Following the campaign, September 10
From Karin Caifa:
WHERE’S DENNIS?
Thursday, September 11: Kucinich will be in Washington, where the House of Representatives will observe the 9/11 remembrance by considering two memorial-related bills. H.R. 911 would establish a memorial to U.S. terrorism victims at home and abroad. H.R. 1538 is the “True American Heroes Act of 2003.” The House is in at 10 a.m., last votes expected in the mid-afternoon.
POST-DEBATE DEBATE: THE VOUCHER VOTE
After the congressman missed last night’s close vote on D.C. school vouchers to attend the debate in Baltimore, congressional office press secretary Doug Gordon issued this statement:
“It is clear that Tom DeLay and the Republican Leadership deliberately scheduled the vote to conflict with the Congressional Black Caucus debate. DeLay knew it would be a close vote and used every tool at his disposal to manipulate the outcome. In an ever-more-partisan House, this is the exact win-at-all-cost techniques that DeLay and the House Republican Leadership use to ram their right-wing agenda through the House.
“The Congressman has long opposed school vouchers and will now work with his colleagues to strip this provision before the bill reaches the President’s desk.”
The amendment was just barely adopted, 209-208. Had Reps. Kucinich and Gephardt been present, the amendment could have been killed.
MORE ON THE ABORTION SWITCH
Another indication that Kucinich’s “evolved” view on abortion could spell trouble showed up in Wednesday’s Washington Times picking up on what a Des Moines Register piece touched on Sunday (see my 9/7 note.) On Tuesday, Doug Gordon told me that he doesn’t think it will affect either the congressman’s presidential or re-election bids.
CAIR POLL
A poll released Wednesday shows Kucinich polling at 11% among American Muslim respondents. The poll, conducted by the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) in August ranked Kucinich second among the Democratic presidential candidates, behind Howard Dean (26 percent.)
Kucinich is a confirmed speaker at the CAIR Southern California Annual Banquet in Los Angeles on October 4.
2 percent of the 644 Muslims polled said they would vote to re-elect President Bush.
I GUESS HE’S BUSY
Kucinich has not made an entry to his campaign blog since August 16.
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