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...Dennis Kucinich, 32, Cleveland's boyish, impetuous mayor, was angrier than usual. "This is the politics of insanity!" he shouted at the city council in his high-pitched voice. "You participated in the murder of the city...
...million in notes came due, the city admitted it was unable to pay. Cleveland Trust Co. was the first to demand its cash. "We should put Cleveland Trust to the test and see if it is willing to destroy the city," cried Kucinich. The council refused to accept Kucinich's plan for a citywide vote on raising the city income tax from 1% to 1%%, unless the mayor would agree to raise still more money by selling the debt-ridden Municipal Light Plant to the private Cleveland Electric Illuminating Co. "I will not be blackmailed," insisted Kucinich. "When Jesus Christ...
...city's underlying fiscal problems started well before Kucinich, who was elected a year ago and barely survived a recall election last August. Cleveland officials had long been borrowing from one special fund to pay off the obligations of another, so no one was sure how large the debt really was. Kucinich compounded the problem with more book juggling. Whatever the amount, Kucinich's plan, explained in prime-time TV last week, would only have been a short-term delaying action. Yet he made it sound deceptively tempting, claiming that suburbanites would actually...
...stave off default. As failure seemed imminent, Forbes offered a soothing prediction: "Come Saturday morning, the sun is going to shine, or it is going to snow." But as the city's credit rating plummets and outright bankruptcy looms, drastic cutbacks in all city services seem inevitable. Or, as Kucinich so aptly put it when a midnight deadline passed: "There will be six months of chaos for this one night of shame...
Another source of continuing conflict has been the mayor's relations with the city council. Black Council President George Forbes is one of Kucinich's chief opponents. Now Forbes, along with the five other council members, four of whom are black, has been indicted on charges of accepting kickbacks from local carnival owners in exchange for city permits to operate. Forbes admits taking $4,000 from them but maintains that he gave the money to charity. Fearing that the indictment might inflame racial tensions in the city, white political leaders and businessmen quickly rallied behind Forbes and began...