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Please, bid in shekels or dollars. Ms. McKinney may learn to appreciate her United States citizenship after this experience, and stop envying Castro, Chavez, and every other country. Here is a capsulized summary of Ms McKinney's history: Cynthia McKinney - one busy woman June 19, 2006 by chrisgraham augustafreepress.com Column by Max Friedman: Cynthia McKinney - One Busy womanIn between hitting cops and and playing the race card, wacko Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney, D-Ga., keeps busy with the left on a number of subjects. Just pulling her file is a full day’s work, but it is worthwhile keeping track of her...

MCKINNEY'S TROUBLED WATERSLast updated: 1:18 am January 2, 2009 Israel's navy gave ex-Rep. Cynthia McKinney and her fellow self-de scribed "peace" activists a surprise kick in the bow this week, turning away their photo-op of a boat trip, which was headed for Gaza. **SNIP** She and other anti-Israel activists sailed out of Cyprus (with a CNN crew aboard), claiming they simply wanted to deliver medical supplies to Gaza on "a mission of mercy." They say they were suddenly fired upon by machine guns from Israeli gunboats and forced to turn back. **SNIP** But anything in which Cynthia McKinney is involved...

The Truth Commission for Water Rights on May 3 heard the experiences of Detroit and Highland Park, Mich., residents who are being denied their human right to water. The Michigan Welfare Rights Organization (MWRO) organized the daylong event of multimedia and firsthand presentations.

APN) ATLANTA – "Run, Cynthia run!" chanted enthusiastic Green Party members and leaders at the Green Party National Meeting for 2007 in Reading, Pennsylvania, on July 15, 2007, according to video footage obtained by Atlanta Progressive News. "If not us, who? If not now, when?" asked one Green Party activist in attendance after a screening of the movie American Blackout. "It is us and the time is now," former US Rep. Cynthia McKinney (D-GA) replied. How would progressive Democrats in Congress respond to a McKinney-Nader 2008 ticket, another attendee asked. "That would have a potential of shaking up a whole...

McKinney hints at challenging Georgia voting lawsLawmaker says 'malicious crossover' voting by Republicans disenfranchised black voters in her district By Ben Evans ASSOCIATED PRESS Posted on Fri, Sep. 08, 2006 WASHINGTON - Outgoing Georgia Rep. Cynthia McKinney hinted Thursday that she or her supporters might try again to challenge the legality of state voting laws that allowed Republicans to vote in the Democratic primary where she lost her House seat last month. McKinney, the first black woman elected to Congress from Georgia, said "malicious crossover" voting by Republicans disenfranchised black voters in her district from picking their candidate of choice,...

Oh, for crying out loud! Cynthia McKinney is at it again. Blaming everyone and everything for her ills other than herself. This time, she is on attack regarding her recent runoff loss to Hank Johnson. During a recent speech in front of the National Dialogue and Revival for Social Justice in the Black Church, she blamed her loss on the media, electronic voting machines, Republicans and Georgia's requirement that the winner of an election must receive at least 50 percent of the vote. Is that it, Cynthia? What about days with the letter "y" in them or months that have...

APN) ATLANTA -- US Rep. Cynthia McKinney (D-GA) is pursuing numerous legal avenues to challenge the so-called “results” of not only her recent Primary and Runoff Elections, but also the fundamental reality that the current E-voting system in Georgia does not provide us with “results” that are in any way meaningful. The Congresswoman and her attorneys and campaign are looking at ways in which they can either join or support Donzella James’s legal election contest filed last week, Donzella James, who is working closely with the Congresswoman, told Atlanta Progressive News. The US Department of Justice is already said to...

I wrote last week that our InsiderAdvantage/Majority Opinion survey showed that controversial Democratic Rep. Cynthia McKinney would likely lose her primary runoff election against former county commissioner Hank Johnson in Georgia's 4th District. McKinney lost handily. Beyond that, her final hours before eventually conceding defeat made for the most underreported and bizarre story of a political exit I've ever seen in my years of participating in or analyzing political races around the country. I had agreed to join the anchor desk at Atlanta's NBC-TV affiliate to provide analysis for that day's elections. As the night wore on, it became clear...

