Cong Pete Sessions and Fmr. Cong Susan Molinari Announce Support for Mayor Rudy Giuliani

Join Rudy 2008 ^ | 12 Feb 2008 | Press Release

[PhiKapMom]

New York, Feb 12 -

The Rudy Giuliani Exploratory Committee today announced that Congressman Pete Sessions and former Congresswoman Susan Molinari are supporting Mayor Rudy Giuliani to be the next President of the United States. Both will take active roles aiding Giuliani’s exploratory efforts, with Sessions working to build support in the House and Molinari serving as both Senior Advisor and Chairman of Washington outreach.

In announcing their endorsement, Sessions and Molinari praised Giuliani’s proven leadership.

“I’m supporting Mayor Giuliani for President because he has the experience, record of results and vision to unite our country during these uncertain times. I’m honored to be a part of his team and will work hard to elect Rudy Giuliani as the next President of the United States,” said Congressman Pete Sessions.

Congresswoman Susan Molinari stated, “I’ve seen the results of Mayor Giuliani’s leadership – cutting taxes, transforming a historic deficit into a multi-billion dollar surplus and reducing crime. Without a doubt, Rudy Giuliani is the demonstrated leader America needs to tackle difficult challenges and move our country forward.”

Mayor Rudy Giuliani thanked both Congressman Sessions and former Congresswoman Molinari for their support. “I’m honored to have the support of two Republican leaders who have made a real difference as public servants.”

[George W. Bush]

You make it sound like it was against the law to get a deferrment but it wasn't. I know people that high draft numbers that went in voluntarily and others that got deferrments until they completed college and grad school.

You ready for when they assemble some Dim Viet vets to Swiftboat him? They couldn't make it stick with Bush in 2000 and Rather overreached with his fake documents in '04. But the war will be a hotspot in '08 and the Dims won't miss this chance, even more because Rudi is pro-war.

These kind of stories just keep coming out. It's a lot of negative baggage for the libmedia to party with.

[Peach]

The arguments being used now by the ragers just crack me up? Rudy got deferments and so the ragers think (hope) Republicans won't vote for him. ROFL

[jla]

From HITLER to Rasputin?

If you're implying I've compared Giuliani to Hitler you are, as is your wont, wrong.

Do you know ANY factual history at all?

Feel better now that you've supposedly made yourself look superior by attempting to ridicule me? Good! Now why not go find another innocent young girl, like LauraLee, you can smear and malign.

[deport]

but did not answer when asked about the VP slot.

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Heck the VP slot is nailed down don'tcha know..... They [cue spooky music] have to have someone to expand the transportation system into the heartland so they can import all those goods from China and have a paved corridor for all the illegals and drugs to enter through...

Thus look for Rick Perry to be there to take care of that chore for them as he is well versed in the Trans Texas Corridor and securing money from outsiders like Spain so that tax payers don't have to pony up.... [stop spooky music]

[WKB]

Heck the VP slot is nailed down don'tcha know..



I guess that's why he didn't say anything. :>)

[FreeReign]

What's your point?

Oh I think you know what my point is.

LOL!

Why don't you just come out and say it? Why hold back?

[WKB]

Why don't you just come out and say it? Why hold back?



OK Seriously. If you or anyone else can show me
the Conservative side of a baby killing, gun grabbing
gay loving NY Liberal, I'll vote for him.

[firebrand]

I'm surprised they didn't try to kill him.

He had a security detail like you wouldn't believe. You never knew when he would arrive, and through which door. Of course that was mostly for the Mafia contract on him.

[firebrand]

Maybe you could stop repeating yourself for a few hours, or at least change "thrice-divorced" to "once-divorced and once annulled" in your next stutter-post.

[Afronaut]

 

Since he left office, Giuliani has leveraged his image as "America's mayor" to his decided financial advantage and in ways that belie his man-of-the-people persona.

He commands $100,000 for a speech, not including expenses, which his star-struck clients are happily willing to pay. In one speech last year at Oklahoma State University, Giuliani requested and received travel on a private Gulfstream jet that cost the school $47,000 to operate. His visit essentially wiped out the student speakers annual fund.

