KUCINICH
AND PAUL LANDSLIDE TO VICTORY
Special
Election Report by the Creative Youth News Team
3/4/08
Supporters of Dennis Kucinich and Ron Paul are celebrating Kucinich's
and Paul's landslide victories over their primary
challengers tonight. Both trounced highly financed challengers by
about a 2 to 1 margin.
Heavily financed by corporate donors, Republicans, conservative
Democrats and pro-war lobbyists, Joe Cimperman ran ads attacking
Kucinich with falsehoods that appeared to have no basis in
reality. Cimperman's hope was that the viewers would not check
the facts. Viewers did and Cimperman was repeatedly called a liar
and a fraud by the viewing public and honest reviewers. Kucinich
received no support from Democratic Party insiders, who were upset that
he had filed Articles of Impeachment against Dick Cheney and that he
had called for immediate withdrawal from Iraq. There have been
stories in the press that Speaker Nancy Pelosi was working to defeat
Kucinich in retaliation for his refusal to knuckle under to AIPAC, the
lobby of the pro-war Likud Party in Israel. AIPAC has heavily funded
Speaker Pelosi.
In this election cycle, Democratic insiders are the ones in danger of
losing their seat from an unhappy electorate. Corporate-backed
Pelosi is expected to lose in November to challenger Cindy
Sheehan. It is seen by San Franciscans as a battle between David
(Cindy) and Goliath (Pelosi). Incumbent Albert Wynn recently
lost his primary to Donna Edwards. Americas are letting it be
known that they are tired of business as usual in Congress.
Republican Ron Paul has spoken up against his party's President.
The result was that he faced well-funded opposition from a challenger
in his own party. Like Kucinich, Paul found that he and his
supporters would have to fight without the assistance of his own
party. Both Joe Cimperman and Chris Pendant (Paul's challenger)
were city councilmen who received big corporate bucks and behind the
scenes support from party leaders. Kucinich and Paul have often
fought their respective parties in Congress in an attempt to end the
war in Iraq and prevent additional wars. Now, they had to fight
the money funneled by their parties, by the big corporations and by
the war lobbyists to retain their seats.
Anne, a San Clemente high school student and a supporter of both
Kucinich and Paul, commented, "Tonight the people defeated tyranny
within the political parties. Tonight was the people's victory.
Tomorrow we must go on to expand this victory." This seems
to sum up the victory and challenges felt by many celebrating the
victory
of their heroes tonight.
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