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Sat. Jul 17, 2004

Deja Vu from 2002

In a comment, Steve Barton noted, “It IS like last time when looking at McKinney’s donors. The AJC handled the subject in a very gentle way in today’s paper, pushing it to the last paragraphs at the bottom of the jump page. The AJC only mentioned a couple of Arab-American organizations’ donations and said nothing about the amazing 17 pages of mostly (way mostly) Arab names of her donors. Maybe in the next two days?”

Why not today?

I went through those 214 listed contributions from individuals, and I tried to be very generous, but I found that 64 of the 214 names were “non-Arab.” Thirty percent.

I went through them a second time, and counted 34 names from within Georgia. About 15 percent.

I went through them a third time, again being very generous, and counted the number of individuals whose listed address was within the 4th District, and came up with twelve. Being generous on a couple of addresses where I was uncertain. That’s 5.6%.

So, 94% of McKinney’s individual donors are “non-constituents,” 85% of them are from outside of Georgia, and 70% of them appear to come from people with Arab names.

Are any of these things illegal? Of course not.

They’re indicative.

But here’s what I find to be the most stunning numbers. In 2002, 113,356 citizens of the 4th District went to the polls. Over 40,000 of them voted for Cynthia McKinney. This year, only a dozen of them were willing to give money to Cynthia McKinney’s campaign to return to Congress.

Think about that.

Deja Vu from 2002: McKinney’s Contributions, McKinney Donors Probed for Terror Ties, More on McKinney’s Money, McKinney’s Contributors Sued by 9-11 Victims.