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Until this Summer Andy McKenna was the Chairman of the Illinois GOP. He presided over a party that saw every single state wide office lost to it. He presided over a party that tried as hard as it could to make sure that Illinois' Republican voters would be barred from voting their own leaders into place (even though Democrat voters do elect their leaders). McKenna presided over a GOP that seemed little more than a junior partner to the corruption plagued Democrats. …and now McKena's running for governor. And guess what? House Republican leader Tom Cross is backing McKenna. Yep,...

Police alleged a 70-year-old man attacked others in Kingston bar after learning election outcome. KINGSTON (PA)– Upset over Barack Obama’s victory in Tuesday’s presidential election, a 70-year-old man took out his anger at people inside a Cherry Street bar, police said. Police allege Alexander J. McKenna, of South Landon Avenue, Kingston, bit the nose of a man and swung his cane, striking two people inside Pizzle’s Bar early Wednesday morning. McKenna was charged with three counts of simple assault and harassment, and one count each of disorderly conduct and public drunkenness. He was released on $2,500 unsecured bail. Attempts to...

Howdy Everybody. I wrote Attorney General McKenna’s office (Washington State) this week and got back a reply. Basically I was voicing my concern of possible voter fraud that I’ve been hearing about on the news, and how it’s affected past elections and this one. Here’s a response from his office: “Mr. Billeaudeau: I am responding on behalf of Attorney General McKenna to your message, which is copied below. You write about the coming general election, and mention in particular concerns about voter registration drives conducted by ACORN. In Washington, a criminal investigation was conducted in connection with the 2006 election,...

Washington Attorney General Rob McKenna leads his Democratic challenger by seven points, a poll indicates. McKenna-who is seeking a second, four-year term- leads Democrat John Ladenburg 49 percent to 42 percent, according to a SurveyUSA poll released this week. The poll found that 23 percent of Democrats will cross party lines to vote for McKenna, a popular Republican. Meanwhile, 11 percent of registered Republicans said they plan to support Ladenburg, the Pierce County executive.

The official police report on Rep. Cynthia McKinney's clash with a Capitol Hill police officer three weeks ago says the DeKalb County congresswoman struck the officer "in his chest with (a) closed fist." The "event report" — obtained Tuesday by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution — describes the altercation as an assault on a police officer. The officer involved in the incident, identified as Paul McKenna, filed the report with his supervisors immediately after the incident occurred at 8:55 a.m. March 29. The report for the first time provides specific details of what happened when McKenna tried to stop McKinney from going...

McKenna believes anti-U.S. talk hurt Liberals Toronto Globe and Mail Thursday, March 2, 2006 by ALAN FREEMAN WASHINGTON -- On his last day in the job, Canadian Ambassador Frank McKenna took his former Liberal bosses in Ottawa to task yesterday for their "gratuitously offensive" anti-U.S. rhetoric during the recent federal election campaign. Mr. McKenna, who resigned the day after the Jan. 23 election and is being replaced by former Conservative finance minister Michael Wilson, said Canadians want their government to be assertive of Canadian interests without being anti-American. "[Voters] do want [us] to stand up for Canada, but they...

A black cloud was lifted off Canadian-American relations yesterday: Frank McKenna, anti-American Canadian ambassador to the United States announced his resignation. McKenna, in the diplomatic post for less than a year, was a harsh critic of the U.S. ever since his arrival in Washington. One month into the job, he fired off a letter to Newt Gingrich for his reference on Hannity & Colmes regarding terrorists crossing over the border from Canada into the U.S. Only last October, McKenna stunned a Toronto audience when he called the U.S. government "dysfunctional".

WASHINGTON (CP) - The U.S. administration has told Canadian Ambassador Frank McKenna it strongly disagrees with Prime Minister Paul Martin's recent negative remarks regarding American policy on climate change, U.S. officials said Friday. The disapproval was voiced at a meeting Thursday between McKenna and Jim Connaughton, the White House's environmental guru, the officials said. But both Connaughton's office and the Canadian Embassy denied reports that McKenna was summoned to the White House for a tongue-lashing over the Martin comments. Absolutely not, said Michele St. Martin, spokeswoman for the Council on Environmental Quality headed by Connaughton, calling it a routine get-together...

