Showing posts with label 08 Election. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 08 Election. Show all posts

Monday, January 07, 2008

Local News Report: WMUR-TV Manachester HN


Report: New Polls and field reports for the campaign trail.

January 06, 2008

POLL: CNN/WMUR/UNH New Hampshire Primary

A new CNN/WMUR/UNH statewide survey (UNH Dems, Reps) of likely primary voters in New Hampshire (conducted 1/5 through 1/6) finds:

  • Among 341 likely Democratic primary voters, Sen. Barack Obama leads Sen. Hillary Clinton (39% to 29%) in a statewide primary; former Sen. John Edwards trails at 16%, Gov. Bill Richardson at 7%.
  • Among 268 likely Republican primary voters, Sen. John McCain runs at 32%, former Gov. Mitt Romney at 26% in a statewide primary; former Gov. Mike Huckabee trails at 14%, former Mayor Rudy Giuliani at 11%, Rep. Ron Paul at 10%.
  • All other candidates receive less than five percent each. The margin of sampling error is 5% for both subgroups.

Saturday, November 03, 2007

NYC to investigate Giuliani, faulty 9/11 radios

A three weeks ago I posted "Stop The Lies" and asked that you sign a petition to launch an investigation into Rudy's handling of the broken radios. Well there is good news to report over 20,000 citizens sign the petition and the City has responded.

Huffington Post
By Sam Stein
The investigation, which will examine how the FDNY ended up using faulty equipment during the terrorist attacks and why Giuliani gave a no-bid contract to Motorola for that equipment, has been endorsed by New York City Councilman Eric Gioia, chair of the city's oversight and investigations committee. "I will do everything in my power to get answers, to get the truth," said Gioia, a Democrat. "These families deserve answers and really the entire city and our country deserve answers."

Calls for an investigation were first proposed by filmmaker Robert Greenwald who has documented Giuliani's handling of 9/11 in a series of shorts for Brave New Films. In The Real Rudy: Radios, Greenwald documents how radios used by the FDNY on 9/11 were the same ones that malfunctioned during the 1993 attack on the Twin Towers. When - eight years later - Giuliani finally purchased new communications equipment for $14 million from Motorola, it was never field-tested. A week later, the equipment was recalled after a firefighter's mayday went un-heard. Giuliani reissued the old batch of radios. And on 9/11 when a police helicopter warned that the North Tower could collapse, more than 120 firefighters remained inside.

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