Dennis Kucinich, everyone’s favorite fire truck riding Presidential candidate was dissed in a major way this past weekend. The Cleveland Plain Dealer, Kuku’s hometown newspaper which has been supportive of his candidacies for many years, withdrew its endorsement of the incumbent in 2006 to instead support his primary opponent, Barbara Anne Ferris.

It is extremely unusual for a newspaper to withdraw its endorsement from an incumbent it has supported for years - the more so when that officeholder is a congressman with an international reputation, and the race is a primary election that he almost certainly will win.

Nonetheless, that is what The Plain Dealer does today. In the Democratic contest between five-term Rep. Dennis J. Kucinich and his challenger, nonprofit executive Barbara Anne Ferris, this page endorses Ferris as the Democrat more in tune with the community, its needs and its future.

Ouch, that’s gonna leave a mark.