Oh Canada!September 12, 2005 Fox News JOHN GIBSON, GUEST HOST: In the second "Factor Follow-up" segment tonight, generous offers of hurricane aid have been pouring in from around the world, but the donation of one close neighbor piqued Bill's interest. (VIDEO CLIP) GIBSON: OK, well, we're going to find out what the situation is. Frank McKenna is the Canadian ambassador to the U.S. He joins us now from Washington. So Mr. McKenna, welcome. FRANK MCKENNA, CANADIAN AMBASSADOR TO U.S.: Thank you. GIBSON: Bill was looking for lots of cash. I suppose the very first thing you'd want to tell me...

Toronto-- Long harboured Canadian resentment of Canada being annexed by the United States took a 90-degree angle on July 1 with Frank McKenna, Canada’s Ambassador to the United States, turning the tables. McKenna says he will organize the more than 1 million Canadians in the United States to lecture Americans. McKenna, who’s already sent messages to 6,000 expatriates, intends to get in touch with 100,000 of them by week’s end. The rookie ambassador is pressing the "Canadian diaspora" to arm themselves with facts, to debate Americans and to get out and lobby when Washington makes decisions that can hurt Canadians,...

Ambassador Frank McKenna lived up to his reputation as the outspoken politician, eager to debunk Canadian myths, while strengthening Canada’s relations with the U.S. on Tuesday. At a luncheon, in New York City, part of a joint effort between the Canadian Consulate General and the Canadian Association of New York, an upbeat, McKenna, praised Canada and the U.S.’s "unusual friendship where we've had a virtually undefended border." "These are two countries that have never exchanged a shot in anger and have stood side by side in so many places around the world in the cause of peace," said Canada's 20th...

A state Senate committee yesterday wrongly backed Chairman Jim Kastama's attempt to slam shut a critical door to the public's business. Kastama's disastrous amendment makes a bad bill worse, creating all kinds of new opportunity for government agencies to keep their actions from the public eye. The amendment essentially codifies last year's misguided state Supreme Court ruling that permits school boards, city councils and public commissions to invoke attorney-client privilege almost willy-nilly. If a House committee doesn't pass a more public-friendly bill by today's deadline, the only hope is to drastically amend the Senate bill on the floor — or...

The following is a statement by Illinois Republican Party Chairman Andy McKenna on Howard Dean’s visit to Chicago this Saturday, February 26, 2005. "When it’s all said and done, Howard Dean will be best remembered for being loud rather than being a leader.” CHICAGO, IL - “Howard Dean’s selection as Chairman of the Democratic National Committee is another perfect example of the Democratic Party moving away from mainstream America. Mr. Dean’s views on taxation, health care and national security represent the far-left wing of his Party - positions rejected by voters in the 2004 presidential election. When it’s all said...

Despite the role evangelicals played in swaying the 2004 presidential election, evangelicals in the Chicago area are not a political force to be reckoned with -- yet. That will soon change if Andy McKenna, newly elected chairman of the Illinois Republican Party, has anything to do with it.

The party of Lincoln isn't what it used to be. Long before the Alan Keyes election debacle, long before George Ryan's troubles, the seeds for the party's downfall were planted. What would Abe say?State Rep. Angelo "Skip" Saviano was mad. His face red and his nerves frayed, Saviano glared incredulously at the political creme de la creme of the Illinois Republican Party arrayed around the horseshoe-shaped table in the Union League Club, Chicago's posh and historic rendezvous for the rich and powerful. The Illinois Republican State Central Committee once seemed as well suited to the Union League as the painting...

What Did Hate-Crime Hoaxer Dunn Cost the Colleges?  That's the big question the judge asked at her sentencing, which was postponed to December 15, following a psychiatric evaluation of the hate-crimes hoaxer. Calling Claremont McKenna College professor Dunn a "bald-faced liar," Judge Horan stated: '"Ms. Dunn doesn't have to stand up and say she did it," Judge Charles Horan said during Friday's hearing. "But it sure would help the court in deciding whether prison time is appropriate."' According to a reliable source, an alumnus of the Colleges who attended the hearing: 'The judge was disappointed--his word--that there was no one...

