr

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