Posted on 09/09/2007 7:27:28 AM PDT by AmericanMade1776
The decision to exclude the brother of a pilot killed in the Sept. 11 attacks from ceremonies marking its anniversary has set off a political firestorm in Massachusetts.
Jim Ogonowski, who is a Republican candidate for Congress in the heavily-Democratic state, was not asked to speak, as he had for the past four years.
Ogonowski?s brother John was the pilot of American Airlines Flight 11, one of two planes that was flown into the World Trade Center.
While Jim Ogonowski was not invited, speaking will be ex-Congressman Martin Meehan, whose wife is chairing Democrat Niki Tsongas' campaign against Ogonowski.
"I never really thought about this as a political situation," Ted Livingston, executive director of the Massachusetts 9/11 Fund, told The Boston Globe. "We didn't seek to include or exclude anyone because of party lines."
However, in the past, Ogonowski was asked by then Gov. Mitt Romney, a Republican, to be part of the ceremony. Current Gov. Deval Patrick's chief of staff was a formerly a political consultant for Tsongas.
Ogonowski still plans to attend the ceremony.
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Is there nothing the the dems will not make political?
You have to ask? They’ve politicized a war for our very survival. DEMOCRATS ARE SCUM.
Democrats have no fear of stooping real, real low.
Possibly the most disingenuous statement that we'll hear from a Democrat all week.
Maybe they always were?
While Jim Ogonowski was not invited, speaking will be ex-Congressman Martin Meehan, whose wife is chairing Democrat Niki Tsongas’ campaign against Ogonowski.
With Deval as Governor, there will be no way to stop the downfall of Massachusetts, as a state of many, many moral injustices.
This is total BS if true. Is there an email or phone number where people could express their outrage?
Deval Patrick has history with the Clinton administration. Anybody remember him?
Massachusetts is a stalinist state. communists are what communists do.
Nothing like trying to stack the deck in all the forums.
Everything is politics to the Irish Mafia that runs Massachuetts.
And they get to arrange the playing field too. Wonder why it’s not allowed to be leveled?
The Massachusetts 9/11 Fund
Email: info@massfund.org
Mailing Address:
Massachusetts 9/11 Fund, Inc.
75 Kneeland Street
Sixth Floor
Boston, MA 02111-1901
Phone: Toll Free (866)-FUND-911
Fax: (617) 542-0547
You trying to complain to the Massachusetts 9/11 fund will probably be futile, get a load of the directors of the Fund
Honorary Board of Directors
The families and the Fund express their gratitude for the continued support of the honorary Board members:
Senator Edward M. Kennedy
Senator John F. Kerry
Congressman Marty Meehan
Barry Tatelman, CEO, Jordan’s Furniture
Eliot Tatelman, President, Jordan’s Furniture
Faith Weiner, Director of Public Affairs, Stop & Shop Supermarket Co.
Molly H. Sherden, Attorney
Candy B. Altman, Chair, Public Garden Memorial Committee
Roderick MacLeish, Jr.
http://www.massfund.org/boardofdirectors.html
Great. Send it to everyone. People in Ogonowski’s campaign need to make sure this story gets play. Conservative talk radio, especially Rush Limbaugh, Fox news shows like Hannity and Colmes, etc.
Also, people on FR, especially those who live in MA need to call and e-mail the 9/11 Fund and forward to their friends and family in MA.
Not really, it's just part of who they are. The man probably never did think of the event in political terms because everything is politics to them, so he really didn't have anything to think about.
It really depends on the definition of "think", don't you think?
This story will backfire against them if handled correctly.
Isn’t Meehan supposed to reitre. The scum can’t leave soon enough.
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