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War is a Crime<\/a> blogger David Swanson recommends that the election that we should be watching is the congressional district nine race pitting Democratic incumbents Dennis Kucinich and Marcy Kaptur.\u00a0 For those of us in this congressional district that stretches all the way from Toledo to Cleveland along Lake Erie, this race is all the more important.\u00a0 This heavily Democratic district is a bizarre child of Republican driven redistricting.\u00a0 Is it any surprise that the Republicans have created a district that looks like a snake!\u00a0 Rep. Marcy Kaptur has been my congressional representative as long as I have lived in Toledo, about 25 years.\u00a0 Having a hundred more representatives like Marcy Kaptur in Congress would be an improvement, a vast improvement.\u00a0 However, this is even more so true for Dennis Kucinich.\u00a0 While I would characterize Marcy captor as a liberal, I would characterize Dennis Kucinich as a radical, that is with being a radical as a great thing.\u00a0 Unfortunately, the Republicans have intentionally set up these incumbents, so that one of them will lose.\u00a0 Ms. Kaptur has served her district well.\u00a0 However, I believe that Dennis Kucinich is distinctly a better choice.\u00a0 I submit that the issue raised in the above cited article, opposition to war, profoundly favors Dennis Kucinich, that is, of course, if you are opposed to war like I am.\u00a0 The courage and conviction to truly oppose war is a rare thing, even among liberal Democrats.\u00a0 Dennis Kucinich has this courage!\u00a0 Also, Mr. Kucinich has the know-how and courage on a wide range of issues.\u00a0 No one could fairly characterize him as a single issue candidate or narrow in his scope.\u00a0 One issue that strikes very close to home for me, quite literally, is nuclear power.\u00a0 The Davis Bessie nuclear power plant nearby Toledo has arguably the worst safety record of any nuclear power plant in operation in the world today.\u00a0 Dennis Kucinich has been a leading advocate in Congress to close this dangerous and unneeded nuclear power plant.\u00a0 Unfortunately, Rep. Kaptur has couched this issue in terms of jobs, even though they would be dangerous and unsustainable jobs.\u00a0 While losing Ms. Kaptur to the House would definitely be a loss, losing Dennis Kucinich would be an even much greater loss.\u00a0 May Dennis Kucinich prevail!<\/p>\n

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