Posted on 07/21/2006 7:52:05 AM PDT by seanmerc
Cynthia McKinney Missing In Action
Rep. Cynthia McKinney was a no-show this week in the U.S. House, as WSB Washington Correspondent Jamie Dupree reports that the Georgia Democrat missed all four days of legislative business and every vote on the House floor as well.
McKinney's office offered no comment as to why the Congresswoman did not return to Washington after Tuesday's primary election, where she was forced into an August 8th runoff against Hank Johnson.
Also left unanswered Thursday night was whether McKinney would be back at the U.S. Capitol next week. The House has one more week of work before a scheduled August break.
McKinney missed 19 votes over four days on the House floor, including an attempted override of President Bush's veto of a bill dealing with embryonic stem cell research, a constitutional amendment that would ban same-sex marriage and a bill designed to prevent federal courts from ruling on the constitutionality of the words "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance.
The Georgia Democrat has missed nearly 11 percent of the 393 recorded votes in the U.S. House so far in 2006.
According to the Congressional Record, McKinney did have official permission to miss votes on Monday and Tuesday of this week, what is known as a "Leave of Absence." There was no notice of any request being granted for Wednesday's session of the House.
07/21/2006
crack binge
She has eloped with Cindy Sheehan.
LOL you beat me to it.
Who cares?
Yet her moonbat and welfare-dependent constituency over in south DeKalb will gladly vote for her in her runoff election.
Or impending indictment?
That would be a video you would want in your collection!
the lights are on...but nobody's home!
She didn't want to have to be on the record voting against the JOOZE!!!!!!!!
Evidently, it doesn't matter to her Georgia voters.
"Code Pink Alert! McKinney Skates Town With Pink Person, Medea Benjamin. They were last seen heading out of town doing the electric slide!"
She won a $1,000 shopping spree at a liquor store.
Now THERE'S an image I could've lived without.
"That would be a video you would want in your collection!"
That's the one they show all the Viagra/Cialis guys that get those "erections lasting more than four hours..." PROBLEM SOLVED!!!
For some reason, I thought of that movie called "Scared Straight."
Actually it will be a shame for the Republican party if she's defeated.
Actually, it does. She was expected to easily win the Primary election here a couple days ago - didn't happen. Instead, more people voted against her than for her, she's been forced into a run-off election, and Boortz is loudly pointing out (among other things) something like 80% of her financial support comes from out-of-state contributors with eyebrow-raising names. The voters have turned on her.
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