Posted on Tue, Mar. 30, 2004
Presidential Hopeful Kucinich Brings His Message to Oregon
By Paul Fattig, Mail Tribune, Medford, Ore. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Mar. 30 - Larry Roven couldn't give a whit that Democratic candidate Dennis Kucinich cannot possibly win the race for the party's primary delegates nationally.
"I will definitely vote for him in the (Oregon) primary," stressed the gray-haired Ashland resident. "It's a matter of expressing party strength, of focusing on what the Democratic Party should stand for."
Roven was among some 300 people gathered outside the Stevenson Union at Southern Oregon University in Ashland early Monday afternoon to hear the four- term Ohio congressman speak on why he is still in the race against Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry, who has locked up the party's presidential nomination.
Eight Democrats have dropped out of the race, leaving only Kerry and Kucinich, the former with a commanding lead of delegates.
"I'm impressed by the depth of his understanding of what the world really needs," Roven said of Kucinich. "I'm also impressed by his courage, of being willing to stand up and express clearly what his goals are.
"It's not a matter of him being elected."
Portland resident Janell Jures, who volunteered to help the Kucinich campaign after hearing him speak in Portland late last week, agreed.
"I want him to stay in the race because I want the Democratic Party to speak for me," Jures said. "I think John Kerry needs Kucinich."
The reason is that Kerry will "cut right" as soon as he can to be in the mainstream, she said.
"But if Kerry doesn't bring in the progressive vote then he won't win the race (in November)," she said. "I need Dennis Kucinich to broaden the expanse of the party."
In his speech, Kucinich made it clear what he wants the party to stand for: ending the war in Iraq by bringing in United Nations peacekeepers; creating a national health care system; repealing the North American Free Trade Agreement; providing free college tuition for all Americans; doing away with the Bush administration's tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans; repealing the Patriot Act; closing down the prison camp at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba; and stopping the federal government from spying on its people with "total awareness" computer program
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