Threatened by redistricting, anti-war gadfly Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) may return to the scene of his famed UFO encounter in search of re-election.
The Seattle Times checked in with the congressman’s office after he was observed spending an inordinate amount of time in Washington State — where Kucinich once communed with an apparent alien at Shirley MacLaine’s house, according to her memoir — to find out whether he was scoping out a potential backup district. Kucinich’s response certainly seemed to encourage the idea.
“After people found out that Congressman Kucinich’s district could be eliminated or substantially altered in congressional redistricting by the Ohio Legislature’s Republican majority, Congressman Kucinich received requests from people in twenty states, including Washington State, encouraging him to move and run in their area,” a spokesman, Nathan White said in a statement. “Congressman Kucinich appreciates the interest expressed in his public service. As he has repeatedly said, he fully intends to remain in Congress; he just doesn’t know in what district he will run. In the meantime, he is devoted to serving Ohio’s 10th district as it currently stands.”
White pointed to Kucinich’s quotes in a recent Daily Show interview in which he and comedian John Oliver discussed the possibility of him leaving the state to run elsewhere in a parody of LeBron James’ “Decision” special.
In MacLaine’s 2007 memoirs, she recounted how Kucinich came face to face with a strange flying object outside her house that she said “hovered, soundless, for 10 minutes or so, and sped away with a speed he couldn’t comprehend. He said he felt a connection in his heart and heard directions in his mind.”
Kucinich confirmed at a 2007 Democratic debate that he had indeed seen an “unidentified flying object.”
