NYT Article on WTC Memorial Design Finalists, 2003

NYC 9/11 Public Portal Document

[email protected] q Sen. Clinton’s Battle ’x’ Against the EPA •I am a former resident of Battery Park City THE ISSUE: Sen. Clinton's claims that the agency who was displaced for lied aboutair quality. four months after 9ZU. In one of my trips to were it not for her hus­ try to collect some of band’s non-responses my belonging I spied to the numerous docu­ Sen. Clinton holding an mented terrorist at­ impromptu press tacks against U.S. inter­ conference/photo-op ests, there would be no outside of my building, 9/lL John Dell which was closed due Staten Island to contamination (“] ’s Free Ride,” •The Post’s editorial Editorial, Sept. 10). As addressing Sen.. Clin­ the cameras rolled, she ton’s proposed scrutiny assured me that it • of the Bu^ adinmistra- should be the govern­ tion’s candidate for the ment’s role to assure . new EPA head is as po- the safety of Downtown Hillary Clinton IMcally transparent as residents by testing the The Post seems to dust in all apartments. Once the cameras •lamg^ad to^SOT- “ stopped, I didn’t hear ators are hearing the Why not wait for all another word from her concerns of their con- the facts to'come in be- on the subject It was sUtuents regard^ the fore rushir® to judge­ hardly a cause she «“ quahty at Ground ment on such ah inpor­ chose to champion. The Zero and the EPA’s tant matter to' the timing of her accusa- ^^ous mist^e m public as this? Surely, tions against the Bush declarmg the air s^e. The Tost is as con­ administration is curi- T^t ^e Port dis- __________________ cerned with the welfare OUS. David Dallow mwses Hillary Clmton’s of New York residents, Scarsdale efiorts to get to the bot- tourists and working tom of tms false EPA people as it is with ad­ matter what me statement is a tremen- vancing its own politi­ • EPA said or d^ (“Hill- dous disappointment cal agenda. Ju^ Smence,” since when is it Joseph Aguanno J Milloy, wrong for a senator to Brooklyn ^9”^ ^9’ ** look out for her constit- . ProvgtbJ^ uency, whoever they •By all accounts Sen. be?. If not our Clinton has worked surmise i^t . ffie air ^gMtors.who? hard to cultivate a rep­ around Ground Zero noted, Gov. utation as a hard-work­ was contai^ted and pataki has stayed ing • senator. This re­ eon^cive to good largely out of the fray. I portedly has earnedher health after the towers ^^^sem^S’s the begrudging resp^ collapsed. able to play hardball, and a measure of credi­ because otherwise we’d bility on both sides of toons of masks, gloves, answers .from the aisle; even as she administration. If has staked out positions yoo went to criticize, at on both sides of. every public and corporations issue — mimicking her i^ism where’^e fault husband’s legendary lies. EdBatewell triangulation. file federal and state Massaoeaua In throwing road- government were try- blocks ip in front of ing to get up to speed. •The only foul air we President Bush’s ..nomi­ Maybe if some of our have been subjected to, nee to head the EPA elected officials had ex- cqmes courtesy of Sen. pended a little more ef­ Hillary Clinton. fort helping these ef­ She demanded to cover-up the SMiator forts and less affixing know who was respon- merely reminds voters blame and calculating sible for pressuring the of the shenanigans that" how this tragedy could EPA to prematurely as- were the • hallmark of be put to their ^litical sert that the air was the Clinton-Hillary- advantage, things safe to breathe after the Gore years. would have gone a little terrorist attacks of 9/11. Vincent P. Tabone smoother. The smartest woman Vice Chairman Philip Vollono in the world should be Queens Cty. Republican Freeport able to figure out that. Party, A^oria

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