The division of light and power - Dennis Kucinich

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• Private, investor-owned utilities in Texas, Ohio, California, Illinois and elsewhere are crushing consumers with sky-high rates, price gouging and criminal behavior.
• The Division of Light and Power is the thoroughly documented, true story of one courageous American mayor who fought, and beat, a utility monopoly in an epic battle which involved corporate espionage and sabotage, bank co-conspirators, extortion, political corruption, organized crime, mob-directed assassination attempts, congressional investigations, and media cover-ups.
• The powers that be tried to buy him, and when he couldn't be bought, they tried to kill him.
• When that failed, the utility's bank gave him a choice: Privatize the city's electric system or the city would be thrown into default.
• The mayor said no to extortion, never gave in and saved over a billion dollars in assets for his city and its people.
• Meet Mayor Dennis Kucinich of Cleveland, who fought to give power to the people.
• Battling his way up from the streets of the city, he and his family lived in twenty-one different places by the time he was seventeen, including a couple of cars.
• By the age of thirty-one, as America's youngest big-city mayor, his stand to protect Cleveland's Muny Light against a utility monopoly and its banking partner drew international attention and praise as The outstanding public official in America, an award presented by Bob Hope.
• This is Mayor Dennis Kucinich's story, but if you want to know why your utility rates are so high, it may be your city's story, too.