McKinney ponders her political future

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< The Atlanta Journal-Constitution: 9/14/03 >

McKinney ponders her political future

By MELANIE EVERSLEY
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution


NEW YORK -- Cynthia McKinney isn't ready to share publicly whether she'll run for Congress again or for president on the Green Party ticket, but she does say she's in a good place now.

"I do have some big decisions to make, and I recognize that whatever I decide to do impacts a lot of people," McKinney, 48, said Friday during an interview in New York, where she was appearing at a conference exploring questions about the 2001 terror attacks.

Sitting down with a Journal-Constitution reporter for the first time since her re-election defeat in 2002, she repeatedly declined to answer questions about whether she was considering running in 2004 for her old 4th District congressional seat in and around DeKalb County. She also wouldn't address rumors that she instead was considering running for the east Georgia congressional seat now held by Republican Max Burns, or that she may be a potential presidential candidate on the Green Party ticket.

"I have not said no to anyone yet," said McKinney, a Democrat who served four terms in Congress. But, she added with a grin, "Politics is in my blood." In the meantime, McKinney said, she has found fulfillment since she's been out of office.

She has literally been traveling the globe speaking out against the war with Iraq and raising questions about what the White House knew beforehand about the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks. That issue has become a trademark of McKinney's since she raised questions during a March 2002 radio show about whether President Bush had prior knowledge of the terror attacks

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