The Works Green Administration

Dennis Kucinich talks briefly about his idea of a Works Green Administration. It explains how retrofitting our homes for the use of alternative energy will not only end our dependence on foreign oil but also create millions of job in the construction industry.

Which Presedential Candidate votes the way that you would vote?

With the 2008 Presidential Election fast approaching it is time to know your candidates before you cast that all important vote for one of them. One issue doesn't make a candidate, it is the combination of all the issues as a whole that should be your decider.

Mainstream media picks frontrunners and plasters their faces front and center for everyone to see. But do they really vote for your values? The best way to find out is to dig through their past voting records to see their history on the issues. That can be a daunting task digging through past votes at many different levels of politics. Thankfully there is a site that has eliminated all the work for us and we just answer a few questions and it spits out the data.

Try it out for yourself, it may suprise you who has voted when it counts the way you would have voted. Click the link and it will open up a new window.

http://www.selectsmart.com/president/2008.html

I took the test and I have been supporting the right candidate from the get go. Dennis kucinich votes the way I would vote 71% of the time.

My results:

1. Theoretical Ideal Candidate (100%)
2. Dennis Kucinich (71%)
3. Alan Augustson (campaign suspended) (70%)
4. Barack Obama (66%)
5. Christopher Dodd (61%)
6. Joseph Biden (60%)
7. Hillary Clinton (58%)
8. John Edwards (58%)
9. Wesley Clark (not announced) (57%)
10. Al Gore (not announced) (56%)
11. Bill Richardson (51%)
12. Mike Gravel (49%)
13. Ron Paul (47%)
14. Michael Bloomberg (not announced) (46%)
15. Elaine Brown (33%)
16. Kent McManigal (campaign suspended) (31%)
17. Mike Huckabee (29%)
18. Tommy Thompson (27%)
19. John McCain (27%)
20. Rudolph Giuliani (22%)
21. Mitt Romney (22%)
22. Chuck Hagel (not announced) (17%)
23. Sam Brownback (16%)
24. Duncan Hunter (16%)
25. Newt Gingrich (not announced) (16%)
26. Tom Tancredo (16%)
27. Fred Thompson (not announced) (15%)
28. Jim Gilmore (withdrawn) (13%)

Kucinich Urges EPA Let California Control Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Ohio Democratic congressman Dennis Kucinich's congressional website http://kucinich.house.gov/ posted the following press release.

Kucinich Urges EPA Let California Control Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Washington, Jun 16 - WASHINGTON, D.C. — Six term Congressman Dennis J. Kucinich of Ohio has asked the United States EPA to approve California's request to set its own standards for greenhouse gas emissions. Under the Clean Air Act, the EPA can grant permission to California to set air quality standards in the interest of protecting public health and the environment.

"California is entitled to step forward to regulate greenhouse gases, especially when the EPA is not doing its job. The EPA must grant California a waiver. Another eleven states are prepared to take responsibility for reductions in greenhouse gases. Unfortunately reducing greenhouse gas is not a priority of the Bush Administration. They clearly do not want to do exercise responsibility or authority. They must permit those states that are prepared to protect public health and the environment, as is California, to act," Kucinich said.

Kucinich acted in response to a request by California Attorney General Jerry Brown. Kucinich spoke with Brown today. He and Brown worked together to promote progressive environmental policies at the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg, South Africa in the summer of 2002.

Dennis Kucinich on Climate Change

Dennis Kucinich talks about climate change.

Chicagoland Environmentalists Cheer Kucinich

Dennis Kucinich has the track record to prove his environmental stand. And 1000's of Chicagoland enviromentalists were lucky enough to spend Earth Day, listening to Kucinich speak about the ideas he will make happen when he becomes president in November 2008.

The following article is from Dennis Kucinich's presidential campaign website http://kucinich.us

Chicagoland Environmentalists Cheer Kucinich

CHICAGO -- Thousands of environmental activists celebrated Earth Day in Chicago Sunday, cheering the national leadership promised by Democratic Presidential hopeful Dennis Kucinich. There was wild cheering as Kucinich promised a 'WGA' to rival FDR's WPA when he wins the White House in 2008.

Kucinich was the only Presidential candidate to speak at one of the largest Earth Day events in the United States. The six-term Congressman, who has a record to back up his leadership for alternative 'green' technologies, told the thousands of activists who gathered at McCormick Place on Lake Shore Drive that his administration will bring prosperity to the United States, as he would support the development of new, clean energies that will be earth friendly.

Kucinich tied the present-day global war to global warming, saying the environmental impact of war is ECOCIDE. The crowd interrupted his speech 30 times with tremendous applause. Kucinich is the only candidate running for the Democratic nomination who led a national effort in the United States Congress against the invasion of Iraq in 2002. While other candidates claim to have provided leadership against the war, Kucinich is the only Democrat running for President who was elected to the Congress at the time of the war vote, and the only candidate to have brought 125 other Congressional leaders to join with him in opposing the rush to war on the dubious claims that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction.

Elizabeth Kucinich joined her husband as the two received a standing ovation from the thousands of activists who attended the Green Festival in Chicago. The candidate was surrounded by well-wishers who closed in so tightly on the candidate that it took one hour for Kucinich to get out of the building where he had spoken.

The event in Chicago was preceded on Saturday by Kucinich's appearance at the National Action Network in New York, where he was invited by 2004 Presidential candidate Al Sharpton. During that conference, Kucinich was also interrupted by wild applause as he talked about his emergence into political life in his hometown of Cleveland, after a youth that was filled with economic challenges for his family. Kucinich is the oldest of seven children. As renters in Cleveland, the large family was often refused housing. A few times the Kucinich children lived with their mother and father in the family car.