Reports from the campaign trail, November 3
From Melinda Arons:
Kucinich attends Natural Law Party event (once OSU game ends)
Nov. 3 — Congressman Kucinich spent the weekend in his comfort zones of Ohio and California, two of the places he's called home, surrounded by dedicated supporters.
Saturday night Kucinich attended an Ohio Natural Law Party fundraiser in his honor, arriving late because he couldn't tear himself away from the Ohio State student union, where students were watching the Buckeyes beat Penn State by one point in the game's last minutes. The fundraiser had the feel of a spiritual retreat (complete with the relaxing music one might hear while enjoying a seaweed wrap at the spa) trapped in the setting of an insurance convention.
In a cavernous Columbus Convention Center conference room, party founder John Hagelin and others lauded Kucinich for being "the leading light of natural law in politics at this time." An outsider trying to determine what exactly Natural Law members stand for would have been hard-pressed to understand Hagelin, a quantum physicist who likes to draw parallels between scientific principles and politics, but the gist lies in Hagelin's belief in "holistic unity," the idea that we are all one, that all conflicts can be solved in non-violent ways, and that "we can quell violence and terrorism through fields of meditation."
The information booths outside the conference room bespoke the so-called "new age" thinking Kucinich is often criticized for espousing, and included a booth denouncing "The Seeds of Deception: Genetically Engineered Foods," two shoeless Asian women performing Falun Dafa (a form of Tai Chi), and a bookstand selling such titles as "The Wicca Prayer Book," "The Wisdom of Trees" and "Oracle of the Goddess," among others.
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