It's assassination month, folks. All assassination Eps, all November.

Now you may think you know Dennis Kucinich as an avatar of pie-in-the-sky Prius-driving NPR subscriber politics. But in the 1970s, working class 'boy mayor' Kucinich stood off years of professional assassination plots. Join Isaac and author-professor Tim Gill as we travel back to “Bomb City” as Cleveland was called in the seventies.

Mayor Kucinich, at the helm of an “urban guerrilla” band of 20-something left-populists, was determined to keep the city’s electrical utility in public hands. The city’s mafia underworld, its motives “coinciding” with neoliberal privatizers, were just as determined to see the utility sold off, and were willing to hire as many killers as it took to do the hit. Tim and Isaac get into the grimy and deadly world of Cleveland crime and politics, and you’ll never see the city — or Kucinich — the same way again.

Read Tim's article in Jacobin "When the Mob Tried to Whack Dennis Kucinich": https://jacobin.com/2022/06/when-the-mob-tried-to-whack-dennis-kucinich

Special thanks as always to Komakino and Junkyard Shaman for our music.

The Documents, Folks: The full interview from 2000 with former Cleveland PD Intelligence Division Chief Ed Kovacic on his meetings with the informant and contract killer "The Old Man. (ON PATREON EPISODE PAGE)

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