I've read about them. I've never seen them interviewed. What do the Jersey Girls have to do with Peter Gorman being upset about not being able to recover rescue workers?
By ANNE E. KORNBLUT
The New York Times
April 20, 2006
After months of speculation about her political future, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton opened her campaign yesterday: the Senate one, that is.
Mrs. Clinton, running for re-election in New York with a huge war chest and minimal opposition from the Republicans, celebrated her endorsement by two firefighters' unions at a ceremony that was an implicit kickoff to her Senate race.
She has held numerous political fund-raisers and often deflects questions about her plans for a 2008 presidential race by saying she is merely running to keep her current seat, but until yesterday Mrs. Clinton had not made the sort of purely political appearances typical of a political race.
The endorsements were particularly significant for Mrs. Clinton, since neither union supported her 2000 candidacy for the Senate and city firefighters jeered her during a 9/11 benefit concert at Madison Square Garden.
"It is a great honor for me to have their support now," Mrs. Clinton said, after introductions by Steve Cassidy, president of the Uniformed Firefighters Association, and Peter L. Gorman, president of the Uniformed Fire Officers Association. She hailed the firefighters as "the bravest people that have ever served any city."