Cynthia McKinney
Cynthia McKinney (born March 17, 1955 in Atlanta, Georgia) is a former liberal Democrat United States Congresswoman from the state of Georgia's Fourth Congressional District from 1993-2003 and 2005-2007. Prior to being elected to Congress, from 1988 to 1992, she was a Georgia state legislator.
McKinney, who was defeated for reelection by her own party in 2002 after voting against the Iraq War, was again defeated in 2006 by her own party after creating a disturbance during which she struck a Capitol Hill police officer who stopped her after she tried to illegally bypass a metal detector.[1]
Depsite this she still ran for the United States Presidency on the environmentalist Green Party ticket with her running mate, Rosa Clemente during the 2008 Presidential election. This was only after she came in last out of five challengers for the 2008 Peace and Freedom Party Presidential nomination.[2]
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- ↑ Arrest warrant sought for Rep. McKinney, USA Today.
- ↑ [1], February 04, 2008.
