| FOCUS: How "The People's Mayor" Saved Public Power |
| Written by <a href="index.php?option=com_comprofiler&task=userProfile&user=51576"><span class="small">The Intercept</span></a> |
| Friday, 02 July 2021 11:32 |
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Excerpt: "Long before he was a member of Congress or a presidential candidate, Dennis Kucinich found himself embroiled in a fight to protect public utilities in Cleveland from privatization."
How "The People's Mayor" Saved Public Power02 July 21
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wenty-five years before he first ran for the Democratic presidential nomination, 31-year-old Dennis Kucinich was elected mayor of Cleveland, Ohio. At the time, that made him the youngest mayor of a major city in the country. His tenure would be dominated by the fight to prevent the privatization of the city’s public electric utility, a fight that would pit Kucinich against powerful politicians, the Cleveland Trust bank, and even the mob. Kucinich tells the story of the fight to save public power in his new book, “The Division of Light and Power.”