Letters to the Editor: DC 37 Not Run for Members
      To the Editor: An unidentified former District Council 37 official called the union "weak and ineffectual" in last week's paper, and I must regretfully agree. Our Council's loss of influence in the city and the state has come as our leaders enriched themselves more and more.
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POST-9/11 MONITORING
      To the Editor: As Chair of the World Trade Center Medical Monitoring and Treatment Program Steering Committee (a committee that includes union representatives and the medical institutions involved in the program), I would like to respond to some of the issues discussed in your Nov. 23 story, "EMS 9/11 Retiree Win.
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SUPPORT IMMIGRANTS
      To the Editor: This letter is in reply to the vicious, bigoted, anti-immigrant letter entitled "Wrong on Illegals" written by Thomas Cunningham (in your Nov. 23rd edition.). Mr. Cunningham's knuckle-dragging diatribe against undocumented immigrant workers twists the facts by calling them "illegal criminals in our midst." When did seeking work become a criminal act? Mr.
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TWO PEAS IN A PIT
      To the Editor: The big issue for Rudy Giuliani is whether the reports are true that, as Mayor, he billed obscure city agencies for personal travel expenses. If true, Rudy was using agencies aiding the disabled and providing lawyers for poor defendants to camouflage his vacation trips to the Hamptons - along with his entire security detail.
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