GOP bigotry on display in Illinois!

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Zinga goofs on airline profiling
Campaign manager blames his 'poor briefing'

By BERNARD SCHOENBURG
POLITICAL WRITER

Published Tuesday, September 12, 2006

All Middle Eastern men should get secondary security screenings as they board airplanes, a candidate for the U.S. House said in Springfield on Monday.

However, Republican Andrea Zinga's campaign manager, Charlie Johnston, said later "that's not what she wanted to say." He said she really meant to say that there should be no threat of anti-discrimination legal action against airlines if the pre-screening system to identify problem passengers identifies more than three people from the same ethnic group.

Johnston said Monday night that he had discussed the screening problem with Zinga based on an article in the Autumn 2004 edition of City Journal magazine by Heather MacDonald, a scholar at the conservative Manhattan Institute in New York. Johnston said he and Zinga "went through some" of the article, but, he added, "I did a poor briefing on this."

In her appearance Monday morning at Springfield Fire Station No. 1 to commemorate the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Zinga, of Coal Valley, told reporters, "Profiling doesn't bother me if we are profiling the people who, with one exception - and that would be Timothy McVeigh - have caused the outrages against our nation and caused the deaths of American citizens. We're talking about Mid-Eastern men."
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http://www.sj-r.com/sections/news/stories/95656.asp#

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1. Yes McVeigh was just one tiny little exception.

And he acted alone.

And there was no organized movement hostile to the government at that time.

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2. she likely has no chance of winning

Illinois 17 has long been a Democratic stronghold, mainly because of Lane Evans, who is stepping down due to health problems. His top aide, Phil Hare is running against zinga, who is a former CNN anchor, as well as a former local anchor, and speaking from experience, a gradeA no. 1 bitch. Last election cycle, she was the repuke nominee and showed her disdain for disabled as well, when she made Evans' health a major campaign issue. It backfired on her big time, and this latest incident will too.