PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE ARREST HER

[PARAGON]

”George Bush smirks at us and our Vice President sneers. The smirk is for what they still have up their sleeves and the sneer is because they know we'll let them get away with it…. After all, we let them get away with it in 1963 (that's when John Kennedy's life was taken), and again in 1965 (when Malcolm X was murdered), then twice again in 1968 (when snipers' bullets stole Martin and Bobby from us).”
Cynthia McKinney 2002

[Scouts Out]

At one point I supported her right to speak about her son, now it is all about keeping her 15 minutes going. She is a fool in the same vein as that as* Micheal Moore. the press just cannot get enough of them. Al Franken is another example.

[GLBLWARMR]

NEWS ALERT U.S. Representative Cynthia McKinney apologizes for altercation with Capitol Police officer.

Yeah go figure. Just posted to CNN.

[KenP]

I was hoping she'd be arrested by now.

[DRTYFN]

Back-pedalling POS!!
She must have seen the surveillance video.

[ratesguy]

She did not, I repear NOT apologize for her actions. She said she was sorry for the "misunderstanding" concerning the incident. This implies she still thinks the officer was wrong. She has not admitted anything and I hope she is treated just like any other stupid person who hits a police officer. She is bat shiat crazy.

[DRTYFN]

But even as McKinney appeared to be trying to put the issue to rest, a bodyguard she hired – reportedly a former Georgia state trooper – was raising another furor when he threatened a television reporter trying to interview McKinney outside the Capitol just minutes before she appeared on the House floor.

When the reporter from Cox Broadcasting tried to ask McKinney about the grand jury, the bodyguard told him, "I'm going to put your ass in jail. I'm a police officer," a videotape of the incident shows.

Asked if he worked for Capitol police, the man said, "I work for Miss McKinney."

Word that McKinney had hired a bodyguard roiled the ranks of the Capitol police who were worried that the guard was carrying a weapon. They said they are concerned about what the bodyguard might do if Capitol police challenged McKinney at a security checkpoint.

McKinney's office did not return repeated phone calls seeking comment.

I expect this crazy bitch to NOT be re-elected.

[HIHUMMER]

(oh...I'm going straight to hell for this one)

I'z zorry Mizter Offizer....I'z not know what I'z doin...I'z just a poor african-american women who haz her greazy azz buckwheat lookin weave on too tight..

(ok...i'm not too good at the whole "ebonics thing", but you get my point)

[alldunn's chic]

that's ****ing hilliarious

[Klaus]

Challenging Cynthia
By Matt Towery

Apr 6, 2006


Most media have missed the most important aspect of Rep. Cynthia McKinney's alleged assault on a Capitol policeman.

However this plays out legally, and whatever McKinney, D-Ga., may have belatedly offered by way of an apology, she will probably lose her re-election bid this November.

"What?" I can hear the incredulous cry from Washington's expert observers.

"That's insane," they're saying. "She has a heavily weighted African-American district that votes overwhelmingly Democratic!"

True, but let's not forget that she also lost a re-election race in 2002 for similar -- but ultimately less serious -- reasons.

Back then, InsiderAdvantage released a poll that suggested McKinney would lose to a little-known local judge by the name of Denise Majette.

The poll, which came out well before that Democratic primary contest, was doubted by the most seasoned of national and state political experts. But it was correct.

Here's what happened in 2002, and how something like a refrain of that story will probably play out again this year.

In 2002, McKinney made post-9/11 comments that irritated many otherwise liberal Democrats in her district, black and white. She said more or less that President George W. Bush had known the terrorist attacks would happen before they did.

Her ties to the Islamic community, including significant campaign donations from Islamic business leaders, only heightened concerns about her.

It helped Majette in her upset bid that she was an appealing candidate, and African American herself. It was easier for her than it would have been for many others to peel away a certain fragment of the congressional district's black voters from McKinney.

Critically, our early poll indicated a coming crossover vote: Independents and even some Republicans who lived in the northernmost (read: whitest) sections of the district had decided to forego voting in the GOP primary for governor and instead vote in the Democratic primary. Their motive was to defeat Cynthia McKinney, and they did.

