CHEFGATE! - Cynthia McKinney Uses Taxpayer Money To Fly Isaac Hayes To Atlanta

[Coffee Diva]

http://www.wsbtv.com/news/8442213/detail.html

McKinney Admits Misusing Taxpayer Money

POSTED: 3:40 pm EDT April 3, 2006
UPDATED: 3:57 pm EDT April 3, 2006

WASHINGTON -- Rep. Cynthia McKinney admits that she broke government rules by spending money to fly a celebrity to Atlanta.

Channel 2 Action News has uncovered documents showing McKinney, D-Ga., spent about $1,000 of taxpayer's money to fly singer Isaac Hayes to Georgia to help dedicate a new office in Atlanta.

The money came from a fund members of Congress are supposed to use for office supplies.

Using the money to pay for Hayes' airline ticket and hotel expenses is a violation of strict congressional rules. Those rules state that taxpayer money can only be used for "travel by Members, Members' employees and vendors. A vendor is an employee of a private company that provides maintenance and support for equipment and software..."

Watchdog groups call taxpayer-funded celebrity travel a blatant waste of taxpayer money.

McKinney staffers say they will reimburse the congressional fund for the cost of Hayes' flight and hotel room.

She's got a new look too:

http://us.news3.yimg.com/us.i2.yimg.com/p/rids/20060401/i/r1533894256.jpg

[Ballbuster1]

And that's only $1,000 bucks. The govt. wastes way more than that
every day. It's a shame. Our tax dollars are wasted big time, almost
all the time anymore.

[YourAmishDaddy]

Just lovely...

Not her picture, but the...... Nevermind........

[B54]

I hate her so much. She has the newly-drawn 11th District, a black-majority district stretching from Atlanta to Savannah. The only reason is in office is because all the coons will do anything to keep the any white person out of office. Even if it means electing the stupidest, most-incapable, disgrace of a Congresswoman.

[FreeTheCricket]

I swear to god she is utterly crazy. I've seen a few of her speeches, and she has to be insane. What the hell are those knitters down there thinking??

[JSHAW]

Finally! Buckwheat's mom reveals her new makeover.
She's GHETTO-FABULOUS.:icon_lol:

[Jolie]

Last week she slapped a Capitol police officer because she was trying to get around the security checkpoint (congresspeople dont have to stop), but she wasnt wearing her member pin that ID'd her as a congresswoman, and the police guy asked her to stop 3 times and then did something (she said it was "inappropriate touching" but I bet the guy just put a hand on her shoulder) and she punched him. Shes claiming racial bias.

[Madness]

Last week she slapped a Capitol police officer because she was trying to get around the security checkpoint (congresspeople dont have to stop), but she wasnt wearing her member pin that ID'd her as a congresswoman, and the police guy asked her to stop 3 times and then did something (she said it was "inappropriate touching" but I bet the guy just put a hand on her shoulder) and she punched him. Shes claiming racial bias.

The really funny thing about that is there's a good chance it was a black police officer she hit.

[Jolie]

The really funny thing about that is there's a good chance it was a black police officer she hit.

Good point. However this was one of the non-black ones. The Capitol police are apparently now pursuing charges.

[jpc165]

god damn golfer cunt. she looks like a fucking mongoloid.

[Multiple Miggs]

She needs to display her ID more prominently next time.

http://www.exposetheleft.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/04/racecard.jpg

[d0uche_n0zzle]

She is a class A, wackjob. Hope they hit her with charges and she is forced to beg for a deal like the lowly field knitter she really is.

[nevnut]

I really fuckin hate this bitch.
Every time she comes on TV, my wife turns the channel 'cause I start screaming at the stupid cunt.:icon_evil

[Myhairygrundle]

I hope she gets tons of media time. Please keep hanging out with Harry Bellefonte, Jesse Jackson, and others just like that. It will do nothing to help the dems when they have a first class wack-job gunt talking race-baiting.

I beg of you....please keep talking. There is no response needed from your opposition, just keep running yo mouf. Holla.

[Coffee Diva]

Looks like everyone else in Congress is sick of this hole as well.

http://thehill.com/thehill/export/TheHill/News/Frontpage/040406/news4.html

McKinney is distraction, say the Dems
By Josephine Hearn

The bizarre scuffle Wednesday between Rep. Cynthia McKinney (D-Ga.) and an unnamed U.S. Capitol Police officer is winning the spirited congresswoman few new friends in her caucus. In fact, some Democrats are trying to distance themselves from her.

McKinney has been aggressively publicizing the incident, calling press conferences on each of the past two business days and even attracting a mention on the front page of The New York Times, something that the dozens of House and Senate Democrats combined couldn’t match when they unveiled their homeland-security plan last week.

Now, with McKinney facing a possible arrest warrant, the media frenzy is set only to escalate. The U.S. Capitol Police referred the issue to the U.S. District Attorney’s office for prosecution yesterday.

All of the attention has some Democrats concerned that McKinney is drawing the limelight away from their policy goals and Republicans’ ethical missteps to focus on a momentary, disputed encounter in a Capitol Hill hallway.

“There’s been a lot of eye-rolling,” said an aide to a moderate Democrat who spoke on condition of anonymity. “The national attention it’s been getting has been unfortunate. It’s becoming a distraction.”

A Democratic strategist concurred.

“This isn’t the view of Democrats that we want to project in the tough races, one of victims and race-baiting,” the strategist said.

McKinney often elicits strong opinions, even within her own caucus. She has a history of making controversial statements that delight progressives while irking moderates, yet even some of the caucus’s more progressive members have had disagreements with her.

She and House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi (Calif.) no longer speak, not even to exchange greetings when encountering each other in the Capitol hallways, said two House Democratic sources. Pelosi twice turned down McKinney’s request to regain her seniority after she was defeated and then reelected in 2002 and 2004. McKinney first came to Congress in 1992.

