Posted on 05/09/2002 6:38:57 PM PDT by FreedomPoster
As discussed on a recent thread, Cynthia McKinney, D-Georgia 4th Contressional District (Actually C-Cuba), has announced that she will hold a Veterans' Town Hall Meeting. The text of that newspaper item, from the DeKalb Neighbor Newspaper, reads as follows:
Veterans Town Hall Meeting: 4th Congressional District Rep. Cynthia McKinney, D-Decatur, is sponsoring a Town Hall meeting with local veterans May 18 at 1 p.m. at the Decatur Library Auditorium, 215 Sycamore St., Decatur. Ms. McKinney's district includes all of DeKalb County.
Information: (404) 377-6900
We expect that Ms. McKinney is suddenly interested in veterans due to 9/11, and planned on having a quiet event in which she could display her concern for veterans now that her anti-military past is such a political liability. This could then be trumpeted in the press and campaign literature. We aim to show up and set the record straight on Ms. McKinney's support for the military. A few facts:
o The long-time legislative coordinator of the Georgia VFW (Veteran's of Foreign Wars) tells me that in all of his years of going to Washington, Cynthia McKinney has NEVER had time to meet with them. Zell, Linder, Barr, and many others always make time for him. Even John Lewis meets with them about every 3rd time they go, or at least has an aide meet with them.
o This week, I spoke with several VFW leaders in the 4th District. Only ONE had heard about this event. It seems that Ms. McKinney has put little-to-no effort into informing veterans of the "town hall meeting" she is holding, ostensibly for their benefit.
o Cynthia's voting record on military issues has been one of the worst in Congress. For instance, in 2000, she voted against a the Vieques PR Referendum bill, which was for military training at the Navy range at Vieques, PR. This is bombing training for our carrier pilots that she opposed. She has a lifetime rating of 7 out of 100 by the Ameican Conservative Union (!!).
o Interestingly, her campaign coffers overfloweth with money from Islamic-named individuals from outside of her/my district. I have been through this list of contributors to CYNTHIA MCKINNEY FOR CONGRESS, and almost none of the in-state contributors are from her district, and most are from out-of-state in the first place. Note that all of these contributions are post-9/11.
o Ms. McKinney had plenty of time to whine about black voters in Florida supposedly being denied their franchise, presumably due to evil Repuplicans. Interestingly, none of the lawsuits promised by Ms. McKinney and her "Civil Rights" buddies ever went anywhere, because they couldn't find anyone to swear out an affadavit that they had been prevented from voting. Meanwhile, we never heard anything about the questionable handling of thousands of military absentee ballots. There are many military members home-based in Florida, with large Naval installations in Jacksonville and Pensacola, The Air Force at Eglin, and Central Command in Tampa. Again, no friend of the military.
In short, we have here an extreme left wing, anti-military Congresswoman who is apparently getting substantial support from what are likely anti-American sources. We must set the record straight for the public.
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As I posted on the earlier thread, the viligantcitizen posse will maintain decorum at all times...
But we will not tolerate any "bully" type actions, at all.
Now, Katie Scarlett, the black lab, is a concern. We will have to keep her out of the hooch pre-protest.
As I can provide some free white board and stencils, we need to get together and produce some signage...
Kermit
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I think that it's important to note that several thousand dollars worth of these contributions were made ON 9/11.
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