Word: kucinich
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...question is, will Cleveland? Kucinich has been boycotting meetings of the city council, which has feuded with him so bitterly that the council president once ordered the mayor's microphone disconnected. Although Cleveland is one of the largest centers of corporate headquarters...
...Kucinich has alienated business by accusing bankers of precipitating the city's credit crisis and by opposing tax abatements to companies that have proposed major downtown developments. The recall fight also aggravated longstanding racial problems. Kucinich supporters inflamed black leaders by distributing pictures of black City Council President George Forbes in white neighborhoods and saying that he would be the next mayor if they didn't vote for Kucinich...
Says Cuyahoga County Democratic Chairman Timothy Hagen: "This city is on the verge of a nervous breakdown." The bad situation, which Kucinich inherited, is deteriorating. Some symptoms...
...Because of his stance against Big Business, Kucinich refuses to let the city sell the municipal power company-known as Muny Light-as planned by the previous administration. The struggling utility owes $17.5 million to Cleveland Electric Illuminating Co., a private firm, and is under court order to pay $14.9 million by the end of the year...
...enough, but Cleveland's biggest crisis may be one of leadership. "It is my challenge to convert my critics," said Kucinich after beating the recall. That's a large order, since leaders of the Republican Party, of his own Democratic Party and of the black community, as well as 24 out of 33 city councilmen, the Teamsters Union and the Cleveland A.F.L.C.I.O., called for Kucinich's removal. The mayor has hinted that he will make changes in his brash young staff and will also start acting more conciliatory. Preaches he: "Let us work to achieve...