Hillary wants you to send a post card to Chertoff...

[liberal N proud]

Friends,

I've just sent Department of Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff a postcard to remind him of all of the national monuments and icons that are home to New York City. When the Department of Homeland Security cut funding to New York's Homeland Security Grant program this week, they included a so-called 'explanation' that said the city had no icons.

No icons?! Not the Statue of Liberty, the Brooklyn Bridge, the Empire State Building, Shea and Yankee stadiums, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and so many more national treasures.

Maybe DHS Secretary Michael Chertoff and his department don't think those are icons - but we know better!

Hillary and Congressman Peter King (R-NY), Chairman of the House Committee, have partnered to remind Secretary Chertoff what's at stake for New York and for all of us when Homeland Security funds to high-risk areas are slashed.

Join me and stand up for New York's icons and our nation's security. Send a postcard of a New York icon to Homeland Security Secretary Chertoff and remind him our security is vital.

http://www.hillaryclinton.com/action/postcard/

[Robbien]

1. A defiant Chertoff won't budge-Says not a penny more to city

WASHINGTON - Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff was defiant yesterday despite a blistering onslaught of criticism over his order to slash New York City's counterterrorism cash almost in half.

"I will tell you that when people threaten me or yell at me, that's not going to make me change my mind," Chertoff told the Daily News.

The attacks on Chertoff for cutting federal grants to New York City by 40% this year were led by fellow Republicans on Capitol Hill who preside over committees overseeing Chertoff's cabinet agency.

He insisted that pressure from GOP leaders and the entire New York delegation won't sway him to restore $80 million cut from the high-threat urban area security grants awarded to the city this year.

"I'd be a pretty bad secretary if I said, 'Wow, I got attacked, I'm going to change the grants formula,'" Chertoff said after huddling with President Bush and White House political adviser Karl Rove.

http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/423005p-356989c.html

[donco6]

2. How 'bout just firing your ass?

You worthless piece of dried leather over bones stuffed with shit.

[PWRinNY]

3. I'm off to find a postcard of the Twin Towers!

Freaking rectal aperture.