Dennis Kucinich lost the primary this spring. He won't be on the ballot in November.
He was seeking the Democratic Party nomination for the Governor of Ohio. He was defeated, soundly, by Richard Cordray, whose chief qualification for high office is his tenure under President Obama as head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. So Cordray will take on the Republican nominee, Ohio AG Mike DeWine.
But my focus today is on Kucinich, pictured here, who has been a big part of Ohio politics, and a somewhat peripheral but often amusing, part of the national political scene, for a long time. He has been around since his election to the Cleveland City Council in 1969. He may finally be fading from the picture. Even his true-believer base has moved on.
So why bother discussing him? Well ... a few days ago I incidentally mentioned the chemtrail conspiracy theory in this blog. So I think it fair, building on that, to point out that the Fading One, DK, helped give this theory what currency and legitimacy it possesses.
In 2001, DK, then a Congressman, introduced a bill he called the Space Preservation Act. The idea was to keep space exploration free of militarization. The bill would have banned "extraterrestrial weapons" and presumably because the high atmosphere thins out continuously without firm demarcation, it would also have banned the use of chemtrails, listed by name.
There was already some discussion of chemtrails, and DK presumably had heard of them from constituents, but ... it wasn't a very widespread theory yet. The theorists, though, seized on this official document, a bill introduced into the House, as an admission by the gummint that there are such things as weaponized chemtrails.
It's been Katie bar the door ever since. Thanks, bud.
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