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Georgia Congresswoman in Altercation with Police Officer

post #1 of 44
3/30/06 at 4:00am
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060329/...kinney_scuffle

What a bizarre story.
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post #2 of 44
3/30/06 at 8:58am
Way to go Dems. Keep showing how you take national security seriously.
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post #3 of 44
3/30/06 at 12:06pm
That woman is the quintessential "crazy-ass bitch."
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post #4 of 44
3/30/06 at 12:08pm
I didn't have to look at the article to know that it was Cynthia McKinney.

This woman is a joke.
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post #5 of 44
3/30/06 at 1:20pm
There are so many classic McKinney moments. One of my favorites: When she was defeated in her own Democratic primary back in 2002, her dad (who has his own history of insane behavior) blamed it on the Jews. It was hilarious.
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post #6 of 44
3/30/06 at 2:13pm
Gotta love folks who consider themselves above the law and then get offended when it comes back to bite them in the ass.
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post #7 of 44
3/30/06 at 2:34pm
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The more I read about her, the more I dislike her.

I just cannot figure out the thought process that would enable somone to say to themselves: "this officer wants me to stop, I think I will take a swing at his head..."
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post #8 of 44
3/30/06 at 3:03pm
Yeah, she's a nutcase. I have an aunt and uncle that used to live in her district, and when she was defeated in 2002, my uncle (a Democrat) told me, "I wish I could've voted against her twice."
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post #9 of 44
3/30/06 at 3:38pm
Every Democrat I know hates her -- she's just such an embarrassment.
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post #10 of 44
3/30/06 at 3:40pm
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Originally Posted by moovyphreak
I didn't have to look at the article to know that it was Cynthia McKinney.

This woman is a joke.
Likewise. She's the absolute fucking worst and I have the honor of being in her district.
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post #11 of 44
3/30/06 at 3:43pm
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Originally Posted by Joe LeFors
Every Democrat I know hates her -- she's just such an embarrassment.
And yet she's on her 6th term. An obviously brilliant Constituency she represents.
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post #12 of 44
3/30/06 at 3:46pm
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Originally Posted by Death Surge
And yet she's on her 6th term. An obviously brilliant Constituency she represents.
In our defense, when she ran against someone who was worth a damn (Denise Majette), she lost.
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post #13 of 44
3/30/06 at 3:52pm
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Originally Posted by Matt Goldberg
In our defense, when she ran against someone who was worth a damn (Denise Majette), she lost.
I can't complain. Detroit voted Kwame "I need a new Navigator" Kilpatrick back into the mayors office, despite the laundry list of shady dealings, neopitism, and outright lies since his first term. And he ran against a good opponent. I thank you guys, and Marion Barry, for making us not look so bad.
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post #14 of 44
3/30/06 at 4:30pm
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Originally Posted by Death Surge
I can't complain. Detroit voted Kwame "I need a new Navigator" Kilpatrick back into the mayors office, despite the laundry list of shady dealings, neopitism, and outright lies since his first term. And he ran against a good opponent. I thank you guys, and Marion Barry, for making us not look so bad.
Hey, don't dog my boy Barry. Bitch set him up!
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post #15 of 44
3/30/06 at 5:29pm
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Originally Posted by Death Surge
And yet she's on her 6th term. An obviously brilliant Constituency she represents.
Well, that's only part of the story. She and her operation are also extremely adept at, um, generating the votes she needs to win (if you know what I mean and I think you do). And since she's so adept at playing the race card, there are never any serious investigations into her chicanery. Nobody in City of Atlanta or Georgia politics wants to look like a racist.
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post #16 of 44
3/30/06 at 7:03pm
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Originally Posted by Joe LeFors
Well, that's only part of the story. She and her operation are also extremely adept at, um, generating the votes she needs to win (if you know what I mean and I think you do). And since she's so adept at playing the race card, there are never any serious investigations into her chicanery. Nobody in City of Atlanta or Georgia politics wants to look like a racist.
Yeah, I probably should have mentioned that for those that don't know, Denise Majette is also a black woman.
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post #17 of 44
4/1/06 at 1:28am
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cynthia_mckinney

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denise_Majette
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post #18 of 44
4/1/06 at 2:34am

And McKinney plays the race card...

It was inevitable:

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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- As U.S. Rep. Cynthia McKinney, D-Georgia, faces possible criminal charges for a Wednesday altercation with a Capitol Police officer, one of her lawyers said Friday that the real issues were "sex, race and Ms. McKinney's progressiveness."