POMONA - A former visiting Claremont McKenna psychology professor was sentenced to a year in state prison on Wednesday for falsely reporting that her car was damaged in a campus hate crime. A father's plea for mercy and a river of tears didn't win any leniency for Kerri Francis Dunn, who launched the community into tumult in March when she claimed her Honda was sprayed with racial and anti-Semitic slurs while she spoke at an anti-hate forum. Police later concluded she vandalized the car herself. "What she did was at least temporarily terrorize the minority students on campus and make...

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Juicy new details about that intolerant California professor who got a year in prison for faking a "hate crime" against herself: The judge denounced her for "terrorizing" minority students. Pomona Superior Court Judge Charles Horan further slapped down psychology professor Kerri Dunn because she "turned the rest of the students into suspects, adding that her actions could have sparked major racial violence," NBC Channel 4 reported in Los Angeles. "He likened her actions to calling in a fake bomb threat, saying it had the effect of terrorizing people." Deputy District Attorney Martin Bean agreed. "From what I saw in the...

A former Claremont McKenna College psychology professor convicted of falsely reporting her car was vandalized and spray-painted with racist and anti-Semitic slurs was sentenced Wednesday to a year in state prison. Kerri Dunn, 40, of Redlands, was convicted Aug. 18 of one misdemeanor count of filing a false police report and two felony counts of attempted insurance fraud stemming from the March 9 incident. She had faced anywhere from probation to three years in prison. She had claimed her car was targeted in what at first appeared to be a hate crime while she was speaking at a campus forum...

Remember that left-wing egghead at Claremont McKenna College who vandalized her own car and then cried "hate crime"? Today she got sentenced to a year in the slammer. Kerri Dunn, who is, naturally, a professor of psychology, falsely claimed that her Honda was spray-painted with racist and anti-Semitic slurs. She had faced up to three years in a California prison for filing a false police report and two felony counts of attempted insurance fraud. Get this: Miss Dunn staged the criminal hoax and launched a headline-grabbing spree of "hate crime" hysteria (as opposed to all those "love crimes" being committed...

Dunn jailed for psych review By ROD LEVEQUE, STAFF WRITER POMONA - A judge sent a former Claremont McKenna professor to state prison on Friday for 90 days psychological testing after the judge called her a "bald-faced liar" for continuing to deny she vandalized her own car and reported it as a hate crime. Kerri Francis Dunn was not sentenced as scheduled in Pomona Superior Court. Rather, Judge Charles Horan temporarily remanded her into custody and said he would use reports from prison examiners to help him decide whether to sentence the Redlands woman to probation or additional time behind...

POMONA, Calif. (AP) - A college professor convicted of staging a hate crime by spray-painting her own car with racist slurs was ordered to undergo 90 days of psychological testing at a state prison.

A Claremont McKenna College psychology professor was convicted Wednesday of falsely reporting her car was vandalized and spray-painted with racist and anti-Semitic slurs while she was speaking at a campus forum on racial tolerance. Kerri Dunn, 39, of Redlands was convicted of one misdemeanor count of filing a false police report and two felony counts of attempted insurance fraud. She faces up to 31/2 years in prison when she is sentenced Sept. 17. Her attorney, Gary S. Lincenberg, issued a statement saying Dunn would appeal the attempted insurance fraud convictions.

Professor's past in play at fraud trialBy ROD LEVEQUESTAFF WRITERPOMONA - Kerri Dunn's past could come back to haunt her if she chooses to take the witness stand in a trial set to begin today. Dunn, the college professor accused of vandalizing her own car and falsely reporting it as a hate crime, may be confronted during her trial with a 4-year-old allegation that she once faked injuries to herself and then blamed them on police during a shoplifting arrest in Nebraska, a judge ruled Thursday. Prosecutors may also try to impeach her testimony by questioning her about a shoplifting...

