McKinney's current committee assignments are the House International Affairs and Armed Services Committees. One of her staffers -- until he was forced to resign over the flap over her letter to the Saudi prince -- was a Palestinian. Seems to me a staffer with Arabist loyalties would have access to very interesting information because of McKinney's membership in those two committees. She's been on the International Affairs Committee since she entered the House in '93, and her studies were in that field. But she joined the Armed Services Committee just in the past couple of years. Why?
She must be strapped to every democrat in every race in every district.
Make the Dems refute her, or say they're on her side.
I'm with the consensus on this thread thinking that McKinney is both dangerous and an idiot. But frankly, I'd have to see proof that Monica Lewinsky's ex-boyfriend's wife actually returned the money before I'd believe the above statement.
Web posted Thursday, January 24, 2002
Associated Press
DECATUR, Ga. - State Court Judge Denise Majette plans to give U.S. Rep. Cynthia McKinney her first Democratic primary challenge in six years. Judge Majette, 46, has resigned her seat on the DeKalb County bench effective Feb. 1. A formal announcement of her candidacy for the 4th District seat is expected after that. She has filed paperwork with the Federal Elections Commission allowing her to raise money for a campaign in the suburban Atlanta district.
McKinney officials refused Tuesday to comment on Judge Majette's candidacy.
Ms. McKinney was first elected in 1992 in Georgia's 11th District. The last time she faced a primary challenge was in 1996 against three white men after the courts forced Georgia to redraw its congressional map, putting her in the 4th District. Ms. McKinney, who is black, won that contest with 58 percent of the vote.
Judge Majette would be the first black woman to challenge Ms. McKinney from within her own party. Republican Sunny Warren ran against her in the general elections of 1998 and 2000.
A native of Brooklyn, N.Y., and a Georgia resident since 1983, the judge is a graduate of Yale University and Duke University School of Law. She has been a State Court judge since 1993. Before that, she was an administrative law judge for the state Board of Workers' Compensation and was a law clerk for state Supreme Court Justice Robert Benham when he was on the State Court of Appeals.
Ms. McKinney is often controversial but is supported by an entrenched political machine built during the past decade, with strong backing in much of black south DeKalb County. Much of her opposition comes from the county's predominantly white northern Atlanta suburbs, where critics say she has been unresponsive to their needs.
Primary elections are scheduled for July.
********************************************************
From the look of all the charges racking up against her, I'd say Cynthia McKinney may not make it to this next election, her political career (at least in Washington) just may be washed up, here's hoping. She's stepping on a lot of toes at the FBI too (COINTELPRO).