Earl Hillard-D, Alabama.
We bounced this anti-Americanist out of the US House. (Some say with Jewish Money)
Posted on 08/04/2002 7:54:17 AM PDT by mhking
Republicans in DeKalb County's 4th Congressional District do not matter. They don't count. They're there, but as filler.
In congressional races, their perdition for the next 10 years is to be represented by a liberal Democrat. They can vent, write letters, pout or drop out, but in redistricting Democrats guaranteed that the 4th District of Georgia will send a Democrat, certainly a liberal and most likely a black, to Congress. Get used to marginalization.
That said, they don't really have to put up with a liberal Democrat who's also contemptuous of them, who concocts fantasies about the president starting wars to enrich his friends.
While they don't matter in November, they can matter in August.
The 4th District has a population of 629,690, of whom 472,785 are of voting age. Blacks are 56.14 percent of the population and 51.39 percent of the voting-age population. Latinos are 8.55 percent of the total population and 8.47 percent of the voting-age, but probably only 2 or 3 percent of those are eligible to vote. About 65-70 percent of the district's voters are Democrats.
Republicans in the 4th District, like Republicans in the one-party Statehouse, are there to keep up appearances. Being immaterial doesn't, however, mean being useless.
In the old days when Democrats did to blacks what they have now done to Republicans, blacks often voted in blocs to keep the worst of the segregationists out of office. It's a strategy Republicans should embrace.
They could matter in the 4th Congressional District race in the Democratic primary, where incumbent U.S. Rep. Cynthia McKinney is being challenged by Judge Denise Majette. A poll last week by an Internet political news service, Marketing Workshop, reveals a race far closer than pundits suspected. The two are neck-and-neck -- a sure indication that serious race-baiting is in the cards, irrespective of the fact that both are black and philosophically compatible. McKinney will go incendiary, a tactic that usually works.
That was a factor in keeping the more moderate former DeKalb CEO Liane Levetan from challenging, fearing that a race would deteriorate into anti-Semitism and harm black-Jewish relations, as in the 1996 campaign against John Mitnick, whom McKinney's father called a "racist Jew."
Too, a large Jewish community in the Briarcliff-LaVista area, about 10,000 people, were moved into U.S. Rep. John Lewis' 5th District when districts were redrawn. "I heard loud and clear those people wanted out," said state Rep. Doug Teper, who represents the area in the Georgia House.
DeKalb, like most of metro Atlanta, has attracted upwardly mobile and politically sophisticated newcomers. In south DeKalb and in the Lithonia and Stone Mountain areas, especially, those newcomers are black and Democratic. To newcomers, the peculiar style of local politicians can be off-putting.
In this race, the Cynthia rant and ramble may, curiously enough, strike newcomers the same way local politicians' rhetoric on the flag strikes white newcomers in Gwinnett, Cherokee and Cobb counties. That is, entertaining -- but off-putting. Majette's low-key professionalism seems more attuned to voters in the new upscale neighborhoods popping up in the district.
Georgia does not have party registration. Voters decide when they walk in the door whether they want to vote in the Republican or the Democratic primary. You can be a Republican one primary and a Democrat the next and split the ticket in November.
Republicans in November have no chance of electing a conservative in the 4th District race. Democrats in the General Assembly have stacked the deck. But they can choose the more moderate of the liberal Democrats.
Jim Wooten is associate editorial page editor. His column appears Sundays, Tuesdays and Fridays.
The Republicans have the ability to oust McKinney in this election by voting for Majette. Tell everyone you know and get out the Republican vote for Majette. BTW, it is legal for Republicans to 'cross-over' and vote for Majette.
I don't live in GA so I can't do anything about it but I think I like this strategy of "defensive voting" when electing a conservative , or at least a Republican, is impossible.
And if, at some point, the Dems take over the House, McKinney stands to take over some House subcommittees because of her slot on the House Armed Services Committee and House International Affairs Committee. If she stays in Congress long enough, she could become chairman of these committees.
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From Ms. McKinney's home site:http://www.house.gov/mckinney/hl/nfppa.htm (Barf and Big Fat Liar ALERT!)
