Ding Dong the W[B]itch is Dead

Cynthia McKinney loses Georgia run-off race

By Matthew Bigg
Reuters
Wednesday, August 9, 2006; 2:21 AM

ATLANTA (Reuters) - Democrat Cynthia McKinney, Georgia's first African American congresswoman, lost her primary run-off race on Tuesday, paying a price for strident rhetoric and a failure to galvanize supporters.

Her opponent, Hank Johnson, won 59 percent of the vote in Georgia's 4th Congressional District, according to Atlanta station WSB-TV's Web site.

McKinney had been expected to cruise through the July primary but emerged only 3 percent ahead of Johnson, a lawyer and former county commissioner, and was forced into a run-off for a seat she has held since 2004.

In June, McKinney was forced to apologize on the floor of the House over an incident at the Capitol that drew rebukes from lawmakers of both parties, in which she poked a police officer who stopped her at a checkpoint after failing to recognize her.

This I am glad to see. The Queen of Thugs and her thug brigade will be gone from the Capitol again. In case you haven't seen it, members of her "entourage" [fellow thugs] roughed up a Channel 11 photographer twice last night. McKinney represents the lowest form of prima donna politician, dishonest, hateful, and arrogant beyond measure. She is only outshone in that aspect by Houston's own Miss Piggy, Shiela Jackson Lee. Would that Houston could get rid of her; fat chance (and I do mean "fat").

Ah well, I guess I'll just have to settle for McKinney's downfall. It's not polite, but "good riddance to bad rubbish."

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