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Green Party Taps McKinney (Cynthia McKinney nominated for US President)
ABC News ^ | 7/13/08 | Jake Tapper

Posted on 07/13/2008 9:38:08 AM PDT by XR7

For those voters who think Ralph Nader and Bob Barr are too conventional, the Green Party this weekend named former Rep. Cynthia McKinney, D-Georgia, its 2008 presidential nominee.

At the Green Party's nominating convention Saturday in at the Chicago Symphony Center, McKinney received 313 out of 532 votes cast in the first round of balloting.

"I am asking you to vote your conscience, vote your dreams, vote your future, vote Green," McKinney told the convention's 800 or so attendees. "A vote for the Green Party is a vote for the movement that will turn this country right-side-up again."

McKinney, a former six-term congresswoman and the first African-American woman elected to represent Georgia in Congress, might be best known for asking "What did this administration know and when did it know it, about the events of September 11th?"

Controversy has followed the outspoken public official seemingly wherever she goes. In 2000 she wrote that "Al Gore's Negro tolerance level has never been too high. I've never known him to have more than one black person around him at any given time." (She said that despite the fact that Gore's campaign manager at the time, Donna Brazile, is African-American.) In March 2006, McKinney and a Capitol Hill Police officer got into an altercation.

McKinney was defeated for reelection in the Democratic primary in 2002. After her successor unsuccessfully ran for US Senate, McKinney reclaimed her US House seat in 2004, only to be defeated in the primary again in 2006.

McKinney's vice presidential nominee will be hip-hop activist and journalist Rosa Clemente, 35.

In 2004, 119,859 Americans voted for then-Green Party nominee David Cobb, giving him 0.1 percent of the total. In 2000, 2.8 million voters chose then-Green Party nominee Nader, giving him 2.7 percent of the total, and in the view of many Democrats, helping to swing the election to then-Gov. George W. Bush.


TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: Georgia
KEYWORDS: 2008; cynthiamckinney; election2008; greenparty; jaketapper; liberalvote; mckinney; notbreaking; rats; thirdparty
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Cynthia McKinney - LOL!
Truth is indeed starnger than fiction.
1 posted on 07/13/2008 9:38:09 AM PDT by XR7
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stranger


2 posted on 07/13/2008 9:38:35 AM PDT by XR7
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Oh, make it go away!


3 posted on 07/13/2008 9:40:22 AM PDT by TribalPrincess2U
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The “third parties” in this country are hell bent on marginalizing themselves.


4 posted on 07/13/2008 9:40:31 AM PDT by SlapHappyPappy
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I’m not sure “taps” should be the word of choice.


5 posted on 07/13/2008 9:40:45 AM PDT by maclay (America First - The rest of the world comes second)
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Geeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeezzzzzzzz! You had to post this just as I’m eating my breakfast!?

DANG!


6 posted on 07/13/2008 9:41:00 AM PDT by rockinqsranch (Dems, Libs, Socialists...call 'em what you will...They ALL have fairies livin' in their trees.)
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Run, Cindy, Run!!


7 posted on 07/13/2008 9:43:00 AM PDT by EggsAckley (If you shoot at mimes, should you use a silencer?)
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Yesterday’s news


8 posted on 07/13/2008 9:43:28 AM PDT by don-o (Have you donated to FR? If not, why not?)
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McKinney will probably take 2 or three votes away from Obummer.


9 posted on 07/13/2008 9:44:17 AM PDT by Conspiracy Guy (I voted Republican because no Conservatives were running.)
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This nomination is hysterical! But then so is the whole green party!


10 posted on 07/13/2008 9:45:00 AM PDT by gidget7 (Duncan Hunter-Valley Forge Republican!)
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McKinney's vice presidential nominee will be hip-hop activist

What is a hip-hop activist? Better yet, of what use is a hip-hop activist?

11 posted on 07/13/2008 9:45:28 AM PDT by McLynnan
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bttt


12 posted on 07/13/2008 9:46:51 AM PDT by ConservativeMan55
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To: XR7

This shall be amusing.


13 posted on 07/13/2008 9:47:19 AM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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If she’s running on the Green party ticket then what party is Nader running with?


14 posted on 07/13/2008 9:47:59 AM PDT by ConservativeMan55
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I’d love to see McKinney stealing votes from NOBama!


15 posted on 07/13/2008 9:49:24 AM PDT by RockinRight (I just paid $63 for gas. An icefield in Alaska is NOT the Grand Canyon. F--- the caribou.)
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Nader is running as an independent.


16 posted on 07/13/2008 9:51:29 AM PDT by Baron OBeef Dip
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McKinney's vice presidential nominee will be hip-hop activist and journalist Rosa Clemente, 35.

May I present the POTUS and VPOTUS

17 posted on 07/13/2008 9:52:00 AM PDT by Popman (McCain as POTUS is odious, Obama as POTUS is unthinkable.)
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Well between Mckinney and Nader they’ve got the nut vote covered


18 posted on 07/13/2008 9:52:29 AM PDT by ConservativeMan55
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19 posted on 07/13/2008 9:54:23 AM PDT by peggybac (Tolerance is the virtue of believing in nothing)
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I demand that she be included in the debates!


20 posted on 07/13/2008 9:54:23 AM PDT by clintonh8r (Fire mission!)
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