Reply #11: For the life of me, I cannot understand how any Democrat can dislike Rep. Kucinich.

[Zorra]

The guy is the epitome a straight up radical FDR type Democrat and democrat. Sometimes I wonder how the Kucinich bashers here at DU and I belong to the same party. We apparently don't share the same values or ideology. I really don't get it.

This, from the OP, is full on totally awesome:

KUCINICH: Let me ask you about some of the specific provisions in your proposals to strip collective bargaining rights. First, your proposal would require unions to hold annual votes to continue representing their own members. Can you please explain to me and members of this committee how much money this provision saves for your state budget?

WALKER: That and a number of other provisions we put in because if you’re going to ask, if you’re going to put in place a change like that, we wanted to make sure we protected the workers of our state, so they got value out of that.

KUCINICH: Would you answer the question? How much money does it save, Governor?

WALKER: It doesn’t save any.

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