He made some unpopular decisions (as well as some that could probably best be described as "youthful mistakes"), but in the end he stood his ground and made a decision to keep the municipal electric company, a decision that, 15 years later, was definitely the right decision to make.

I suppose the telling point is that while he was not reelected as mayor of Cleveland, these days they continue to overwhelmingly send him as their US Representative.

obWiki: Mayoral administration of Dennis Kucinich (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayoral_administration_of_Dennis_Kucinich)