Union uses images of OK City bombing in collective bargaining ads

The American Thinker Blog ^ | March 25, 2011 | Rick Moran

[Scanian]

I'm surprised they don't include images of dead bodies.

No doubt firefighters perform heroic acts everyday - including that awful day in Oklahoma City when Timothy McVeigh blew up the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building on April 19, 1995.

But to use images from that attack to oppose a law that would affect union collective bargaining procedures?

NewsOK: [link]

A state senator today blasted a firefighter union television advertisement as "horrific and tasteless" for using images of the Oklahoma City bombing to make a case against his bill. The advertisement by the International Association of Firefighters began airing today.

It asks residents to oppose Senate Bill 826, which changes how public safety labor unions and cities handle contract disputes.

Several images of firefighters are used in the commercial, including a short clip of the remnants of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building after it was bombed April 19, 1995.

When the image of the bombed Murrah Building is shown in the commercial, a narrator says: "We're there when you need us. Now we need you. Tell politicians to do what's right: Oppose SB 826 and support Oklahoma's firefighters."

"The AFL-CIO and the IAFF should be ashamed of this horrific and tasteless commercial," said Sen. David Holt, R-Oklahoma City. "The victims and heroes of April 19th are not political pawns to be exploited whenever the Legislature seeks to reform a union negotiating process."

Holt is a trustee for the Oklahoma City National Memorial and Museum, and wants the commercial off the air.

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

In NY they will use 9/11, wait and see.

[LetMarch]

A low cheap shot by low and cheap people!

[raybbr]

When the image of the bombed Murrah Building is shown in the commercial, a narrator says: "We're there when you need us. Now we need you. Tell politicians to do what's right: Oppose SB 826 and support Oklahoma's firefighters."

Am I missing something? Did the firefighters stop the bombing or just clean up afterward.

[freekitty]

Anything to show how really sick they are.

[darbymcgill]

If I recall correctly after all of the civilian rescuers were evacuated from the building with the "2nd Bomb" scare... there was only one additional live victim rescued from the rubble.

The majority of the rescuing was performed by victims and passersby.

Not that the fire fighters didn't do a lot of work at the scene over the following weeks, much of their search work was done only after the building and search paths were stabilized with shoring and other safeguards. The hundreds of professionals "rescuers" that descended on OKC were really performing only body recovery tasks.

The civilian rescuers went in without regard for their personal safety. For the fire fighter's union to steal their thunder is shameful.

[rrrod]

union scum alert

[Flintlock]

Why them there pitchers?

Why, it’s a THREAT, stupid.