Trial opens for professor accused of fraud By MIRA KATZ, Staff Writer POMONA - A man with a tool box and not Kerri Dunn may have been the culprit who vandalized the former Claremont McKenna College psychology professor's car. Dunn's attorney said in opening statements Friday that Dunn of Redlands did not spray-paint hateful slurs on her Honda Civic and slash its tires, and during her trial he plans to call the college's electrician as a witness. The electrician will tell the jury a man with a tool box was crouched by her car the night of the incident that...

LOS ANGELES — A visiting Claremont McKenna College professor who claimed someone vandalized her car with racist and anti-Semitic slurs pleaded not guilty Tuesday to charges of filing a false police report and insurance fraud. Kerri Francis Dunn, 39, of Redlands, appeared in Los Angeles County Superior Court in Pomona and entered a not guilty plea to two felony counts of insurance fraud and a misdemeanor charge of filing a false police report. If convicted on all counts, Dunn faces a sentence ranging from probation to six years in prison, said Martin Bean, the deputy district attorney assigned to the...

<p>Kerri Dunn taught criminal justice but she was a shoplifter. While earning a PhD in psychology, she was ordered into counseling for stealing.</p> <p>Dunn, 39, was a hero to many students at Claremont McKenna College, lifting her voice for the oppressed. Then she became the professor who may have betrayed them.</p>

Walter Cronkite, Gloria Steinem, and Bill Bradley are speaking in May at the 2004 commencement exercises of the Claremont Colleges. Included with those notables is someone whose name may not be as easily recognized: Bernardine Dohrn, the commencement speaker at Pitzer College. On the Pitzer College web page announcing the event, Dohrn is referred to as a "leading child advocate" and a "Clinical Associate Professor of Law" at Northwestern University School of Law. This description is incomplete and therefore deceptive; it leaves out any mention of Dohrn's past as a leading member of Weather Underground, a radical domestic-terrorist group of...

CLAREMONT — A visiting Claremont McKenna College professor accused of making up a story about her car being spray-painted on campus with racist and anti-Semitic slurs pleaded innocent Tuesday to felony and misdemeanor charges. Kerri Dunn, 39, is free on her own recognizance pending a June 1 hearing to determine if there is enough evidence to require her to stand trial. Dunn was charged April 26 with two felony counts of insurance fraud and one misdemeanor count of filing a false police report. Dunn was scheduled to be in court tomorrow, but the hearing was done a day early at...

POMONA, Calif. (AP) - A Claremont McKenna College psychology professor who claimed someone vandalized her car with racist and anti-Semitic slurs was charged with filing a false police report and insurance fraud. Kerri Dunn's claim of being the victim of a hate crime shocked Claremont and associated colleges 30 miles east of Los Angeles, leading to rallies against intolerance last month. Police and the FBI began investigating, but within days police reported there were witness accounts of Dunn vandalizing the car herself. Dunn, 39, was charged Monday and will be arraigned May 19 on one count of filing a false...

Calif. Professor Charged with Hate Crime Hoax LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A Southern California college professor who received wide media attention when she claimed that racists had vandalized and defaced her car with ethnic slurs was charged on Monday with filing a false police report and insurance fraud. Kerri Dunn, a professor of psychology at Claremont McKenna College, east of Los Angeles, portrayed herself as a victim of racists angered by her message of tolerance at a campus forum when she reported the vandalism on March 9. She then put in a claim with her auto insurer for damages to...

CLAREMONT, Calif. - A professor who police believe staged a hate crime to rile the campus where she taught had a criminal record that included charges of shoplifting and driving without a license. >>>Snip<<< The Times reported that on Sept. 24, 1999, Dunn was arrested in Nebraska and charged for driving without a license and with having fictitious license plates on her car. Dun paid $75 in fines, according to prosecutor John McQuinn. On Dec. 31, 1999, police in Lincoln arrested her for shoplifting after she had stuffed a pink sweater in her purse while in the dressing room of...

http://209.211.253.6/goodstuff/midi/tv-movies/ MIDI - DAISY While she's warping students' minds at CMC...she claimed she's a victim and said "Whoa is me" Someone slashed her tires and painted her car...she said its a hate crime...Kerri went too far They have...the goods on that *itch...spray can...she forgot to ditch It is funny what the leftists pull They are always staging stunts and slinging bull It's a real who Dunn it...maybe not It was just one more pathetic whackjob...plot But, too bad for her, two witnesses saw what she did...she's busted Her *ss got hit by the door On her way out...now her next...