McKinney spokesman Coz Carson said his boss is an effective member of Congress.

“She’s a gutsy leader who gets out in front of important issues,” he said. “She demonstrates bold and responsible leadership for the people who elected her to office.”

McKinney raised some eyebrows when she attended hearings of the select committee on Hurricane Katrina even after Democratic leaders had decided that only three Democrats — Reps. Gene Taylor (Miss.), Bill Jefferson (La.) and Charlie Melancon (La.) — would participate.

At her news conference Friday, organizers originally expected to have members of Congress join McKinney in a show of support. None ultimately appeared, although Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.) sent a statement saying that “the most responsible and useful course for all involved would be to seek a resolution that would be satisfactory to both parties.”

Meanwhile, Republicans have had a field day with the allegations.

Rep. Patrick McHenry (R-N.C.) called the incident — in which McKinney allegedly struck the officer after he stopped her at a security checkpoint — “disgraceful” and “horrible.” McKinney has said the officer inappropriately touched her.

“I recognize that there are 435 members and I look like a staffer — sometimes an intern — and sometimes memory fails,” said McHenry, who is the youngest member of Congress. “And anyway, I don’t think it’s smart for any member to tussle with a Capitol Police officer. They’re well-trained.”

McHenry and Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart (R-Fla.) plan to introduce a resolution today to show appreciation for the Capitol Police.

Other members were more willing to give McKinney the benefit of the doubt.

“It’s a question of fact and whether the officer put his hand on her first or whether he asked her to stop first and asked for ID. The facts will determine who was in the right and who was in the wrong,” said Rep. Al Wynn (D-Md.). “I would be offended and upset if [an officer] put his hands on me prior to asking for ID.”

A House Democratic aide sided with McKinney.

“The notion that they would charge her is just beyond ludicrous, regardless of what happened. It sounds like a misunderstanding. She clearly wasn’t intending to assault a police officer.”

http://www.washingtontimes.com/national/20060403-115441-4281r.htm

Duo urges commendation for Capitol Police service

By Charles Hurt and Matthew Cella
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
April 4, 2006

Two House members will introduce tomorrow a resolution to commend the U.S. Capitol Police department, which Rep. Cynthia A. McKinney accused last week of racial profiling.
"The 1,700 officers of the Capitol Police force risk their lives every day protecting constituents, staff and members of Congress," said Rep. Patrick T. McHenry, North Carolina Republican. "The right thing to do is to commend these men and women. They deserve a pat on the back, which is more appropriate than what they've gotten lately."
The resolution, by Mr. McHenry and Rep. Lincoln Diaz-Balart, Florida Republican, which could be voted on this week, comes after increasingly harsh accusations by Mrs. McKinney, the Georgia Democrat who was stopped by Capitol Police last week for bypassing a metal detector.
Also, the Capitol Police today requested an arrest warrant for Mrs. McKinney over the incident. A representative for the U.S. Attorney's Office, which must approve an arrest warrant, said officials were considering whether to file charges.
No warrant had been issued as of this afternoon. A felony charge of assaulting a police officer carries a maximum five-year sentence in the District.
Sgt. Kimberly Schneider, a Capitol Police spokeswoman, said only that the department "has referred its investigative findings to the United States attorney."
Members of Congress are not required to go through the metal detectors at Capitol entrances, but officers did not recognize her because she had recently changed her hairdo and wasn't wearing the member's pin that identifies her.
Once stopped, Mrs. McKinney swatted the officer with her cellular phone.
"This whole incident was instigated by the inappropriate touching and stopping of me, a female black congresswoman," Mrs. McKinney said during a press conference last week at Howard University. "I deeply regret that this incident occurred, and I am certain that after a full review of the facts, I will be exonerated."
She was "just a victim of being in Congress while black," said her attorney, James W. Myart Jr. "Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney, like thousands of average Americans across this country, is, too, a victim of the excessive use of force by law-enforcement officials because of how she looks and the color of her skin."
Mrs. McKinney continued her defense with a press conference earlier today in Atlanta.
"Racial profiling is a well thought out and planned attack on black political leaders," Georgia state Rep. Roberta Abdul-Salaam. "It's going from the gold dome down to the White House. It's happening, and it's wrong."
Mr. Diaz-Balart said the police should be commended rather than condemned.
"Every day, they exhibit honor, courtesy and professionalism," he said. "This resolution highlights and thanks the hardworking Capitol Police for the work they do in maintaining security around the Capitol for all members of Congress, staff and visitors."

[Snapman]

Imagine if they didn't stop her and let her through without checking ID. Her side would probably be villifying the cops saying how they're not doing their jobs and that a terrorist could walk in with a bomb and they wouldn't be stopped. Damned if you do, damned if you don't.

[Motor Head]

She is just too easy...I just can't do it....no...must....not say....nigg.......

Yeah, she is her own worst enemy. Just let her talk, sooner or later she will have enough rope to hang herself with. *oops, now I went and said it*

[TimTA95]

http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e274/zxer500/cmracecard.jpg

[ScarAss]

god damn golfer cunt. she looks like a fucking mongoloid.

I, for an odd reason, find it funny that you call a negroid a mongoloid.

Anyway, someone care to explain what race-baiting means? I've never heard the term.

But this incident says a lot about the people of Georgia; the fact that she was elected. You white folks should really redistribute your black population over there. Shame on you. You are the ones to blame for this disgrace of the already disgraced democratic party.


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[abudabit]

She has to be the Republicans favorite Democrat. Either her or Boxer.

[Myhairygrundle]

This is worth posting here too.....

http://media.putfile.com/putyourassinjail