"Now, can I count on your vote?"
Posted on 07/24/2005 5:08:22 AM PDT by baystaterebel
Grief doesn't diminish their anger. Relatives of the late Marine Staff Sgt. Joseph Goodrich are upset over what they consider to be Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. Catherine Baker Knoll's cynical intrusion on their mourning.
Goodrich, 32, of Westwood, had many roles in life: husband, son, police officer, handyman, landscaper, Central Catholic High School wrestler, altar boy.
He died July 10 in a mortar attack in Hit, Iraq. Friends and relatives packed St. John Evangelical Lutheran Church in Carnegie on Tuesday for the infantry unit leader's funeral.
Knoll was among those in attendance.
Rhonda Goodrich, 38, of Indiana County, the fallen soldier's sister-in-law, said Knoll slipped into a pew next to his aunt, Linda Kubiak of Bethel Park. Through Goodrich, Kubiak declined to comment.
Rhonda Goodrich said Knoll, 74, of McKees Rocks, began chatting with Kubiak during the communion service.
"When (Knoll) found out (Kubiak) was Joe's aunt, she handed her a business card and told her she attends 90 percent of these 'functions' across the state," Rhonda Goodrich said.
"This was not a 'function,' " she continued, fairly spitting out the words. "A function is a dinner
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Shame on that bag for showing up at the funeral.
Real classy.
Another example of a self-centered, classless and incompassionate fool who follows the rule, it's all about me! For Shame!
She slipped into a pew next to an aunt. Family usually sits up front. If you're not family, you sit in the back.
Goodrich has more patriotism in a hangnail than Knoll has in her entire body. If she had smacked Knoll and I'd been there, I would have applauded.
let's be honest. democrats have used this war and every terrorist attack as a weapon against the administration and for themselves.
thus the American people fight a war of both heart and words, against the monsters themselves but also against the politicians who use circumstances to try to regain power.
this is nothing short than POLITICAL TERRORISM. there is nothing they will not do to gain some advantage from grief and tragedy.
fire bombing behind our line of defense, they attempt to instill fear and uncertainty into the American populace. they weaken our resolve by questioning every motive, every action and every mindset of our military and our patriotism.
they are POLITICAL TERRORISTS.
Call the men in white jackets to bring their nets- the Pennsylvania Lieutenant Governor has escaped from the attic again!
When you've never been in a church... the ignorant behave accordingly.
LOL--I had no idea what Knoll looked like, but I kept picturing Hillary. I wasn't far off! And check out that gigantic eagle pin she's wearing. Overcompensation.
A copy of that original tape, (which was edited for later airing) , needs to be played over and over, maybe used in a commercial, when Hillary decides to enter the race. Also, the fact that she was on vacation and didn't hurry back, and that she attended very few funerals.
Her behavior and the people's response to her after 9/11, need to be 'front and center' if she runs. It will destroy any chances of her winning.
Notice how when a republican does something wrong the article points out in the headline and in text many times that it was a republican but when it is a democrat there is a double standard and there is little or no mention of it.
If it was a republican it would have been republican lt governor.
Well stated comments. BTTT!
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