Posted on 06/11/2002 5:21:55 PM PDT by mhking
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Is it time to end Cynthia McKinneys time in Congress? Meet her opponent.
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Talk Radio 1340 continues Free Speech Saturday on Saturday, June 15th, 2002; live at the Landmark Diner in Buckhead on Roswell Road at Piedmont Road. Free Speech Saturday is from Noon to 2. Denise Majette was scheduled to be on last weeks Free Speech Saturday but had to cancel because of a death in her family.
Denise Majette is a Democratic candidate for Congress in Georgias 4th District. The 46-year-old native of Brooklyn, New York earned her bachelors degree in history at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut in 1976 and her juris doctor degree at the Duke University School of Law in Durham, North Carolina in 1979.
After law school, she was a staff attorney with the Legal Aid Society in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, where she also was a clinical adjunct professor of law at Wake Forest University. Since moving to Georgia in 1983, Denise served as a law clerk for Judge R. Keegan Federal of the Superior Court of DeKalb County; law assistant to Judge Robert Benham of the Georgia Court of Appeals; a special assistant attorney general for the state of Georgia; and was a partner in the law firm of Jenkins, Nelson & Welch in Atlanta.
On July 1, 1992, Denise was sworn in as an administrative law judge for the Atlanta office of the Georgia State Board of Workers Compensation. Less than a year later, on June 8, 1993, Governor Zell Miller appointed her to the State Court of DeKalb County. In nearly 10 years on the bench, she presided over hundreds of civil and criminal jury trials, bench trials, and hearings. Her constituents twice returned her to office. In the last election, her 66 percent of the votes enabled her to defeat two opponents without a runoff. On February 1, 2002, Denise stepped down from the bench and, on February 5, 2002, announced her candidacy for Congress.
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The last time I was in Atlanta it seemed like every street was named Peachtree. :-) bttt
Holy smokes!
Be Seeing You,
Chris
Catherine Davis (R), Nominee for Georgia's 4th District.
Naturally, you'll probably respond that a Republican has no chance in this liberal district, and sadly you're probably right. On the other hand, it's almost certain she'd be better than EITHER Democrat. I'd rather stick to my principles and vote GOP in the general than switch to the Dem primary just to select lesser of two evils.
We kinda had a race like this in Illinois 1st district during the 2000 election, where a "moderate" mulatto state rep. was challenging ultra-liberal socialist incumbant Bobby Rush in the 'RAT primary. But there were far more deserving candidates in the GOP primary (like Alan Keyes), so that's where my vote went. Bobby's been redistricted into a more conservative district after that election anyway...he could be vunerable to a real black conservative somewhere down the road. ;-)
She may be another McKinney in the making.
Still, better to unseat them one by one. If she wins and is awful, she can be unseated too.
For what it's worth, there was a poll floating around here last week showing Majette leading McKinney by six or seven points. Small sample, if I recall correctly. I'll see if I can find it and post a link.
Although her name recognition is only 28 percent, Secrest says, Majette led McKinney 41 percent to 37 percent, with 22 percent undecided.
The first salt to pour on what Secrest acknowledges to be a "dramatic" finding is that, in the words of state Rep. Ron Sailor Jr. (D-Decatur), it's "very, very, very, very, very, early," and the high undecided number leaves McKinney plenty to work with.
The poll of 509 "likely Democratic primary voters" was conducted May 5-7, so it was taken before the latest round of stories about FBI warnings prior to 9/11, which McKinney has claimed as vindication for her comments suggesting President Bush withheld information about the attacks to enrich his friends.
Four-point lead. I was close. Granted, this poll was commissioned for Majette's camp, but it's something to stimulate discussion at the water cooler.
Even if she garners votes the hard way (without cheating).
The McKinney Files.... | ||||||
are excerpts from Majette's position papers, links to articles about her, etc. She looks pretty good to me, FWIW. A vast improvement. |
However, I didn't catch Majette's positions on abortion, gun control, same sex civil marriages, etc. Anybody know.
Her issues page is at: http://www.majetteforcongress.org/issues.php?PHPSESSID=3dc1612491acf7e7a39b063abeca5e81
IMHO, she'd get more support if she had a pro-life link, and perhaps a link
to groups that offer unplanned pregnancy counseling or adoption services.
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