Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Cynthia McKinney hints at running for office again
Atlanta Journal Constitution ^ | 9/21/07 | Jim Galloway

Posted on 09/21/2007 8:07:53 PM PDT by LdSentinal

Now that she's turned down a run for the White House, and has largely paid down the debt from her 2006 congressional defeat, Cynthia McKinney is dropping mega-hints that she's ready for a return to the Georgia political scene.

On her Web site, she's invited supporters to send their thoughts on the "possibilities facing her in the 2008 electoral cycle." But otherwise, she is making no commitment. "You can wait until next year," she told Roll Call newspaper this week, after a Washington appearance.

U.S. Rep. Hank Johnson, who took her 4th District congressional seat following a bitter Democratic primary run-off, says he assumes he'll be the target of any renewed McKinney ambition.

"We feel good about our ability to continue to represent the district," he said in an interview.

Perhaps not by coincidence, the first-term congressman will appear this afternoon at the side of presidential candidate Barack Obama, at a rally of 2,000-plus people planned for the Georgia World Congress Center.

But Congress isn't McKinney's only option next year.

Though he claims no special knowledge, John Evans, who was McKinney's campaign manager in '06, said there is a possibility that she could run for CEO of DeKalb County government next year. Democratic incumbent Vernon Jones is term-limited, and is in the midst of a campaign for U.S. Senate.

"I have no earthly idea what she plans to do," said Evans, a former DeKalb County commissioner.

"When and if she decides anything she's going to do, she will share it with us and we'll decide whether or not we want to get on the train," he said.

Efforts to contact McKinney directly for this article were unsuccessful.

Elected six times to Congress and defeated twice, McKinney remains one of the best known and most polarizing political figures in Georgia — the object of both extreme loyalty and tenacious opposition in DeKalb County.

She has spent much of this year testing the waters for a presidential campaign under the banner of the Green Party. This month, citing the "level of development" within the party, and "my own long postponed personal priorities," McKinney opted out.

But throughout her presidential explorations, said Evans, her ex-campaign manager, McKinney has paid particular attention to paying down an '06 campaign debt of nearly $45,000.

McKinney is now within $6,200, according to her web site, www.allthingscynthiamckinney.com — where she's also offering autographed campaign T-shirts for $100 each, suitable for framing or wearing.

"Please give generously," says the web site. "Together we can help prepare our congresswoman for her next step in service to our nation's people."

Johnson thinks it unlikely that, as a freshman congressman, he'll escape a re-match with McKinney. In preparation, he's gone to great lengths to raise his profile — and yet maintain a quiet demeanor.

"We have to have professionalism in that position," he said.

William Boone, a political scientist at Clark Atlanta University, gives short shrift to speculation that McKinney might run for CEO of DeKalb County.

"It's a hard-working position — similar to a mayor. You don't have the excess of time that you would have as a member of Congress," he observed.

Congress offers its members a higher profile and an opportunity to set their own agendas, Boone said.


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: georgia; jews; madeyemckinney; mckinney; nut
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-38 last
To: LdSentinal

Great news!!!! She’s always good for a laugh or two. Nothing like adding yet another blathering idiot to the mix of traitors in the RAT comppund!


21 posted on 09/21/2007 8:32:56 PM PDT by zerosix (<Native Sunflower>)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: LdSentinal

What a stupid b**ch. I’ve said it before; she needs to be scrubbing toilets in Buckhead.


22 posted on 09/21/2007 8:38:33 PM PDT by RightOnline
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: LdSentinal
Image hosted by Photobucket.com
I told's ya... she crazy!!!
23 posted on 09/21/2007 8:39:54 PM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: doc1019

I don’t see her chances being any better in ‘08 than they were in ‘06....


24 posted on 09/21/2007 9:04:51 PM PDT by scrabblehack
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 10 | View Replies]

To: getmeouttaPalmBeachCounty_FL

25 posted on 09/21/2007 9:09:28 PM PDT by FearlessFreep (How dare you break wind before me. Sorry, didn't realize it was your turn.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 16 | View Replies]

To: LdSentinal

I’m leaving this thread now before I post something that will get me tossed. (:^*)


26 posted on 09/21/2007 9:10:13 PM PDT by RoadKingSE
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: LdSentinal
Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at PhotobucketPhoto Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket

"I wants ta be relected."

27 posted on 09/21/2007 9:16:34 PM PDT by Cobra64 (www.BulletBras.net)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: ChildOfThe60s

Where is the picture of her as looter guy?


28 posted on 09/21/2007 9:21:46 PM PDT by Beagle8U (FreeRepublic -- One stop shopping ....... Its the Conservative Super WalMart for news .)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 18 | View Replies]

To: upchuck

Good question. You could ask the same about Jesse Jackson and
Al Sharpton (the two Revs).


29 posted on 09/21/2007 9:23:06 PM PDT by pankot
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 7 | View Replies]

To: Lil'freeper

AIeee! My eyes! I just gouged out my eyes!


30 posted on 09/21/2007 9:25:15 PM PDT by pankot
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 8 | View Replies]

To: LdSentinal

Alright!!!! Sweet Cynthia is back, WOOHOO!!!!

I have missed her scrumptious crazy-candy of rich, chocolaty lunacy filled with crunchy psychoses and then dipped in dark schizophrenic dementia.


31 posted on 09/21/2007 9:43:32 PM PDT by kb2614 (Hell hath no fury than a bureaucrat scorned)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: LdSentinal
A-HAHAHAHA!
Nappy-headed "ho!

32 posted on 09/22/2007 12:30:27 AM PDT by Sarajevo (Out of my mind. Back in five minutes.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: LdSentinal
Separated at birth?

Alastor 'Mad-Eye' Moody (Brendan Gleeson)

33 posted on 09/22/2007 12:40:12 AM PDT by Redcloak (The 2nd Amendment isn't about sporting goods.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: kb2614
Sweet Cynthia is back

Yep, just like something unpleasant that you're unable to scrape from your shoe.

34 posted on 09/22/2007 12:41:51 AM PDT by Charles Martel (The Tree of Liberty thirsts.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 31 | View Replies]

To: Sarajevo

She thought about running for president? I wonder how much they paid her off not to do that. That would be wild. Even if she got a tiny % of the far left vote that might be enough to tip the balance to the Republican.


35 posted on 09/22/2007 12:51:13 AM PDT by TNCMAXQ
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 32 | View Replies]

To: no dems

fitting...


36 posted on 09/22/2007 6:16:58 AM PDT by ejonesie22 (I don't use a sarcasm tag, it kills the effect...)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 19 | View Replies]

To: LdSentinal
Cynthia McKinney is a proverbial “sticky bogger” for the Democrat Party. She is also a “bellweather” for the social and political attitudes of the Negroes and “Black” politicians in Georgia and the “Black Political Caucus”.
37 posted on 09/22/2007 6:25:17 AM PDT by RedEyeJack
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: LdSentinal

Well, she’s gotta do somthin’ to make a livin’!


38 posted on 09/22/2007 6:37:20 AM PDT by BnBlFlag (Deo Vindice/Semper Fidelis "Ya gotta saddle up your boys; Ya gotta draw a hard line")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-38 last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson