Cynthia McKinney back and running for her old congressional seat - as a Green

[wyldwolf]

Former Georgia congresswoman Cynthia McKinney is preparing to run for her old 4th Congressional district seat on the Green Party ticket.

Since February she has made a few public appearances in her old district but stayed low key with her plans. She filed paperwork April 2 with the Federal Elections Commission declaring her intention to run.

Tracked down at her mother’s home Thursday by a reporter from The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, McKinney declined to comment and ordered the reporter off the property.

Last week she was recruiting volunteers to collect the 18,860 signatures of registered voters she’ll need by August 6 to get on the newly redrawn 4th district ballot, according the Georgia Secretary of State’s office.

http://www.ajc.com/news/cynthia-mckinney-back-and-1423983.html

Boo hiss. I don't see her splitting the vote enough to put a Repub in office...but still.

[cali]

1. I'm not quite sure why she's doing this.

she doesn't stand a chance.

[Daniel537]

2. Waste of time, not to mention sour grapes.

Ever since her Democratic constituents threw her out it seems she's been on a crusade to try to hurt Democrats as much as possible. Not gonna work in that district, thankfully. Maybe she should take another trip back to Iran and take her complaints to the Ayatollah.

[Odin2005]

3. I wish this mentally ill anti-Semitic nutcase just goes away.

[bonniebgood]

4. Is this DU site?

When I read comments like this here I feel as if I was re-directed to a repug site.
I am sure Acorn caused the foreclosure crisis and stole the presidency for Obama.
Believe anything fox tells you against a person of color.
Must keep GEORGIA white and pure republican.

[cali]

7. uh, she was replaced by a black dem

so the test of being a good progressive is liking McKinney?

That's rather bizarre.

[msanthrope]

19. Don't bring facts into this....nt

[Tarheel_Dem]

20. It certainly is DU, and we're not required to support "Greens". In fact, many of us believe....

that Greens are as much an enemy of the Democratic Party as the Republicans are. Coalitions are built on trust, and I don't trust Greens.

(G)etting
(R)epublicans
(E)lected
(E)very
(N)ovember.

[Odin2005]

22. Supporting Greens is against DU rules.

Oh, and the person who replaced her was Black.

And she IS obviously psychotic.

[Hell Hath No Fury]

5. You are way way off with that comment --

Congratulations on falling for the smear.

[Daniel537]

9. Smear? Her statements speak for themselves.

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2011/05/cynthia-mckinney-blasts-us-on-libya-tv-and-pro-israel-groups-in-iran/239298/

Press TV: Let us talk about their many reports that talks about the influence of the Israeli lobby, AIPAC on the United States politics in general. Did you experience anything in that realm as far as one would call the interference in American policy by AIPAC?

McKinney: Well, it is interesting because when I first went to Congress I did not go to Congress to pay particular attention to any area outside of the black community that I represented and was in need and of course US-Africa policy which was abhorrent and unfortunately still is.

But what I ran into at almost every turn were these special interests and there is no more special interest that has any more influence than the pro Israel lobby. So then when I did outreach for example to the Muslim community in the United States I bopped into the pro Israeli lobby which of course does not want to have to contend with a politicized Muslim community which is as large as and is as wealthy as the pro Israeli lobby is in the United States.

So, yes I first handedly and also frontally was assaulted by the presence of the pro Israeli lobby.

Press TV: Were you physically assaulted?

McKinney: Well, politically assaulted to such an extent that my father had to ask the question publically, 'what does stoned mountain Georgia have to do with Israel? What I was doing was servicing the needs of my constituents and I was not allowed to do that because I did not toe the line on US policy for Israel.

Press TV: Were you told directly that you had to toe a line? Explain it to me.

McKinney: Well, every candidate for Congress at that time had a pledge. They were given a pledge to sign and I was new on the scene and the pledge had Jerusalem as the capital city, the military superiority of Israel,...

Press TV: American Congress people have to sign this pledge?

McKinney: Yes, you sign the pledge. If you do not sign the pledge, you do not get money.....

Press TV: I just want to get into this pledge a little bit more. So this is basically something that is mandatory, that every Congressperson has to sign saying that what Jerusalem as you said is the capital of Israel, and what else?

McKinney: You make a commitment that you would vote to support the military superiority of Israel that the economic assistant that Israel wants that you would vote to provide that.

Press TV: ...they are supposed to be representing the people of the United States not a foreign country and yet they have to pledge allegiance to a foreign state? No one questions this?

McKinney: That is what I was asked to do and I made it public.

[Odin2005]

23. She smeared herself.

[bigdarryl]

11. Why you calling this sister a nut case compared what we have in Congress now are you serious

[Daniel537]

12. Going to Libya and praising Gadhafi while people are being murdered

by his regime just a few miles away from her. Yeah, she's a fucking nutcase. Thankfully the people in her district dispatched this idiot into the trash can of political history.

[Arneoker]

26. This bigot can hold her own in nuttiness with the worst of them still in Congress,

and that's saying something!

[JNelson6563]

6. lolz Running for office, chases reporters away.

Special kind of stupid or....not a serious run. But I don't blame her, she should be able to hget some yummy publicity/attention and some free meals and stuff from the GOP funded Greens. Rock on girl! Get what you can while you can!

Julie

[polichick]

8. Maybe she's running as a Green because the Dems have mostly adopted...

...Republican policies when it comes to the environment.

Where are people who care about this planet and our children supposed to go?

[bigdarryl]

10. Thats right and its interesting the media called her CRAZY and look what we have in Congress now

Tea Party nuts like Allan West she's sane compared to these idiots

[polichick]

14. Environmentalists have always been called crazy by the right...

...and the corporate powers-that-be, but Dems used to fight the good fight for the planet. Now, not so much.

You're right, to compare her to someone like West is REALLY crazy!

[Mr.Turnip]

15. No she's running as a Green because she's bitter Dem Primary voters kicked her out of office.

Really NO one here should be supporting Cynthia McKinny. Yes she's fairly progressive, she's also fairly insane. This is a woman who believes that the Government rounded up 5000 black men during Katrina shot them in the back of the head and then dumped the bodies in the swamp. Why? who the hell knows. What Evidence? She heard some random person saying that once and of course being herself took it as fact.

This is also someone who praised Gadhafi's regime, you can be against the intervention in Libya without praising someone who was undeniably a murderous dictator.

Mckinny was an embarrassment to us and to the entire progressive movement, she makes us look like kooks and delegitimizes her own points.

But no matter, she'll just lose and blame the J-E-W-S again.

[polichick]

16. It's up to each of us to support whomever we want...

I don't have a dog in the McKinny situation but imo Dems have turned their back on environmental issues when nothing matters half as much, so perhaps more people will turn to the Greens or some other yet-to-be-determined party that really will fight for sanity when it comes to our planet.

[Gumboot]

13. I'd much rather have her back in the action....

... than some faceless yes-man or woman who never rocks the boat.

[Tarheel_Dem]

17. !!!

Welcome to DU.

[ellisonz]

24. Except

She flipped the boat over and drowned her company!

[Tarheel_Dem]

18. Has anyone told the Greens?

Ms. McKinney has every right to run, but the fact that she's every bit as batshit crazy as Michelle Bachmann should give even the Greens pause, and they'll take anybody.

[leftynyc]

21. And when she loses, it'll be the fault

of those pesky Jews. I thought we had heard the last of this batshit crazy woman.

[Hippo_Tron]

25. Is it really productive to be discussing Cynthia McKinney on DU?

She's an absurdly polarizing figure in this community and whatever people think of her, they think of her, and nobody is going to change their mind.