Like other high-priced speakers in the private sector, Giuliani routinely travels in style. Besides the Gulfstream, which is a standard perk on the big-time speakers' circuit, his contract with Oklahoma State called for up to five hotel rooms for his entourage, including his own two-bedroom suite with a preferred balcony view and king-size bed, in the event of an overnight stay. But he did not stay overnight.

The contract also required a sedan and an SUV, restrictions on news coverage and control over whom Giuliani would meet, how he would be photographed and what questions he might be asked.

[papertyger]

Santorum's own political fate has absolutely nothing to do with the question of if a Conservative can support a moderate out of principle.

I beg to differ.

Furthermore, your comment posited some nonsense about doing vs. talking...and you're claiming *my* comment was a non-sequiter...?

Clifford, heal thyself.

[FreeReign]

Why don't you just come out and say it? Why hold back?

OK Seriously. If you or anyone else can show me the Conservative side of a baby killing, gun grabbing gay loving NY Liberal, I'll vote for him.

There is a conservative side to Rudy. Given his abortion, 2A and illegal immigration problems, I'm not advocating that you vote for Rudy in the primaries. As a last resort in the general against Hillary, I would.

Anyway here's a quick but detailed list;

- Rudy tossed Arafat out of a city sponsored celebrations saying, "I would rather not have someone who has been implicated in the murders of Americans there, if I have the discretion not to have him there”.

- Rudy did the same to Fidel Castro.

- When a Saudi prince donated millions to 9/11 relief efforts and later suggested that United States policy in the Middle East may have been partially responsible for the attacks, Rudy returned the money.

- Rudy refused to meet with racial arsonist Al Sharpton.

- Rudy as mayor was strong on law and order. Rudy said that "government exists above all to keep people safe in their homes and in the streets, not to redistribute income, run a welfare state, or perform social engineering". And Rudy backed this all up by going after both quality-of-life crimes and serious crimes. Total crime went down by some 64 percent during the Giuliani years, and murder went down 67 percent. Auto thefts went down on average about 80,000 per year.

- Rudy supported the police when the police had to enter and deal with Muslims at a mosque.

- Rudy closed down many porn shops across the city and specifically shutdown porn shops in residential neighborhoods.

- Rudy went after both low level and high level drug dealers for the first time in the cities history.

- Rudy had zero tolerance for quality of life crimes such as squeegee extortionists, graffiti vandals, panhandling and public urination.

- Rudy launched a welfare revolution, removing illegal recipients, cutting the rolls by 20% the first year alone and dropping the welfare rolls by 600,000 over the course of his plan.

- Rudy launched a work requirement program for the remaining welfare recipients. The NY Times called it slavery.

- Rudy constantly spoke out against illegitimacy and fatherless families. One of many things that Rudy said on the subject was the following: " If you wanted a social program that would really save these kids, . . . I guess the social program would be called fatherhood."

- Rudy objected to affirmative action. Rudy ended the cities set-aside program for minority contractors.

- Rudy rejected the idea of lowering the job requirement standards for minorities and woman.

- Rudy ended open-ended enrollment at the City University of NY.

- Rudy said. "it was unfair to expect middle-class kids to work their way through college by holding down jobs and going to classes while exempting students on welfare from working."

- Rudy reformed the public school system and forced out liberal chancellors who wouldn't install his reforms.

- Rudy tried to privatize 5 of the cities worst public schools.

- Rudy was for school vouchers. Rudy said, "The whole notion of choice is really about more freedom for people, rather than being subjugated by a government system that says you have no choice about the education of your child,".

- Rudy fought against public money for an art display that defiled Christ and he fought against other obscene so-called works of art.

- Rudy played hardball with city unions winning concessions from city workers that other mayors had failed to do.

- Rudy strong armed state leaders to merge the cities Housing Police and Transit Police into the NYPD saving the city hundreds of millions. Rudy did this by threatening to fire every housing and transit officer and rehire each as a city cop if legislative leaders did not go along.

