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Money Talks: Berkeley Mayor Apologizes To Marines Over Recruiting Center Flap
NBC11 Oakland ^

Posted on 02/07/2008 11:44:16 AM PST by Middle Aged White Male

As six Republican senators devised a plan to yank $2.3 million in federal funding for Berkeley programs, the mayor of the famously liberal city apologized Wednesday for his hard stance against a Marine recruiting center.

(Excerpt) Read more at nbc11.com ...


TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: California
KEYWORDS: apology; berkeley; marines; mayor; recruiment
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To: stylin19a
curious as to the wording of the mayor’s apology.

Exactly. The headline seems to be misleading, but nothing has actually changed.

41 posted on 02/07/2008 2:32:26 PM PST by RedRover (DefendOurMarines.org | DefendOurTroops.org)
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To: Middle Aged White Male

BTTT


42 posted on 02/07/2008 2:44:21 PM PST by combat_boots (She lives! 22 weeks, 9.5 inches. Go, baby, go!)
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To: All
BERKELEY -- The same today as it was yesterday. -Cindy


43 posted on 02/07/2008 3:08:15 PM PST by Cindy
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To: reagan_fanatic
"No apology would have been necessary had the city government not acted so hateful and disrespectfully towards an institution that protects it’s sorry ass and the freedoms these traitorous vermin currently enjoy."

I couldn't agree more. And then the code pink maggots start whining about free speech.

Well, yeah, they have a right to speak any way they want to about our Marines. But what they really want is freedom from any consequences of their speech, and that isn't a right.

44 posted on 02/07/2008 3:10:44 PM PST by libs_kma (Romney/Thompson 2008)
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To: Middle Aged White Male
Damn, I was looking forward to a Lincolnesque solution to the problem by invading the city, burning it down, and taking away the Berkley’s citizens right to vote for several years.
45 posted on 02/07/2008 3:11:44 PM PST by vetvetdoug (Just when one thinks life is strange, it gets stranger.)
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To: DJ MacWoW

Your welcome. I like conservative rich guys who can push when push comes to shove.


46 posted on 02/07/2008 3:12:09 PM PST by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote.)
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To: freekitty

That letter had teeth.


47 posted on 02/07/2008 3:22:34 PM PST by abigailsmybaby (I was born with nothing. So far I have most of it left.)
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To: Middle Aged White Male

I don’t they folded. The money should be yanked anyway and the citizens of Berkeley should be declared uninvited and unwelcome intruders into our country. They’d be much happier in Cuba or Venezuela and I sent the mayor an email to tell him so.


48 posted on 02/07/2008 3:32:31 PM PST by abigailsmybaby (I was born with nothing. So far I have most of it left.)
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To: clamper1797

Heck they probably won’t even revoke their free parking space and permit to protest.

Come to think of it, if they are so “free spirited,” why are they charging for parking or issuing permits to protest?


49 posted on 02/07/2008 4:03:23 PM PST by TenthAmendmentChampion (Global warming is to Revelations as the theory of evolution is to Genesis.)
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To: Middle Aged White Male

I do not know what, if any part, my Feb. 5 Bulletin column played in this. I do know that at least one person echoed the sentiments of it.

Read this quote from Berkeley City Councilman Gordon Wozniak:

“Berkeley is supposed to celebrate diversity and free speech ... We should welcome the Marines. I mean they’re basically dedicating their lives to protect their country.”

Here is what I wrote in my Bulletin column:

“Berkeley Mayor Tom Bates was quoted as saying, “... The Marines don’t belong here, they shouldn’t have come here, and they should leave....Marines do not belong in Berkeley? This is not a very liberal viewpoint. Are not liberals in favor of free speech and freedom of expression? Are they not proponents of civil liberties? The Berkeley mayor believes in the cause of an anti-war group - ergo others, who may be pro-war, are not permitted to function because of this.This is tyranny....The Marine recruiters in Berkeley are offering an opportunity for residents to serve and protect their country. ...Those who walk into that recruiting office know that some day they are going to risk their lives to protect the citizens of Berkeley, Calif. Berkeley’s citizens need to remember this.The troops deserve no less.”

As I said I do not know if what I wrote prompted this. I would like to think it did though - even if it was just a little.

This is the link to the report: http://www.nbc11.com/news/15245031/detail.html?dl=headlineclick

Here is the link to my article: http://www.thebulletin.us/site/news.cfm?newsid=19263797&BRD=2737&PAG=461&dept_id=580169&rfi=6


50 posted on 02/08/2008 4:52:42 AM PST by William Tell 2
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To: Middle Aged White Male
Berkeley City Council still has not rescinded what they passed.

Meanwhile....

Road funds at risk over Marines GOP LAWMAKER ANGRY AT COUNCIL STANCE

I see the 'Rats are still AWOL.

51 posted on 02/08/2008 4:57:21 AM PST by mewzilla (In politics the middle way is none at all. John Adams)
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To: RJL
It's amazing what passes for "subtly stated"

Not for a neolib.

Neoliberalism is truly a mental disorder.

52 posted on 02/08/2008 8:53:12 AM PST by polymuser (Just darn)
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To: tennteacher
Stand by, Mr. Mayor, for the political fallout.

After the hard gamma rays, blast, and heat have done their work, the fallout is just gravy.

53 posted on 02/09/2008 8:39:28 AM PST by El Gato ("The Second Amendment is the RESET button of the United States Constitution." -- Doug McKay)
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To: Middle Aged White Male

Great! Open up a second office now!


54 posted on 02/09/2008 9:49:39 AM PST by Reaganesque (What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. --Oscar Wilde)
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To: freekitty
You have every right to choose to take the obnoxious anti-military stance you have taken, and as stated, that right was bought for you with the blood of better men than you.

Boy, what a statement, what a statement. Those cockroaches in Bezerkly should be humiliated to no end from the Mayor on down to those City Council leeches . What a travesty!

55 posted on 02/09/2008 11:36:46 AM PST by danmar (Tomorrow's life is too late. Live today!)
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To: danmar

I agree.


56 posted on 02/09/2008 1:19:21 PM PST by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote.)
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