Democrat Mayors: Cities Can't Afford Bush

[dArKeR]

By WILL LESTER, Associated Press Writer

NEW YORK - Cities are taking the hardest hits from the Republican administration's domestic policies, Democratic mayors say.

"We are very frustrated and angry because they are moving us in the wrong direction," said Mayor Douglas Palmer of Trenton, N.J. "We can't afford George Bush (news - web sites) and Dick Cheney (news - web sites) for four more years."

Palmer, president of the National Conference of Democratic Mayors, will join mayors John Street of Philadelphia; Robert Baines of Manchester, N.H.; Jack Ford of Toledo, Ohio; Tom Barrett of Milwaukee and others at the Democratic rapid-response room on Thursday, the last day of the Republican National Convention.

Democratic Chairman Terry McAuliffe and Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack will run the Democratic briefing at the war room, about a half-dozen blocks south of the GOP convention at Madison Square Garden.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=694&ncid=696&e=3&u=/ap/20040902/ap_on_el_pr/cvn_loyal_opposition

[Catfight]

1. HEY...did the Mayor's get the plan for the next four years? Because

I haven't heard a thing regarding what Bush plans for America in the next four years...but I sure hear a lot about Kerry being the bad guy?

[cthrumatrix]

3. not true...shrub told us all to be "afraid of our shadows"

[qb]

2. I see the AP has drunk the FAUX Kool-Aid. Grammar, anyone?

Try DemocratIC Mayors, you fucking fools.

edit for my own spelling faux pas (Kool-Ade!)

[calico1]

4. Thanks for pointing that out.

I hate to see our side use the deliberatly deameaing term the rethuglicans call us.

[Catfight]

6. And National Public Republican Radio has been drinking it too!

[TahitiNut]

10. Editors write headlines; reporters write stories.

The 'establishment' bias in the headlines is often bald and blatant - since most reichbots only read the big print and look at the pictures. Wire service stories often get the facade of a propagandistic headline when picked up by an overtly partisan toilet paper. Likewise, AP stories often morph - they're almost always revised several times to correct typos and such, and often gain a right-wing slant when the day shift ('management') comes on.

If you do a Google, you'll find that the original AP headline is "Dem. Mayors: Cities Can't Afford Bush" and this version is a Yahoo! or later AP bias. (This is one of the reasons I use Google for news.)

Here's the Google search: http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=us&q=%22Douglas+Palmer+of+Trenton%22&ie=UTF-8&filter=0

[Krupskaya]

5. I'll be glad to see...

...Mayor Randy Kelly, of strongly Democratic St. Paul, MN, at this meeting, too! Oh wait, he endorsed Bush. Asshole.

[leesa]

7. The country and the world cannot afford Bush.

[NYC Liberal]

8. That's it.

I'm now officially referring only to the "Republic" party.

Grammar much, assholes?

[onehandle]

9. Republican Mayors: Cities Can't Afford To Piss Off Bush

We support him because if we don't, he'll cut our emergency funding. Especially if two airliners are crashed into two of our skyscrapers.