U.S. Rep. Dennis Kucinich, D-Ohio, made an impromptu stop at a Denver rockabilly bar on Tuesday night and stole some thunder from the “Russian King of Rock ‘n’ Roll.”
Kucinich, who earlier Tuesday gave a rousing speech to conventiongoers at the Pepsi Center, spoke to about 300 people in a packed upstairs pool room at the Skylark Lounge on South Broadway.
Denis Mazhukov, the self-proclaimed “Russian King of Rock and Roll” who is a piano-playing Jerry Lee Lewis impersonator, played to about 20 people downstairs.
“There’s something about being out West, where we can expand our horizons,” Kucinich said.
The congressman and former presidential candidate called for the creation of a Department of Peace and what he called a “9/10 Forum.”
“9/11 has become such a powerful narrative that many of us can’t remember that before 9/11, we weren’t living in fear,” Kucinich said.
Kucinich got his loudest applause early, when he told the crowd: “This group of neo-cons wants another four-year term. But in my opinion, their term should be 10 to 20 years.”
