To: Patrick Yoes of Fraternal Order of Police, National Secretary and James Pasco, Executive Director
Fraternal Order of Police - withdraw Trump endorsement
It is time for the Fraternal Order of Police to withdraw its endorsement of Donald Trump whom the NY Times writer Charles Blow called the Worst of America: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/17/opinion/donald-trump-the-worst-of-america.html?_r=0.
In the first presidential debate, seen by over 80 million Americans, Donald Trump boasted that not paying taxes is smart. Fraternal Order of Police (FOP) endorsement is intended to strengthen Donald Trump's standing with the public and help him become the next President of the USA. If Trump were to become President and, we the people followed his stewardship and stopped paying taxes, where would FOP members receive their salaries from? Taxes are government's main source of paying for our defense, education, infrastructure and all other benefits that we as citizens, whether members of the FOP or not, benefit from.
As seen by almost everyone on this planet, the infamous Access Hollywood tapes showed Trump boasting about having basically sexually assaulted women. Donald Trump denied he had ever done such a thing during the second presidential debate. However, in the few days since the release of the tapes, at least 9 women have come forward with their own personal accounts of Trump's unwarranted groping and other advances with some incidences corroborated by witnesses.
Trump also calls himself the Law and Order candidate. Trump obviously thinks that Law and Order does not apply to him since all of us would end up in jail if we groped women and forced ourselves on them. In the third presidential debate, Trump refused to accept the results of the election, potentially damaging the very foundation of our democracy.
How could the FOP support the "Law and Order" candidate that does not pay taxes, boasts about assaulting women and does not accept the will of the people?
Even Republicans have abandoned their candidates in droves and surely more will follow suit after the third presidential debate and as more damning evidence is unearthed. Does the FOP want to be the last group supporting this misogynous candidate with documented history of discrimination against minorities?
In the first presidential debate, seen by over 80 million Americans, Donald Trump boasted that not paying taxes is smart. Fraternal Order of Police (FOP) endorsement is intended to strengthen Donald Trump's standing with the public and help him become the next President of the USA. If Trump were to become President and, we the people followed his stewardship and stopped paying taxes, where would FOP members receive their salaries from? Taxes are government's main source of paying for our defense, education, infrastructure and all other benefits that we as citizens, whether members of the FOP or not, benefit from.
As seen by almost everyone on this planet, the infamous Access Hollywood tapes showed Trump boasting about having basically sexually assaulted women. Donald Trump denied he had ever done such a thing during the second presidential debate. However, in the few days since the release of the tapes, at least 9 women have come forward with their own personal accounts of Trump's unwarranted groping and other advances with some incidences corroborated by witnesses.
Trump also calls himself the Law and Order candidate. Trump obviously thinks that Law and Order does not apply to him since all of us would end up in jail if we groped women and forced ourselves on them. In the third presidential debate, Trump refused to accept the results of the election, potentially damaging the very foundation of our democracy.
How could the FOP support the "Law and Order" candidate that does not pay taxes, boasts about assaulting women and does not accept the will of the people?
Even Republicans have abandoned their candidates in droves and surely more will follow suit after the third presidential debate and as more damning evidence is unearthed. Does the FOP want to be the last group supporting this misogynous candidate with documented history of discrimination against minorities?
Why is this important?
To withdraw Trump endorsement by Fraternal Order of Police, whose mission statment reads:
To support and defend the Constitution of the United States; to inculcate loyalty and allegiance to the United States of America; to promote and foster the enforcement of law and order; ....; to increase the efficiency of the law enforcement profession and thus more firmly to establish the confidence of the public in the service dedicated to the protection of life and property.
To support and defend the Constitution of the United States; to inculcate loyalty and allegiance to the United States of America; to promote and foster the enforcement of law and order; ....; to increase the efficiency of the law enforcement profession and thus more firmly to establish the confidence of the public in the service dedicated to the protection of life and property.