Posted on 06/16/2006 2:19:16 PM PDT by FreedomPoster
Breaking news on the local news program. More later.
Beat me to it. I was looking for a link.
"A Grand Jury in Washington DC has decided not to indict Cynthia McKinney."
Dusgusting.
No surprise here. Will the cop she attacked be punished or fired?
She's a pig.
It's their culture of corruption.
As if we didn't know that would happen.
She's definitely a "missing" link from somewhere.
McKinney's facing a good conservative opponent. She may be upsetted.
She should still be censured by the House.
Just the way they reported it, I didn't think there would be one yet.
Just another example of a black person gettin away with a crime because they yell racism. Kind of like Coulter's infallibility issue. Its all the same thing.
No justice, no peace!
Friday late deal cuttin news!
Does she have to go to rehab at the Mayo Clinic?
Well---THAT sucks!
Good luck.
They will give her a medal, along with Jefferson.
I wish Catherine Davis all the best in her efforts to knock Cynthia McKinney (D-GA) off of the high horse on which she has been perched for far too long.
A little known African American woman announced Thursday that she will try to unseat Georgia Democratic Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney, who has been mired in controversy since she struck a U.S. Capitol policeman in the chest with her closed fist.
Catherine Davis, a human resources manager who has never held elected office, said she is running because McKinney's "dismal legislative record and her outrageous behavior are an embarrassment to the hard-working folks in my district." McKinney represents Georgia's 4th Congressional District.
Davis is conservative. She favors a strict approach to immigration reform - the immediate securing of the borders and deportation of illegal residents, privatizing Social Security, Health Savings Accounts, school vouchers and the Fair Tax, which would eliminate the federal income tax and establish a federal sales tax.
McKinney was first elected to the U.S. House in 1992 to represent Georgia's heavily Democratic 11th District. The district was redrawn by order of the U.S. Supreme Court in 1995 and McKinney was elected in the new, but still heavily Democratic 4th District in 1996. She lost her seat in 2002 when she was beaten in a Democratic primary, but when the winner then attempted a bid for the U.S. Senate in 2004, McKinney recaptured her old seat.
Davis said she believes the district is ready for change after the controversy that has swirled around McKinney.
In March, McKinney was criticized for hitting a Capitol police officer when he tried to stop her at a security checkpoint in the Cannon House Office Building. McKinney was not wearing her congressional pin at the time and was sporting a new hairstyle that the officer did not recognize.
McKinney apologized for the incident taking place, but did not specifically apologize to the officer she struck. McKinney had earlier accused the officer of "racial profiling" and "inappropriate touching."
In the aftermath of the incident, McKinney again came under fire for telling a reporter not to air comments she had made off camera that were derogatory toward a staff member. McKinney forgot to remove her microphone before saying that staff member Coz Carson "is a fool."
"While in the past simply being a Democrat was enough to get you elected," Davis told Cybercast News Service , "I believe the voters of the 4th are shifting and they're looking for leadership. I also believe that they are tired of the talking loud and saying nothing -- antics that the current congresswoman has engaged in."
Davis is critical of the way McKinney handled the incident with the Capitol police officer. She said she understands McKinney's initial reaction to the police offer grabbing her, but said the congresswoman should have immediately apologized.
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