If a long-time member of Congress lost a primary battle for re-election, and his/her campaign entourage shouted racial epithets at reporters and about her opponent after defeat, do you think this would have been on the evening news? Well, if said member of Congress was a Democrat, the answer apparently is “no,” for not one of the broadcast networks felt it was newsworthy to report Tuesday evening's events involving Rep. Cynthia McKinney (D-Georgia). For those that haven’t heard, McKinney’s campaign entourage now includes members of the New Black Panthers. After her primary defeat Tuesday to Hank Johnson for Georgia’s 4th...

McKinney's Black PanthersTom Bevan Mon Aug 7, 9:31 AM ET Check out this nugget on the McKinney campaign buried at the end of a story in today's Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Several people dressed in black suits and boots followed McKinney around. The patches on their clothes said: "New Black Panther Party Freedom or Death." The organization does not have an official role in McKinney's campaign and are not on her organization's payroll, said McKinney's campaign manager, John Evans. So members of the "largest organized anti-Semitic black militant group in America" just show up spontaneously to follow McKinney around during the final...

Atlanta, GA (AHN) - New polls show incumbent Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney still trails rival, two-term DeKalb County Commissioner Hank Johnson. An InsiderAdvantage survey shows Johnson leading the Congresswoman, 53 percent to 40. According to Atlanta television station, WXIA-TV, on Monday morning, both candidates squared off on the radio in attempt to reach more voters on the Frank and Wanda in the Morning Show on V-103. In the V-103 debate, McKinney charged that Johnson is the candidate backed by Republican voters and Republican money while Johnson pointed out that McKinney was not present for a recent House vote on a critical...

Republicans don’t have a dog in either fight, but two nationally significant races on Tuesday’s ballot will tell us a great deal about the mood of the country — and the future of two-party politics. The one, of course, is Georgia’s 4th Congressional District, where incumbent Rep. Cynthia McKinney is in the final stages of her political career. But for an out-of-district white guy who sapped 5,253 votes, most of which otherwise would have gone to challenger Hank Johnson, she would be walking around in stunned defeat now. Johnson may not beat her Tuesday, but the end is near. Her...

A new poll by Insider Advantage shows challenger Hank Johnson with a hefty lead over incumbent Cynthia McKinney in the Democratic run-off for the 4th District congressional race. The poll shows Johnson leading McKinney, 46 to 21 percent, with a third of voters undecided. The survey recorded the responses of 489 likely voters and has a margin of error of plus-or-minus 5 percent. Run-offs are notorious for low turnout, which often makes telephone surveys unreliable. Matt Towery, CEO of InsiderAdvantage, said he was unwilling to say that McKinney was headed for certain defeat. "But is she in deep, deep, deep,...

ATLANTA - Democratic firebrand Rep. Cynthia McKinney was in high spirits Tuesday night, dancing and playing a tambourine as election results showed her with a tight lead over a former DeKalb County Commissioner with roots in the heart of her core constitency. With 80 percent of the precincts reporting, McKinney was leading with 47 percent of the vote to lawyer Hank Johnson's 45 percent. One of the candidates will need to get more than 50 percent of the vote to avoid a runoff on Aug. 8. Tuesday's primary was the first time that McKinney faced voters since her scuffle with...

<p>Federal prosecutors investigating the confrontation between Rep. Cynthia McKinney of Georgia and a Capitol police officer have been talking privately with McKinney's office in hopes of resolving the case without the spectacle of an indictment and trial, the ATLANTA JOURNAL CONSTITUTION reports on Wednesday.</p>

Capitol Police Frustrated By Slow McKinney CaseUpdated: May 23rd, 2006 04:54 PM PDT JOHN McARDLE Roll Call As another week ended without a decision from the grand jury reviewing Rep. Cynthia McKinney's (D-Ga.) alleged assault on a U.S. Capitol Police officer, police labor committee officials expressed frustration on Friday with how long the process is taking and how the U.S. Attorney's office has handled the case. More than a month and a half after the incident occurred, USCP Fraternal Order of Police Chairman Andy Maybo said Friday that "there is a large concern on behalf of the U.S. Capitol Police...

