9-11 group blasts GOP hopeful Giuliani

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Source: McClatchy Newspapers

9-11 group blasts GOP hopeful Giuliani
William Douglas | McClatchy Newspapers

last updated: November 19, 2007 08:48:39 PM

HANOVER, N.H. — With the New Hampshire presidential primary now seven weeks away, a New York group whose members lost relatives in the World Trade Center attacks in 2001 tried to dent Republican candidate Rudy Giuliani's image as "America's Mayor" Monday night, saying he failed to prepare the city to deal with a major disaster in the years before the attack.

Speaking at a Dartmouth College town hall meeting, the 9/11 Parents & Families of Firefighters said Giuliani failed to update inadequate firefighter communications equipment, which first experienced serious problems during the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, and placed New York's high-tech emergency command center in one of the towers that was destroyed on Sept. 11, instead of in a low-profile area in Brooklyn.

The New Yorkers told the small audience in the Dartmouth auditorium that Giuliani's campaign is falsely trumpeting his credentials as a leader on homeland security and terrorism issues.

"The lack of preparedness, coordination and leadership were contributing factors in many of the unnecessary deaths on 9-11," said Sally Reganhard, whose firefighter son, Christian Reganhard, was killed at the World Trade Center. "We understand and condemn that the terrorists took this deadly event and started it. But we want you to know that the failures of the Giuliani administration to protect the first responders and protect the people of the city of New York sealed the fate of my son..."

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1. Go get that phony Rudy.

Get him!!!!

Tell the truth.