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No Apology From McKinney for Hill Scuffle
AP ^ | 3/31/6 | AURIE KELLMAN

Posted on 03/31/2006 10:24:32 AM PST by SmithL

WASHINGTON -- Rep. Cynthia McKinney, the Georgia congresswoman who had a physical altercation with a police officer, is speaking out about the episode after saying she regretted the incident.

But she has refused to apologize in a statement and a brief on-camera interview.

The six-term congresswoman apparently struck a Capitol Police officer when he tried to stop her from entering a House office building without going through a metal detector. Members of Congress wear identifying lapel pins and routinely are waved into buildings without undergoing security checks. The officer apparently did not recognize McKinney, she said in a statement.

Asked on-camera Thursday by WSB-TV of Atlanta whether she intended to apologize, McKinney refused to comment. A news conference scheduled for Friday morning was canceled. She issued a statement late Wednesday saying she regretted the confrontation.

"I know that Capitol Hill Police are securing our safety, and I appreciate the work that they do. I have demonstrated my support for them in the past and I continue to support them now," she said in the statement on her Web site.

Capitol Police were considering Thursday whether to ask the U.S. Attorney's office to file charges against McKinney, a Democrat who represents Atlanta suburbs that make up one of Georgia's two black-majority districts.

Democrats and Republicans, meanwhile, engaged in a rhetorical scuffle over the incident.

Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi on Thursday labeled it "a mistake, an unfortunate lack of recognition of a member of Congress." She added that the police officer was not at fault.

"I would not make a big deal of this," said Pelosi, D-Calif.

(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 109th; apology; assault; cultureofcorruption; mckinney; mcninney
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... "a mistake, an unfortunate lack of recognition of a member of Congress." She added that the police officer was not at fault.

Ok then, that clears it up. Nothing to see here.

41 posted on 03/31/2006 12:35:25 PM PST by numberonepal (Don't Even Think About Treading On Me)
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To: SmithL

42 posted on 03/31/2006 12:38:32 PM PST by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: EQAndyBuzz; martin_fierro
[EQAndyBuzz] By the time this is over, the officer will lose his job, have to take a sensitivity class and be forced to give repatriations to all African Americans for slavery. [Emphasis supplied]

Did you really mean "repatriations"?

LOL.

43 posted on 03/31/2006 3:18:37 PM PST by lentulusgracchus ("Whatever." -- sinkspur)
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To: everyone

Rats do not apologize.

Sub-human Rats don't even know how.

If our "leadership" had any cojones, they would run this one into the ground 24/7.


44 posted on 03/31/2006 3:19:40 PM PST by California Patriot ("That's not Charlie the Tuna out there. It's Jaws.")
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To: Coop

FNC just mentioned the previous incidents. Including the stink she made at the WH.


45 posted on 03/31/2006 3:22:31 PM PST by mewzilla (Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist. John Adams)
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To: SmithL; 4CJ; shuckmaster; rustbucket
Mad Cow bump.

Cynthia-be-buggin'-ag'in ping.

46 posted on 03/31/2006 3:22:48 PM PST by lentulusgracchus ("Whatever." -- sinkspur)
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To: California Patriot
If our "leadership" had any cojones, they would run this one into the ground 24/7.

Yes, you would think this would be worth at least a Denny Hastert denunciation from the chair, gavel in hand.

Make a stink. Mad Cow McKinney needs her whuppin'.

47 posted on 03/31/2006 3:24:51 PM PST by lentulusgracchus ("Whatever." -- sinkspur)
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To: dead
Is that her publicity still she hands out in the Hood when she's running?
48 posted on 03/31/2006 3:26:03 PM PST by lentulusgracchus ("Whatever." -- sinkspur)
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To: stainlessbanner
Bad-girl ping.
49 posted on 03/31/2006 3:27:26 PM PST by lentulusgracchus ("Whatever." -- sinkspur)
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To: lentulusgracchus; La Enchiladita
Apparently she has a ways to go to match Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee. [Link].
50 posted on 03/31/2006 8:10:11 PM PST by rustbucket
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To: Cheburashka

"Do you seriously expect that any Democrats would vote for that?"

