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Police Call on Kerry to Stop Misrepresenting Their Support

10/14/2004 6:34:00 PM


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To: State Desk

Contact: Chris Granberg of the Fraternal Order of Police, 202-547-8189

WASHINGTON, Oct. 14 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Today Chuck Canterbury, the President of the nation's largest police labor organization, called on John Kerry to stop making misleading statements regarding his support from the law enforcement community. Both on the campaign trail and in Wednesday night's debate in Tempe, AZ, Senator Kerry has alluded that he has the support of the majority of these brave men and women.

"As the elected leader of the largest organization representing America's Federal, State and local law enforcement officers, I believe it's important to point out yet again that we do not support his candidacy for President," Canterbury said. "And to be perfectly frank, the groups which do support him actually share the same membership rolls and, taken together, probably comprise less than one-quarter of our nation's police officers."

Canterbury further noted that unlike the organizations which Senator Kerry touts, F.O.P. members as a whole decided that the Fraternal Order of Police would endorse the reelection of President George W. Bush. They based their decision, he said, on the record of the Bush Administration in supporting America's first responders-including helping to secure passage earlier this year of H.R. 218, the Law Enforcement Officers Safety Act, the organization's top legislative priority. Bush also successfully fought to greatly enhance the benefits for the families of officers killed in the line of duty.

"While Kerry was flying around the country campaigning and leaving the actual work of the nation to his colleagues in the Senate, the President was out there working on our behalf," Canterbury said. "Senators Kerry and Edwards have missed so many crucial votes this Congress that I was beginning to believe there were only 98 members of the U.S. Senate."

Canterbury also said it was the height of irony that Kerry would use his position on the reauthorization of the assault weapons ban as a reflection of his support from police.

"First, if a police officer is killed by an AK-47, Kerry would oppose the death penalty for the killer," Canterbury said. "In addition, where was he when this issue was being discussed in the 108th Congress? Where was he when we were working to pass H.R. 218? When it came time to help push for final passage of legislation important to law enforcement, Senator Kerry was regrettably A.W.O.L."

"Given the facts, I would greatly appreciate it if Senator Kerry would refrain from making similar whimsical assertions regarding his support from the law enforcement community," Canterbury said. "The real majority of my fellow officers are standing behind President Bush, because he has been there for us."

The Fraternal Order of Police is the nation's largest law enforcement labor organization, with more than 318,000 members.

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He's also misrepresenting Vienam Veterans.

He's also misrepresenting Vienam Veterans.


Plus it's his fault for the violence in Haiti.

Plus it's his fault for the violence in Haiti.

...and he's a communists buttboy for the Chinese.

Good band they are.

I hear Kerry supported an ammendment that would commend people who kick cute little puppies......

And he killed Jesus! :eek:

I hear Kerry supported an ammendment that would commend people who kick cute little puppies......

I heard that Kerry and Teresa drown new-born kittens, puppies, and babies. just for shits and giggles.

yeah, but I heard after they do that, they light them on fire and impale them on 6ft poles in their "secret" dungeon....

"First, if a police officer is killed by an AK-47, Kerry would oppose the death penalty for the killer," Canterbury said. Why does the nature of the weapon matter? I've noticed this quite a bit in American debates - certain classes of weapon seem to attract more censure than others.
In what way is it better or worse to be shot using a rifle than a musket or a cruise missle?

Kerry Pushes Plan to Re-Import Canadian Bacon
(2004-10-16) -- Under a plan proposed by Democrat presidential contender John Forbes Kerry, Americans could save billions of dollars each year on the purchase of over-the-counter bacon.

"I have a plan to get every American hooked on Canadian bacon," said Mr. Kerry during a campaign stop in Jacksonville, Oregon. "All we need to do is get American farmers to export their hogs to Canada, where the government could impose price controls, then we re-import the processed Canadian bacon to the United States at prices lower than those available here on ordinary bacon."

Mr. Kerry's Bring Home the Canadian Bacon plan has ignited almost as much enthusiasm across the United States as his plan to re-import American prescription drugs from Canada.

"The reason these plans work," said Mr. Kerry, who is also a U.S. Senator, "is because they give us the best of both systems--capitalism and socialism. American companies do the risky work of developing these products, and then we allow Canada's government to control how much profit they make. The bottom line: when American companies make smaller profits, their workers will have less money. And that's why they'll need cheaper drugs and bacon."

President George Bush, asked to respond to the Kerry plan, said, "Canadian bacon--what's that? Do the pigs speak French? Next question."

by Scott Ott

Why does the nature of the weapon matter? I've noticed this quite a bit in American debates - certain classes of weapon seem to attract more censure than others.
In what way is it better or worse to be shot using a rifle than a musket or a cruise missle?

It is the term "assault" rifle. For some reason it causes some to foam at the mouth. Yet most hunting rifles are far more powerful than an AK-47 ever could be but they are not treated in the same way.