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Of course, the liberal media has not portrayed his wife, with a much bigger age difference than Fred Thompsons, as a "trophy wif" nor cast negativec aspersions on them..gee, could it be because he's a Democrat?
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Meet Democrat Dennis Kucinich's Wife: She's a New Age,
Tongue-Pierced Brit
Sunday, May 20, 2007
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Dennis and Elizabeth Kucinich
A British girl from Essex, in southern England, may be the first lady with a tongue stud to have set her sights on the White House.
The wife of Dennis Kucinich, a left-wing Democratic congressman and 2008 presidential candidate, is a 29-year-old hippie chick from Upminster at the end of the London Underground’s District line.
Elizabeth Kucinich, née Harper, has been on the stump with her husband, a 60-year-old anti-war campaigner from Cleveland, mingling with the likes of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama backstage at the Democratic presidential debates.
“There’s a kind of camaraderie,” she said.
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A 6-foot-tall willowy redhead who has been compared to Arwen Evenstar, the "Lord of the Rings" character played in the films by Liv Tyler, she towers over her diminutive husband.
“Who cares?” she said in an interview. “I like wearing high heels so I’m used to being taller than most men I stand next to.”
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Nor is she bothered by their 31-year age difference.
“I have never noticed it at all,” she said. “Dennis is a very mature but young-at-heart gentleman and we complement each other.”
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Kucinich met her husband-to-be two years ago when she visited his office in the House of Representatives with her boss as a volunteer worker for the American Monetary Institute, an offbeat group dedicated to reforming the “unjust monetary system."
It was love at first sight for both of them. Immediately after their meeting, Dennis Kucinich phoned a friend and said: “I’ve met her [my future wife].”
He was mesmerized to receive a business e-mail from Harper with her usual signature line from "Kama Sutra," one of her favorite films: “Knowing love, I shall allow all things to come and go, to be as supple as the wind and take everything that comes with great courage. My heart is as open as the sky.”
He proposed at their second meeting in Albuquerque, N.M., and they married three months later. The actress Shirley MacLaine attended their wedding.
“I knew at once I really wanted to marry this man,” Elizabeth Kucinich said. “When you know it, why hang around?” It was Dennis’s third marriage, but by the time he met Elizabeth he had been single for more than 20 years.
If Dennis were elected, they would ma
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