- Rudy did the same with the city’s garbageman, many of whom worked only half days because the department was so overstaffed with union jobs. Rudy won $300 million in savings from them by threatening to contract out trash collection to private companies.

- Rudy cut or killed 23 levies and taxes, saving taxpayers $9.8 billion during his terms.

- Rudy cut NYC's top income-tax rate by 20.6%.

- Local NYC taxes on a family of four dropped 23.7% during Rudy's term.

- Rudy cut the commercial-rent tax.

- Rudy cut sales taxes, including taxes on clothing.

- Rudy cut the marriage penalty on taxpaying couples.

- Rudy cut taxes on commercial rents everywhere outside of Manhattan’s major business districts, and various taxes on small businesses and self-employed New Yorkers.

- Rudy's expenditure growth averaged 2.9% annually, while local inflation between January 1994 and December 2001 averaged 3.6%.

- Rudy privatized municipal assets.

- Rudy sold WNYC radio for $20 million, WNYC-TV for $207 million, and NYC's share of the U.N. Plaza Hotel for $85 million.

- Rudy divested the the City from the New York Coliseum adding $345 million to city coffers.

- Rudy let the private Central Park Conservancy manage Central Park.

- Rudy cut NYC's hotel tax from 6% to 5%. Consequently, hotel tax revenues increased from $135 million in Fiscal Year 1995 to $239 million in FY 2001.

- When asked if Rudy would raise taxes after 9/11 Rudy said that would be "a dumb, stupid, idiotic, and moronic thing to do."

- A quote from Rudy on his economic philosophy: “City government should not and cannot create jobs through government planning...The best it can do, and what it has a responsibility to do, is to deal with its own finances first, to create a solid budgetary foundation that allows businesses to move the economy forward on the strength of their energy and ideas. After all, businesses are and have always been the backbone of New York City.”

- Construction permits increased by more than 50% in the city per year during Rudy's terms.

- Tourism increased 50% in the city per year during Rudy's terms.

- City jobs increased by 430,000 to an all time high of 3.72 million during Rudy's terms.

- City personal income increased 50% during Rudy's terms.

- The percentage income that city residence paid in taxes declined from 8.8 to 7.3 percent during Rudy's terms.

- Unemployment in the city went form 10.3% to 5.1% during Rudy's terms.

- Rudy was an outstanding leader during the 9/11 crisis.

- Rudy has been a strong supporting in our WOT including supporting the mission in Iraq.

- Rudy was chosen by Ronald Reagan in 1981 as an Associate Attorney General placing him in the third highest position in the Reagan's DOJ.

- In 1983, Rudy was appointed by Reagan to be U.S. Attorney for the SD of NY. In that position, Rudy amassed 4,152 convictions including the heads of NY's so-called "Five Families". Rudy also procecuted terrorists and illegal immigrants.

Here's a picture of Rudy an Ronald Reagan;

It's a shame Rudy sold out on abortion and 2A. Besides that he has a lot going for him.

Maybe it was the only way in NYC.

What Rudy did manage to get done NYC in my opinion was amazing.

[papertyger]

Your post was neither clever nor funny and I'm not the only one who thinks that.

in order to make such a claim, you would have to be in the "who thinks" catagory ;o)

[FreeReign]

Since he left office, Giuliani has leveraged his image as "America's mayor" to his decided financial advantage and in ways that belie his man-of-the-people persona.

So the guy is making money?

LOL!

[papertyger]

Go back to your other Log Cabin Republicans...

Are we forgetting who is the Guliani flack here, or don't you know the definition of a log cabin republican?

if you're going to ignore me, do it.

Perish the thought, little neophyte!

[WKB]

Sorry I am not convinced.

[WKB]

I think Rudy would make a great Sec of Defense.

[WalterSkinner]

I think Rudy would make a great Sec of Defense

..how about AG?

[Afronaut]

I think Rudy would make a great Sec of Defense

Why? He stopped people from peeing in the streets? I think there are many Freepers that out quailify him for that post.

[WKB]

..how about AG?


Too much power for a social liberal. :>)