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G.O.P. Option at Convention: Luxury Liner
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| Last Edited | RP Dec 01, 2003 01:42pm |
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| Media | Website - Yahoo News: Iran |
| News Date | Monday, December 1, 2003 06:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | The Norwegian Dawn, a 2,240-passenger luxury cruise liner, has 15 decks, 14 bars and lounges and babbling brooks. But even docked at a pier on the Hudson River, it is not New York City. And, to many critics, that is the point.
New York would lose money if Mr. DeLay decides to charter the ship because it would draw visitors and dollars away from city hotels, restaurants and shops.
As for the more ephemeral issue of perception, the proposal to remove visitors from the hubbub of city life has been broadly received as a slight a suggestion that the city's hotels and restaurants, not to mention its people, are not quite good enough for Republicans from out of state.
Instead, Republican strategists say, being docked on the Hudson River would send out the message that they are a bunch of elitists who will not mingle with city residents and just might be ducking New York's laws,.
One Republican strategist said he imagined that New York tabloids would run headlines like "Ship of Fools" or "Titanic." |
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