Democrat? No Money for YOU!!
No Icons, No Monuments Worth Protecting
June 01, 2006 12:18 PM
Richard Esposito Reports:
Bloomberg offered his own theory as to why cities like Louisville, Omaha, and Charlotte, N.C., got 40 percent increases. "We've tried to do analysis of some of the money given out, for political reasons," Bloomberg said. "In fact, in many of the places where they got money, but arguably there's no threat, these are close elections either at Senate level or House level. Is that their motive? I have no idea.""New York has no national monuments or icons, according to the Department of Homeland Security form obtained by ABC News... That was a key factor used to determine that New York City should have its anti-terror funds slashed by 40 percent--from $207.5 million in 2005 to $124.4 million in 2006.
"The formula did not consider as landmarks or icons: The Empire State Building, The United Nations, The Statue of Liberty and others found on several terror target hit lists. It also left off notable landmarks, such as the New York Public Library, Times Square, City Hall and at least three of the nation's most renowned museums: The Guggenheim, The Metropolitan and The Museum of Natural History.
"The form ignored that New York City is the capital of the world financial markets and merely stated the city had four significant bank assets."
WCBSTV
Clinton, GOP Congressman to Chertoff: 'Wish you were here'
RAW STORY
Published: Thursday June 1, 2006
Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY) and Congressman Peter T. King (R-NY), Chairman of the House Committee on Homeland Security, are responding to a Department of Homeland Security claim that New York City has no "national landmarks and icons" by sending DHS Secretary Michael Chertoff postcards of famous New York sights, RAW STORY has learned
They're still getting 18% of the total fund this year.
I imagine using $16 million last year for police overtime may have been seen as a bit excessive.
Some totals:
New York
2005 funds*: $207.6
2006 funds*: $124.5
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L.A./Long Beach
2005 funds*: $69.2
2006 funds*: $80.6
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Chicago
2005 funds*: $45.0
2006 funds*: $52.3
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Washington area
2005 funds*: $77.5
2006 funds*: $46.5
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Jersey City/Newark
2005 funds*: $19.2
2006 funds*: $34.3
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San Francisco Bay Area
2005 funds*: $33.2
2006 funds*: $28.3
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Detroit
2005 funds*: $17.1
2006 funds*: $18.6
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Boston
2005 funds*: $26.0
2006 funds*: $18.2
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationwo...ack=crosspromo
SA probably only got that much because it's a testing ground for emergency response. I would have thought Houston would have gotten a little more than that though, not much, but a little.
My question... Louisville, KY 8.5???? huh?
HLS Honcho sez corn fields are more vulnerable than N.Y.C.
NY Daily NewsWASHINGTON - The Homeland Security bureaucrat who shortchanged New Yorkers' safety by $80 million implied yesterday that guarding a Nebraska cornfield from an Al Qaeda attack is the same as putting a cop with a gun on the Brooklyn Bridge.
"When you are protecting agriculture in the Midwest, you are protecting the citizens of New York City," Assistant Secretary Tracy Henke told C-Span's "Washington Journal."
Henke - a political appointee in charge of doling out $1.7 billion in security grants to cities under the highest threat of attack - cut funds to New York City and Washington by 40%, even though both are considered Al Qaeda's top terror targets.
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Henke is a Republican political operative and protégé of former Attorney General John Ashcroft with no background in military or intelligence. She previously worked for two GOP senators from her home state of Missouri, which collected 25% more security cash from her office this year.
No politics being played here, move along!
Well, you knew it was coming...
Ny PostThis fundamental misunderstanding is curious, because Gotham's approach to homeland security closely mirrors the Bush administration's stated foreign-policy approach to the war on radical Islam: Act now abroad to prevent attacks, rather than act later to respond to them. The DHS's philosophy, conversely, is more like the Clinton administration's: Wait for an attack and then respond.
It's all Clinton's fault!!
Well Mrs Rodham Clinton and Chuckie Cheese Shumer voted to cut the funds. Look it
up.
So the NYPD is busting down doors in Pakistan now?
No wonder they need all that overtime....
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