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By Luke Thomas<\/strong> June 23, 2008<\/p>\n Two’s company. Former Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney announced today she has joined the campaign to elect Cindy Sheehan to Congress.<\/p>\n Citing Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s record on “hope-reversing” policies, McKinney will serve as Sheehan’s Honorary Co-Chair in Sheehan’s bid to “oust” Pelosi from office.<\/p>\n “Nancy Pelosi needs to phone home,” McKinney said, “because it’s clear that she’s forgotten the values of the people of California who sent her to Congress.”<\/p>\n The announcement comes at a particularly difficult time for Pelosi whose job approval rating has steadily declined since vowing “to take back America” in 2006. According to a recent Harris poll conducted between June 4 and June 8, Pelosi’s job approval rating has fallen to an all-time low of just 24 percent positive and 57 percent negative.<\/p>\n “The point was to change Washington, but instead Washington changed Nancy Pelosi,” McKinney said.<\/p>\n McKinney, who is seeking the Green Party nomination for President, left the Democratic Party in March 2007 after the new Democrat-controlled Congress elected in November 2006 failed to repeal the Patriot Act and to investigate the Pentagon’s mysterious loss of $2.3 trillion in fiscal-year 1999, a cause McKinney championed while serving on the U.S. House Committee on Armed Services.<\/p>\n McKinney first publicly endorsed Sheehan’s bid for Congress in 2007. According to McKinney, “Cindy’s campaign is increasingly important today as the only way left to put peace, impeachment, and our values back on the table.”<\/p>\n “Cindy continues to show us the power of one, the power that is within every one of us. Moreover, Cindy Sheehan can win,” McKinney added.<\/p>\n Sheehan, who launched her bid to unseat Pelosi in December, said of McKinney’s decision to join her campaign: “Having Cynthia on board is a significant gain for my campaign. She has experience in tough campaigns and brings a wealth of knowledge. I am running to win. We have already raised close to $200,000 and everyday we get more and more support as people get more fed up with Pelosi’s mis-leadership.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By Luke Thomas June 23, 2008 Two’s company. Former Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney announced today she has joined the campaign to elect Cindy Sheehan to Congress. Citing Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s record on “hope-reversing” policies, McKinney will…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":602,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,17],"tags":[493,993],"class_list":["post-601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","tag-cindy-sheehan","tag-cyntha-mckinney"],"yoast_head":"\n
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