Cynthia McKinney’s reaction to the obvious and blatant favoritism enjoyed by Patrick Kennedy is likely to be something to savor. She is already on the record about the indignities she received at the hand of a white cop. But now she sees that for the white boy, supervisors stepped in, relieving the officers at the scene and driving the staggering Kennedy home. She faces potential legal jeopardy, and now a rich white boy walks away without so much as a breathalyzer test from circumstances that would ordinarily demand a drunk driving investigation. At least one cop reportedly says he smelled...

Rep. Cynthia McKinney, the Georgia congresswoman whose altercation with a Capitol Hill police officer last month made national headlines, qualified to run for re-election Monday -- and quickly drew a well-known challenger in July's Democratic primary. Hank Johnson, an attorney and two-term member of the DeKalb County Commission, qualified to challenge McKinney in Georgia's 4th District, a majority black and solidly Democratic district on the eastern side of metropolitan Atlanta. Meanwhile, James Myart, a prominent Texas civil rights attorney whom McKinney retained after her altercation with the police officer, issued a statement Monday saying he no longer represented her. He...

Rep. Cynthia McKinney still does not know whether she will face criminal charges for allegedly punching a U.S. Capitol Police officer who stopped her at a security checkpoint. But the Georgia Democrat is pulling no punches with the media, ordering an Atlanta television station not to broadcast derogatory comments she made about a member of her staff on Saturday. McKinney was meeting with constituents and agreed to an exclusive interview with WGCL-TV, CBS 46, of Atlanta. During that interview, CBS 46 reporter Renee Starzyk asked McKinney what she is telling her constituents about the altercation. "Actually you, media people are...

1989: Zsa Zsa Gabor, the actress, gets pulled over for a traffic violation. She gets out of the car and slaps the Beverly Hills police officer. A jury convicts her of assault, and a judge sentences her to three days in jail and fines her $13,000. 2006: Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney, D-Ga., reportedly walks around a metal detector at a security checkpoint while entering the Longworth House Office Building. She fails to wear her congressional I.D. pin, the wearing of which is not required, although most members do. A U.S. Capitol police officer reportedly calls out to her, "Ma'am, Ma'am, Ma'am."...

Just something I thought was pretty funny so I put it up on YouTube Bernard McGuirk as Cardinal Egan

McKinney event called illegalBy BOB KEMPER, SCOTT MacFARLANE Cox News Service Wednesday, April 05, 2006 Rep. Cynthia McKinney, D-Ga., center, walking down the steps of the House side of the U.S. Capitol after the last scheduled vote of the day Thursday, March 30, 2006 on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Lauren Victoria Burke) WASHINGTON — When Rep. Cynthia McKinney (D-Ga.) spent money from her congressional office budget to fly singer Isaac Hayes to DeKalb County last year, it wasn't just to have the superstar attend the opening of her new district office or talk about music education for children of...

Sorry for the vanity but Cynthia is about to tell "her side of the story" with Wolf Blitzer any minute.

Just heard driving home Rep. Cynthia McKinney (D-Ga) has been accused of slapping a Capitol Guard (?) over some type of dispute. 10 second story nothing follows.

She's back.THE INCOMING REPRESENTATIVE FROM GEORGIA'S 4th congressional district is the outspoken Cynthia McKinney. She is a Democrat, she is 49 years old, and she has held the job before. She held it for a decade, in fact, from 1992, when she became the first black woman elected to Congress from Georgia, to 2002--when, she says, the "hostile corporate media," allied with Republicans, "repeated falsehoods" about her, "distorted" her positions, and drove her from "my seat."That is McKinney's explanation for her 2002 primary defeat, and she is sticking to it. But there are other explanations. Her father, Georgia state legislator...