Other facts on Claremont McKenna teacher asked before filing case CLAREMONT -- The District Attorney's Office has asked the police to provide more information about a Claremont McKenna professor, whom police said vandalized her own car and reported it as a hate crime, before a case can be filed. Claremont police will provide the additional information to the district attorney sometime during the next week, said police Lt. Stan Van Horn. "We do not have a suspect in custody so there is time to have a thorough and complete investigation by the Police Department and a thorough investigation of the...

A psychology professor at Claremont McKenna College who said her car had been vandalized and painted with racist and sexist slurs was herself responsible for the damage, the police in Claremont, Calif., said Wednesday. Kerri F. Dunn, a visiting professor of social psychology at Claremont McKenna, spoke at a campus forum about hate crimes on March 9. When she later returned to her vehicle, which she had parked on the campus, she said the front window had been smashed and all four tires slashed. According to Ms. Dunn, who complained to the college and the police, someone had used black...

College to investigate vandalism By JASON NEWELL and MIRA KATZ STAFF WRITERS CLAREMONT - A Claremont McKenna College psychology professor was placed on a temporary paid leave of absence while the college investigates whether she vandalized her own car and reported it as a hate crime, according to a statement released Saturday by the college president. "Such an investigation and review is important and necessary prior to taking any further personnel action because Professor (Kerri) Dunn denies any involvement in this incident and the College is not aware of the full details of the police investigation," Pamela Gann's statement read....

Claremont McKenna president Pamela Gann said the college will honor its agreement to pay for a rental car for Kerri Dunn so she can drive to work. The college has offered to pay for the car repairs. The vandalism came after a series of race-related incidents at the colleges over the past few months, including a cross-burning at Harvey Mudd College in January. The cross-burning, which also prompted rallies and demonstrations, was determined to have been the work of drunken students who claimed they did not realize that burning a cross had racial significance. Dunn has had a few minor...

March 18, 2004 The Reichstag gambit The twentieth century's vilest totalitarian regimes perfected several techniques for the control of civilian populations. Among these techniques is the commission of a horrible crime together with the attribution of responsibility for the crime to political enemies. Perhaps the most famous example of this technique is the incident involving the burning of the Reichstag in late February 1933. Hitler and the Nazis immediately accused the Communists of setting the fire. A great deal of evidence collected and analyzed by Walther Hoferand and others, however, points in the direction of the Nazis themselves. (See, e.g.,...

<p>LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A college has placed a professor on paid leave while prosecutors determine whether she vandalized her own car and reported it as a hate crime, officials said Saturday.</p> <p>Kerri Dunn, 39, who was teaching on a one-year appointment at Claremont McKenna College east of Los Angeles, will be replaced when classes resume Monday following spring break.</p>

First, the Claremont Institute is not officially affiliated with Claremont McKenna College. It was founded by former students of Professor Jaffa when he was given the boot by CMC. CMC's reputation as a "conservative" school is vastly overrated. Only a third of the faculty is conservative and they are constantly under attack by the left-wing majority of faculty. Indeed, there is no western civ. requirement at CMC, making it therefore slightly less conservative than even Colombia. Food for thought.

CLAREMONT, Calif. - A professor who claimed she was targeted in a hate crime that stirred student protests at the Claremont colleges is suspected of staging the vandalism herself, police said Wednesday.   Kerri F. Dunn's car was vandalized and covered with racist, anti-Semitic and sexist epithets on March 9, leading faculty to cancel classes and students to stage rallies the following day. Two witnesses interviewed by police investigators allegedly saw Dunn, a visiting professor of psychology at Claremont McKenna College, commit the vandalism, police said in a statement. Dunn also gave inconsistent statements during two interviews conducted jointly by...

