The IAFF is sending former New York City fire fighters and family members of IAFF fire fighters killed in the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center to follow former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani as he campaigns in the state.
This "Fire Brigade" will expose Giuliani's trumped-up 9/11 credentials as a myth.
"This is about the judgment of our country's next president," says IAFF General President Harold Schaitberger. "Voters in Florida, where Rudy has pinned his hopes for his election, need to know Giuliani's record of poor judgment to understand why we don't believe he's nearly qualified to be our next president of the United States."
Jim Riches, a newly retired FDNY Deputy Chief, will lead the IAFF Fire Brigade.
"No one knows better than fire fighters who were at the World Trade Center that Giuliani failed to prepare first responders before 9/11, and that he is totally unprepared to become our commander-in-chief," says Riches, who responded on 9/11 and lost his fire fighter son, Jimmy Riches, at Ground Zero. "We object to Giuliani using 9/11 as his calling card in this campaign. He was an utter failure that day, and in the days and months leading up to the attack."
