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Arnold Schwarzenegger Watch: Arnold to Michigan: Drop Dead!
The re-election campaign for Rep. Joe Knollenberg, R-Mich., paid for this billboard in Detroit to criticize California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who wants to combat global warming by requiring automakers to make more fuel efficient cars.
AP: Lawmaker blasts Schwarzenegger via billboard
Calif. governor wants Michigan to ‘drop dead’ over warming, he alleges
A Michigan congressman is defending the U.S. auto industry against fuel efficiency increases by criticizing a famous foe of global warming: California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Republican Rep. Joe Knollenberg’s re-election campaign placed a billboard along a busy interstate in metropolitan Detroit that reads, “Arnold to Michigan: Drop Dead!” It shows a grim-looking picture of the actor-turned-politician and draws attention to a Web site.
“Michigan and the Big Three are being unfairly bullied by politicians who have no understanding of auto manufacturing,” Knollenberg said Thursday in a statement announcing the billboard and Web site: www.big3defense.com.
But, Congressman, Arnold is buying trees to offset his personal air travel pollution. The Governator is doing his part. Now Michigan must do theirs.
No?
Stay tuned……
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BBC Anti-American Watch: BusHitler Poster in Newsroom
18 Doughty Street: Bush as Hitler poster in BBC newsroom
Robin Aitken, author of Can We Trust the BBC?, talks about the fact that a depiction of George W Bush as Adold Hitler was posted in the main current affairs office of the BBC and noone objected. Mr Aitken, a BBC journalist for 25 years, discusses the contrasting BBC treatment of George W Bush and Bill Clinton. Full programme here.
Flap knows this is why the British royals are visiting America.
Americans visiting Britain have decreased since 9/11 and the London Olympics are only five years away.
Related:
The BBC refuses to interview Robin Aitken about his book.
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Iraq War Watch: Idiot Liberals – We Can’t Get the Votes
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Mitt Romney Watch: Massachusetts Republicans for Truth
AP: Massachusetts critics plan anti-Romney Web site
A group of Massachusetts Republicans is planning to launch a Web site on Monday that highlights flip-flops in the record of their former leader, presidential contender Mitt Romney.
The so-called Massachusetts Republicans for Truth is also pledging to run radio and television ads across the country as Romney, the former governor of Massachusetts, seeks the 2008 GOP presidential nomination.
He has acknowledged changing from a supporter of abortion rights to an opponent, and recently signed a no-new-taxes pledge that his gubernatorial spokesman had previously labeled “gimmickry.” During a 1994 Senate race, Romney also pledged to be more effective in fighting for gay rights than his opponent, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., although today Romney highlights his ardent opposition to gay marriage.
Will this be the beginning of the end of Romney’s candidacy?
Flap doesn’t think that Mitt’s campaign has ever really taken hold…….
Stay tuned…….
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Giuliani Notes: Will McCain ENDORSE Rudy?
Newsday: Presidential hopeful McCain brushes off Giuliani lead in polls
Presidential hopeful John McCain was back on his rivals’ turf Thursday, speaking on the war in Iraq at a fundraiser in Manhattan and brushing off questions about Rudy Giuliani’s surge in the polls.
“This is early in the campaign,” the Arizona Senator told reporters. “We’ve got a lot of work to do. We are doing very well in the early primary states. This campaign … is still in spring training. The results will be based on record and vision and a lot of that will come out in the debates and the forthcoming campaign. We are very happy where we are.”
Right.
McCain is happy to be 25 points down in the polls to Rudy Giuliani. This must make his day.
The quotes:
“He’s an American hero and I can certainly understand why people would admire him very much,” McCain said.
“I’m not here to try to tout Mayor Giuliani for President of the United States, but having said that, he understands law and order,” McCain said. “He worked in the Justice Department. He has many qualifications that I think are impressive, but I’d like to stop touting his candidacy.”
Maybe Rudy should ask the good Senator for an endorsement, since McCain is so impressed with Hizzoner.
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Giuliani Notes: South Carolina Firefighters Announce Rudy Support
Republican presidential hopeful, former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani shakes hands with Thomas Lindsey during a campaign rally with first responders at the North Spartanburg Fire Department Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2007, in Spartanburg, S.C.
South Carolina Firefighters Announce Support for Mayor Rudy Giuliani
The Rudy Giuliani Presidential Exploratory Committee today announced the support of nearly one hundred firefighters from across South Carolina. South Carolina Firefighters for Rudy represents first responders from across the state who will help build the coalition and communicate Mayor Giuliani’s proven record and optimistic vision. The coalition will be chaired by Lewis Hayes, Chief of the Croft Fire Department.
