Toledo OH mayor throws out Marines conducting urbain exercises

Article published Saturday, February 9, 2008

VACATE THE PREMISES
Mayor to Marines: Leave downtown
He says urban exercises scare people

By JC REINDL
BLADE STAFF WRITER

A company of Marine Corps Reservists received a cold send-off from downtown Toledo yesterday by order of Mayor Carty Finkbeiner.

The 200 members of Company A, 1st Battalion, 24th Marines, based in Grand Rapids, Mich., planned to spend their weekend engaged in urban patrol exercises on the streets of downtown as well as inside the mostly vacant Madison Building, 607 Madison Ave.

Toledo police knew days in advance about their plans for a three-day exercise. Yet somehow the memo never made it to Mayor Finkbeiner, who ordered the Marines out yesterday afternoon just minutes before their buses were to arrive.

"The mayor asked them to leave because they frighten people," said Brian Schwartz, the mayor's spokesman.

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http://toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080209/NEWS16/802090394

(This is the same mayor that appeared on David Letterman because he said, "If the Toledo airport noise is too loud for people, let the deaf people live there." He was elected to a second term.)

.... much better to just send them over here green. Nothing wrong with OJT, is there?

Idiots.