Posted on 08/02/2006 6:11:42 AM PDT by areafiftyone
(COLUMBIA, S.C.) - The SCGOP today announced "An Evening Honoring 'America's mayor,' Rudy Giuliani." The South Carolina Republican Party will join House Speaker Bobby Harrell in hosting a reception honoring former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani on Wednesday, August 16 in Charleston. The event will be held at Hibernian Hall from 7:30-9:00 p.m. to benefit the South Carolina Republican Party.
"We are excited and honored to have Mayor Giuliani visit South Carolina. His steady leadership during crises and his record of accomplishment truly make him 'America's Mayor.' He is an exceptional individual and I am proud to call him a fellow Republican," said Katon Dawson, South Carolina Republican Party Chairman.
Giuliani was elected in 1993 as the 107th Mayor of New York City. As a Republican, his 1993 campaign focused on quality of life issues, crime reduction, economic development, and welfare reform. Giuliani was reelected in 1997 by a wide margin.
As Mayor, Rudy Giuliani returned accountability to City government and improved the quality of life for all New Yorkers. Under his leadership, overall crime fell 57% and murder was reduced 65%. Giuliani has enacted a record of over $2.5 billion in tax reductions and restored fiscal discipline to New York City turning a $2.3 billion dollar deficit into a multi-billion dollar surplus. In 2001, Giuliani was named Time Magazine's Person of the Year for his leadership on and after the attacks on America on September 11th.
Well he's number one in the polls in South Carolina and Georgia. But then again things can change in 2007 when more candidates start thinking of running.
"Keep it up - it just makes you Giuiani haters look very silly and immature".
I can't think of a single one.
Riiiight! Whatever
The term heroic is misused. It is now a ballplayer who hits a single at the right moment to a boy scout helping an old lady.
After 9/11, NYC immediately ran smoothly.
New Orleans, even LA with the riots, proved that such is not the natural order of things. It requires the right leadership.
Highly competent leadership in a time of great stress and anxiety is rare...and considered heroic.
If Rudy or any other RINO is nominated it will give me the perfect opportunity to do something I have resisted doing in the past. That being, to vote for whichever 3rd party nominee supports the most of the socio-political positions that I support.
The City also ran very smoothly in the aftermath of the infamous blackout of August 2003 -- and I'd hardly consider Michael Bloomberg a "heroic" or even "highly competent" mayor.
Dear areafiftyone,
The funny pictures of Mr. Giuliani (who wasn't exactly forced into cross-dressing, even though any political idiot could figure out that they might be used against him) aren't about Mr. Giuliani being a cross-dresser, but rather are amusing symbols of his leftist homosexualist agenda. We actual conservatives would raise the homosexualist agenda issue without the photos.
If Mr. Giuliani weren't such a leftist backer of special rights for homosexuals, the pictures would have no power.
As it is, they're reminders of how liberal he is on this issue.
sitetest
It's a good question.
Dear areafiftyone,
"I am ashamed to say, but I voted third party in 1992 (For Ross Perot) and I got Bill Clinton. I'll never do that again!"
Well, shame on you. You deserted a center-right Republican to vote for a nutjob.
However, if Mr. Giuliani is nominated by the Republican Party, we won't have a center-right Republican, we'll have a moderate-to-far-left RINO.
At that point, it's shame on the party for nominating an outright liberal.
I will point out, however, that Mr. Bush, the father, made many of his own problems. He abandoned a big part of his base, and he paid the penalty. It may be regrettable that that's what happened, but it is to be expected. So, even though Republicans who voted for Mr. Perot bear heavy blame, Mr. Bush bears even heavier blame, in that his actions almost guaranteed that those whom he abandoned would abandon him.
sitetest
What absurd nonsense. But par for the course for you.
If you are a New Yorker, as you pretend, then you are a fool.
Remember the Crown Heights riots, for one example.
NYC did not run smoothly prior to Giuliani- not even close. If it ran smoothly post Giuliani, more credit to the miracle he accomplished.
Please show me where I said that.
NY But of course.
Enough said - you guys gotta learn that your warped ideas just don't fly west of the Hudson.
liberal $hitholes each and every one. Mentally east of the hudson. Along with the rest of you leftwing liberals who live in NY and mistake support of gun control, special privileges for gays, partial birth abortion etc. as somehow being conservative. I got new fer ya Jack, you ain't conservatives and neither is that POS Guillani.
We'll see. I believe "fly over country" surprised the self absorbed liberals on both left coasts last time.
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