A primary defeat two years ago won’t keep Cynthia McKinney out of politics. The former U.S. Congresswoman appears to be making another run for the 4th District, despite a loss in 2002 to Denise Majette. While neither McKinney nor her campaign manager were available to confirm the campaign this week, the McKinney camp has a new Web site up for 2004. At www.cynthiaforcongress.com, the Atlanta woman’s biography describes McKinney as “the voice for the voiceless.” It attributes her loss to Majette to Republican crossover voting. “We have launched this campaign because we have a vision that America can be better...

There has been a recent tremendous hubbub over at The New York Times on the subject of one Jayson Blair, who apparently spent most of his "journalism" career fabricating news pieces for his various employers (like the Times and the Globe). Some have suggested that Jayson was allowed to get away with his transgressions against the facts because political correctness rules all at his place of employment. Jayson appears to be a member of a protected class at The New York Times. Do other national daily newspapers have similar "protected class members" in their newsrooms? At The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, there...

Cass Ballenger, the Hickory Republican congressman who told the Observer that U.S. Rep. Cynthia McKinney, a black Democrat from Georgia, had made him have "segregationist feelings," took a lot of heat nationwide. Ballenger also called McKinney, known for her abrasive style, a "bitch." A day later, Ballenger backtracked and apologized for what he called "pretty stupid" remarks. He also told our political reporter Jim Morrill that his black lawn jockey had just gotten a makeover -- and is now a white lawn jockey. The president of the Catawba County NAACP has since called for Ballenger to step down -- something...

As of 7:50 Central... District 4 1% of precincts reporting Candidate; Votes; % of vote Cynthia Van Auken (REP); 375; 52% Denise Majette (DEM); 347; 48%

Since Sept. 11, Georgia Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney has been buzzing the White House like a giant gnat on a muggy summer day. On Tuesday, she got swatted in the Democratic primary by challenger Denise Majette. McKinney has been outspoken about the cloud of corruption she believes is hanging over the current and former Bush administrations related to Enron and the Gulf War (the original and the looming sequel). With Majette's victory, the White House may think the cloud has been lifted. I think not. Whether McKinney's allegations are ever proved, their very expression performed an essential service. Dissent is what...

Just in time to mend his strained ties with public school teachers, Gov. Roy Barnes has found his voice on vouchers, dismissing them as "not practical" in Georgia. He's right. Barnes may have spoken up so forcefully against vouchers because he found it politically expedient to do so, but he also happens to have found one of the glaring flaws in local voucher proposals: They won't work. "There is not a large private school system in this state," Barnes told an audience at a Cobb County synagogue over the weekend. "There's simply not enough capacity." Voucher proposals are popular with...

WASHINGTON -- The relationship that Rep. Cynthia McKinney (D-Ga.) shares with Arab-Americans runs deeper than her call for more attention to the Palestinian side of the Middle Eastern conflict. The DeKalb County congresswoman's connections stretch significantly into the pockets and purses of the Arab-American and Muslim communities.About one-fourth of the individuals who have contributed to McKinney's campaigns over the past five years have names that appear to be Arab-American or Muslim, according to an informal study of Federal Election Commission records.Their contributions total $142,950, a full third of the money McKinney has collected from individuals over the last five years,...

If you thought Cynthia McKinney, the wild and wacky Democratic congresswoman from DeKalb County, might calm down and mute her rhetoric, you were wrong. With the FBI, the CIA and the White House reeling under revelations that they had missed signals of impending terrorist attacks, McKinney has only gained confidence and stature. Back in April, you may recall, McKinney in effect suggested that President Bush had aided and abetted the Sept. 11 hijackers, hinting that the president knew of the attacks in advance but failed to prevent them so that his friends in the defense industry would profit from the...