{"id":179,"date":"2003-04-15T11:54:33","date_gmt":"2003-04-15T16:54:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/179.html"},"modified":"2003-04-15T11:54:33","modified_gmt":"2003-04-15T16:54:33","slug":"kucinich-collects-180000-in-q1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/kucinich-collects-180000-in-q1\/","title":{"rendered":"Kucinich collects $180,000 in Q1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since I mentioned all the fundraising totals for the other Democratic presidential candidates, I thought I&#8217;d mention that Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio), easily the oddest of the field, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollcall.com\/pub\/1_1\/breakingnews\/1270-1.html\">collected an under-whelming $180,000<\/a> in the first quarter of 2003. That&#8217;s less than a fifth of what Bob Graham (D-Fla.) collected, and Graham was recovering from major heart surgery for most of Q1. Or put another way, for every dollar Kucinich raised, John Kerry and John Edwards each raised about $39.<\/p>\n<p>That, coupled by his all-too-serious effort to get the U.S. government to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A60182-2003Apr8.html\">create a &#8220;Department of Peace&#8221;<\/a> cabinet position, makes him the easiest candidate to ignore as the race for the nomination unfolds.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I expect to be the nominee of this party,&#8221; Kucinich told the Washington Post. The Post&#8217;s reporter noted that Kucinich &#8220;says this repeatedly, as if he might not really believe it.&#8221; Let&#8217;s hope he&#8217;s not really counting on this.<\/p>\n<p>Dennis, don&#8217;t go away mad, just go away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since I mentioned all the fundraising totals for the other Democratic presidential candidates, I thought I&#8217;d mention that Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio), easily the oddest of the field, collected an under-whelming $180,000 in the first quarter of 2003. That&#8217;s less than a fifth of what Bob Graham (D-Fla.) collected, and Graham was recovering from major heart [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}