File #: Res 0210-2004    Version: * Name: The Bush campaign to stop airing and producing ads using the images of death and destruction from Ground Zero.
Type: Resolution Status: Filed
Committee: Committee on Cultural Affairs, Libraries and International Intergroup Relations
On agenda: 3/10/2004
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: Resolution calling upon the Bush campaign to stop airing and producing advertisements using the images of death and destruction from Ground Zero and that President Bush apologize to the families of those killed on September 11, 2001 for demeaning the memory of their loved ones for political gain.
Sponsors: David Yassky, Charles Barron, Yvette D. Clarke, Robert Jackson, Letitia James, Christine C. Quinn
Council Member Sponsors: 6
Attachments: 1. Cover Sheet

Res. No. 210

 

Resolution calling upon the Bush campaign to stop airing and producing advertisements using the images of death and destruction from Ground Zero and that President Bush apologize to the families of those killed on September 11, 2001 for demeaning the memory of their loved ones for political gain.

 

By Council Members Yassky, Barron, Clarke, Jackson, James and Quinn

 

                     Whereas, More than 3,000 innocent people and 60 brave police officers and 343 brave firefighters were killed on September 11, 2001  in lower Manhattan; and

 

Whereas, The images of that day conjure up only memories of grief and horror for millions of New Yorkers and other Americans; and

 

                     Whereas, President Bush is using those images to further his political career at the expense of mourners in New York and throughout the country; and

 

                     Whereas, President Bush is using the traumatic events of that day as a backdrop for his campaign to win sympathy from patriotic Americans; now, therefore, be it

 

                     Resolved, That the New York City Council calls upon the Bush campaign to stop airing and producing advertisements using the images of death and destruction from Ground Zero and that President Bush apologize to the families of those killed on September 11, 2001 for demeaning the memory of their loved ones for political gain.