Cynthia McKinney

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Cynthia Ann McKinney (born March 17, 1955) is an American politician and activist who works as an assistant professor at North South University, Bangladesh.

She served six terms in the United States House of Representatives as a member of the Democratic Party.

She was the first black woman to represent Georgia in the House of Representatives.

She left the Democratic Party and ran as the presidential candidate of the United States' Green Party in 2008. McKinney was elected in Georgia's newly re-established 11th District in 1992 and 1994, and re-elected in 1994.

McKinney was elected from the new 4th District in the 1996 election when her district was redrawn and renumbered due to the Supreme Court's decision in Miller v. Johnson.

She was re-elected twice more without a single voice of opposition.

In the 2002 Democratic primary, Denise Majette defeated McKinney.

Her defeat was attributed to some Republican crossover voting in Georgia's open primary election, which allows any political candidate to vote in any party primary and penalizes those outside of the mainstream. McKinney travelled and gave speeches after her 2002 death and served as a commissioner in 9/11 Citizens Watch.

On October 26, 2004, she was one of 100 Americans and 40 family members of 9/11 who signed the 9/11 Truth Movement's pledge, calling for fresh inquiries into unexplained aspects of the 9/11 attacks.

Following her predecessor's bid for Senate, McKinney was re-elected to the House of Commons in November 2004.

She campaigned for unsealing evidence relating to the FBI's involvement in Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination and Tupac Shakur's assassination.

She continued to criticize the Bush administration for the 9/11 attacks.

She endorsed anti-war legislation and published articles of impeachment against President Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. In the 2006 Democratic primary, Hank Johnson defeated her.

She assaulted a Capitol Hill police officer for refusing to call for identification in the March 29, 2006, Capitol Hill police shooting.

In September 2007, she left the Democratic Party for the first time.

In both 2000 and 2004, members of the United States Green Party had tried to recruit McKinney for their ticket.

She subsequently ran for president of the United States in 2008, receiving 0.12% of the vote cast.

Early life and education

Cynthia McKinney was born in Atlanta, Georgia, the niece of Leola McKinney, a former nurse, and Billy McKinney, a law enforcement officer and former Georgia State Representative.

McKinney was introduced to the Civil Rights movement by her father, an activist who regularly attended marches around the south. He fought the Atlanta Police Department's racial policies as a cop, often carrying young McKinney on his shoulders. He was elected as a state representative. McKinney attributes her father's election victory after several failed attempts to pass the Voting Rights Act, which called for federal control and enforcement of voting. Since the turn of the twentieth century, the majority of blacks in the South had been disenfranchised by state legislative immigrants.

McKinney obtained a B.A. The University of Southern California, 1978, and an M.A. are both involved in international relations. In 1979, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University in Law and Diplomacy. McKinney completed her dissertation on Hugo Chavez's transformational leadership in 2015 and was awarded a Ph.D. in Leadership and Change by Antioch University in 2015.

McKinney served as a high school coach and university professor before entering politics. She served as a diplomatic fellow at Spelman College in Atlanta, Georgia, in 1984. She taught political science at Agnes Scott College in Decatur and Clark Atlanta University.

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Early political career

In 1986, her father, a Georgia House of Representatives representative, ran for governor as a write-in candidate for the Georgia state house. Although she and her husband, Coy Grandison (and their son, Coy McKinney, were born in 1985), she received around 40% of the popular vote.

McKinney ran for the same seat in 1988 and gained, making the McKinneys the first father and daughter to simultaneously serve in the Georgia state house. In 1991, she spoke out vehemently against the Gulf War; many senators left the chamber in protest of her remarks.

McKinney was elected as the representative of the United States House of Representatives from Atlanta's newly established 11th District, a 64% African majority district ranging from Atlanta to Savannah in 1992. She was the first African American woman to represent Georgia in the House of Representatives. She was re-elected in 1994.

The Supreme Court declared in Miller v. Johnson that the 11th District was an unconstitutional gerrymander because the boundaries were drawn based on the constituent's racial makeup. McKinney's district was subsequently renumbered and redrawn to take in nearly half of DeKalb County, sparking outrage from McKinney. Given that the Supreme Court had previously ruled that Texas's 6th District, which is 91% white, was unconstitutional, she argued that it was a racially discriminatory decision. The new 4th was, however, no less Democrat than the 11th. In 1996, McKinney was easily elected from this district. She was re-elected two more times with no evidence in opposition.

She served on many committees, including the House Committees on Foreign Affairs, Banking and Finance, and Armed Services, during her first session in Congress. She climbed to the top of the International Relations Subcommittee on International Operations and Human Rights, where she spent as a ranking member. She became a regular critic of American foreign policy in that role. For instance, she has voiced her opposition to President Bill Clinton's interventionist policies in Kosovo, US sanctions against Iraq, and other Middle East policies.

