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Stinky The Clown Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-21-07 05:09 PM
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K.T. McFarlane (R-NY) sez Bloomberg is great because he stopped the 'squeegee men'
Does anyone else read that as a sorry-assed racist statement? This loony right wing woman (who ran against Hillary for Senate) made this statement to Smirkonish sitting in for the vile Carlson boy as part of a list of why Bloomberg would be so great as a presidential candidate. When she said it, there was no fire coming from her nose, no flames shooting from her eyes. She sounded even motherly. But out of that motherly sounding mouth came that vile, hate-filled, racist statement.

Here's the dear heart with some of her male counterparts.
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MonkeyFunk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-21-07 05:11 PM
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1. I thought Giuliani got credit for that
and I don't think it's racist - squeegee men weren't known as being of any one particular race.
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CatWoman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-22-07 01:15 PM
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6. correct
that was Rudy's doing.
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rocktivity Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-21-07 05:16 PM
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2. I have the same problem with Bloomberg that I did with Perot
His only qualification seems to be that doesn't need campaign contributions. After purchasing a mayoral seat, he seems to be buying a presidential one because he has nothing to better to do.

:headbang:
rocknation
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ProudToBeBlueInRhody Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-21-07 05:54 PM
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3. Why is it racist?
Only one race squeegees car windshields in NYC? :shrug:
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Stinky The Clown Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-21-07 08:15 PM
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4. For the most part ..... yeah ......
.... I promise you, that's the implication.
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ProudToBeBlueInRhody Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-22-07 01:13 PM
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5. Really?
It couldn't possibly be that people don't like random folks running up and messing with their car?

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