According to this story, former Georgia Congressmember Cynthia McKinney may yet decide to seek the Green Party presidential nomination. She is currently speaking in the San Francisco Bay Area.
According to this story, former Georgia Congressmember Cynthia McKinney may yet decide to seek the Green Party presidential nomination. She is currently speaking in the San Francisco Bay Area.
The winner of BOTH
the Boss Ross Perot
“In again, Out again”
Election award
AND
the Gabor Sisters
“Slap a Police Officer”
Citation….
This has to be the dumbest comment I’ve ever seen on this website.
First of all, Mr. Perot was already a candidate in the 1992 general election and already had his name certified for the ballot by numerous states when he withdrew (and petulantly so, I might add) that summer. Earlier this year, in relation to the Green Party, Ms. McKinney was in what is now called exploratory mode, had no campaign organization in place, had been nominated to nothing by nobody, and raised essentially no money for a non-existent presidential campaign.
As to the smarmy comparison to the Gabor Sisters, the facts of the incident surrounding McKinney’s confrontation with a Capitol Hill police officer are in dispute to this day, but are available on the internet for anyone who is interested in exploring further than Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh soundbites.
In any event, I am impressed by Cynthia McKinney’s commitment to and radical advocacy on behalf of the black community in this country, and while I think she could be more judicious about her public statements & behavior from time to time, I think she deserves better than the standard issue stereotyped ridicule to which the intellectually lazy in this country have subjected her.
This is good news for the GP.
I can think of no greater embarrassment and set back for the GP than if it were to nominate Cynthia McKinney as it’s candidate.
The reason that the Honorable Ross Perot withdrew from (but eventually entered into again) the presidential race in the Summer of 1992 was because of threats to his family.
Please consider this: The assassination of President John F. Kennedy (who, it has been writen, was considering a withdrawal from the civil war in Vietnam) in 1963; the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (who, it has been written, was considering an independent, anti-war, candidacy for the presidency) in 1968; the assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy (who was close to winning the Democratic Party presidential nomination as an anti-war candidate) in 1968; the brutal, attempted assassination of Governor George C. Wallace (who was close to turning the Democratic Party nominating process upside down) in 1972; and the very effective cabal that kept Senator Eugene J. McCarthy (a very formidable independent presidential candidate) out of the debates, most of the national news media, and off many state ballots (including California) in 1976. Could any reasonable person, with knowledge of the above, think that Mr. Perot’s decision making process was anything close to caprice?
http://skepticseye.com/2007/10/cynthia-mckinney-audit-report/
Cynthia McKinney Audit Report
Filed under: FEC and Federal Campaign Finance Law — The Skeptic @ 10:36 am
The Audit Report for Cynthia McKinney’s campaign committee has been released. ( http://www.fec.gov/audits/2006/20070919_cynthia_mckinney_cong.pdf ) The committee accepted excessive contributions, which it did not fix through redesignation or reattribution, and filed erroneous reports (significantly understating activity in 2006 and 2005) which it has not adequately amended, according to the FEC.
Since the FEC does not have the authority to randomly audit committees (thank you Wayne Hays, too bad about the stripper) this would be an audit for cause, provoked because the Committee was making lots of mistakes in their filings and accruing “audit points†with the FEC. During this audit, the committee would have received an interim audit report and would have seen what the FEC found – and been given an opportunity to make a counterargument or fix the errors. It seems from the report that they didn’t really take care of business.
Expect The Man to impose a fine.
Will Cynthia McKinney hire Steve Cokely again to be her volunteer coordinator? He was the Nation of Islam demogogue fired by The Honourable Louis Farrakhan for saying, “Jewish doctors injected Black babies with AIDS!”
I’m not sure how I feel about a possible McKinney nomination by the Green Party, but I always maintain that we should only be nominating those with a documented dedication to and involvement with the party to be our spokespeople, and in this case, I think McKinney may be too green a Green.