The Current FReepathon Pays For The Current Quarter's Expenses?
Posted on 08/27/2014 6:46:28 AM PDT by blam
MATT FLEGENHEIMER and J. DAVID GOODMANAUG
August 26, 2014
A union of New York City police sergeants warned the Democratic National Committee on Tuesday against holding its 2016 convention in Brooklyn, issuing an open letter that doubled as a broadside against a mayoral administration with which some officers have grown increasingly frustrated.
In the letter, addressed to the group Mayor Bill de Blasio wooed during its visit to New York two weeks ago, the president of the Sergeants Benevolent Association, Edward D. Mullins, said the city was going “backward to the bad old days of high crime, danger-infested public spaces and families that walk our streets worried for their safety.”
He presented a city overrun with “squeegee people” and other panhandlers, with shootings on the rise and morale among police officers flagging.
The city said it had enough hotel space to accommodate any guests, noting Midtown Manhattan’s proximity to the Barclays Center by train or car.
In Brooklyn, Officials Court Democrats in Bid to Host 2016 Convention.
“The D.N.C. should choose another venue,” said the letter, which appeared as an advertisement in The New York Times and The New York Post. “Mayor de Blasio,” it continued, “has not earned the right to play host to such an important event.”
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Astonishng COURAGE..to write a letter like THAT!
It’ll be fun to watch. This commie mayor will circular file that letter. He’s on par with the emperor.
Actually, NYC is the most appropriate place for them.
The Current FReepathon Pays For The Current Quarter's Expenses?
Oh, I dunno.
That sounds like the perfect place to put the Democrat Convention.
Of course if they held it in Mexico City that would be even more perfect.
I think it would be totally appropriate for the convention to be held in NYC. Let the Rats wallow in the filth they have created.
I do very much think that Deblasio is going to ruin this city once again with his poor policies and stupidity - on the other hand, I take this letter with a grain of salt coming from the Police Sergeant’s union - it is very much a contract negotiating tactic and not much else.
Squeegee people and the homeless always manage to miraculously disappear a week before any Democratic Convention.
They all free vacations, of course... lol
“Some other city’s problem now...”
One of my brothers was NYPD. At the Democrat convention in NYC in 1980, a “quiet” Dem Convention, he took an axe to his back during a demonstration. He was forced to retire early, and all these years later still experiences pain where nerves in his back were damaged.
Now that NYC is heading back, rapidly, to the ‘bad old days,’ these officers are absolutely right to warn people away from holding a massive convention in the Big Apple. There are consequences to electing a soft on crime mayor.
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