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Amtrak Conductor Suspended For Kerry Comment
The Kansas City Channel.com ^
| 8/10/2004
| AP
Posted on 08/10/2004 6:34:55 PM PDT by Hermann the Cherusker
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To: zip
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posted on
08/10/2004 6:37:56 PM PDT
by
Mrs Zip
To: Hermann the Cherusker
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posted on
08/10/2004 6:38:38 PM PDT
by
ErnBatavia
("Dork"; a 60's term for a 60's kinda guy: JFK)
To: Hermann the Cherusker
A formal investigation letter by Amtrak alleges Farr violated company rules by being disrespectful to passengers, and behaving in such a way as to prompt criticism of Amtrak. What a crock! If it was the train of President Bush and he made the same comment, nothing would've happened. Even the Kansas City Star poll on the linked page is running 62% against Amtrak on this issue.
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posted on
08/10/2004 6:42:17 PM PDT
by
Vigilanteman
(crime would drop like a sprung trapdoor if we brought back good old-fashioned hangings)
To: Hermann the Cherusker
Where is Tim Robbins complaining about the "chill wind" now? Oh, wait that only applys to rich, hollywood, leftists.
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posted on
08/10/2004 6:45:04 PM PDT
by
Dr Snide
(vis pacem, para bellum - Prepare for war if you want peace)
To: Vigilanteman
Ha ha, hangings too good for them!
Love that tagline.
Btw- I take it back, hanging would be great!
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posted on
08/10/2004 6:47:52 PM PDT
by
norraad
("What light!">Blues Brothers)
To: Vigilanteman
The Conductor Should be suspended if not fired.
Otherwise, we will have every Amtrak conductor spouting telling all the people on the trains who to vote for. And I would imagine that most of the Unionized Conductors are Democrats.
To: Hermann the Cherusker; rface
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- A Republican Amtrak conductor has been suspended for suggesting
passengers should vote against Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry.
If I was this guy's legal counsel, I'd have him plead insanity.
"Your Honor, every Republican/Conservative know we're muzzeled from free speech or publicity...
hence my client is obviously suffering from a mental defect meriting only a stay in a
mental institution."
Just ask any SwiftBoater for Truth.
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posted on
08/10/2004 6:55:38 PM PDT
by
VOA
To: Hermann the Cherusker
Boycott Amtrak until they reinstate and apologize to Mr. Farr.
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posted on
08/10/2004 6:58:42 PM PDT
by
Militiaman7
(Support our Troops! Vote Bush-Cheney 04)
To: Hermann the Cherusker
Last week, Farr was on a Kansas City-to-St. Louis train that was delayed
several hours while waiting for Kerry's locomotive to leave St. Louis and head to a rally in Jefferson City.
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And what would a newspaper have to say if some other phenomenon delayed a train with passengers aboard for SEVERAL HOURS.
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posted on
08/10/2004 6:58:51 PM PDT
by
maica
(BIG Media is not mainstream. We are right. They are left, not center.)
To: Dr Snide
Good point, hypocrisy only runs so deep!
To: Hermann the Cherusker
A Republican Amtrak conductor has been suspended ...
Farr says he told passengers they would be delayed because of Kerry, then quipped that they should vote accordingly in November.
Hmmm, doesn't pay to be a Republican whistle blower I guess.
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posted on
08/10/2004 7:11:56 PM PDT
by
ancient_geezer
(Equality, the French disease: Everyone is equal beneath the guillotine.)
To: Hermann the Cherusker
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posted on
08/10/2004 7:15:53 PM PDT
by
Jim_Curtis
(Liberals lie at the premise, accept their premise and you can only lose the argument.)
To: pete anderson
The Conductor Should be suspended if not fired. Eenie, meenie, miney, mo. Catch a tiger by the toe.
Seems to me humor is a lost art. Either that or nobody can take a joke nowadays.
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posted on
08/10/2004 7:26:43 PM PDT
by
VeniVidiVici
(Designate - Infiltrate - Annihilate // Read my lips: More new taxes - John Kerry)
To: Vigilanteman
Letters and complaints to Amtrack for surpressing Free Speech, mine will be headed to main office.
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posted on
08/10/2004 7:28:05 PM PDT
by
Kackikat
(,Kerry=the counterfeit, GWBush is the real deal!)
To: Vigilanteman
Letters and complaints to Amtrack for surpressing Free Speech, mine will be headed to main office.
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posted on
08/10/2004 7:28:07 PM PDT
by
Kackikat
(,Kerry=the counterfeit, GWBush is the real deal!)
To: Vigilanteman
Letters and complaints to Amtrack for surpressing Free Speech, mine will be headed to main office.
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posted on
08/10/2004 7:28:10 PM PDT
by
Kackikat
(,Kerry=the counterfeit, GWBush is the real deal!)
To: Vigilanteman
Letters and complaints to Amtrack for surpressing Free Speech, mine will be headed to main office.
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posted on
08/10/2004 7:28:13 PM PDT
by
Kackikat
(,Kerry=the counterfeit, GWBush is the real deal!)
To: Kackikat
Great idea, Now every Amtrak conductor will be free to read DNC Talking Points over the intercom!
To: Hermann the Cherusker
Amtrak can run their trains worth a damn, but they have time for this?? I pay their operations cost and their salaries and I say the conductors can say any damn thing they want!
It has come down to this: A publicly funded and poorly run intity has employees and they cannot express a negative thought against a democrat running for president (badly, I may add). Ir would not be aqn issue if the employee had degraded President Bush, I assume.
We need to get ahold of Amtrac and let them know who funds thier little choo-choos. And let them know that an anti-Kerry remark only raises their career-long nothingness to almost something respectable.
Kerry ain't the Virgin Mary. He can be touched.
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