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.
He would claim that Rudy is trying to deny blacks of the right to swim.
Isn't that like the pot calling the kettle black?
'Nuff said.
Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, Bill & Hillary, Bozo... The Democrats' version of the big tent?
With the super rich, mass murdering Arabs who direct and train these mass murderers, they want "new" money for their ops, so they can invest their old money to make more money! Following the money before and after this mass murder here in America, in Europe and in the Middle East will be very revealing. There are many in this country, who should be heading out of this country before the data starts to come out! That is re who has given the money, knowingly to mass murderers for over two decades and those like the professional so called peace niks who have received money to to fund the phoney peace trails!
WE would have come together? Where the heck was sharptongue during the first two weeks of this ordeal? He was conspicuously absent while Guiliani comforted the mourners while boosting the morale of the rescuers.
As God is my witness, I vow to do whatever it takes to defeat this worthless thing in ANY and ALL campaigns he undertakes WITH ME ALONG SIDE YOU!
For someone who has been a member of the Free Republic for less than 24 hours, you sure have a lot to say. Most of us with any brains will lurk around here for several weeks or even months before posting and then, when we do post, we will try to choose our words very carefully so as not to insult or personally attack our fellow Freepers. And while I certainly respect your right to express your opinion, perhaps you should choose another forum to expree itYou must explain this to me and point out to me where I insulted anyone or attack anyone. I merely stated two opinions as to two statements you made regarding New Yorkers. (I don't know where you're from, and you don't give your fellow man enough credit) If you think that is insulting or personally attacking someone, well then... My post seems to talk about the topic in which your post was related, NY'ers and Rudy. As far as being a member and how long i've been here. Yes, i decided to become a member less than twenty four hours ago, however, you don't know how long i've been lurking, so as I certainly respect your right to your opinion to anything that I say, maybe you should express it elsewhere or don't respond. I thought the definition of a forum was a place where people can come together to discuss, disagree, agree..etc. A place to agree to disagree. I have a saying that i like to tell people who dont like what i right..."Don't Read IT"!!!!
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.
