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Title: Mayor Trolls President-elect Trump: Take Our Federal Funds, We Will Stay a Sanctuary City Forever
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Breitbart
URL Source: http://www.breitbart.com/big-govern ... stay-a-sanctuary-city-forever/
Published: Nov 22, 2016
Author: Neil W McCabe
Post Date: 2016-11-22 14:49:36 by cranky
Keywords: None
Views: 4901
Comments: 15
The mayor of a wealthy liberal enclave next to Boston posted a rebuke to President-elect Donald J. Trump Monday, pledging his city of Somerville to be a sanctuary city regardless of pressure from the incoming administration and the possible loss of federal funds. “This is the heartbreaking part of the election: the sheer number of people who feel like the Trump campaign was predicated on breaking faith with one another,” wrote Mayor Joseph A. Curtatone, whose 4.2 square mile city has roughly 80,000 residents, more than 80 homes listed for more than $500,000, and more than 25 of those homes listed for more than $1 million. Somerville is a city with a 2.2 percent unemployment rate and a very low level of crime, the mayor said in his open letter describing what he called The Welcome Program. “In the wake of the election, our phones have been ringing off the hook. We’ve heard from parents who fear they will be rounded up while their young children wait for them at home,” he said. “We’ve heard from women, Muslims, members of the LGBTQ community, and students of color fearing intensified discrimination,” the Somerville Democrat said. The mayor said that he is not afraid and he will not surrender. “Political parties win and lose. Yet this election has made people question whether our leaders desire to maintain a diverse, tolerant society,” he said. “The message we jointly want to send to those whose confidence has been shaken is this: Our city—Somerville, Massachusetts—will not waver,” said the mayor, who once blocked the permitting process for an Olive Garden restaurant but cut the ribbon for the city’s new Planned Parenthood office. Curtatone has a long history of political radicalism, such as when in July the mayor hoisted a large “Black Lives Matter” banner over the front door of city hall. When the city’s police officers’ union formally requested the mayor replace the banner with one that read: “All Lives Matter,” Curtatone dismissed their request out of hand. The mayor said his definition of a sanctuary city is one where his police and agencies do not run immigration checks on residents, nor take care that would trigger an adverse government action for a resident, unless there is a violent crime involved. “No one who commits violent, felony, or serious crimes gets a free pass here. We do cooperate with immigration on those cases,” he said. The mayor wrote that he knows that federal funding is at risk. “President-elect Trump has threatened to pull federal funding from sanctuary cities,” he said. “How much federal funding could we lose? A lot. Currently Somerville receives approximately $6 million in recurring federal funds per year for things like special education, school lunch programs, substance abuse prevention, and homeland security,” the mayor said. Federal funding is three percent of the city’s annual budget, in addition to housing grants, whih are applied for annually, he said. “If we lose this funding, we will tighten our belts, but we will not sell our community values short,” he said. Curtatone said he was willing to call the President-elect’s bluff. “Mind you, our hope is that once our new president reviews accurate information, he will not cut this funding,” he said. “It would be a reckless policy.” 
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#1. To: cranky (#0)
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macho man is just POSING, trump will call his bluff
Shut off federal funding and also ask the deplorable truck drivers who deliver food to the city to conduct a boycott. Let the sons of bitches there eat each other.
The people there ain't that tolerate or in favor of diversity or they would move to a Po Peeps neighborhood in Boston to build their mansions and send their children to the public schools to show how open-minded they are. Actually,it sounds to me like an awful lot of the wealthy residents of his town are illegal alien millionaires who almost certainly owe their financial successes to crime of one form or another,and they want to live in a protected environment where they and their families don't have to suffer from the effects of the criminal acts that made them wealthy. Or are they going to try to claim a honest citizen of some other country who is a multi-millionaire would have trouble living here legally? BOYCOTT PAYPAL AND CLOSE YOUR PP ACCOUNTS NOW! ENCOURAGE OTHERS TO DO SO,TOO! ISLAM MEANS SUBMISSION! Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012) American Indians had open borders. Look at how well that worked out for them.
I hope so. But we'll see.
Sounds good to me!
Something tells me he did not invite any of those phone callers to move into town....
Cut the funding. Likewise, when it comes to filibusters, make them actually filibuster. Make the old men have to stand there and talk and talk and talk, and wear diapers and pee on themselves. And watch like a hawk and, if they pause, step in, declare debate closed, and proceed to the vote. Don't be genteel. Be aggressive and brutal.
It does sound almost fair. But I think I still favor prosecution, if possible.
At the very least.
let's see how long he stays mayor.
Elected and unelected Bureaucrats, leeches, and cockroaches are all part of the same family in the animal kingdom.
Probably as long as he wants to. He was first elected in 2003. Sounds to me like he has a seat for life, if he wants it.
Identify Somerville as a refugee resettlement area. Maybe give them a nice low-cost housing project.
Seems to have some historical support :
I say build a huge 500 thousand inmate capacity prison in that city... all minimum security drug dealers and rapists... let them all do community service in that area until the city looks like WalMart on the 1st of the month. They want trash... they have handle the trash!!! I'm the infidel... Allah warned you about. كافر المسلح
Give them some 70's nostalgia from da Bronx with a replication of 1086 Simpson St. and its surrounding environs. I was born not too far away from there on the Grand Concourse.
The mayor of a wealthy liberal enclave next to Boston posted a rebuke
#2. To: cranky (#0)
Mayor Trolls President-elect Trump: Take Our Federal Funds, We Will Stay a Sanctuary City Forever
Good!
#3. To: cranky (#0)
“Political parties win and lose. Yet this election has made people question whether our leaders desire to maintain a diverse, tolerant society,” he said.
#4. To: calcon (#1)
macho man is just POSING, trump will call his bluff
#5. To: cranky (#0)
Mayor Trolls President-elect Trump: Take Our Federal Funds, We Will Stay a Sanctuary City Foreve
#6. To: cranky (#0)
#7. To: cranky (#0)
#8. To: TrappedInMd (#5)
Sounds good to me!
#9. To: Vicomte13 (#7)
Cut the funding.
#10. To: cranky (#0)
#11. To: BobCeleste (#10)
let's see how long he stays mayor.
#12. To: cranky (#0)
#13. To: Vicomte13 (#7)
Don't be genteel. Be aggressive and brutal.
#14. To: nolu chan (#12)
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#15. To: GrandIsland (#14)
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