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Bratton Endorses Spitzer Driver’s License Plan (Giuliani wants Bratton as Homeland/Security/Sec)
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| October 22, 2007
| Sewell Chan
Posted on 11/10/2007 1:35:05 PM PST by Liz
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RUDY: I'D TAP MY OLD FOE BRATTON
By DAVID K. LI, NY POST
August 13, 2007
EXCERPT GOP presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani floated an extraordinary olive branch to bitter rival William Bratton, hinting he'd consider his estranged former top cop for a high federal post.
In an interview in this week's New Yorker magazine, Giuliani was asked whom he'd tap for Homeland Security secretary if elected to the White House. He laughed and told the magazine whom he wouldn't tap. ".....you need a Bernie Kerik without the background problems that Bernie Kerik had," Giuliani said of his ethics-challenged former police commissioner and close friend.
The former mayor lavished praise on his first police commissioner, Bratton, the city's top cop from 1994-96..... Giuliani is largely blamed for forcing Bratton, now LA police chief, out of office in an ugly battle of egos. "But you sort of look back on some of the things and say that was an extraordinarily productive relationship," Giuliani told the magazine. Now that I look back on it, I really appreciate the (Bratton) relationship."
It's certain that Giuliani won't be tapping Kerik for any job in his potential Cabinet. Kerik, NY's top cop from 2000 to 2001 and a close friend of Giuliani's, was briefly nominated for Homeland Security's top post by President Bush. Kerik withdrew, claiming his employment of an illegal nanny would make his confirmation too difficult. It soon emerged that Kerik had a flood of ethics allegations that were much more serious.
SOURCE http://www.nypost.com/seven/08132007/news/regionalnews/rudy__id_tap_my_old_foe_bratton_regionalnews_david_k__li.htm
Giuliani and William Bratton at a press conference in 1996 announcing Bratton's resignation as police commissioner.
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posted on
11/10/2007 1:35:07 PM PST
by
Liz
To: Liz
That's why I backed legislation in California that would give undocumented immigrants the ability to get a driver's license once they have provided proof of their identification.Proof of their identification would've been a note signed by their travel agent coyote.
To: Liz
New York, another border that should be sealed!
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posted on
11/10/2007 1:39:55 PM PST
by
SWAMPSNIPER
(THE SECOND AMENDMENT, A MATTER OF FACT, NOT A MATTER OF OPINION)
To: Liz
Great! Two gun-grabbing, liberal elitists for the price of one. Does Giuliani think we don’t know who Bratton is?
As Los Angeles Police Chief William Bratton said, “Assault weapons are designed to be easily concealed and kill as many people as possible as quickly as possible.”
Assault weapons easily concealed? The guy is a disingenuous, totalitarian boot-licker.
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posted on
11/10/2007 1:42:09 PM PST
by
dljordan
To: Liz
This will be the rule, not the exception under a Rudy presidency.
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posted on
11/10/2007 1:43:42 PM PST
by
Reagan79
(Ralph Stanley & The Clinch Mountain Boys)
To: Tennessee Nana
Pass the word-———Giuliani says he will appoint as Homeland/Security/Sec) the police chief who Endorses Spitzer Drivers License Plan.
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posted on
11/10/2007 1:44:48 PM PST
by
Liz
(Rooty's not getting my guns or the name of my hairdresser.)
To: Reagan79
Rudy would be a diaster in the WOT.
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posted on
11/10/2007 1:46:26 PM PST
by
Dante3
To: sheana; panthermom; Kimberly GG
Pass the word-Giuliani says he will appoint as Homeland/Security/Sec) the police chief who Endorses Spitzer Drivers License Plan.
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posted on
11/10/2007 1:46:37 PM PST
by
Liz
(Rooty's not getting my guns or the name of my hairdresser.)
To: dmw; jla; TommyDale; Spiff; HuntsvilleTxVeteran; Condor51; PzLdr; Graybeard58; Fierce Allegiance; ..
Pass the word-Giuliani says he will appoint as Homeland/Security/Sec
the police chief who Endorses Spitzer Illegals Drivers License Plan.
