Nat'l Assoc. of Police Organizations ENDORSED OBAMA today!

[99th_Monkey]

NAPO Endorses Obama
by KYLE TRYGSTAD - Sept. 22, 2008
OpEdNews.com

The National Association of Police Organizations endorsed Barack Obama today. On a conference call with reporters, NAPO president Tom Nee pledged the support of more than 287,000 police officers and 2,000 police organizations from around the country.

Joining Nee on the call was vice presidential nominee Joe Biden, who guaranteed Nee that an Obama administration would seek NAPO's input on any crime bills and promised to increase federal support. "We are going to re-establish the Crime Bill," Biden said. "We are going to put another 50,000 cops on the street. We are going to provide the kind of technological help you guys need."

NAPO endorsed the FISA bill that passed through Congress in July. Obama also supported the bill after opposing an earlier version of it. The move upset many of Obama's progressive supporters, though likely helped win the support of groups like NAPO.

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[grannie4peace]

1. that's good --we need them on our side

[featherman]

2. Always a good counter weight to the NRA which operates as a propoganda arm for the GOP

Glad to hear it.

[jody]

3. NAPO supports Assault Weapons Ban, firearms used by 80 million gun-owners.

[blondeatlast]

8. All the more reason to welcome this endorsement. nt

[jody]

9. That makes sense if you want to show Obama will ban firearms covered by H.R. 1022. n/t

[H2O Man]

4. Very good.

Nominated.

[Cha]

5. This is Fucking HUGE! Why doesn't it have

a hundred replies?! Don't they usually endorse the repuke come hell or high water?

I LOVE THIS!

[Chulanowa]

10. Because there's a bit of cognitive dissonance

On one hand they're beating the crap out of Democratic voters, on the other, endorsing the democratic nominee. Kinda hard to think up a good response to that.

[Cha]

11. Not all of them..I'm one Democratic voter who

doesn't get beaten on by cops. There's a lot of good cops, too.

[blondeatlast]

6. Excellent! k/r/nt

[knixphan]

7. yeah, baby!

:kick:

[DemReadingDU]

12. Great!

[skipos]

13. Who did they endorse in 04 and 00? nt