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DENNIS
KUCINICH AND THE NAACP EVENT
Kucinich supporters have asked why the Congressman didn't attend the NAACP
candidates' forum in Miami on Monday afternoon. He couldn't attend because
the forum conflicted with his responsibilities as a voting member of
Congress, and there were key Medicare votes late yesterday in the House.
When there have not been conflicts with Capitol Hill duties, Dennis has
repeatedly attended candidates' forums held by civil rights and equal
rights groups, including ones organized by the NAACP and the Rainbow/PUSH
Coalition. (The Rainbow forum was on a Sunday.) Dennis has shined at these
events, because he is a fighter for civil rights -- as he's shown year
after year on Capitol Hill through his leadership role in the
Congressional Progressive Caucus. It's Dennis who is leading the fight to
abolish the racially-biased death penalty.
Due to conflicts with his Congressional duties, Rep. Kucinich recently had
to miss a candidates' forum on the environment in Los Angeles and a
"Democracy Rising" rally in Baltimore -- when Dennis stayed in Washington
to vote against Medicare privatization, which passed by a single vote.
Unlike other presidential candidates, he is a fulltime Congressperson who
has not missed a vote so far this session.
Yesterday afternoon, our campaign released this statement to the media:
"Congressman Kucinich has the utmost respect for the NAACP, its
leadership, its members and its mission. He regrets his absence from this
afternoon's candidates' forum. His duties as a member of the United States
House of Representatives required that he be in Washington today for
votes. Important votes are scheduled on Medicare prescription drugs and
agriculture spending. Congressman Kucinich strongly believes that it is
wrong to campaign across the country on the issue of expanding healthcare
coverage and then miss one of the most important healthcare votes in
years."
-- Learn more about the Kucinich campaign:
http://www.kucinich.us
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