The National Forest Protection and Restoration Act (HR 1396)
One-hundred and one years ago, in 1897, Congress made a very unwise decision. A rider was attached to the Interior Appropriations bill, opening national forests to timber sales for the first time. Before that they were protected. The result has been habitat destruction, agency corruption and lawlessness, floods, mudslides and enormous losses to taxpayers. In 1990, National Geographic estimated that over 95% of America's old-growth forests have been cut down and hauled to the mill. More recent reports estimate that 97% has been logged. If we do not act now, soon our children and grandchildren may have little or no opportunity to visit these pristine areas. Furthermore, according to an independent study, later deemed accurate by the Congressional Research Service, the U.S. Forest Service spent $791 million in taxpayer dollars to subsidize timber companies in their efforts to destroy our natural heritage. Not one dollar was returned to the treasury.
In an effort to stop this environmentally destructive and fiscally irresponsible practice, Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney and Congressman Leach (R-IA) introduced the National Forest Protection and Restoration Act (HR 2789). This important legislation would stop logging on the national forests, and redirect these subsidies into worker retraining, revenue-sharing payments for counties, and grants for development of tree-free paper and construction alternatives.
The National Forest Protection and Restoration Act makes perfect economic, as well as environmental sense. By no longer subsidizing the logging industry, we could provide more than $25,000 in worker retraining for each public lands timber employee and still have more than $200 million left over to reduce the federal deficit in the first year alone. By stopping logging in national forests, these areas could be used for recreational use. The United States Forest Service reported that the recreational industry provides 30 times as many jobs and 30 times as much income as logging. So, converting these areas to recreational use would not only preserve them, but would contribute to the growing popularity of camping, hiking, hunting and fishing.
Earl Hillard-D, Alabama.
We bounced this anti-Americanist out of the US House. (Some say with Jewish Money)
Hilliard got ran out with Jewish Money? GASP!
Both McKinney and Hilliard have gotten and are getting a sea of Arab Money....some from rather questionable people. CAIR pushed Hilliard and are now pushing McKinney.
Check out this thread: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/727138/posts
Because the GOP is the stupid party.
McKinney is causing the Democrats real heartaches over her call for investigations into corruption in Africa. Some big Democrat donors such as Tempelsman (Jackie O's consort) get their money feeding off misery in Africa.
McKinney's votes on Israel are meaningless.Liberals are trying to con Republicans into kicking out their problem child so they can get someone in there will will never be defeated.
McKinney only won last time by 10 points. They knock her off in the primary (with the help of Republicans) and Democrats will win that seat by 25 points.
Hilliard didn't teach some conservatives a lesson. Republicans helped knock him out because of his meaningless votes on Israel.
But Hilliard was pro-second amendment and for prayer in school. The Harvard lawyer who replaced him isn't.
Republicans need to look at who is encouraging them to help Democrats beat McKinney in the primary.
Notice how Jewish Democarts are not supporting McKinney's GOP opponent. They want a liberal in there. But they want one who is not going to say things such as this:
"Why should Antwerp and Tel Aviv be built on the limbs and backs of Freetown, Luanda and Kinshasa?"--Cynthia McKinney
McKinney Cashing In With Muslim Donors
NewsMax.com ^ | 8/03/02 | Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff
Posted on 08/03/2002 11:39 AM Central by kattracks
Georgia Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney, who raised eyebrows in March when she alleged that President Bush's family had both anticipated and profited from the Sept. 11 attacks, is back on the hotseat again - with new questions emerging about her supporters.
"At least three-quarters of the $234,299 that McKinney has raised from individuals [who gave to her reelection campaign this year] is from donors with Muslim or Arab American surnames, the great majority of whom live outside her district," reported the Washington Post on Friday.
At least one McKinney donor, American Muslim Foundation Director Abdurahman Alamoudi, has publicly bragged about his ties to the terrorist organization Hamas.
Weeks after the 9-11 attacks, McKinney lobbied Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal for a $10 million donation for her district after the cash had been rejected by then-New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who was offended by bin Talal's statements linking the attacks to the U.S.'s ties to Israel.
Georgia - Some McKinney donors probed for terror ties
Atlanta Journal-Constitution ^ | August 3, 2002 | BILL TORPY
Posted on 08/03/2002 2:10 AM Central by HAL9000
Some McKinney donors probed for terror ties
DeKalb Democrat said unaware any donors might support terror
Rep. Cynthia McKinney's re-election campaign has accepted contributions from several people who have come under federal investigation for suspected links to Middle Eastern terrorists or have voiced support for extremist groups.
The outspoken DeKalb County Democrat, a frequent critic of U.S. Middle East policy, has long drawn Arab and Muslim financial support. Most of McKinney's individual donors listed on disclosure reports in 2001 and this year have Arabic names and live out of state.