Oh, hell no...they would not mess with the race card. I'm only saying IMPEACH her because that's how nutty they are about Bush. She's there for life....and now we have weeks of the race card garbage to look for.


51 posted on 03/31/2006 8:16:04 PM PST by goresalooza (Nurses Rock!)
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To: rustbucket

The hair! The hair! My eyes!

Just as I looked at your post, Crazy McKinney came on the TEEVEE ....

She needs tranquilizers.


52 posted on 03/31/2006 11:17:21 PM PST by La Enchiladita (Walk softly, carry a big stick... and don't forget to connect the dots ...)
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To: rustbucket
God, I despise that cow.......Lee is the "Queen of the Nile", which used to be funny back before even she started calling herself a "queen".

I don't have a Congressman, I have Lee. Whatever I need, she is reflexively and orgasmically against. What a toad.

53 posted on 04/01/2006 3:57:35 AM PST by lentulusgracchus ("Whatever." -- sinkspur)
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"Singer and activist Harry Belafonte and actor Danny Glover also appeared with McKinney. They said they had come not in judgment of the facts of the case, but, as Glover put it, "to support our sister." "

Dear Harry and Danny,

Is Condi also a sister?

"Did you really mean "repatriations"?"

Did I say something wrong? I am not always the sharpest knife in the drawer.


54 posted on 04/01/2006 7:54:10 AM PST by EQAndyBuzz (To Serve Man......It's a cookbook!)
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To: lentulusgracchus

"Did you really mean "repatriations"?

LOL.'

Ok, tell me that wasn't a slip. LOL...


55 posted on 04/01/2006 7:55:50 AM PST by EQAndyBuzz (To Serve Man......It's a cookbook!)
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To: La Enchiladita
Just look at her eyes when she's on the tube... riot-eyes. That security guard was lucky she poked him with a cellphone... and not a butcher knife.
56 posted on 04/01/2006 8:03:54 AM PST by johnny7 (“Nah, I ain’t Jewish, I just don’t dig on swine, that’s all.”)
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To: EQAndyBuzz
[Me] "Did you really mean "repatriations"?"

[Thee] Did I say something wrong? I am not always the sharpest knife in the drawer.

"Repatriations" for "reparations" is, how shall we say this, "historically resonant" -- there really were a couple of "back to Africa" movements in the 19th century. Church and abolition groups sent thousands of ex-slaves to found Liberia in the first half of the century, and then Abraham Lincoln endorsed their idea in the 1850's and continued to explore possibilities for black freedmen's emigration while he was president. One scheme he apparently had in mind was to use an army of about a million freedmen to build the Panama Canal 30 years early, after which the survivors (this was before Army doctors got a handle on yellowjack) would settle in Central America. When Lincoln died, General Van Sickles (he of the Wheatfield at Gettysburg) was in Panama and New Granada (Colombia) pursuing this possibility. Lastly, Marcus Garvey launched his own "back to Africa" movement at the close of the 19th century, whose enduring contribution has turned out to be his movement's flag, in the colors red, green, and black.

57 posted on 04/01/2006 12:03:56 PM PST by lentulusgracchus ("Whatever." -- sinkspur)
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To: tcrlaf
Can you believe the racist BS coming from this??

Believe it in a heartbeat.

The basic claim of antiracialism is that people are all pretty much alike.

Catch-22: if Georgia rednecks can be racist, so can Georgia blacks. I've no doubt that McKinney is the real deal, a 100% triple-rectified and case-hardened black racist who hates every minute that she lives in a country full of white people she'd sincerely like to see GO AWAY.

58 posted on 04/01/2006 12:15:46 PM PST by lentulusgracchus ("Whatever." -- sinkspur)
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To: lentulusgracchus

ROFL... Reparations. That's what I meant.

Ok, liberal blond moment on my part.


59 posted on 04/01/2006 2:10:58 PM PST by EQAndyBuzz (To Serve Man......It's a cookbook!)
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