[wideawake]

Smart move. He refuses to bang on Giuliani, while visiting with angry former supporters of Giuliani.

[balch3]

I’m not crazy about GOP candidates cozying up to a Union boss, even an anti-RINO Rudy one.

[George W. Bush]

That's a pretty political move by ol' Fred, the non-candidate. I like the way he says he hasn't decided his own position on Giuliani's incompetence and criminal derliction. LOL.

I suppose we'll now read another bunch of comments by people who just figured out that unions always endorse Democrats. But what's far more important than who they endorse is who their PAC supports. That's their real political power, not their endorsements. It's having a PAC to run commercials against someone like Rudi-Tudi is where their power is. Many unions can also field quite an army of volunteers in supporting candidates in some regions of the country.

[cuky]

No Thompson should not be meeting with STEVE CASSIDY, a DEMOCRAT UNION boss known by all to be a slime, who tries to tear down the accomplishments of Rudy’s 9/11 response. Who would spit in the eye of any conservative candidate. Then he praises Cassidy the day after he releases a vile video paid for by Union funds. Thompson here showed no class.

[ellery]

Let's get our facts straight, here -- Steve Cassidy is the head of the Uniformed Firefighters Assn., NYC's main firefighters' union: http://ufalocal94.org/

The group that released the video about Giuliani is the International Assn. of Fire Fighters.

Fred met with the head of the Uniformed Firefighters Assn., which endorsed Pataki (http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F7081EFD3F590C738EDDA90994D0494D81);

Bush ( http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FA0A15FC3E550C728CDDA00894DC404482);

and Giuliani himself (http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F60711FB3D550C778EDDAF0894DF494D81).