Former US congresswomen Cynthia McKinney is running for U.S. President under the Green Party ticket. She has been a outspoken critic of the Bush administration has been attacked by both Democrats and Republican for her statements and opinon on poverty, war in Iraq, police brutality and reparations.
Cynthia Ann McKinney (born March 17, 1955) is a former United States Representative and the 2008 Green Party nominee for President of the United States. McKinney served as a Democrat in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1993–2003 and 2005–2007, first representing Georgia's 11th Congressional District and then Georgia's 4th Congressional District. She is the first African American woman to have represented Georgia in the House.
On July 9, 2008 she named her running mate as Rosa Clemente[64] and clinched the party's nomination three days later at the 2008 Green Party National Convention.
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