Dennis in Seattle: "Red meat from a vegan — Kucinich"

Joel Connelly:

Rep. Dennis Kucinich is a vegan, but showed late Saturday that he knows how to dish out red meat to the liberal faithful.

Fresh from a trip to Damascus, Syria — he gets on well with President Assad — Kucinich used the daylong NW Roots conference to deliver a message of fiery old-time populism, mixed with New Age, with a call to bring the troops home — everywhere.

The Ohio Democrat has been displaying his wares here, four times since Presidents’ Day. Kucinich is likely to lose his seat to redistricting, and is looking to Washington as a state where he once saw a UFO (staying at Shirley MacLaine’s home in Graham) and “marched with the Teamsters and turtles” against the World Trade Organization. MORE...

Howie P.S.: I wonder if he is interested in being a mayor again, a transplanted Jerry Brown municipal re-run kind of campaign.