One Week After Dismissing Connection, Bloomberg Supports 9/11 Health Plan

[hatrack]

Gee, Mike, reality getting just a bit too intrusive for you there? :eyes:

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Bloomberg, a Republican, said he supported an effort by Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., to get $1.9 billion in federal funds to treat thousands of ground zero workers, office workers and area residents who were exposed to asbestos-laden dust and are sick.

Senate Republicans on Thursday used a procedural maneuver to put off a vote on Clinton's proposal.

Bloomberg said he was "particularly concerned about people five and 10 years from now that will come down with diseases that may or may not have been caused (by ground zero exposure), and if they were caused, then making sure we have the monies available to take care of them."

The city has fought lawsuits by workers seeking compensation for claims of ground zero-related sicknesses, but the mayor recently said the federal government should assume responsibility, since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks were a national crisis. As recently as last week, Bloomberg dismissed a scientific connection between illnesses and ground zero work, saying, "I don't believe that you can say specifically a particular problem came from this particular event."

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http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/newyork/ny-bc-ny--attacks-health0914sep14,0,4704952.story?coll=ny-region-apnewyork

[hippiechick]

1. He's just seeing dollar signs and votes.

... "Please, please give us a federal grant .. I know just the private agencies (of which me and my best friends happen to be shareholders and board members) that we can give it to as a means to help these poor folks" .....

Groan. :puke:

[rodeodance]

2. hil clinton was on Senate floor few days ago asking for funds.