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Money talks, and the Mayor folded.
1 posted on 02/07/2008 11:44:22 AM PST by Middle Aged White Male
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To: Middle Aged White Male

HA!


2 posted on 02/07/2008 11:44:52 AM PST by SolidWood (All conservative effort into retaking Congress!)
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To: Middle Aged White Male

I thought “Money Talks” was in the original headline; and then I thought ‘Na, no way the MSM is going to admit the mayor folded due to fear of losing funds.’


3 posted on 02/07/2008 11:46:29 AM PST by jdm (A Hunter Thompson ticket would be suicide.)
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They better invite them back and sign up at least 10, for latrine duty of course.
4 posted on 02/07/2008 11:47:29 AM PST by newconhere (bzzzzzzzzzzzzzz. zap)
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To: Middle Aged White Male

The almighty dollar has roared.


5 posted on 02/07/2008 11:47:36 AM PST by Ben Mugged (Thanks Mom for not considering me a "choice".)
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To: Middle Aged White Male

It’ wasn’t just Congress speaking: it was this guy too.

Subject: Fw: Berkley Will Feel The Pain

Subject: Berkley Will Feel The Pain

Read the letter to the mayor from a major corporate head.

Berkeley to Marine Corps: You’re Not Welcome

BERKELEY, Calif. Local officials in this liberal city say it’s time for
the U.S. Marines to move out. The City Council has voted to tell the Marines their downtown recruiting
station is not welcome and “if recruiters choose to stay, they do so as uninvited and unwelcome guests.”
The measure passed this week by a vote of 8-1.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,327347,00.html

Contact the city council at Berkeley, CA via email:
clerk@ci.berkeley.ca.us

Now check this out, here is a letter a businessman wrote to the Mayor of
Berkeley. Is this a great country or what?

Dear Mayor Bates,

In that you and your city have chosen to gravely insult the brave men and
women, who have indeed bought you that right with their blood, I am informing you that my company
will no longer do business with any of our current suppliers located in the Berkeley,
California metro area.

In that my company is in international resort real estate development, and
do business with and am associated with, developers and investors worldwide, I am informing all of
my contacts, associates and patrons that we will no longer do any business of any sort with anyone
living in the Berkeley area.

In that we/MDG Resorts are currently building a state of the art mega-yacht
marina, all of the suppliers of Marina equipment, all owners of Yachts, all suppliers of Yacht
materials & supplies, all yacht brokers and all tangential yacht business purveyors will likewise be
informed that we will not do any business whatsoever with anyone from the Berkeley area.

Likewise all suppliers of building materials, both interior and exterior,
currently associated with any of our several resort developments (Brisamar 300+ villas and 200+ condos:
Porto Hussong, www.portohussong.com 500+ condos, 180 slip mega-yacht marina) both of which
I might add have international recognition by virtue of glowing reports in Robb Report, Wall
Street Journal, Yacht World, Forbes.

I will likewise inform all of our investors, most of whom are very wealthy
yacht owners, casino owners, high net worth international businessmen, of our decision to essentially
boycott all products and providers located in, or associated with in any way whatsoever, Berkeley,
Ca.

Trust me when I say that having been in the real estate development business for over 35 years, our
list of contacts and associates is long and very, very impressive. We, and I personally, are going to
recomend that they ALL along with us boycott your city, its purveyors, suppliers, and businesses and
CHARITIES of every kind.

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.

I too have every right to do all that I can to insure that your city suffers consequences arising
from that obnoxious, sickening stance.

Cordially,

Brian G Dennard
Principal Director
Meridian Development Group, LLC
(619) 807-2444
www.mdgresorts.com
www.portohussong.com

Mike Burns
Director Business Development
Navy/Marine Corps Customer
BAE Systems, E&IS
25 Center St., Suite 201, Stafford, VA 22556
(540)659-8766 (w), (703)338-4194 (m)


6 posted on 02/07/2008 11:48:51 AM PST by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote.)
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To: Middle Aged White Male

Awesome


7 posted on 02/07/2008 11:49:27 AM PST by wastedyears (This is my BOOMSTICK)
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Yank the funds anyway. Restore them, maybe, only when he is out of office.

Of course, if he really wanted to heal the situation, he could resign. Or go bushido and really apologize.


8 posted on 02/07/2008 11:49:32 AM PST by swain_forkbeard (Rationality may not be sufficient, but it is necessary.)
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I’ll buy this when the Bezerkely police frog march the code pinkos off to jail


9 posted on 02/07/2008 11:49:47 AM PST by clamper1797 (Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence)
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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.


10 posted on 02/07/2008 11:49:49 AM PST by reagan_fanatic (President Hillary Clinton. Get used to saying it.)
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To: Middle Aged White Male

Nobody’s folded. The city council hasn’t rescinded anything yet. Folks should keep the heat on Berkeley.


11 posted on 02/07/2008 11:50:21 AM PST by mewzilla (In politics the middle way is none at all. John Adams)
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They only get $2.3 million from the Feds? Hell, George Sorus could match that out of his petty cash drawer.


12 posted on 02/07/2008 11:50:33 AM PST by Ditto (Global Warming: The 21st Century's Snake Oil)
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Stand by, Mr. Mayor, for the political fallout. Semper fi.


13 posted on 02/07/2008 11:51:25 AM PST by tennteacher (Romney '08)
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To: Middle Aged White Male
...and the Mayor folded.

No, the council may "soften" language of the resolution but I don't see that Berkeley has had a change of heart.

Who gives a damn if Berkeley changes the language of the resolution to include "support for the troops? This is not over.

14 posted on 02/07/2008 11:53:06 AM PST by RedRover (DefendOurMarines.org | DefendOurTroops.org)
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That mayor can bite me. His statement the other day was one of the most ignorant things I have ever seen.


16 posted on 02/07/2008 11:55:12 AM PST by sauropod (I'd rather be waterboarded than vote for John McCain)
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Great news but a hollow apology. He and most of the Council have already shown their true colors, they hate our military.


17 posted on 02/07/2008 11:55:50 AM PST by jazusamo (DefendOurMarines.org | DefendOurTroops.org)
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From the article:

"Subtly stated in the resolution is perhaps an impugning of the soldiers fighting for us in Iraq and other places," Berkeley City Councilman Laurie Capitelli. "And that was never the intention but that really needs to be cleared up. As I walked to my car that night I realized I regretted it and I had made a mistake."

As she walked to her car...right. Poor Lefty Laurie has to apologize and liberals never, ever, under any circumstances apologize unless caught totally pants-down. Nice pinko undies, honey!

18 posted on 02/07/2008 11:57:36 AM PST by polymuser (Just darn)
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curious as to the wording of the mayor’s apology.
it’s not listed in the article.


19 posted on 02/07/2008 11:58:17 AM PST by stylin19a
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Sen. Barbara Boxer and Rep. Barbara Lee said they plan to fight the Republican bill.
Grandstanding, as usual.
20 posted on 02/07/2008 11:58:23 AM PST by eastsider
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The Weasel.


21 posted on 02/07/2008 12:00:09 PM PST by dashing doofus (Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber)
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Commies, rotten, stinking commies.


22 posted on 02/07/2008 12:00:23 PM PST by toddlintown (Building More Highways For Children---Huckleberry Talking Point)
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