In a news conference featuring actor Danny Glover and singer Harry Belafonte, McKinney said she would be exonerated and that "this whole incident was instigated by the inappropriate touching and stopping of me, a female, black congresswoman."

She had little else to say, citing the ongoing investigation into her allegedly striking a police officer after he failed to recognize her at a security checkpoint and tried to stop her from passing.

One Republican congressman dismissed the star-studded news conference.
"Rep. McKinney appearing with the star of "Lethal Weapon"? Not exactly the message you want to be sending," said Ron Bonjean, spokesman for House Speaker Dennis Hastert.

Asked Friday if Capitol Police intended to bring charges against the congresswoman, Sgt. Kimberly Schneider said only, "I know we're still investigating."

The 51-year-old legislator was surrounded by more than two dozen supporters at the Friday news conference, some carrying handwritten placards that read "Recognize our congresswoman" and "Is Cynthia a target?"

During the conference, held at historically black Howard University in Washington, civil rights attorney James Myart said his client was "assaulted" by a Capitol Police officer, whose name the department refuses to release.

"Because she was assaulted and placed in impending fear of her safety, she responded," he said. "This case has just begun and we're going to fight, and we're going to use the U.S. Constitution."

Myart said McKinney would seek a criminal investigation against the officer, and a civil lawsuit against both the officer and the Capitol Police is being explored.

However, McKinney's other attorney, Michael Raffauf, downplayed the possibility of pressing charges against the officer, saying, "Not every assault deserves to be criminally prosecuted."

Myart further called the incident racial profiling and said there was "no excuse" for Capitol Police not recognizing his client, and Raffauf said she was stopped solely because of her race, gender and politics.

"It is the job of the Capitol Police to protect members of Congress. As a part of that job, they are to know who those members are," he said. "Whenever you put a police officer out on the street, he is supposed to know his job."

Members of Congress are allowed to bypass the metal detectors and security checkpoint. They are supposed to wear a lapel pin that identifies them as lawmakers. McKinney acknowledges she wasn't wearing one when she was stopped, but concurred with Myart that police should know who she is.

"The pin is not the issue," the six-time congresswoman said. "The issue is face recognition."

Glover and Belafonte refrained from addressing the facts of the case and said they were there to support McKinney. Belafonte said he did not know what happened during the Wednesday incident but wanted to make sure the matter was handled on "a very fair and very square basis."

"We've watched her be abused in the past, and she's overcome, stood strong," the outspoken Belafonte said. "We're not going to be absent or indifferent to the fact that she may be abused again."

Added Glover, "We're not here to judge the merits of the case, but here to support our sister."

Representatives of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and National Organization for Women also spoke on McKinney's behalf.

McKinney represents a majority black district on the east side of metro Atlanta. She was first elected in 1992, but lost the seat in 2002. She regained it in 2004.

The congresswoman, who said she has had problems with Capitol Police not recognizing her in the past, demanded and received an apology from Bill Clinton's administration in 1998 after White House guards stopped her.
Source: http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/03/31/mckinney.police/
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post #19 of 44
4/1/06 at 5:38am
Yes Cynthia, it's because you're black. The whole world is out to get you, never mind that you're in trouble because you arrogantly assumed that the guards should just know who you are. I bet they're racist too.

Hey maybe I should run against her and if she calls me a racist, I'll call her an anti-semite! Let's see whose superficial prejudicial statement wins!
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post #20 of 44
4/1/06 at 11:35am
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Originally Posted by moovyphreak
McKinney said she would be exonerated and that "this whole incident was instigated by the inappropriate touching and stopping of me, a female, black congresswoman."
Or it was instigated by the inappropriate failure of a congresswoman to wear her required ID badge.

Or the appropriate action of security personnel in stopping an apparently unauthorized person from bypassing security.

This arrogance and blame-shifting is atrocious behavior, especially from a congresswoman, and the idea that others would support her in this is amazing and decidedly lowers the entire entourage in my estimation. It's false claims like these that deteriorate the ability of others to make genuine accusations of racist and sexist behavior.
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post #21 of 44
4/1/06 at 12:19pm
What's the deal with Glover and Belafonte?
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post #22 of 44
4/1/06 at 5:07pm
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Originally Posted by Belethedheliel
Or it was instigated by the inappropriate failure of a congresswoman to wear her required ID badge.

