July 15, 2004
THE UNDEAD:
Will the Peach State give America its first significant electoral victory for a champion of the radical Muslim cause? (Erick Stakelbeck, July 14, 2004, JewishWorldReview.com)
Cynthia McKinney may be on her way back to Congress: The fringe ideologue ousted from the House of Representatives by Democratic primary voters back in 2002 is now one of the leaders in the race for her old seat.Denise Majette, the woman who beat McKinney in that race in Georgia's
Fourth District, has chosen to run for U.S. Senate rather than seek reelection to the House, and the latest polls show McKinney, who held the seat from 1992-2002, in a virtual dead heat with state Sen. Liane Levetan for the Democratic nomination. And 70 percent of the district's voters are Democrats, so the July 20 primary (plus any runoff election) is the real fight.When it comes to blaming America first, McKinney has few equals. In September 2001, she refused to join the U.S. delegation in walking out of the rabidly anti-American and anti-Semitic "World Conference Against Racism" in Durban, South Africa. Instead, she issued a press release calling her country's behavior at the conference "obnoxious."
As a citizen of the state of Georgia, it is my sad duty to report that
Vampiress McKinney, long thought to have the stake driven into her heart,
has once again risen. Rep. Denise Majette is on an ill-advised senatorial
campaign, and the vacuum is being filled by this demagogue. I can't believe
it. Posted by at July 15, 2004 5:25 PM
Would Majette have been able to beat McKinney in a primary?
If one (more) kook in the House is the price we have to pay for helping sever the ties between the Democratic party and Jews, so be it.
Posted by: David Cohen at July 15, 2004 6:34 PMJames: Majette beat the incumbent McKinney in the Democratic primary two years ago. I'll rely on Bruce to supply the electoral spread, if pertinent.
Posted by: Fred Jacobsen (San Fran) at July 15, 2004 7:16 PMMy apologies for the shaky formatting of the post.
James Haney -
Good question. It took a special manipulation of Georgia's open primary (i.e. Republicans crossing over) to get Majette the Dem nomination in 2002. I have to believe had Majette run again for her House seat, it would not have been contested by McKinney. But who could have forseen she'd still be this popular? I don't get it.
Posted by: Bruce Cleaver at July 15, 2004 7:18 PMMr Cleaver's statement is incorrect.
1) Since primary voting is 'open', by definition there is no such thing as a 'republican crossing over' ..
you are defined by the ballot you choose.i.e., if I ask for a democrat ballot, I function as a DEMOCRAT..
2) I am unaware of any study that shows that voters who 'self-identify' as Republicans represented the entire (rather large) difference in votes between Majette and McKinnney.
Posted by: JonofAtlanta at July 16, 2004 11:19 AMMcKinney herself thought Republicans were a large part of the problem, but I'll concede it wasn't everything:
http://www.cnn.com/2002/ALLPOLITICS/08/20/primary.preview/index.html
Also, here:
http://www.cynthia2002.com/news/lawsuit10-11-2002.htm
As to your first point, I'll leave it to the Gentle Reader to see the problems there.
Posted by: Bruce Cleaver at July 16, 2004 1:17 PMShe's no more distasteful than a lot of the people Georgia elected when I was growing up there.
Posted by: Harry Eagar at July 16, 2004 1:49 PMHarry:
True, but at least some of them changed and might even be ashamed of themselves by now, while McKinney exults and grows in her insanity. I wouldn't be surprised to see her announce that Sharon is secretly controlling the US government.
Posted by: jim hamlen at July 16, 2004 1:54 PMI thought Georgia was a red state? What is the constituency in her district, is it a college town or what?
Posted by: Robert Duquette at July 16, 2004 4:48 PMRobert: I believe that it's north Atlanta, including Emory Univ. Decatur. Yes, liberalish.
Posted by: old maltese at July 16, 2004 6:49 PMYes - she is running in DeKalb County. Her biggest problem is that the upwardly mobile middle-class black population there may be less likely to buy into her shtick than the boorish whites from Emory-land.
Posted by: jim hamlen at July 16, 2004 9:43 PMNot north Atlanta but southeast, close-in. Emory University is included as a liberal intown upper-income white enclave in a majority-black, majority-lower/middle-class district gerrymandered personally for McKinney by her state-representative father in a trade-off to get safe GOP districts in the outer suburbs. (The original district was one of those Voting Rights Act specials, 5 miles wide and 100 miles long, snaking in every black and low-income community between East Atlanta and Milledgeville.)
Majette won two years ago less from GOP-crossover - there aren't many left in the district - but because the growing number of black professionals voted for someone more like them than Socialist Cynthia. They won't turn out as strongly for a bland white woman like Levetan, and McKinney's folks now know not to take anything for granted.
NPR had a piece on the race Sunday in which not one word was said about why outlanders might possibly be concerned that a person like her would end up in Congress. She was described as having "criticized Israel."
That was it.
Posted by: Harry Eagar at July 19, 2004 3:52 PM