Posted on 11/11/2011 12:46:30 PM PST by yoe
The mayor of Richmond, Calif. plans to skip her city’s Veterans Day memorial events to attend an Occupy rally, a choice that’s prompting anger and criticism.
Mayor Gayle McLaughlin will miss a Veterans Day salute Friday in favor of an Occupy Richmond “public speak out,” the San Jose Mercury News reported.
McLaughlin defended her decision, telling the newspaper that the city is not sponsoring the Veterans Day event, and the rally she will attend will honor Scott Olsen, the Iraq war veteran injured at an Occupy Oakland rally last month. Richmond and Oakland, both in the San Francisco Bay Area, are about 12 miles apart.
“I choose to honor our veterans, not only on Veteran’s Day, but daily, by supporting an end to military warfare to prevent further fighting and dying in needless wars,” she said in an email. “I am a strong supporter of Veterans for Peace and Iraq Vets Against the War.”
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I couldn’t agree more.
When we are driving to/from SFO or visiting relatives in the Bay Area my wife always says, “Get gas now so we won’t have to stop in Richmond.”
It’s a scary place.
Just a point for my own information : Does the “L” stand for Lesbian, Liberal, Loser, or all 3.
By the way I just left the Labor Day Parade in Leonardtown and the Helen Veterans day ceremony in Helen Md. and both were well attended and appreciative of Veterans. In fact the one in Leonardtown was the biggest they have ever had with the biggest crowd and it was 50 degrees and a 30 mph gale. Started half an hour late and no one left.I haven’t gotten warm yet.It was a great Parade that would have been better if Steny Hoyer had stayed home.
It’s Richmond. You really can’t expect better from their mayor. Richmond is like Oakland. But not as cool or prosperous.
Richmond has a very high percentage of Holder’s peeps.
Yep, she’s a real cant isnt she?
She’s probably the highest-ranking elected Green Party politician in America. Particularly in California, the Greens are what we call “watermelons”: Environmentalist Green on the outside, but Marxist Red on the inside.
I don’t think this story qualifies as “news”. This is normal behavior for elected officials in Northern California. It is like a headline news story “Sun Rises in Morning.”
Richmond is about 100% black, and has been for more than a half-century. Richmond and its nextdoor neighbor El Cerrito are the Detroit of California.
Typical Democrat female.
You know......an airhead.
This mayor is such a useless creature. How nauseating.
The establishment is showing their support more and more.
Imagine if conservatives tried to occupy city property without a permit. lol.
I was under the impression than bankruptcy didn’t get you out of student loans?
Juan Williams is absolutely clueless.
At the time she filed bankruptcy, they were discharged. Don’t you remember the left making such a big deal about it when Bush signed the Bankruptcy Abuse act in 2005?
Here are some photos if her. Honoring former black panther leader. And RPA YOUTH ACTIVIST SCHOOL http://www.mayorgayle.net/photos.htm
"In March 2010, #3 Most Dangerous City - Richmond, CA - The second California city in the top ten list of most dangerous cities in the United States ranks as number 3 in terms of auto theft and terms of murders."
How long will people say that from their keyboards without doing something?
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