{"id":4777,"date":"2008-02-11T09:08:36","date_gmt":"2008-02-11T15:08:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/impeach_bush_blog\/?p=4777"},"modified":"2017-05-21T15:13:26","modified_gmt":"2017-05-21T21:13:26","slug":"kucinich-the-incident-did-not-happen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/2008\/02\/kucinich-the-incident-did-not-happen\/","title":{"rendered":"Kucinich: &#8220;The Incident Did Not Happen&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"imagelink\" href=\"https:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/nm_kucinich_070524_ms.jpg\" > <img decoding=\"async\" style='float: left; margin: 0px 15px 15px 0px; width: 250px;' src=\"https:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/nm_kucinich_070524_ms.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"nm_kucinich_070524_ms.jpg\" align= \"left\"\/><\/a>[IFP does not endorse any candidate for President nor any other office. This is a follow-up article concerning online rumors of AIPAC and Pelosi pressuring of Kucinich to drop his push for impeachment]<br \/>\n<br \/>\nAfterDowningStreet.org<br \/>\nBy David Swanson<br \/>\n<br \/>\nI spoke with Congressman Dennis Kucinich because a rumor was gaining traction that:<br \/>\n<br \/>\n&#8220;Before the Nevada primary, Dennis was visited by representatives of Nancy Pelosi and the American Israel Public Affairs Committee &#8212; AIPAC. They told Dennis that if he would drop his campaigns to impeach Cheney and Bush, they would guarantee his re-election to the House of Representatives. Kucinich threw them out of his office.&#8221;<br \/>\n<br \/>\nAccording to Kucinich, &#8220;The incident did not happen.&#8221;<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.afterdowningstreet.org\/?q=node\/30931\">(Source)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[IFP does not endorse any candidate for President nor any other office. This is a follow-up article concerning online rumors of AIPAC and Pelosi pressuring of Kucinich to drop his push for impeachment] AfterDowningStreet.org By David Swanson I spoke with Congressman Dennis Kucinich because a rumor was gaining traction that: &#8220;Before the Nevada primary, Dennis&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4776,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[122,4,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bush_era","category-impeachment-news","category-ohio"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Kucinich: &quot;The Incident Did Not Happen&quot; &#8226; Impeach for Peace<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Citizen&#039;s impeach strategy. 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