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In reply to the discussion: NYC Marathon Canceled, Reports NBC News [View all]SidDithers
(44,228 posts)25. The right call, but it should have made Wednesday...
at the latest. Many runners travel to NY on the Thursday or Friday before the race.
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Political manuevering; he wanted to hear the rightie hate merchants flip out.
Dont call me Shirley
Nov 2012
#5
Hope it's a reschedule. A lot of charities and local businesses depend on the event.
progressivebydesign
Nov 2012
#2
It wasn't "good handling" of the crisis when he turned down FEMA help preparing for it.
pnwmom
Nov 2012
#19
Perhaps it was today's NY Post cover, with the humongous generators in Central Park,
Nye Bevan
Nov 2012
#12
Good! Nobody here wants this. I was in Staten Island today to check on relatives, and nobody in SI
hrmjustin
Nov 2012
#13
Or, was a clever pitch to try to make him get back in the good with Business folks after he endorsed
KoKo
Nov 2012
#22
Jeeez. Lots of runners were travelling to NYC today. Is this late announcement
geckosfeet
Nov 2012
#27
Maybe the runners,et all, can just leave the money they would have spent. Donate it to
FailureToCommunicate
Nov 2012
#28