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New York

hrmjustin

(71,265 posts) Wed Aug 27, 2014, 02:52 PM Aug 2014

Ross Barkan

The mayor took a page out of the governor’s playbook.

Mayor Bill de Blasio, irate after a police union president called on national Democrats to keep the 2016 Democratic National Convention out of Brooklyn, quickly ordered aides to contact elected officials to denounce the union leader’s open letter, sources say.

Read more at http://observer.com/2014/08/de-blasio-administration-pushed-pols-to-denounce-mullins-dnc-letter-sources/#ixzz3BcVHsRj8

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De Blasio Administration Pushed Pols to Denounce Mullins’ DNC Letter: Sources (Original Post) hrmjustin Aug 2014 OP

Ours has a mixed record but this is a negotiations tactic likely. hrmjustin Aug 2014 #2

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1. Police Unions, generally tend toward supporting republicans, and a lot of other detestable stuff

Wed Aug 27, 2014, 03:06 PM

Aug 2014

The Police Union in WI got exemption form Walker's purge and supported the whole shameful debacle.

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2. Ours has a mixed record but this is a negotiations tactic likely.

Wed Aug 27, 2014, 03:07 PM

Aug 2014