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“I mean, literally, he’s a friend,” Jordan said. “He thinks I’m crazy, I think he’s crazy, but when we can agree — and we could on issues — we’d work together.”
Kucinich left Congress in 2013. He ran an unsuccessful campaign this year for the Ohio Democratic nomination for governor.
“Dennis is a super nice guy, and he’s the kind of guy you’d call up and say you need a favor, and he’d give you the shirt off his back,” Jordan said. “He’s really a good guy.”
Kucinich and Jordan shared some similar views during the financial crisis.
“Dennis and I voted against bailing out the big banks, we worked on some other issues together, so I try to do that,” Jordan said. “But where I tend to work with Democrats is on civil liberties.”
Jordan said he has recently worked with Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Maryland, on a federal shield law that would protect journalists from disclosing confidential sources.
Raskin, Jordan said, is a “big-time liberal democrat from Maryland, but a good guy, (who) asked me if I could co-sponsor, and I said sure, let’s do it.”
Jordan said he is working with Rep. Ted Lieu, D-California, on facial recognition protections and encryption policy.
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