For some inexplicable reason, Majette served only one term in Congress before trying a run for U.S. Senate. She lost badly to one of the state's Republican stars, Johnny Isakson.

Make no mistake, McKinney will be up against the same election dynamics when the Georgia Democratic primary is held this summer. It's likely -- though not yet official -- that another appealing black candidate, a county commissioner from the heart of the district, is set to oppose her.

Independent and Republican voters in this district will have few temptations to "stay home" and vote in the GOP primary.

Incumbent Republican Gov. Sonny Perdue is a lock for his party's nomination.

Even the much-discussed race for lieutenant governor -- featuring controversial former Christian Coalition leader Ralph Reed -- won't stop many voters from skipping the GOP primary for a chance to vote out McKinney in the Democratic one.

That's how intense the ill will is toward McKinney from those she presumably could have won over were her public persona less confrontational, and embarrassing to her district.

What's doubly sad is an even lesser-known fact: In the late 1980s and early 1990s, many Republicans knew McKinney when they served with her in the state Legislature.

To a person, they will attest that she was highly personable. Moreover, they'll tell you that she encouraged them to take on the state's Democratic-dominated "good ol' boy" government.

While most of McKinney's political positions are now totally out of touch with most voters, and her attack on the Capitol officer seemingly impossible to defend, it's still regrettable that the warm and friendly side of McKinney has been totally subsumed by an endless series of increasingly bizarre political statements, accusations and acts of defiance.

Regardless of how one judges her, from a pure polling and strategic standpoint, it appears the media are missing what will most likely be Cynthia McKinney's greatest punishment: She is now consigned to relive the events of 2002.

What could save her in a primary race? Possibly the fact that her opponent will likely be an African-American man and not a woman.

It may well be that some women voters who abandoned McKinney in 2002 will stick with her against a man.

On the other hand, what might make this a more stinging defeat than last time? The fact that her presumptive opponent, DeKalb County Commissioner Hank Johnson, has a set constituency, and that the independent and Republican voters who crossed over to defeat McKinney in 2002 are fired up again.

As usual, only the obvious issue -- whether Cynthia McKinney would be punished inside the Beltway -- caught the eyes of most of national media.

The truth is that her ultimate downfall will happen back home.

http://www.townhall.com/print/print_story.php?sid=19279...06/04/06/192790.html

[PARAGON]

As McKinney was apologizing, a federal grand jury was preparing to hear testimony from subpoenaed congressional aides who witnessed her confrontation with the Capitol Hill officer.

Lisa Subrize, executive assistant to Rep. Thaddeus McCotter (R-Mich.), and Troy Phillips, senior legislative assistant to Rep. Sam Farr (D-Calif.), formally notified Hastert late Wednesday that they were testifying before the grand jury.

On March 29, an officer who didn't recognize McKinney tried to stop her from going around a security checkpoint in a House office building, as members of Congress and their staffs are allowed to do. The officer called to the DeKalb County Democrat to stop and, when she didn't, put his hand on her, prompting McKinney to spin around and strike the officer.

The federal prosecutor in Washington turned the case over to the grand jury to determine whether charges should be filed against McKinney. The charge could range from assault on a police officer, a felony, to simple assault, a misdemeanor. The grand jury and prosecutor also could just drop charges.

Meanwhile, the House sergeant-at-arms is investigating Thursday's incident on the Capitol steps. An aide, accompanying McKinney, physically confronted Cox Broadcasting reporter Scott MacFarlane trying to interview the congresswoman. After threatening the reporter, the aide said, "I'm a police officer," according to a videotape of the incident shown on WSB-TV.

On the tape, the man said he was not a Capitol Hill police officer. Off-camera, MacFarlane said the man told him that he worked for McKinney. Her office would not identify the man.

The House sergeant-at-arms is checking whether the man was a police officer amid reports that he was actually a former cop. Claiming to be a police officer is a felony.

The union representing Capitol Hill Police immediately expressed concerns about whether McKinney's aide was carrying a weapon.

"Anybody who has a weapon as a police officer must check that weapon with Capitol Police," said Andy Maybo, head of the Fraternal Order of Police on Capitol Hill.

Sorry, don't care.