A week after a reported campus hate crime drew national attention, sparked protests and shut down the prestigious Claremont Colleges, police on Wednesday called the incident a hoax staged by a professor who slashed tires, shattered windows and spray-painted racist graffiti on her own car. Claremont McKenna College psychology professor Kerri Dunn, who had told police that her car was vandalized as she spoke at a March 9 forum on racism, was identified by two eyewitnesses as the person who damaged the auto, authorities said Wednesday. She was not arrested, but Claremont Police Lt. Stan Van Horn said the case...

Police are accusing a California college professor of vandalizing her own car, then reporting it as a hate crime. The car, in a Claremont College parking lot near Los Angeles, had slashed tires and had been painted with racist and sexist words. Police said the owner, visiting psychology professor Kerri Dunn, is the culprit. Lt. Paul Cooper said two witnesses saw Dunn drive into the lot with the graffiti already on the car, then get out and slash the tires. Dunn had said it happened while she was speaking at a forum on racism. The incident prompted campuswide rallies and...

LOS ANGELES -- A Claremont college professor who claimed she was targeted in a hate crime that provoked campus protests denied police allegations that she staged the vandalism. "This is like a very big deal if they think I'm a suspect," Kerri F. Dunn, a visiting professor of psychology at Claremont McKenna College, told the Los Angeles Times. "I didn't want any of this from the beginning. This is so overshadowing the bigger problem on campus, which is that the administration has turned its head regularly on hate speech and hate crimes." But police said two witnesses came forward with...

Police: Prof. faked hate crime Witnesses say Dunn vandalized own car By MELISSA PINION-WHITT, STAFF WRITER CLAREMONT - A Claremont McKenna psychology professor vandalized her own car last week and falsely reported the damages as a hate crime against her, police said Wednesday. Kerri Dunn, who spoke at a free speech seminar March 9, reported to police after the lecture that her car had been vandalized - tires slashed, windows broken and spray painted with racial epithets. Police, however, say two witnesses have come forward claiming they saw Dunn vandalizing her own vehicle. The incident prompted all five of the...

<p>A professor who claimed she was targeted in a hate crime that stirred student protests at the Claremont colleges is suspected of staging the vandalism herself, police said Wednesday.</p> <p>Kerri F. Dunn's car was vandalized and covered with racist, anti-Semitic and sexist epithets on March 9, leading faculty to cancel classes and students to stage rallies the following day.</p>

<p>About 2,000 students and faculty at the Claremont colleges chanted "ignorance has got to go" Wednesday as they converged in a display of anger after a professor's car was spray-painted with racial slurs, the latest in a rash of hate incidents in this tranquil college community.</p>

http://www.illinoisleader.com SPECIAL ELECTION WEEKEND: McKenna hits the road Saturday, March 13, 2004 By The Leader-Chicago Bureau (chicago@illinoisleader.com) GLENVIEW -- If you're looking for U.S. Senate candidate Andy McKenna this weekend, follow the McKenna's New Beginning Bus Tour. Andy, his wife Mary and their four young adult children will be aboard, visiting with supporters from Carbondale to Springfield to Rockford and finally, his home town of Glenview. The "New Beginning Express" will roll through twenty cities and more than 40 counties in an effort to reach out to Republican voters around Illinois, energize the campaign’s statewide field organization and spread McKenna’s...

O'Shea backs out of Senate raceCandidate says he lacked support, funds The field of Illinois Democrats seeking to replace retiring Republican Sen. Peter Fitzgerald became a little less crowded Monday when Matt O’Shea, mayor of Downstate Metamora, announced he is dropping out of the race. With just over four months until the primaries, Mr. O’Shea, 44, is the first Democrat to withdraw his candidacy. “I decided it would be best to drop out now, before my name is on the ballot,” he said. Continuing to campaign didn't make sense when polls show he has just 3% to 4% of the...