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« on: January 27, 2011, 03:01:17 AM »
Rep. Dennis Kucinich sues cafeteria over olive pit in sandwich
Published: Wednesday, January 26, 2011, 12:51 PM     Updated: Wednesday, January 26, 2011, 6:12 PM
  By Sabrina Eaton, The Plain Dealer


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WASHINGTON, D.C. - Rep. Dennis Kucinich has rapped a U.S. House of Representatives cafeteria with a $150,000 lawsuit for selling him a vegetarian sandwich wrap in 2008 that he says caused dental damage when he bit into an olive pit.
The lawsuit that the Cleveland Democrat filed Jan. 3 against operators and suppliers of the Longworth House Office Building cafeteria says the sandwich he bought there "on or about" April 17, 2008 "contained dangerous substances, namely an olive pit, that a consumer would not reasonably expect to find in the final product served."
Biting into it caused serious "permanent dental and oral injuries requiring multiple surgical and dental procedures," the legal documents say. They contend the congressman is entitled to damages for future dental and medical expenses and to compensate him for pain, suffering, and loss of enjoyment.
"Said sandwich wrap was unwholesome and unfit for human consumption in that it was presented to contain pitted olives, yet unknown to plaintiff, contained an unpitted olive or olives which plaintiff did not reasonably expect to be in the food prepared for him, and could not visually detect prior to consumption," the lawsuit said.
A scheduling conference on the case has been set for April 8 before District of Columbia Superior Court Judge Gregory E. Jackson.
Kucinich's mishap occurred several months after the vegan congressman abandoned his second ill-fated presidential run. On the day of the incident, Kucinich chaired a hearing that examined whether cattle were being abused in California slaughterhouses.
The dental damage didn't keep Kucinich from speaking out for long. On April 24, he appeared on Fox News Channel to discuss rising fuel prices with Neil Cavuto, transcripts show.
Kucinich's congressional office referred questions on the case to his attorney, Andrew R. Young, who declined to comment further on the suit or on the extent of Kucinich's injuries.
"It truly is a private matter," said Young, a former aide to Kucinich who has also served as a North Ridgeville council member.
A spokeswoman for the North Carolina-based restaurant company that operates the cafeteria, Compass Group, confirmed it has received the lawsuit and is reviewing the matter.
"Beyond that we don't comment on pending litigation," Compass Group Vice President Cheryl Queen said in an e-mail.
Kucinich's lawsuit also names a pair of food suppliers to the cafeteria as defendants.
Julie Botset of Performance Food Group said her company "will not comment on litigation or offer any comments on this case."
Spokesmen for the other food supplier, Foodbuy LLC, did not respond to a request Wednesday for comment.
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« Reply #1 on: January 27, 2011, 10:09:38 AM »
Never trust a vegan.

If God did not want us to eat animals, he wouldn't have made them out of meat.
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1. You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity, by legislating the wealth out of prosperity.
2. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving.
3. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.
4. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it.
5. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that my dear friends, is the beginning of the end of any nation.

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Re: File this under....You've got to be fucking kidding me
« Reply #2 on: January 27, 2011, 10:15:05 AM »
He's a moron....always has been.

Fucking litigous society.
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Re: File this under....You've got to be phuking kidding me
« Reply #3 on: January 27, 2011, 10:46:34 AM »
Two things for Mr. Kucinich



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Re: File this under....You've got to be fucking kidding me
« Reply #4 on: January 27, 2011, 11:03:36 AM »
It is a true shame that the CIA plan failed and the olive pit did not do the job it was intended to do.
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Re: File this under....You've got to be phuking kidding me
« Reply #5 on: January 28, 2011, 03:55:40 PM »
Leave it to Dennis 'the Menace' Kucinich to personally show America exactly why we need Tort Reform in the civil legal system with his own frivolous lawsuit.  This is a waste of the Court's time.
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