Word: kucinich
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...brief police strikes, a wildcat walkout by municipal mechanics, 23 vetoes of city council legislation, continual scrambles to meet employee payrolls -it's been a tough nine months for Cleveland and Dennis Kucinich, 31, the nation's youngest big-city mayor. Last week it got tougher...
Cleveland had to decide whether or not to retain the mayor with the face of a clever schoolboy and the bite of a barracuda. The recall election was forced by Kucinich's enemies, who issued their challenge after he had fired popular Police Chief Richard Hongisto. Battling for his job, Kucinich claimed he was being hounded by "the bosses" because he fought for "the people." He won-barely. With fewer than half of the voters going to the polls, the mayor's strongholds among the white working-class ethnics, carried the day by 236 votes...
...Mayor Kucinich...
...hell with Cleveland's Mayor Dennis Kucinich's [April 10] alleged power abuses. Any mayor who has seen Star Wars six times deserves to be recalled, or at least have his comic books taken away from...
...pleased to see my fair city featured in TIME. Perhaps Mayor Kucinich realizes that Cleveland is only noticed when it provides incidents to reaffirm its status as a national joke...