Cynthia McKinney

Cynthia McKinney is a former US Congresswoman and a member of the Green Party. Previously as a member of the Democratic Party, she served six terms as a member of the United States House of Representatives. In 2008, the Green Party nominated McKinney for President of the United States.

In the 1992 election, McKinney was elected in the newly re-created 11th District, and was re-elected in 1994. When her district was redrawn and renumbered due to the Supreme Court of the United States ruling in Miller v. Johnson, McKinney was easily elected from the new 4th District in the 1996 election, and was re-elected twice.

McKinney was defeated by Denise Majette in the 2002 Democratic primary, because Republicans were allow to vote in the primary due to Georgia's open primary elections, which permits anyone from any party to vote in any party primary.

McKinney was re-elected to the House in November 2004. In Congress, she advocated unsealing records regarding the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., and continued to criticize the Bush Administration over the 9/11 attacks. She voted against the War in Iraq, and supported anti-war legislation. She also introduced articles of impeachment against President Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.

She left the Democratic Party in September 2007.

She ran as the Green Party nominee in the 2008 presidential election.