Isn't she the one that blew by a security checkpoint, then clocked the officer that tried to stop her with her phone? As I remember (vaguely, I've slept since then), the picture on her id card was nowhere near what she looked like that day.
It wasn't that her appearance didn't match her photo I.D. I don't recall seeing it said anywhere but she almost certainly didn't have a photo I.D. visible that day. I do recall that she was not wearing her Congressional lapel pin, not uncommon for her or many another Member of Congress.
Symfia has a very bad case of "I'm Important"-itis. She inherited the trait from her father, Billy McKinney. The two of them made a mockery of the Georgia House Of Representatives. Billy was already known as a nutbag long before he got into an argument on the House floor with another member and threatened to cut him. They're both out of the State House now, and good riddance.
What Symfia did on that fateful day in Washington was breeze past the checkpoint with her head down and turned away from it while gabbing on a cell phone. The Capitol Police officer on duty strode after her and called out, "ma'am...Ma'am...MA'AM!" and she never broke stride, so he got her by the upper arm to stop her and she slammed him in the chest with the phone, then chewed him out for not recognizing her and said he was a racist who just stopped her because she was black.
It wasn't the first time Symfia got her panties in a knot over what she perceived as not being properly kowtowed to at the Capitol. Just after her first election to the US Congress she bopped onto one of the House elevators dressed in a t-shirt, jeans, and gold - GOLD - hightop sneakers,
and not wearing her House pin. When the operator (there's a cushy patronage job for you) politely informed her that the elevator was for the use of Members of Congress only, she gave him the same rant she would use a few years later on the cop, including calling him a racist who wouldn't dare say something like that to a white person.
Another Symfia tale: Just before she was elected to the US House again (she'd lost the seat in the previous election, then got it back when the woman who'd defeated her got over-ambitious and decided to run for the Senate) Symfia and her dad got in a little - a very little, considering what they did - hot water for campaigning
inside a polling place. She went into a voting site with a bullhorn (!) and was exhorting the voters to remember how the Republicans had screwed them in the last election (what she meant was the Repubs had screwed her by voting for her opponent in the primary, but let's not nitpick) and that she was the candidate they really wanted this time. When the election official in charge of that particular polling place told her she was not allowed to conduct herself in that manner in that place, she and her father accused him of being a racist.
Does anyone else see a pattern here?
