Kucinich’s viability turns to yells
Yells erupted in the Great Room of the Joe Crowley Student Union Friday night when Elizabeth Kucinich brought up the question of her husband’s viability.The wife of Rep. Dennis Kucinich, D-Ohio, drew a few dozen supporters where she took questions and gave a short speech. Only one was a University of Nevada, Reno student.Instead, members of the community filled the small room. Most wore buttons, badges or T-shirts supporting Dennis Kucinich. At least one wore a T-shirt endorsing Dennis Kucinich’s push to impeach Vice President Dick Cheney.The discussion mostly focused on Dennis Kucinich’s push for pulling America out of the Iraq War and creating universal health care. But the meeting moved away from campaign messages when questions of Dennis Kucinich’s viability as a candidate arose.Jim Matty, a 30-year-old secretary in Saturday’s caucus, said he is an ardent Barack Obama supporter but wanted to tell people how Dennis Kucinich, who has about 3 percent of support in polls, could still be viable.The Nevada precinct caucuses are non-binding, thus allowing delegates for another candidate to change their vote at the state delegation. Matty told the supporters to move into another candidate’s camp only if that camp promised them a delegation spot.The Kucinich supporter could then try and rally for him again at the state delegation.When Matty spoke to the crowd, another member in the audience started yelling: “don’t trust them,” referring to Obama supporters.The tension peaked when the man, who left before The Nevada Sagebrush could get his name, stood up and marched toward Matty. Campaign workers closed the gap and stopped the men.Kucinich supporter Julie Wedge stood up to verify Matty’s claims, and more arguments from the unidentified man came up until other supporters yelled back.Sean Mullin, national field director for the Kucinich campaign, said the campaign has drawn some “strong supporters.”Matty said he didn’t expect that reaction “but life is full of surprises.”Elizabeth Kucinich said she brought up the question of her husband’s viability because he tends to have a lot of supporters who don’t think he is electable.During her discussion she advocated people voting on their ideas and not what people push as “viable or unviable, electable or unelectable.” Photo by Daniel Clark/Nevada Sagebrush
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