AN AFTERNOON WITH CYNTHIA MCKINNEY
In her sole New Hampshire engagement, five-term Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney visits New Hampshire, at one of twelve stops on her New England fundraising and speaking tour, from
2 to 4 pm Friday August 24th
at #1 Fells Drive,
Amherst, New Hampshire.

The Congressswoman represented a district in Atlanta, Georgia, until her last campaign in 2006 saw defeat at the hands of a conservative Democrat overwhelmingly supported by Republicans. By removing McKinney from the House of Representatives, a cabal of Republicans, conservative Democrats and touch-screen Diebold voting machines forced a premature end to her congressional career.

How that all came about is the subject of a documentary released earlier this year, American Blackout, from which brief excerpts will be shown preceding her talk in Amherst, which will include comments on the current state of electronic vote counting, increasingly in the hands of defense contractors who have quietly bought up controlling interests in electronic voting machines and the programming software that counts the votes. DVD copies, autographed by Ms McKinney, will be available for purchase following Q and A.

Cynthia McKinney distinguished herself from the beginning to the end of her ten years in Congress as a visionary progressive who refused to meekly get in line behind the conservative/moderate Democratic faction who actually ran and still runs the House Democratic caucus. Issues they would not touch were those that Cynthia most forcefully brought to the attention of her core consituents, from the economically debilitating effects of globalization at home and abroad to the complete lack of accountability by the Democratic Party in addressing the impeachable crimes of the Bush-Cheney regime. Her last offering in Congress prior to leaving office was a bill of impeachment for George W Bush.

Cynthia McKinney's most prophetic moment came in the immediate wake of 9/11, when on the House floor she challenged Congress to address the question no Democrat dared ask, "Qui bono?---Who Benefits?" from the War on Terror, which was soon to plunge the nation into an ongoing transfer of wealth from the US Treasury into the coffers of Vice-President Cheney's former employer, Halliburton, and what was then a small arms-delivery company called the Carlyle Group, headed by George H W Bush. In sworn testimony, she diligently asked and got answers from then-current Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Richard Myers regarding the numbers of drills, exercises and war games which had been scheduled for the morning of 9/11 and which had minimized any sincere air defense, details which no one in Congress theretofore had revealed to the American people. She followed up by holding an entire day of hearings with CIA operatives detailing the seeming inability of the Adminstration to protect the nation from attack.

Cynthia McKinney, most assuredly a Woman Making a Difference, looks forward to meeting the people in the First Primary state prior to continuing the rest of her career in public service.