Or the appropriate action of security personnel in stopping an apparently unauthorized person from bypassing security.

This arrogance and blame-shifting is atrocious behavior, especially from a congresswoman, and the idea that others would support her in this is amazing and decidedly lowers the entire entourage in my estimation. It's false claims like these that deteriorate the ability of others to make genuine accusations of racist and sexist behavior.
You would think that she would quietly apologize and hope that this entire incident is forgotten....I guess not.
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post #23 of 44
4/1/06 at 5:27pm
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Originally Posted by CapitanAmerica
What's the deal with Glover and Belafonte?
They heard there was a free buffet at the news conference.
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post #24 of 44
4/1/06 at 6:26pm
not to defend the congresswoman, but people from congress are normally allowed to bypass security on their way into government buildings. there is also a documented history of security "not recognizing" the congresswoman when she has come through. it had to come to the point when after repeated moments of not being "recognized" that a person would just say to hell with it and ignore security if they called to her. probably was pissed as fuck about it and kind of shocked when they actually grabbed her arm as if she was any other person there. i'm not defending her, but i can see how it can get to this point.
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post #25 of 44
4/2/06 at 7:04am
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Originally Posted by donde
not to defend the congresswoman, but people from congress are normally allowed to bypass security on their way into government buildings. there is also a documented history of security "not recognizing" the congresswoman when she has come through. it had to come to the point when after repeated moments of not being "recognized" that a person would just say to hell with it and ignore security if they called to her. probably was pissed as fuck about it and kind of shocked when they actually grabbed her arm as if she was any other person there. i'm not defending her, but i can see how it can get to this point.
They're allowed to bypass security, because they wear specific identification pins indicating they are a member of congress. Recogniztion is completly irrelevelent, as if the guard didn't recognize the person, they look for the pin. She wasn't wearing it, despite the fact that she was supposed to be wearing it. If she got stopped, good. That's what the security force is there for. They grabbed her arm, as if she was any other person there, because as far as being an unidentified person walking through security she was just any other person. So no...There is absolutely no reason it "can get to that point".

And the moment she brought "race" into her fuckup, someone should have punched her in the face.
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post #26 of 44
4/3/06 at 2:46pm
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Originally Posted by CapitanAmerica
What's the deal with Glover and Belafonte?
Glover was just trying to hail a cab, but not having any luck for some reason...

Harry Belafonte is just reminding everyone that he's not dead like that Nat King Cole guy.
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post #27 of 44
4/4/06 at 1:20am

McKinney Admits Misusing Taxpayer Money

http://www.wsbtv.com/news/8442213/detail.html

WASHINGTON -- Rep. Cynthia McKinney admits that she broke government rules by spending money to fly a celebrity to Atlanta.

Channel 2 Action News has uncovered documents showing McKinney, D-Ga., spent about $1,000 of taxpayer's money to fly singer Isaac Hayes to Georgia to help dedicate a new office in Atlanta.

The money came from a fund members of Congress are supposed to use for office supplies.

Using the money to pay for Hayes' airline ticket and hotel expenses is a violation of strict congressional rules. Those rules state that taxpayer money can only be used for "travel by Members, Members' employees and vendors. A vendor is an employee of a private company that provides maintenance and support for equipment and software..."

Watchdog groups call taxpayer-funded celebrity travel a blatant waste of taxpayer money.

McKinney staffers say they will reimburse the congressional fund for the cost of Hayes' flight and hotel room.
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post #28 of 44
4/5/06 at 12:10am
The Daily Show repeatedly kicked McKinney in the face with hilarity. How much hilarity? The "security footage" they found was the scene from Total Recall with the exploding old woman head.

Stewart (re McKinney's allegation that she was stopped because she was a black woman): "I judge people not by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character. And you are batshit insane."

My deepest thanks goes out to The Daily Show.
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post #29 of 44
4/5/06 at 11:01am
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Originally Posted by Matt Goldberg
The Daily Show repeatedly kicked McKinney in the face with hilarity. How much hilarity? The "security footage" they found was the scene from Total Recall with the exploding old woman head.

Stewart (re McKinney's allegation that she was stopped because she was a black woman): "I judge people not by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character. And you are batshit insane."

