Last week, I wrote about how some Democratic United States Congress candidates to whom special interests had paid relatively little attention were elected in the recent midterm election in the big wave of Democratic electoral success across the country. After the election, I indicated, the special interests would seek to “make up for lost time to ensure these relatively unknown new Congress members become allies.” To the extent such efforts fail, some truly independent Democrats may, I wrote, emerge in the Congress.
Tag: Democratic Party
Dennis Kucinich proved his antiwar bona fides over 16 years in the United States House of Representatives as a Democrat from Ohio and two campaigns for the Democratic Party presidential nomination. In a new interview with host Chris Hedges at The Chris Hedges Report, Kucinich discusses some of the pressure members of Congress are under that helps ensure that few members speak out against war like he did.