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Dennis Kucinich: Smart, brash and scrappy
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| Contributor | Gerald Farinas |
| Last Edited | Gerald Farinas Dec 23, 2007 09:57pm |
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| Media | Newspaper - Honolulu Advertiser |
| News Date | Monday, December 24, 2007 03:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Day after day, 12-year-old Dennis Kucinich wore the same pair of turquoise blue pinstriped pants to school. Other kids teased him about the pants, which he'd bought for a quarter at a Salvation Army store, but Kucinich had nothing else to wear. Finally, a nun at his school told him to stay after class and gave him and his family boxes of clothes. "It was an extraordinary act of charity," the Democratic presidential candidate said in an interview. "Every step along the way there were people there to help us."
Like so many Rust Belt ethnic enclaves, the congressman's district is still largely populated by scrappers, people who worked with their hands and lived by their wits and relied heavily on their governments — state, local and federal — for safety nets and jobs when times were bad. Kucinich rose from a childhood in which he lived in 21 different places, including a car and an orphanage. He survived his childhood by being smart — his mother taught him to read by age 3 — and brash. |
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