Spring Has Sprung

Already it has been an incredibly beautiful Spring in Beautiful Dunwoody Georgia. The Bradford Pears are just about done, but the dogwoods and the azaleas are just starting up. The thrift that Cindy and I have been planting on the Great Berm of Dunwoody for the last four years is in full bloom and it is gorgeous. Two more years and I will have the entire berm coated with thrift. The daffodils and tulips are up also. As an indicator of how everything is in bloom, today we had the second highest pollen count since we have been tracking it. I feel sorry for people with allergies. On the downside, it has been a dry March and that is one of the reasons the pollen count is so high.

So everything is beautiful and to make things even better, Cynthia McKinney decided to run for her old seat in the 4th Congressional District. Since Denise Majette soundly defeated her last time I'm not a bit worried. Here's another opportunity for her to make a fool of herself. What could go wrong? Well this could.

U.S. Rep. Denise Majette turned Georgia's once-sedate political season on its head Monday.

No! No! No! I don't want to hear it!

The DeKalb County freshman congresswoman announced her plans to try to become Georgia's first African-American U.S. senator, finally lending a high-profile Democratic name to the race.

Denise, how could you do that? It's not that she was a better representative than Jihad Cindy. She was every bit as liberal and voted in lockstep with useful idiot John Lewis who by his votes kept poor blacks on the Dimocrat plantation and dependent on the gummint. Keep 'em in failing schools. Keep 'em poor. Keep 'em in the projects. Keep 'em on welfare. That's the ticket. But at least Denise wasn't a loudmouth anti-Semitic bigot who was an embarrassment to Georgia.

And in doing so, she touched off a wide-open race for her congressional seat, possibly clearing the way for the state's first openly gay congressional candidate.

Atlanta City Council President Cathy Woolard plans an "election-related announcement" in Decatur today. If Woolard, who is openly gay, enters the 4th District race, she will confront controversial former Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney, who has announced plans to run for her old seat.

Unfortunately, blacks outnumber gays in the 4th District and even though black "leaders" support gay rights, since that is one of the credos of the Dimocrat Party, most black people don't.

Majette's announcement that she would seek retiring U.S. Sen. Zell Miller's job stunned the state's political community, and it came without institutional backing of either the national or state Democratic Party.

"I don't need anybody's blessing," Majette said during a morning news conference at the state Capitol. "I get my blessings from God, and I do what I'm led to do."

You've been led to kiss your political career goodbye and given us two more years of Cynthia "I hate Jews" McKinney.

McKinney's father, former state Rep. Billy McKinney, hovered in the crowd watching Majette's news conference Monday and then gleefully entertained questions about his daughter's nemesis.

Noted racist, Billy McKinney said on the night before the primary election that ousted his daughter two years ago that the reason she was losing was "Jews, J-E-W-S!", which only goes to show that not only is he an anti-Semitic bigot, but he also knows how to spell.

A reporter asked McKinney whether he thought Majette could win a statewide race.

"Hell no," Billy McKinney shot back. "I'm glad she's running for the Senate. It puts her out of politics."

No shit! Billy got sumpin' right.

Is there no hope?

Speculation centered on other Democrats, including DeKalb Chief Executive Officer Vernon Jones

The self styled Mr. CEO. He is black and is not a big of a pain in the ass as Jihad Cindy, but then who is besides her daddy?

and state Rep. Teresa Greene-Johnson (D-Lithonia), who is challenging Jones for CEO but said Monday that she would consider Majette's seat.

I know absolutely nuttin' about her.

State Sen. Liane Levetan (D-Atlanta), former DeKalb CEO, she is giving it "careful consideration,"

Not a chance. She's white and the 4th was designed to be a black district.

and there was some speculation that Thomas, the state senator, might switch races to avoid a showdown with Majette.

I don't know nuttin' about her either.

So right now, it looks like I'll once again be represented by Cynthia McKinney. If all this had gone down on Thursday, I moght have thought that it was nuttin' but an April Fools joke.

There goes a beautiful Spring.

Posted by denny at March 30, 2004 09:30 PM