McKinney introduced a bill on October 17, 2001, calling for "the suspension of the use, manufacture, processing, and export of depleted uranium munitions until such studies are published." Rep. Anbal Acevedo Vilá, Puerto Rico; Tammy Baldwin, D-Wis.; Dennis Kucinich, D-Ohio; Barbara Lee, D-Ca. Jim McDermott, D-Wash; and Jim McDermott, D-Wash.

"Al Gore's Negro tolerance level has never been too high" during McKinney's 2000 presidential campaign. I've never known him to have more than one black person around him at any given time." Donna Brazile, Gore's manager, was black, according to Gore's campaign.

McKinney chastised Gore for failing to help the U'wa people of Colombia, who are fighting against fracking near them. "No More Blood For Oil," McKinney wrote in a press release on February 22, 2000 that "oil exploration on Uwa land will result in significant environmental degradation and socioeconomic conflict, which will lead to increased militarization of the area as well as increased violence." "I am contacting you because I have remained silent on this subject despite your arduous financial resources and family ties with Occidental," she said, despite your close financial interests and family ties with Occidental.

McKinney and other members of the House of Representatives opposed Florida's 25 electoral votes, which George W. Bush barely won after a tumultuous recount. Vice President Al Gore, who was Bush's opponent in the 2000 presidential election, dismissed the charge because no senator joined her protest. The election would have been governed by the United States House of Representatives if Florida's democratic votes had been determined by the Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution, with each state electing one vote in accordance with the Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution.

Following the September 11 attacks in 2001, McKinney attracted national attention for her remarks. She said that the United States had "numerous warnings of the upcoming" and called for an investigation. "What did this government know and when did it know it?" She inquired in a radio interview: "What did this administration know and when did it know it?" President George W. Bush may have been aware and allowed it to happen, according to her. "It is known that President Bush's father, through The Carlyle Group, had–at the time of the attacks–joint industry involvements with the bin Laden construction company and several defense industry stakes, the stocks of which have increased since September 11." A spokesperson for the Carlyle Group denied her assertion. McKinney said in a tweet in April 2002, "I am not aware of any evidence suggesting that President Bush or members of his administration have financially profited from the 9-11 attacks." A complete investigation may have shown that this was not the case."

McKinney wrote an open letter to Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal in the month that followed the attacks. Rudy Giuliani, the mayor of New York City, had declined to cash a $10 million check written by Saudi Prince Rudy Giuliani because the attacks appeared to the US "should re-examine its Middle East policies and take a more balanced approach to the Palestinian cause," the Prince said. "Last year, I'm sorry to report that a growing number of people in the Middle East, as well as you, are worried about Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch's findings, which reveal a pattern of increased, and often indiscriminate, use of lethal force by Israeli security forces in situations where Palestinian demonstrators were unarmed and pose no risk to the security forces or others."

Denise Majette, the delegate from DeKalb County, defeated McKinney in the Democratic primary in 2002. Majette defeated McKinney by 58% of the vote to McKinney's 42%.

In court, McKinney contested the result, alleging that thousands of Republicans had registered in the Democratic primary, the true election in the state, in revenge for her anti-Bush administration views and allegations of voter manipulation in Florida in the 2000 presidential election. Georgia holds an open primary like 20 other states: voters do not identify with a political party as they register to vote and may vote in whichever party's primary election they choose. Thus, five voters argued that the open primary system was unlawful, operated in breach of the First Amendment's universal protection clause, and several statutory rights under 2 of the Voting Rights Act, relying on the Supreme Court's decision in California v. Jones, which had held that California's blanket primary in Jones had breached the First Amendment).

The district court dismissed the lawsuit, finding that the plaintiffs had no evidence in favor of the 14th Amendment and Voting Rights Act and that they had no standing to bring the First Amendment lawsuit. Jones ruled that the Supreme Court's decision to declare that the right to participate in a contest over a primary—and, therefore, standing to sue—belongs to a political party, not an individual voter. The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals upheld this result in Osburn vs. Cox in May 2004, noting that the plaintiffs' allegations were unconstitutional, but that the remedy sought would possibly be unconstitutional, according to the Supreme Court's decision in Tashjian vs. Republican Party of Connecticut. The Supreme Court brought an end to the litigation on October 18, 2004, refusing certiorari without comment.

Her comments were also influenced by her allegations of Bush's involvement in 9/11, her resistance to Israel, a proponent of Palestinian and Arab causes, and open antisemitism. On the night before the primary election, McKinney's father announced on Atlanta television that "Jews have bought everybody." Jews. Cynthia McKinney, J.W.S., had a long and tense relationship with the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC). Bill Shipp, a Georgia political analyst, reacted angrily to McKinney's loss: "voters sent a letter: We're tired of these over-the-top congressmen who are serving in high international and national interest," McKinney said. How can someone who is looking out for our interests?"

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