Chief Hayes said, “Rudy Giuliani is the decisive and experienced leader we need to achieve solutions to the challenges our country currently faces. It takes a determined leader to make the kind of transformation he achieved as Mayor of New York – and his record speaks for itself. This is the leadership that makes me proud to be part of the Mayor’s campaign.
“Mayor Giuliani’s unwavering support for New York’s firefighters, police officers and emergency workers demonstrated his deep respect for our efforts. We’re proud to support Mayor Giuliani for President and look forward to helping his efforts in South Carolina,†Hayes concluded.
The list of firefighters is here.
This is just what Flap said the first time about the Firefighters Flap.
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Rudy Giuliani Watch: The Firefighter’s Union Flap
New York Daily News: Rudy, firefighters feud
Group, already fuming over Ground Zero curbs, irate as he skips forum
Rudy Giuliani never fails to cast firefighters as his heroes, but the nation’s largest firefighters union all but declared war on him yesterday after he backed out of a forum for presidential hopefuls.
His withdrawal from the International Association of Fire Fighters forum exposed simmering tensions between the former mayor and city fire unions over his decision in November 2001 to limit FDNY personnel at Ground Zero.
Before Giuliani’s decision, hundreds of firefighters were allowed to stay at Ground Zero to dig for remains of their 343 missing comrades, an intensely emotional quest.
But citing safety concerns, Giuliani decided on Nov. 2, 2001, to limit the number of FDNY searchers to 25 – touching off brief but furious scuffles between the NYPD and the FDNY and earning Giuliani the lasting animosity of many city fire officers.
This FLAP seems a little too convenient. These issues towards Giuliani by the large and very politically active International Firefighters Union have been simmering for years.
But, if anything it highlights the political nature of organized government employees where the unions are pervasive – unlike the private sector where they have declined markedly in the last decade.
So, let’s look at the union and its leaders first and then the Flap.
The International Association of Fire Fighters union has been very active in American politics.
The union donates millions of dollars to its candidates through its poliical action committee.
More than 70 per cent of its donations go to Democrats.
The IAFF was the first labor union to endorse Kerry in 2004, and dedicated resources to a Kerry presidential victory. Its political action committee, FIREPAC, also doles out millions of dollars in political contributions, mostly to Democratic candidates and causes.
But an IAFF spokesman noted for FOX News that 30 percent of its PAC money went to Republican candidates in 2006, and while IAFF endorsed Kerry in 2004, the group’s New York local chapter supported President Bush in his re-election.
Harold A. Schaitberger, the General President of the International Association of Fire Fighters is a longtime supporter of John Kerry and is a lefty AFL-CIO union boss. He was named as a possible Kerry appointee as Secretary of Labor.
Is Schaitberger a Democrat partisan?
You bet.
OK, now you have the background and the players.
The FLAP:
The IAFF planned a candidate forum for Presidential candidates on March 14 in Washington.
Initially, union leaders including Schaitberger did NOT plan on inviting Mayor Giuliani. A February 28, 2007 draft letter was written by Schaitberger but never distributed to union membership that said Rudy you are NOT invited:
FOX News has obtained a scathing letter prepared by the influential and politically active International Association of Fire Fighters union, written late last month but never released. The letter informs the more than 270,000 members that it would not be inviting Giuliani to a forum for presidential candidates on March 14, citing what the union called Giuliani’s “egregious acts” after Sept. 11.
In the letter, the IAFF, whose president Harold Schaitberger is a longtime supporter of Democratic Sen. John Kerry, blames the former Big Apple mayor for “unforgivable” post-terror attacks decisions, including reducing the number of firefighters involved in the recovery operation and instituting a “scoop and dump” operation to expedite cleanup, which the union says shows a “disgraceful lack of respect” for the victims.
Now, the Giuliani campaign (after the draft letter began circulating to the press) has cited scheduling conflicts and will not be attending the March 14 forum.
The IAFF is pissed of Rudy’s no show and has promised to distribute the draft letter of Schaitberger (which was never sent) to all of its members.
Analysis:
This is a set-up by the left labor union movement to stall Rudy’s electoral momentum.
The issues between the Mayor and NYFD are of a long-standing nature. And let’s face it, Rudy has never been a fan of the New York Left Labor Unions.
How will the letter impact the presidential race?
Probably not much.
The IAFF will have sent a nasty-gram message to all of its members anyway. And would endorsed Hillary in any case.
But, this will spur other firefighters (who do not agree with their left-wing AFL-CIO partisan leadership) to join in defense of America’s Mayor and join his campaign.
Stay tuned……..
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Day By Day by Chris Muir March 9, 2007