Posted on 10/01/2001 8:33:28 AM PDT by TheTopRead
NYPOST September 30, 2001 -- Mark Green yesterday accused Fernando Ferrer of narrowly viewing the World Trade Center horror through "the lens of The Bronx," while the Rev. Al Sharpton slammed Mayor Giuliani for hogging too much credit for uniting the city, saying "Bozo" could have done as much. Two days after Green and Republican Michael Bloomberg accepted, and Ferrer rejected, Giuliani's pitch for a three-month term-extension, Sharpton - a major Ferrer booster - sharply criticized Giuliani for trying to stretch his term.
"We elected you mayor, not Messiah," Sharpton said at his Harlem headquarters during a rally attended by Ferrer.
"You didn't bring us together, our pain brought us together and our decency brought us together," Sharpton said.
He added, "We would have come together if Bozo was the mayor."
A spokesman for Ferrer, who has praised Giuliani's handling of the crisis, said later, "Although [Ferrer] would have chosen different words, he agrees that our city's unity" comes from New Yorkers' shared grief.
Giuliani wouldn't respond to Sharpton's jabs, which came hours before Green, who spent most of the mayoral race avoiding conflict, ripped into Ferrer, his Oct. 11 runoff foe.
Outside Brooklyn Borough Hall, Green said Ferrer has a "short-sighted" view of rebuilding more than 20 million square feet of lost office space.
"While I tried to show leadership by proposing big plans given this big crisis, I thought that the borough president of The Bronx reflected a business-as-usual and politics-as-usual attitude," said Green.
Green bashed Ferrer for "first comparing the unprecedented criminal attack on the trade center to - his word - the ‘rubble' he inherited in The Bronx 14 years ago and by being largely silent on how he would respond to needs of reconstruction and security.
"The planes that attacked the World Trade Center did not attack The Bronx, with all due respect," Green added. "The Bronx of 14 years ago has very little to do with the crisis in downtown Manhattan, New York and the world now."
Green noted he has a plan for a reconstruction authority - and chided Ferrer for saying the city's financial center should be decentralized.
"I think we have to take not a narrow borough approach, seeing it through the lens of The Bronx," said Green.
Ferrer sought to keep the spotlight squarely on Giuliani, calling the mayor's plan "unprincipled" and charging Green ditched his promise not to go negative.
"What caused Mark to abandon his principles and break his word?" Ferrer said. "I think he thinks he has to say these things and do these things to win an election, and I think that's a shame."
Meanwhile, Giuliani insisted his term-extension bid is for the good of the city and not about politics. "When you have watched 10 or 12 of the people you really care about die, you've gone to as many funerals that I've gone to . . . you really don't care about political spin," he said.
I didn't say anything about crime in NYC or anywhere else in my post so I can't understand why you would bring crime up unless you're trying to pick a fight. What I was refering to was the mayor's ability to stand tall in a very difficult situation, and to instill strength and confidence by his words and deeds, rather than by putting his head in the sand, hiding in fear, or telling New Yorkers to pull down the shades and lock the doors because we are under attack.
You obviously don't get your fellow man enough credit. Why not just lump us all in that same category of the people who did this.
Again, you're trying to pick a fight. I give my fellow man and woman a lot of credit. But New York City is one of the most diverse places in the world, and without a leader during a time of crisis, the bonds that hold people together can quickly fall a part. So far, Rudy G has not allowed that to happen. And please enlighten us here at the Free Republic. Please tell the name of a large diverse group of leaderless people who have not eventually fragmented and fallen apart. George Bush's leadership, for example, is what kept the diverse coalition together duirng the Iraqi War. Bill Clintoon's lack of leadership is what caused the coalition to fall apart. Leadership is what keeps our military troops focused, even though the troops come from all areas of the country, and from different races, religions, and social/economic backgrounds. The lack of leadership causes soldiers to turn against themselves and to put their own interests ahead of the common goal.
BECAUSE HE IS A DICTATOR
I don't think you'd know a dictator if he dragged you out in the alley and beat you senseless. Rudy G only seems like a dictator to you because he followed Dinkins who was probably the most ineffective, devisive weanie that has ever held the office of mayor.
No, I'm not from NYC. I live in the NYC suburbs, and I travel to NYC many, many times a month both for business and pleasure.
Ah schucks! LOL It was easy....al sharpton is such a blowhard. BTW--LOVE the clown face on the REAL BOZO on this thread...hehe. Would be GREAT to send to ol al's email address.
That's easy. He's the first full-size, walking, talking turd.
Osama bin Sharpton.
Keep talking, Al. Just keep hammering those nails in your coffin.
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