Kucinich is conservative in the same way that Tulsi Gabbard is an icon of the Republicans: they're not. Both are fiercely anti-intervention, and have been critical of existing military establishments and international realities in a way that mirrors Ron Paul's fanbase.
But that's just on foreign policy - which is irrelevant to the Ohio governorship. Here are some Kucinich policy statements from his site:
- "We must break the prison-industrial complex and stop the waste of hundreds of millions of dollars to warehouse low-level violators. The wasting of taxpayers’ money for the incarceration of non-violent offenders must stop."
- "We support protections for LGBT individuals and families that end discrimination in employment, housing, and public accommodations on the basis of (real or perceived) sexual orientation and gender identity/expression."
- "Reproductive Justice is the human right to maintain personal bodily autonomy. This is defined as the right to have children, not have children, and parent the children we have in safe and sustainable communities. The term, coined by Black women in 1994, was later developed into a human rights framework collectively by Indigenous women and women of color."
- "I will soon announce a plan, working with digital, utility and consumer advocates to establish a not-for-profit public utility in Ohio"
- "We must establish once and for all, as a moral and political imperative, the rights of workers. The right to join a union. The right to organize. The right to strike. The right to decent wages and benefits. The right to a safe workplace. The right to participate in the political process. The right to a secure retirement. I have upheld these rights for generations of workers."
Kucinich blows Cordray out of the water in terms of actually being left-wing. I think it's possible he wins the primary, and I hope he does, but the polling is inconclusive with so many undecided.
