[Merlinator]

Looks like Toledo's moonbat mayor needs some FReepin'

[Kirkwood]

Rat Fink mayor.

[Anita1]

I hope they make a law that if the cities don’t want the soldiers in THEIR city - They WILL lose federal funds!

It’s as simple as that - No support for military - not money for cities’ pork!

[the invisib1e hand]

Mayor Carty Finkbeiner...

“the mayor asked them to leave because they frighten people.

you cannot make this stuff up.

[Moral Hazard]

I think what the mayor did here was wrong, but it is far from morally equivalent to what Berkley did. The mayor should be allowing the Marines full access to public buildings and streets for their exercises, but denying them such is far different from trying to kick Marine recruiters out of town or giving anti-Marine protesters a dedicated parking spot.

[devere]

I think the mayor has a good point.
Unless the public was completely aware of what was going on, a tragedy could result.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

I’m not defending Toledo, but the situations seem rather different. Berkeley called the Marines unwanted intruders, doesn’t want them recruiting there, and gave the pinkos a free parking pass and noise permit. Toledo doesn’t want urban warfare exercises conducted in the city.

I’ve never heard of the Marines conducting urban warfare exercises in real cities before. Is this a first?

[Slump Tester]

Carty Finkbeiner has ALWAYS been an a-hole. He was saying and doing stupid stuff that put him in the news 25 years ago.

I didn't know he was still around

[Zeon Cowboy]

Because they would FRIGHTEN PEOPLE?

Are you f***ing kidding me?

Seeing Marines in action makes me feel safe and confident about our country’s future, not frightened.

[Cobra64]

“the mayor asked them to leave because they frighten people. He did not want them practicing and drilling in a highly visible area."

With that attitude, he and the town will be seeing these guys in a few years...

[Recon Dad]

On occasion I have had to go to Toledo. I cannot wait for the next occasion where I will promptly go up to the first restaurant owner I come across and tell them that I will never spend a dime in their town until their idiot mayor is gone.

[GulfWar1Vet]

Wake up citizens of Toledo.

vote the a$$hole out of office next election.

[mewzilla]

Finkbeiner taking flak over Marines Mayor defends his decision to cancel urban war games

Paging Jim de Mint....

[YOUGOTIT]

Another anti-American left-wing Nazi. Take all the Federal money from this pig faced Nazi. Toledo is broke anyway and is living off of the taxpayers who should cut off all funding for this scum.

Boycott Toledo!

[nonliberal]

Cut off federal funds and declare Toledo “outside the perimeter of Defense.”

[Toadman]

The sheep fear the sheep dog because he resembles the wolf.

[A. Morgan]

The US Marines trained in Chicago May of 1998 urban warfare training:

http://www.fas.org/irp/news/1998/05/980505-mout.htm

[Rapscallion]

Have you ever been there? Crime, drugs, children prostitutes, it’s a city out of control. When drug selling is THIS obvious, politicians have to be on the take. It is a volatile city racially too. Toldo may need the Marines shortly. The mayor should be more careful.

[Cannoneer]

Unfortunately Toledo is like so many other big cities, not unlike New Orleans, that insist on re-electing incompetent democrats into office. Carty was a joke the first time around but didn’t phase the locals.

In his first term, several years ago, he proposed moving the deaf to the area of the airport because they could tolerate the noise. Big thinker here!

[combat_boots]

An oldy but goody.......

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1505167/posts

[jws3sticks]

While the Mayor may be a jerk or misunderstood, I don't understand why the Marines are trying to do this training in Toledo when they could easily do it in Grand Rapids, Grandville or Byron Center?

It is not like Toledo is the frozen Orlando on the North Coast, whey after the drill they can all go to Disneyworld, like Eli Manning.

Here's Eli at a preflight reception:

I know the picture has nothing to do with the Marines, Toledo or Disneyworld. I just liked the picture and that beautiful woman. Some guys have all the luck!