In a manner of speaking we did rise up in our county.
Cynthia McKinney was a shoo in for her return to Congress. The Republicans had no chance to oust her with the county set up such as it was.
The Republicans band together and voted for Cynthia's opponent in the democratic primary. She was defeated..We still have a democrat representing us, but Cynthia is sitting home...
Here is a small sampling of some of what was said after Cynthia's defeat....
Friday, October 04, 2002
by Donald Sensing. Permalink: 10/4/2002 09:00:39 PM
They're at it again!
Dems goes to court to invalidate McKinney's primary defeat
I guess it helps to have the American Trial Lawyers Association in your pocket - just ask the Democrat party. Not content with trying to detroy New Jersey's election process, the Dems are trying to do the same in Georgia. Five Democrat DeKalb County, Ga., voters have filed suit in federal court seeking Rep. Cythia McKinney's (D - Saudia Arabia) defeat in the primary be thrown out.
The basis for their suit: The wrong people voted.
The suit claims that black Democratic voters in the 4th District had their voting rights violated and interfered with by the crossover votes. It asks that those crossover votes be declared unconstitutional and invalid and that McKinney be declared the winner of the Democratic primary.
Georgia does not require voters to register by party. They can vote in whatever primary they choose. McKinney has blamed, well, let's see, the Jews, the Indians and now the Republicans for her defeat. She claims that people who should have voted in the Republican primary instead "crossed over" and voted for her opponent in the Democrat primary, causing her defeat.
The lawsuit calls it, "malicious crossover voting." Everywhere else, it's called "democracy."
First there was Florida. Then there is New Jersey. Now there is Georgia. Wasn't it Shakespeare who said that events repeat themselves, the first time as tragedy, the second as comedy, the third as farce? Yeah, I think it was Shakespeare. I'll ask Barbra Streisand. She'll know, fer sure.
"Farce," Cynthia, farce. Yep, that's you all right.
Comment (0) |