According to a review of federal campaign disclosure records, they include:
* Abdurahman Alamoudi, leader of a Muslim organization, who during a 2000 rally outside the White House expressed support for the violent Palestinian group Hamas and for Hezbollah, the Lebanese Shiite party linked to bombings. The controversy surrounding his comments caused Senate candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton and George W. Bush's presidential campaign to return his contributions.
* A professor who was jailed in 1998 on contempt charges for refusing to answer a grand jury's questions about alleged money-laundering links to Hamas.
* Five businessmen whose homes or businesses were searched in March during an FBI raid investigating financial links to terrorism. Another was an officer in one of the groups under investigation, according to Federal Election Commission reports.
McKinney Cashing In on Sept. 11 (why did Arabs send her big bucks on day of attacks)?
Best of the Web Today ^ | Friday, August 2, 2002 3:05 p.m. EDT | BY JAMES TARANTO
Posted on 08/02/2002 2:56 PM Central by Behind Liberal Lines
A few months ago, Rep. Cynthia McKinney of Georgia famously accused President Bush of having foreknowledge of the Sept. 11 attacks and not acting to prevent them because, as she put it, "Persons close to this administration are poised to make huge profits off America's new war."
Well, on Sept. 11 someone sure was cashing in. Blogger Scott Koenig has examined McKinney's campaign-contribution records at OpenSecrets.org. It turns out that McKinney raked in $13,850 on Sept. 11 from 22 different donors, all with Arab- or Muslim-sounding names. Blogger Jim Henley analyzes the records further and finds that Sept. 11 marked McKinney's third-biggest one-day haul since 1999. What explains the concentration of donations on that day? Henley offers some theories, of which he says these are the two most plausible:
Peace and justice forces rally to McKinney
Arab News ^ | 8/2/02 | Frances M. Beal
Posted on 08/02/2002 8:23 AM Central by CFW
AIPAC, the American Israel Political Affairs Committee is tasting blood with the defeat of Earl Hilliard in Alabama. The US Congressman had enraged the Zionist lobbying group by often voting against legislation that one-sidedly favored Israel and introducing a bill to drop sanctions against Libya and Iraq.
AIPAC is now aiming its big financial and political fangs at Cynthia McKinney from Georgia's 4th congressional district. She faces a primary runoff on August 20th, which for all intents and purposes, determines the general election with an overwhelmingly Democrat constituency. Her stance on a balanced Mid East policy and her outspoken criticism of the Israeli occupation army has enraged AIPAC and it has arranged for hundreds of thousands of dollars to be poured into her opponent's campaign coffers.
McKinney's black female opponent is a former Judge who was appointed by Sen. Zell Miller, a Georgia democrat who initially appointed this Jonetta come lately to the bench. He has joined the AIPAC chorus with an unprecedented assault on Democratic Party colleague McKinney. Thus, AIPAC is joined in this all-sided assault by the local and national apparatus of the Democratic Party because of McKinney's views on peace, human rights and civil liberties.
The McKinney Files....
various links | 04-19-02 | backhoe
Posted on 04/19/2002 11:27 AM Central by backhoe
A little "Twilight Zone" music, please...
Here's a place to start:
-this list-McKinney's Supporters--
-Some of McKinney's Supporters--
Cynthia McKinney in the Twilight Zone: Ask the victims of Robert Mugabe
-Some McKinney Contributors Support Terrorist Groups--
-Comprehensive List of Terrorists and Groups Identified Under Executive Order 13224--
house.gov: Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney(D)(GA)Gore's 'Negro Tolerance Level' has never been high
Just for fun, run a "McKinney" search with these:
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I notice you don't think Republicans should take her seat. you just want a Democrat in there who doesn't cause trouble in the Democrat party.
So why is Lieberman calling for more Palestinians to come to America? Haven't figured that out yet. Nor do I know why Lieberman threatened to filibuster ANWR. I would think he would want America to send less money to Saddam and the Saudis.
And what is this about Liberman and Levin not calling Robert Rubin to testify about the stock market crash? Have anything to do with the fact that a Saudi prince just dumped half a billion more into Citibank? This Saudi is the single largest stockholder in Citigroup, isn't he? Ruben is getting how much a month from Citigroup? A million? Two million?
While we are at it, do you know why Sandra Feldman wants Sami Al-Arian back in his South Florida classroom? The guy raised money for Hamas for crying out loud. Why does a good Democrat like Sandra want him teaching?
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