By Valder Beebe
Dennis J. Kucinich is the author of The Courage to Survive, an autobiographical work which Gore Vidal described “as good as Theodore Dreiser.” Kucinich served as Mayor of Cleveland, Ohio from 1977 – 1979, in the Ohio Senate representing the 23rd district from 1995 – 1997 and 16 years in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1997 – 2013. He ran twice for the Democratic nomination for U.S. President.
THE DIVISION OF LIGHT AND POWER and the current situation with utilities in America. Kucinich writes in his book; A political battle that is more relevant today than ever, given corporate influence over government decisions at all levels – – which is why utility monopolies in Texas, California, Illinois, and Ohio have crushed consumers with sky-high rates, price gouging and criminal behavior. Why utility bills and taxes are so high and who is really making the decisions affecting their social and economic life.
At a time when public faith in government and public officials has collapsed, comes the story of one mayor who took on City Hall to protect the people. In THE DIVISION OF LIGHT AND POWER, Dennis Kucinich gives an unprecedented, fully documented insider’s account of his battle against a shadow city government which engaged in corporate espionage, sabotage, price- fixing, cut-throat competition, anti-trust activities, organized crime, and wholesale fraud. That is, until Kucinich, then America’s youngest big-city mayor at age 31, fought back, risking assassination attempts and the destruction of his personal life. One of America’s largest banks threatened to financially upend the city unless the new Mayor Kucinich agreed to sell the city’s publicly owned electric system, Muny Light, to the bank’s utility business partner, handing them a monopoly and the ability to raise electric rates to the sky. The “powers that be” subverted the media. They tried to buy Kucinich, and when they discovered he could not be bought, they tried to kill him.
In April 2018, in a cover story in the Washington Post Magazine, Kucinich was described as “the future of American politics.” The Division of Light and Power establishes integrity as the North Star future for everyone in public life. It also marks its author as a highly-skilled writer of top rank. Dennis J. Kucinich publicists provided text in conjunction with the Valder Beebe Show
VBS: You have made your life’s work service the people and our country.
DJK: Yes, I served as a U.S. Representative from Ohio from 1997 to 2013, Also, a Democratic nomination contendor for president of the United States in 2004 and 2008. I ran for governor of Ohio in the 2018 election. in 1977 to 1979, I served as the 53rd mayor of Cleveland, Ohio, while………
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