New York’s politicians are determined to get their filthy paws on the Native Americans’ cigarette business come hell or high water. New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg appears to agree with them.
Syracuse.com: During the broadcast on Aug. 13, Bloomberg said, “I’ve said this to David Paterson, I said, you know, ‘Get yourself a cowboy hat and a shotgun. If there’s ever a great video, it’s you standing in the middle of the New York State Thruway saying, you know, ‘Read my lips — the law of the land is this, and we’re going to enforce the law.’”
What a bonehead. No wonder they’re mad.
Oneida Nation Representative Ray Halbritter said the imagery of the governor “wearing a cowboy hat and holding a shotgun” to confront Native Americans is offensive and hurtful. He compared the plight of Native Americans to American Jews in a letter to Bloomberg.
“You can similarly imagine how members of the Jewish community would react if a politician urged the governor to ‘wear a red armband and hold a shotgun’ to confront Jewish people who defend their lands as we defend ours,” Halbritter wrote in a letter to Bloomberg. “While you claim to be calling just for the law to be enforced, surely as a Jewish leader you would recognize the tragic history of laws being used to suppress ethnic minorities.”
Other tribes are calling on the Mayor to resign. That would be nice, but I wouldn’t hold my breath.
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That’s wild
Aren’t the Dems in the pockets of the tribes in NY?
They are here in WA. The tribes run the casinos in this state and sent MEGA bucks to the Dems in Olympia.
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Not that I’m aware of. The tribes here don’t really like the state government, which is understandable.
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