To whom it may concern,

Hello, my Name is Dr. Ben Rubin. "A doctor," you may ask. "But aren't you a student?" Good questions. Yes and yes. I have my honorary doctorate in divinity which I received online while attending school in California. I am looking forward to my upcoming second year at UCSC where I will be heading up the students for Kucinich chapter.

Sometime in May of this year, I was sitting with my roommates watching the first debate that I had seen thus far in this race. Since I had seen no debates, I naturally was only exposed to O(bomb)a and Hillary (I like wal-mart and fox news) Clinton. About 15 minutes into the debate, I noticed that a small man on the far podium was given a chance to speak. That was it for me. It was love at first sight. This congressman who I had never heard of began passionately speaking about ending the war while all the other candidates danced around questions and spoke as vaguely as possible. I hate right wing democrats. Little did I know that only a month later I would be sitting next to Dennis Kucinich discussing video ideas for his campaign.

When I arrived in Cleveland in June, I was pissed off. My parents had just moved here, and I was stuck in this red landmass known as the Buckeye State for my entire summer. I soon began working as a sandwich artist in a Subway inside of a gas station. My boss, while she was mixing together massive amounts of mayonnaise and Tuna, told me that I was wasting my time supporting Kucinich. (At that time I had just finished my first day volunteering at the Kucinich HQ, something that I had planned to do about once a week) We then began to argue about politics, and she asked me why I didn't "Just support a nice Republican." I was then called "an idiot" over and over again. When I tried to change the subject, my boss, and now another worker, would always come back to my stupidity for supporting Kucinich. I was fed up. "You are right," I told her. "I'm 18 years old working on a national Presidential campaign, fighting for what I believe in, and your 50, making sandwiches." After a long awkward silence, I quit my job as a sandwich artist. Trust me, there is no art to making those subs.

The following day I met Chad, the national media director on the campaign, and the next thing I knew, I had my own desk and was working full time doing video and media related work on the campaign.

So thats how it happened. That is how the original Kucinich intern came to be.

In my time here I have done many things. My main goal/project is to archive all of our DV tapes of Dennis speaking and edit that footage for an upcoming documentary. I also occasionally go out and film Dennis at local speaking engagements, make the intern videos, help with other videos, and I dabble in Facebook.

Anyway, that's all for now. I look forward to our next session.

-Dr. Ben Rubin