Firefighters Say Giuliani Ignored Their Needs After Sept. 11

[Chimichurri]

I wonder if this will effect Rudy's 9/11 campaign mantra with those "patriotic" right wingers he's trying to seduce.

March 9 (Bloomberg) -- Rudy Giuliani, who has parlayed his identity as the hero of Sept. 11 into a front-running presidential candidacy, was himself attacked by the nation's firefighters union for rushing to remove debris at New York's World Trade Center site before many remains had been recovered.

The International Association of Fire Fighters union said it wants its 260,000 U.S. members to know the ``real story'' of the former New York mayor, contending that Giuliani sought to curtail search-and-recovery efforts at the World Trade Center site after the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, that claimed the lives of 2,752 people, including 343 union fire fighters.

``Mayor Giuliani's actions meant that fire fighters and citizens who perished would either remain buried at Ground Zero forever, with no closure for families, or be removed like garbage and deposited at the Fresh Kills Landfill,'' said union President Harold Schaitberger in a draft letter to affiliates.

Giuliani, 62, leads the Republican presidential candidates in many polls and is favored in a match-up against Democratic frontrunner Senator Hillary Clinton of New York in the swing states of Pennsylvania and Florida, according to a Feb. 25-March 4 Quinnipiac University poll.

``Many people consider Rudy Giuliani `America's Mayor,' and many of our members who don't yet know the real story, may also have a positive view of him,'' Schaitberger wrote. The union wants ``to make all of our members aware of the egregious acts Mayor Giuliani committed against our members, our fallen on 9/11, and our New York City union officers following that horrific day,'' the letter said.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601070&sid=a8o5p2XiTQhk&refer=home

[blm]

1. The media wouldn't let the Firefighters be HEARD in 2003 and 2004 - too busy protecting Bush

and Giuliani's hero images.

[Chimichurri]

6. I think it's now our job to keep all of this information front and center

Eventually the corporate media won't be able to ignore it and if they do it won't matter so long as the internets keep the momentum going.

[bryant69]

2. Giuliani has a lot of weaknesses

And he's going to have a hard time getting through the primaries, particularly if a social conservative enteres the race.

Bryant
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[zbdent]

3. as I recall, Rudy Judy-Annie was restricted by term limits and could

no longer run for re-election ... so why should he be bothereed with the trials and tribulations of the working stiffs?

Edited to add: :sarcasm:

[CrazyOrangeCat]

4. K&R

He's just another fascist.

He didn't really give a damn about the ravaged FDNY . . . he doesn't really give a damn about anybody but Rudy.

He's an egomaniac.

[TheCowsCameHome]

5. This should add some spice to the mix..........

[underpants]

7. Rudy is still running under the radar his numbers are way inflated

IF this and all the stuff about his marriages and his kids and crashing with gay friends gets out he will be done.

[Chimichurri]

8. Really? Don't you think the right wingers would really believe this

stuff? They are a delusional bunch.

[underpants]

9. Well that is true

Fox News is making ZERO mention of Walter Reed and even less (yes that is possible on Fox) of the attorneys firing and Libby is passed being old news.

Oh but there are child killers everywhere and Wm.&Mary took down a cross (in a nondenominational chapel at a publicly funded educational facility)

[lpbk2713]

10. After the cameras went away .....

so did Fooliani.

[lovuian]

11. They're right 911 cough will haunt Rudy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1B2WBD-F-7I

[AZBlue]

12. And let's not forget, "The air at Ground Zero is fine. It's not dangerous."

Yeah, right, Rudy, tell us another one.

[Vidar]

13. Recommended for the real heroes.