Posted on 07/07/2010 5:40:30 PM PDT by Sergeant Tim
GOP gubernatorial hopeful Rick Lazio is calling out his Dem opponent Andrew Cuomo about the Ground Zero mosque proposal … Lazio demanded that state Attorney General Cuomo check the legality of the funding sources for the $100 million Cordoba House Islamic center planned near the site of the 9/11 terror attacks. “New Yorkers have a right to feel safe and be safe,” Lazio told reporters in Lower Manhattan. “There are serious security questions about the appropriateness of this mosque.” In a letter he sent to Cuomo, Lazio cited press accounts that Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, who’s spearheading the mosque’s construction, is a “key figure” in an organization that funded the flotilla that sought to break Israel’s Gaza blockade. … Cuomo, who has come out in favor of letting the project proceed, as have numerous city officials although the public is split on the issue, put out this statement via AG’s office spokesman Richard Bamberger: “Anyone who has evidence of wrongdoing should send it to us and we will review it.”
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I love NY and don’t want to give up the fight but may have to eventually. I can’t stand losing it to the libs.
Just start calling it the 911 victory mosque or something similar that calls attention to it’s true nature, see if that will embarrass any of these worthless pols into doing something.
I’ve only been in New York City a few times, but it was an very amazing and, to an outside, intimidating place. If it were ‘home’, I can understand not wanting to leave.
Kind of on/off topic, have you ever heard PDQ Bach’s classical rap about the Upper East Side? It’s old, but somebody set it to an Airbender video. Even if you heard it a while back, it’s fun to listen to all over again:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4aq_V06-nyQ
Real changes are needed here in NY, I hope there are surprises this November
My point was that Lazio was playing up to Cuomo’s power and jurisdictional authority as Atty Gen’l, and if Cuomo actually DOES do something about it (don’t discount the possibility of this) it’ll be CUOMO who gets the credit, NOT Lazio. WHat I think will happen is that Cuomo will make a ‘show’ of investigating, get the ball rolling, and that it will be HIS office’s issue, going right up to Nov. 2, and it might even form part of what conceivably get him elected Governor, possibly even from a small disaffected Tea Party constituency that might come to like his style over this issue. Cuomo has also been making noises recently that are designed to make him sound like a follower of NJ’s Chris Christie (NJ is my state). I think what Lazio may have done wrong, in other words, is give Cuomo this issue to play with. If he was that interested in it, he should run on IT and other Islam-related issues w/o Cuomo’s approval or ‘certification’.
I had a very lively back and forth a week ago with the OTHER NY Gov candidate, Carl Paladino, about this whole election picture, with him included in it as a TeaParty/Third Party line candidate.
Clearly Mr. Cuomo, if that is his real name, has lost touch with his base.
Nothing like running a campaign based on DECREASING the security of your constituents.
Go Rick!
He’s got no shot, and i dont remember him being at the ground Zero/Mosque protest either. Where was he on this issue until now?
I wasn't there, and it would be touch to find anyone who is more opposed to the mosque.
Well, you know I was there- and my gripe is that if he wanted to make a STATEMENT about it, and see the voters in NYC who felt strongly enough about it to be there, then he should have been there.
Lazio’s got a snowball’s chance in hell of becoming NY’s next governor but props to him for calling out Son of Cuomo.
I don't live anywhere near NYC which is a good thing, IMHO. I'm upstate. There's a whole lot of NY other than NYC the libs that live there don't think so.. the city folk think upstate is anything north of Screaming Yellow Yonkers. LOL.
There are some good republican areas down there on Long Island and Staten Island but for the most part the city is a liberal wasteland that is infecting the rest of the state as well when the libs move out of there and up here. It's truly pathetic.
You don’t really need to listen to the video. PDQ Bach (I can’t recall his real name) was a classical music comic and composer, and quite talented. I had forgotten how ilberal his rap piece was, however. It would probably amuse somebody who lives in NYC proper even so, but a NY conservative from upstate might not find anything at all to like about it. ;)
I have heard the physical beauty of your area is just breathtaking. I have a close friend who spent two months in that region, and he couldn’t say enough about it. I hope the liberals don’t run you out. If they don’t go for Lazio this time around, you really have to wonder.
The latest poll shows Cuomo 58 percent to Lizzio 26 percent. 16 percent are unknown which could go to Lizzio...he only needs to shave off some of those 58 percent off Cuomo...I guess it could happen...November is a long time away.
Actually this is more accurate on the Lazzio campaign. I was very close but wanted to be exact.
If New Yorkers really are solidly against building this mosque near our sacred ground, then they really need to put the screws to pols like Cuomo and make the pressure so unbearable that they have no choice but to come out against it.
A Quinnipiac poll last week found New York City voters against a mosque there 52 to 31 perecent.
You and me both! Most good people of NY end up voting with their FEET. I for one am APALLED at a big two paged spread in a local upstate paper on some Barney Fife-like DEC officer throwing his weight around. Too bad Carl Paladino doesn’t stand a chance!!
How about germ warfare on downstate just before Nov 2nd?
Heh heh!!
Those downstate libtards can’t vote if they have the sniffles.
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