and anyone can go bazookers, and have a mental meltdown, too….even if you are a member of congress. those security measures are in place for a reason. to protect people like HER.

they have their pins to identify them so that they can get easy access through security, can’t tell me she didn’t know that was as important as her planner or cellphone or driver’s license when she leaves home in the morning. and what if she lost her pin and didn’t report it?

for a while, i worked in two different buildings, many floors, where everyone had to show their badge/id, even when their hands were full at lunchtime bringing in takeout or bags, etc..even when the guard knew you…had to stop and show it. however, if there was noone around, if he knew you, he would let you pass, but never if anyone was watching, he made that clear. even the heads of the company, same thing.

any deliveries were met at the door and signed for, on a different log….in other words, nothing went into that building that wasn’t id’d or logged.

if you forgot your id, you might as well go back home and get it and be late to work rather than have to be signed in, and if you had to be signed in cuz you didn’t have it-you had to show it the next day to show it wasn’t lost…….when i worked in another department i lost mine once in an attic, had to carry it on me, slipped out of my levi’s, it was over 100 in that attic and i looked all over digging around in insulation, that’s how badly i needed to find it….pile of paperwork for my boss. and had to go downtown to get new id the next day, wasn’t allowed to work without one.

(later, that boss made me a ’funny’ official id, that was a little picture of a street urchin and said, help me, i’m lost, return me to —– —-. )

so, i think it’s a big deal. she knew the rules, same as i did where i worked. she’d been there for 12 years? um, knew them better than most. thought she was entitled to break them.

i wouldn’t nominate someone like that to be a presidential candidate.

You might have been fired/laid off. At this point, Cynthia McKinney was still a member of Congress and had been for roughly a dozen years.

To put this in perspective, is the local Division/Group Manager/Senior Executives for your employer treated the exact same way in showing ID and badges every time s/he enters the building as you are?

my reaction about mckinney being the green party nominee?

you gotta be kiddin’ me…….no way, who’s in charge there now? are they stupid or just dumb?
just playin’ at havin’ a political party, nothin’ serious goin’ on here, move along…….

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the ’guard grab’?

i remember her reaction and what she said at the time, i thought it was atrocious. atrocious. a member of congress acting like a pubescent ’i’m entitled’ kinda gal throwing a tantrum…blaming everyone else for something she started and created and made worse…not pretty, not befitting an elected member of congress, heck, not befitting me or my family if i acted that way.

it all got buttered up with her statements later, but go back and read the originals. you’d a thought they tackled her and searched her person right there in the halls for everyone to see her undies. she created the ruckus and made it worse…..she knew the rules. she didn’t think she had to follow them. she reacted like a baby when required to follow them. then slammed people whose job it was to keep her from breaking them. she was emitted from my radar screen after that.

and yes i am and was aware who she was and how she voted before that. after this, was hard to put the two into one person, after her tantrum i was never able to. persona nongrata.