’)People in Georgia want to undo the naming of a highway after serial loon Cynthia McKinney. Can you blame ‘em?
Former Georgia Rep. Cynthia McKinney has pulled up stakes and moved to California, where she is considering a Green Party run for president. Now some Georgians want to erase a constant reminder that she ever lived in the Peach State.
A 20 mile stretch of I-285 — a main thoroughfare that connects downtown Atlanta to the suburb of Stone Mountain — was renamed the Cynthia McKinney Parkway in 2000 after the congresswoman secured $14 million in federal funding for DeKalb County to upgrade what was then called Memorial Drive.
Georgia House Rep. Mike Jacobs is supporting a state resolution proposed last year that calls for the parkway to revert to its original name.
“If had I had to pick any road in the state of Georgia to strip the name from, this would be it,” said Jacobs, who represents part of DeKalb County. “The original name of the road is Memorial Drive, which is named for the men and women who died protecting our freedom.
McKinney was bad for the congress and bad for Georgia. People don’t send people to Washington to just act the fool.
can anyone tell what party this McKinney is from based on this article?
Don’t forget bad for the Democrat party….
No no, bad for the Democratic Party. She was never part of the Democrat Party because no such thing exists.
Never a good idea to name a road or build a statute of a living person. Better to follow the postal guideline, for someone to be dead for five years.
Never a good idea to name a road or build a statute of a living person. Better to follow the postal guideline, for someone to be dead for five years.
Never a good idea to name a road or build a statute of a living person.
The funniest story is New Jersey, where they named a new train station after Frank Lautenberg after he retired. Then he ran for Senate again.
As for McKinney- seriously, we have highways named after Civil War traitors in Virginia. The “Cynthia McKinney Highway” is nowhere near as embarrassing as the “Jefferson Davis Highway.”
can anyone tell what party this McKinney is from based on this article?
“She won back her old seat in 2004, but she was defeated again in the Democratic primary in 2006.”
Yes, Fred, anybody who can read could probably tell what party McKinney was from, even if you hadn’t already figured it out from the notion that she’s considering running for the Green Party in California.
Also, Oliver, oh noes! How will people complain that you’re a partisan shill if you do things like call out embarrassing Democrats in your blog?
They named a highway from Stone-freakin’-Mountain–home of the KKK–to downtown Atlanta after a black woman?
I do declare, they got a crazy sense of humor down in Jawja.
Clean up on aisle 5?
Yeah, I’m working on fixing that. You should know that Stone Mountain is now a very black middle class area of GA. I know because I go there at least once a year to visit my … black, middle class family
Yeah, I’ve been having posting issues too. And we still don’t know what happened to those deleted entries.
ODub, what gives?
fredfarkle: “can anyone tell what party this McKinney is from based on this article?”
Yes. Smart people who can read the link can figure it out quite easily.
I’m not surprised you can’t, cause it seems to be your goal to prove how dumb you are.
Why is that?
You should know that Stone Mountain is now a very black middle class area of GA.
Times have changed!
“Yeah, I’ve been having posting issues too. And we still don’t know what happened to those deleted entries.
ODub, what gives?”
Putting my conspiracy helmet on, I blame Ron Paul and his supporters. You don’t find it strange that these problems happened so soon after Mr. Willis mentioned a lot of Ron Paul supporters are racists.
Interesting, is it not?