[colorado tanker]

This isn't the FF union rank and file. It's a Big Labor/DNC/Hillary hit on Guiliani. Rudy's not my guy, but it seems ridiculous for alleged conservatives to join with the enemy in a hit on a Republican.

The Gipper would not approve. He fought the Rockefeller wing of the party for years, but never resorted to anything like this.

[calcowgirl]

Firefighters cheer Bush upon arrival in New York ; President receives union's endorsement
DEB RIECHMANN, Associated Press writer. Columbian. Vancouver, Wash.: Sep 2, 2004. pg. A.6

NEW YORK - Within minutes of arriving in his GOP convention city, President Bush was embracing New York firefighters human symbols of the Sept. 11 attacks that defined his first term and are a main focus of his re-election campaign.

Firefighters chanted "four more years" as Bush and first lady Laura Bush arrived Wednesday night at a community center for Italian Americans in Queens, about a half-hour's drive from midtown Manhattan where the president will accept his party's nomination tonight.

Video of Bush accepting the endorsement of the Uniformed Firefighters Association of Greater New York, a union representing the city's firefighters, was shown in the convention hall as delegates cheered.

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[SUSSA]

He and Jimmy Hoffa were long time friends. Hoffa pushed him to run for gov. The Teamsters backed Reagan against Ford and in both his ellections. Reagan was a union president. He had nothing against union members.

As stated above the firefighters’ union bosses backed Bush. It’s the rank and file that shows up to Swift Boat Rudy. It will be the ran and file that Swift Boats his butt in the primary states.