Kucinich’s Politics Career Defined by Adversity

By Heidi Przybyla

Representative Dennis Kucinich’s exit from Congress is among many setbacks defining his 42-year political career, dating to the 1978 attempt to recall him as the “boy mayor” of Cleveland.

The 65-year-old Ohio (BEESOH) Democrat is among the first casualties in at least 10 contests between House members of the same party in districts created after the 2010 census. Kucinich lost yesterday to long-time colleague Marcy Kaptur and will leave Congress after this year.

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