Liberal Intolerance #66: Toledo Mayor Carty Finkbeiner Says No To The Military In His City

Written by: Uncle Seth The Noble on Monday, February 11th, 2008

ToledoBlade.com has the details…

A company of Marine Corps Reservists received a cold send-off from downtown Toledo yesterday by order of Mayor Carty Finkbeiner.

The 200 members of Company A, 1st Battalion, 24th Marines, based in Grand Rapids, Mich., planned to spend their weekend engaged in urban patrol exercises on the streets of downtown as well as inside the mostly vacant Madison Building, 607 Madison Ave.
Toledo police knew days in advance about their plans for a three-day exercise. Yet somehow the memo never made it to Mayor Finkbeiner, who ordered the Marines out yesterday afternoon just minutes before their buses were to arrive.

“The mayor asked them to leave because they frighten people,” said Brian Schwartz, the mayor’s spokesman.

“He did not want them practicing and drilling in a highly visible area.”

American citizens in fear of their own sons and daughters? Here is yet another example of the Left’s intolerance for our brave men and women in the military who put their lives on the line everyday so that these cowards can spew their hate. The ideology of tolerance and diversity strikes again!

UPDATE: Michelle Malkin has a report that the leading commander of that military unit was refused an opportunity to meet with the mayor Finkbeiner because he was in another meeting… sounds like the low life is hiding!

UPDATE II: Toledo city council has now asked the mayor to apologize to the U.S. Marines corp who had to cancel their training exercise… the pressure builds on this fink!

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