Don't let the door hit your ass on the way out! Rep. McKinney defeated in Georgia Democratic primary.
(sigh) Is there something about this woman that I don't know or are you simply as mega-Republican as indicated by this and your other posts (quoting Fox "News", etc.)?
In March, McKinney, the first black woman ever elected to Congress from Georgia when she won in 1992, implied in a radio interview that members of the Bush administration knew about the September 11 attacks beforehand. She also said that "persons close to this administration are poised to make huge profits off America's new war." In defeat, McKinney was unapologetic. ... When then-New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani turned down a $10 million contribution from a Saudi prince to assist terrorism victims because of the prince's rebuke of United States Middle East policy, McKinney wrote to the prince, offering to accept the money for other charitable causes. In their only debate, Majette criticized McKinney for accepting campaign contributions from Arab-Americans with possible ties to terrorist organizations, including several who were named in a lawsuit by families of September 11 victims. In response, McKinney said her campaign would not "racially profile" contributors. Majette's campaign also accused McKinney supporters of being behind a telephone campaign that inaccurately claimed that crossover voting was illegal in Georgia, a charge McKinney's campaign denied. Need anything else?
The real beauty of this article is not McKiney being ousted, but the fact that Bob Barr is getting the old boot. See ya later jackass. Don't take this to mean I am a McKiney supporter, I just really don't like Bob Barr.
Seeing as this was a Democratic primary...what, exactly, does BK being Republican have to do with it? McKinney was known to be a bit crazy and she had a career of refusing to participate in election debates. She was forced into one this time because she was having so many problems. The problem, of course, is that Majette isn't so great herself and could barely articulate in a post-victory interview. Ah, local politics...
They were both a couple of jackasses from opposite ends of the spectrum, and the people of Georgia are better off with both of them out of Congress.
I think it's a great thing that both she and Barr are out. I think Barr was more dangerous because some of his colleagues and the media actually took him seriously.
I wonder if members of the Bush administration knew she wouldn't win, it would go along with her paranoid conspiracy theory. Then again anybody with a brain knew she wouldn't be around long so it's neither here nor there.
It's lunch hour so I did read the entire article now. So, quite outspoken, isn't she? Outspoken...and idiotic. I try not to be a knee-jerk liberal jumping whenever one of the more conservative posters appears but sometimes it just happens. Sorry about that.