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posted on
11/10/2007 1:52:54 PM PST
by
Liz
(Rooty's not getting my guns or the name of my hairdresser.)
To: calcowgirl; indylindy; KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle; Just mythoughts; WhyisaTexasgirlinPA; ...
Pass the word-Giuliani says he will appoint as Homeland/Security/Sec
the police chief who Endorses Spitzer Illegals Drivers License Plan.
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posted on
11/10/2007 1:54:02 PM PST
by
Liz
(Rooty's not getting my guns or the name of my hairdresser.)
To: Liz
Thanks for posting this.
I figured that Giuliani was still, at heart, the same guy that made New York a ‘sanctuary’ city, and that his recent tough talk about illegal immigration was just a sham.
To: Liz
I'm sorry but I am not a Guliani fan but it is simply unfair to "indict" Guliani by taking someone else's quote and essentially stating that Guliani agrees with the statement because he has said that Bratton would be a potential Homeland Security nominee if Guliani was elected.
I'll wait to see Guliani's answer if he is asked by the press or in the next debate whether he agrees with Bratton's position.
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posted on
11/10/2007 1:54:59 PM PST
by
torchthemummy
("A Tagline Presidential Endorsement Forfeits A Presumption Of Objectivity")
To: Jim Robinson; Extremely Extreme Extremist
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posted on
11/10/2007 1:59:30 PM PST
by
Liz
(Rooty's not getting my guns or the name of my hairdresser.)
To: torchthemummy
Could we “indict” a candidate that said this personally?
Romney:
“These guns are not made for recreation or self-defense,” he was quoted as saying. “They are instruments of destruction with the sole purpose of hunting down and killing people.”
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posted on
11/10/2007 2:00:49 PM PST
by
ansel12
(Proud father of a 10th Mountain veteran. Proud son of a WWII vet. Proud brother of vets, Airborne)
To: Liz
We don’t want any more dirty Rinos.
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posted on
11/10/2007 2:12:54 PM PST
by
freekitty
((May the eagles long fly our beautiful and free American sky.))
To: Liz
Support for illegals,
Support for gun control,
Support for homosexuals and the homosexual agenda,
Support for big intrusive govt.,
I can go on, but suffice it to say I will not support RINO Rudy.
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posted on
11/10/2007 2:13:02 PM PST
by
Joe Boucher
(An enemy of Islam)
To: LegendHasIt
It speaks volumes not only about Giuliani's political "convictions", but also reveals how he views the "conservative base". To Rudy, conservatives are just redneck rubes from Nascar flyover country who are too stupid to tie their shoes, are easily fooled, and are only worth minimal effort pandering to (because we are battered-wife chumps who will fall in line anyway like good little sheep when the time comes). A few nice gestures ought to be enough - he'll talk about how he respects some liberal bastardization of the 2nd Amendment, about how he will elect "strict constructionist judges" (apparently like his model justice, Ruth Bader Ginsberg). All while giving the wink-wink to fellow left-wingers - "don't worry, this is all show for those stupid mouthbreathers".
Inner thoughts of Giuliani: "When I win the Republican nomination, those bluffing, huffing conservatives will vote for me out of fear of Hillary and 9/11. I got them all in the bag - what are they going to do, vote third party? Hahahaha!"
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posted on
11/10/2007 2:13:04 PM PST
by
M203M4
(Fred Thompson and Duncan Hunter are conservatives. Giuliani and the Huckster are left-wingers.)
To: Liz
There is NO WAY IN HELL I will support Rudy. Even it meant a DUmmy POTUS.
To: dljordan
I actually read Billy Bratton’s book back in ‘99.
I was impressed back then but have been bitterly disappointed in the years since.
Ever since he became LAPD chief he has sold out completely and has now become the very sort of politician-in-uniform for whom he used to have utter contempt.
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posted on
11/10/2007 2:20:40 PM PST
by
sinanju
To: Joe Boucher
Mitt has always been a conservative. He just did that to get elected to a liberal state.
Jeeshe!
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posted on
11/10/2007 2:22:51 PM PST
by
Leisler
(RNC, RINO National Committee. Always was, always will be.)
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