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Sotomayor backers urge reporters to probe New Haven firefighter
McClatchy ^ | 7/10/09 | Michael Doyle and David Lightman

Posted on 07/11/2009 5:24:06 AM PDT by anniegetyourgun

WASHINGTON — Supporters of Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor are quietly targeting the Connecticut firefighter who's at the center of Sotomayor's most controversial ruling.

On the eve of Sotomayor's Senate confirmation hearing, her advocates have been urging journalists to scrutinize what one called the "troubled and litigious work history" of firefighter Frank Ricci.

This is opposition research: a constant shadow on Capitol Hill.

"The whole business of getting Supreme Court nominees through the process has become bloodsport," said Gary Rose, a government and politics professor at Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, Conn.

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


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; US: Connecticut
KEYWORDS: firefighter; sotomayor
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It's not "opposition research" - that's an Orwellian term for the politics of personal destruction.

The Left has found their latest Joe-the-Plumber.

1 posted on 07/11/2009 5:24:06 AM PDT by anniegetyourgun
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To: anniegetyourgun

Sotomayor is not a jurist. She’s a politician.


2 posted on 07/11/2009 5:25:14 AM PDT by Brilliant
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Perhaps the firefighters who serve the communities in which these thugs live can also see to it that should said thugs need to be rescued in a fire, that they never, ever get help.

And no, there is nothing wrong with fighting dirty.

3 posted on 07/11/2009 5:25:47 AM PDT by pnh102 (Regarding liberalism, always attribute to malice what you think can be explained by stupidity. - Me)
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To: Brilliant

You are rightly named.


4 posted on 07/11/2009 5:31:23 AM PDT by anniegetyourgun
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I posted this link on another Ricci thread. The assault has begun.

We could not expect anything less.

5 posted on 07/11/2009 5:31:39 AM PDT by Daffynition ("If any of you die, can I please have your ammo?" ~ Gator113)
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When you don’t have the facts on your side; attack the person.

Typical leftist debate strategy.

6 posted on 07/11/2009 5:31:44 AM PDT by Pontiac (Your message here.)
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I am sooooo sick of liberals policy of destruction. I have seen several remarks lately that we should go after them—I say HELL yes! Liberals should be easy targets.


7 posted on 07/11/2009 5:32:33 AM PDT by devane617 (Republicans first strategy should be taking over the MSM. Without it we are doomed.)
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To: anniegetyourgun

This is precisely why Democrats are losing the support of Independents. This sleezy practice of destroying anyone who opposes their agenda is becoming obvious to everyone with half a brain.


8 posted on 07/11/2009 5:34:14 AM PDT by kittymyrib
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JUst a bunch of obnoxious,leftist phalluses on two feet.

IMHO


9 posted on 07/11/2009 5:36:01 AM PDT by ripley
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To: devane617

You would think they would be easy targets. Unfortunately, they profess & live such low standards that it is difficult to make charges of hypocrisy stick.


10 posted on 07/11/2009 5:36:51 AM PDT by anniegetyourgun
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Specifically, the advocates have zeroed in on an earlier 1995 lawsuit Ricci filed claiming the city of New Haven discriminated against him because he's dyslexic. The advocates cite other Hartford Courant stories from the same era recounting how Ricci was fired by a fire department in Middletown, Conn., allegedly, Ricci said at the time, because of safety concerns he raised.

Any other time this guy would be a rallying point for the Democrats.

But race trumps any other issue for the Democrats (except maybe the right to abort right up to the moment of birth).

11 posted on 07/11/2009 5:37:01 AM PDT by Pontiac (Your message here.)
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“On Friday, citing in an e-mail “Frank Ricci’s troubled and litigious work history,” the liberal advocacy group People for the American Way drew reporters’ attention to Ricci’s past. Other advocates for Sotomayor have discreetly urged journalists to pursue similar story lines.”
If Ricci was a leftist piece of crap, the People for the American Way would be fighting tooth and nail to canonize him as a “whistleblower hero”. Just one more example of how low, underhanded and sleazy the leftists are. If a conservative organization had issued such an email, they would be hounded out of existence under any number of excuses. We have only ourselves to blame for allowing these sleazebags in control.
12 posted on 07/11/2009 5:37:29 AM PDT by bitterohiogunclinger (America held hostage - day 163)
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But most Americans aren’t paying attention....or are only paying attention to the MSM which will fuel the fires of destruction (see Palin).


13 posted on 07/11/2009 5:39:31 AM PDT by anniegetyourgun
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To: kittymyrib

its startling how many people have just that one half brain


14 posted on 07/11/2009 5:40:28 AM PDT by wiggen
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IMO - the group MOST responsible for the acts of personal destruction are the Fascist Press, who will stop at nothing to se their dream of On Party Rule take place here in America.

The people of this country are being propagandized by these Fascists.

0bama would NEVER have even come close to the White House had they seen fit to do their job professionally to begin with.


15 posted on 07/11/2009 5:41:06 AM PDT by R0CK3T
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This is why they’re going after him...

http://exposingtheleft.blogspot.com/2009/07/firefighter-ricci-to-testify-at.html


16 posted on 07/11/2009 5:42:18 AM PDT by traderrob6
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SOTOMAYOR seems to just another “Wise Latina” woman who intends to GET EVEN before the fact.
Shame on Her, Obama and the Slobbering Press.


17 posted on 07/11/2009 5:42:30 AM PDT by chatham
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To: bitterohiogunclinger

It’s not official until Letterman makes a joke about
dyslexic white people!


18 posted on 07/11/2009 5:42:58 AM PDT by Dr. Ursus
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When considering the veracity of any thing concerning the judge, remember the absolute blizzard of lies and garbage emanating from Anita Hill. Barack Obama, Anita Hill and the judge are all the tools and products of the corrupt criminal enterprise that is the Democrat Party affirmative action mentoring system.

Before America can be restored, that party must be destroyed.


19 posted on 07/11/2009 5:44:15 AM PDT by bert (K.E. N.P. +12 . The boy's war in Detriot has already cost more then the war in Iraq.)
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To: devane617

I’ve been saying that those who travel in parallel circles to the press and democrats should collect info and document it. If someone is screwing around on their wife, the pictures need to show up on the internet.


20 posted on 07/11/2009 5:44:38 AM PDT by cripplecreek (The poor bastards have us surrounded.)
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