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Article: Ohio's comeback kid. (Congressman Dennis Kucinich)
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- Campaigns & Elections
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- September 1, 1997
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He was called "Dennis the Menace" when he was Mayor of Cleveland in the late 70s. Now, Dennis Kucinich is called Congressman.
In national politics, Bill Clinton is heralded as the "comeback kid." But in Ohio, the title belongs to Dennis "the Menace" Kucinich who rose from the ashes of political defeat like a phoenix to get himself elected to Congress last year from the state's 10th district.
Dennis Kucinich was elected mayor of Cleveland in '77 at the age of 31. He won that race by 3,149 votes. Nine months later, after unprecedented City Hall turmoil, he was forced to run again in the city's first and only mayoral recall election-which he won by a mere ...