The Cleveland 50: Dennis Kucinich Wins Mayoral Election

Populist candidate Dennis Kucinich, all of 31 years old at the time, won an improbable election and became Cleveland’s “boy mayor.” He fought with the city’s banks to maintain control of Cleveland’s in-house electrical utility, Muny Light, but the battle resulted in the city’s disastrous 1978 default. The coastal chuckleheads, predictably, had another good laugh at our expense. 

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