My deepest thanks goes out to The Daily Show.
Further proof I need to start watching that show again...
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post #30 of 44
4/5/06 at 1:50pm
The new video on CNN.com with Soledad O'Brien "interviewing" McKinney is hilarious. That bitch crazy.
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post #31 of 44
4/5/06 at 1:59pm
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Originally Posted by gravedigger
The new video on CNN.com with Soledad O'Brien "interviewing" McKinney is hilarious. That bitch crazy.
Linky? I can only find one with Wolf Blitzer...
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post #32 of 44
4/5/06 at 6:32pm
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Originally Posted by gravedigger
The new video on CNN.com with Soledad O'Brien "interviewing" McKinney is hilarious. That bitch crazy.
That bitch is crazy. And why couldn't she just answer the damn question? Because she knows she's wrong? Jesus Christ. That whole interview or lack thereof made me mad.
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post #33 of 44
4/5/06 at 11:15pm
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Originally Posted by phoenix_214
Linky? I can only find one with Wolf Blitzer...
http://dynamic.cnn.com/apps/tp/video...9%26U3%26M4%26

"You can't stop me Soledad"

You know things are bad when you start to feel bad for the lawyers.
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post #34 of 44
4/6/06 at 12:02am
Holy shit. This is on the level of self-parody.
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post #35 of 44
4/6/06 at 12:13am
I get the feeling that an image consultant took Mckinney by the hand before that interview and said "A flower! Distract people from the issue by wearing a giant flower."
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post #36 of 44
4/6/06 at 12:23am
Look at the people who aren't talking. I laughed my ass off at McKinney's deer-in-the-headlights look and the lawyer's "Oh, shit." expression when McKinney began to talk again.
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post #37 of 44
4/6/06 at 10:20am
Does this lady say 'Let me just say' at the beginning of all her sentences? She's acting like this is the Kennedy assassination or something...

And some breaking news:

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Originally Posted by Breitbart
A federal grand jury will soon begin hearing evidence about Rep. Cynthia McKinney's run-in with a Capitol Police officer, a lawyer familiar with the case said late Wednesday.

The lawyer, who declined to be identified because of grand jury secrecy, confirmed that federal prosecutors had agreed to get involved in the case in which a black lawmaker is accused of striking a white officer after he tried to stop her from entering a House office building without going through a security checkpoint.
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post #38 of 44
4/6/06 at 12:22pm
The best was last nights Jimmy Kimmel show. They spliced some footage together of her pissing off interviewers in her various appearances the past few days. In every seperate interview she used the line, "This is all much ado...about a hair do."

The best was Harry Smith of CBS literally getting so pissed off that he was up off his couch.
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post #39 of 44
4/6/06 at 2:06pm
McKinney Apologizes for Incident!

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Originally Posted by Breitbart
Rep. Cynthia McKinney, D-Ga., expressed "sincere regret" Thursday for her altercation with a Capitol police officer, and offered an apology to the House.

"There should not have been any physical contact in this incident," McKinney said in brief remarks on the House floor. "I am sorry that this misunderstanding happened at all and I regret its escalation and I apologize."
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post #40 of 44
4/6/06 at 2:39pm
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Originally Posted by gravedigger
The new video on CNN.com with Soledad O'Brien "interviewing" McKinney is hilarious. That bitch crazy.
I agree. McKinney only re-enforced her complete idiocy with this interview. And I was wondering how come the lawyer wouldn't look at the camera when he was ranting. Very strange.
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post #41 of 44
4/6/06 at 2:57pm
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I'm pretty surprised that she apologized, but it's probably too little, too late. I imagine the police officers want the criminal investigation to continue.
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post #42 of 44
4/6/06 at 3:09pm
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Originally Posted by Overlord
I'm pretty surprised that she apologized, but it's probably too little, too late. I imagine the police officers want the criminal investigation to continue.
I would too, if I were them. I think she's started a fire she can't put out.
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post #43 of 44
4/6/06 at 11:43pm
I also live in her district. Both my wife and I voted against her. I don’t even remember who was running against her. It didn’t matter. It is pretty bizarre, there are people here who just love her. I don’t know if they think she is entertaining or what? The whole district and counties' leadership is a bit of a mess. There is just a ton of infighting. Heck, they even had an assassination a few years ago. Nuts.
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post #44 of 44
4/6/06 at 11:57pm
What's sad is that this may stop her hope of re-election this year, but in 2008, she'll probably be at it again.
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