DCCC slams Shadegg for suggesting Bloomberg's daughter will be kidnapped

[DearAbby]

Washington(CNN) - A spokesman for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee criticized a Republican congressman Tuesday for suggesting that Mayor Michael Bloomberg's daughter will be kidnapped by terrorists, calling it evidence that the GOP has been taken over by "Right Wing extremists."

"In case there's any doubt of the Republican Party being taken over by the likes of Sarah Palin, Glenn Beck, Michele Bachmann and other Right Wing extremists, last night Republican Rep. John Shadegg actually suggested that Mayor Bloomberg's daughter will be kidnapped by a terrorist," DCCC spokesman Ryan Rudominer said in a statement.

"This is what happens when you have a Republican Party undeterred by their embarrassing loss in the NY-23 Special Election and desperate to win over the Right Wing fringe," he added.

On the House floor on Monday night, Shadegg criticized Bloomberg for supporting the Obama administration's decision to have the suspected 9/11 terrorists face a trial in New York City. Bloomberg said last week that it's "fitting" to have them tried close to the World Trade Center site and that the city has "hosted terrorism trials before," but Shadegg warned of other repercussions.


"I saw the Mayor of New York said today, 'We're tough. We can do it,'" Shadegg said. "Well, Mayor, how are you going to feel when it's your daughter that's kidnapped at school by a terrorist? How are you going to feel when it's some clerk - some innocent clerk of the court - whose daughter or son is kidnapped? Or the jailer's little brother or little sister? This is political correctness run amok."

Bloomberg's office said Tuesday it would not comment on the remark.

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2009/11/17/dccc-slams-shadegg-for-suggesting-bloombergs-daughter-will-be-kidnapped/

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1. Why is the D-trip getting involved in this?

Mr. Bloomberg seems big enough to take care of himself, and ask Nitwit Shadegg why Bloomberg's 26-year-old daughter would be hanging around a school? Confront Shadegg over his politics, voting record or anything else. Leave his squabbling with the mayor of New York to the tabloids. If you're asked about it, then it would be appropriate to comment on it. But jumping into the middle of a kerfuffle that Bloomberg doesn't appear to want to continue (his office has declined comment on Shadegg) just makes the D-trip look politically crass.

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2. What I can't understand is

hat difference to a terrorist would it make if the trial was held in New York or Gitmo. If they were going to cause problems they could just as well do it any place. If they didn't want the trial held, what's to say if they held it in Gitmo they went to Chicago and set off bombs, or to Los Angles, this is ridiculous. The republicans are a bunch of namby pamby cowards. Most of them never even served in the military. And don't even care about the military look at Coburn holding up the veterans bill. And now he wants to hold up health care for millions of Americans. So why is the press and TV constantly telling this. I have not heard one word about Coburn holding up the veterans bill from the media. Has anybody.