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Survivors caution GOP on 9/11 plans
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| Last Edited | ArmyDem Aug 19, 2003 04:12pm |
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| Media | TV News - National Broadcasting Company MSNBC News |
| News Date | Tuesday, August 19, 2003 06:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Anger at 2004 convention plan that may use Ground Zero site
Work continuing at Ground Zero a month before the second anniversary of the attacks that destroyed the World Trade Center towers.
NEW YORK, Aug. 18 — Ever since her sister, Lorraine Lee, died in the World Trade Center 23 months ago, Patricia Reilly has lobbied to preserve the Ground Zero site as a memorial. In that time, she has come to resent politicians who make promises and use Ground Zero as a backdrop but who appear to lose interest once the cameras have gone. So when Reilly heard that the Republican Party had chosen New York for its presidential convention in September 2004, she was outraged. “I and other 9/11 family members will do picketing if the Republicans use Ground Zero for political purposes,” she says.
SURVIVORS SAY they are concerned about rumors that the party intends to schedule some kind of political event at the site during the convention, which will take place a week before the third anniversary of the attacks.
Neither the Republican National Committee nor the New York City host committee, headed by former Mayor Rudolph Guiliani, would comment on the rumor. But Reilly and others like her are taking no chances, registering their concern with Rep. Jerrold Nadler, the Democrat who represents lower Manhattan, city council members and other local officials. .
“We have heard complaints from constituents about this,” says Jennie McCue, an aide to Nadler. “Tens and thousands of our constituents were affected by 9/11 and they do not want Ground Zero to be a political base for the Republicans.” |
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