Posted on 03/04/2007 7:54:24 AM PST by pissant
Rudy Giuliani's shaky family life is being hit with new tremors, as his son Andrew hit the interview circuit confirming that he is estranged from his father - and that the root of the tension is Giuliani's current wife, Judith.
"There's obviously a little problem that exists between me and his wife," Andrew Giuliani, 21, told The New York Times. "And we're trying to figure that out. But as of right now it's not working as well as we would like."
The comments underscored what friends have whispered and Andrew himself has all but acknowledged for more than a year - that relations with his father have been frosty for some time.
As one confidant told the Daily News last year, "I really believe he loves his father. It's just that right now it's still a little difficult to communicate with him."
Andrew said in an interview to be broadcast today on ABC's "Good Morning America" that he and his father went through "a decent amount of time" when they weren't speaking to one another, but they are now trying to work that out.
"No matter what he's done, I love my father," he said. "It's not as good as it once was - but it's better than it was at its lowest."
Andrew said The Times interview was not an attempt to scuttle his father's pursuit of the Republican nomination for President in 2008, saying, "I do not want to hurt him."
Still, the relationship is icy enough that Andrew told The News he would not be campaigning for his father and would instead chase his goal of becoming a pro golfer.
(Excerpt) Read more at nydailynews.com ...
Rudy's dealings with his family are a window to his character - or rather, lack thereof.
He'll have a hard time getting women voters to overlook his behavior.
Men too, for that matter, though there are no doubt some here who'd applaud his cavalier attitude toward promises made.
Dear happygrl,
You get it.
"There are things about America's Mayor that I have expressed admiration for."
Me, too.
Not enough to vote for him for president under any circumstances, but certainly, he did a pretty good job as Mayor of New York City. He made the city livable again.
That doesn't mean he meets the minimum qualifications to get my vote for president.
He doesn't.
And if what's reported here accurately reflects the facts, he's also a dirtbag.
sitetest
Andrew should call Chelsea Clinton so he can get pointers on dealing with adulterous and dysfunctional fathers.
Here's a few aspects on Rudy's search for perfect extra-marital sex (while he was mayor, and while he was still married with children):
Gun-grabbing Rudy threw himself into the Playboy "Sex is Everything" lifestyle, early-on.
Within six months of being elected Mayor, Rudy was splashed on the front page of the New York Daily News buying clothing for Christine Lategano, his "mayoral aide" (that's kinda like being a WH intern but with New York-style kneepads). Giuliani in heat was anything but subtle. He took girlfriend Lategano to baseball games WITH his kids, until his wife had had it----news pictures still exist of Lategano and the married Mayor in restaurants across the city (not having sex, though. That came after the photogs left, and in City Hall, no less, according to Hanover's own eyewitness report after a surprise visit to her husband in City Hall).
Lategano may have been hot in a tight clinch, but she was widely disliked for her rank incompetence and arrogance. Giuliani finally dumped her for newer sexual thrills, but she got paid off for heating up the Mayor's libido with an apartment and a cushy city job, arranged when Rudy dumped his appointee and loyalist, liberal honcho, Fran Reiter, from the job so Lategano could run the city's Tourist and Visitor's Bureau at $250K a year.
By 1998, Rudy had a new mistress (now his wife) and apparently was in the throes of sexual Valhalla, getting sexually blitzed every chance he could as a busy big-city Mayor who loved grabbing guns. He took his sexual plaything to a restaurant a few blocks from Gracie Mansion--so that his children and their friends would know about it. By 2000 things Rudy's sex life was getting lots of newsplay. Married Rudy was squiring his mistress to city parades and other Mayoral public events. (As one astute FReeper noted---goodness, gracious, great balls of fire. The thrills just never let up for the gun-grabbing mayor)
Rudy then publicly announced to the press his separation from his wife WITHOUT EVEN TELLING HANOVER. At the time, Rudy was taking his mistress---not his wife--- to cancer treatment sessions. He never bothered to tell his wife about his illness. Rudy then decided he could not live with his sex playmate out of his reach, and planned to bring his mistress into the Mayoral home (on the spurious claim that Hanover wasn't helping him through cancer treatments---an illness he had not even bothered to tell his wife about).
Rudy announced he wanted to "divide the mayoral home" with wife AND mistress---a transparent ploy to force his wife and children out into the streets. Hanover was forced to go to court to declare Gracie Mansion the marital home so as to exclude Rudy's sex playmate. The judge acquiesced to Hanover's plea.
Thwarted but not defeated, Rudy moved in with a happily civil unioned gay couple (apparently also in the throes of sexual blitz-dom), while his wife fended off his relentless efforts to ditch her. On Mother's day 2000, while still married, Rudy publicly paraded his mistress up and down Second Avenue for newspaper pictures. The evilness of this marital betrayal astonished even blase New Yorkers.
Giuliani's vendetta against his wife and children was still not sated. He cut the mother of his children's official security detail......but he provided government security to his mistress who had no {{ahem}} official duties unless you consider getting Rudy sexually blitzed to be an "official duty".
Sex always wins out with Rudy. Rudy-in-heat is something else, ain't he?
Aside from every issue on which Guiliani is absolutely and utterly WRONG, people want to throng to this "electable" guy. I think Republicans are setting themselves up. I have no doubt whatsoever, for example, that the tolerant and loving Democrats will plaster every campaign ad with the numerous pictures of "Rudy in drag". As for our foreign enemies, I can't imagine America not becoming the laughingstock of the muslim world with those same pictures all over Al-Jazeera.
Conservatives that aren't dumb and deluded KNOW that liberalism must be defeated in both partiesand conservative must be nominated and elected President.
Let's explore what Chelsea thinks about what dad did in the Oval Office.
What? She's off limits to the MSM? Okay, whatever.
Yup.
It's going to be a long campaign season.
Patty Davis & Ronald Reagan: The Sequel.
So what?
Is Andy Giuliani any good as a golfer? Is there any chance he could play professionally at a high level?
I find it very sad that the media is pursuing this kid trying to get him to say something that they can use to trash his father. I know he isn't a child, but let the kid have his privacy in regard to his family situation. I don't care what they say about Rudy. He can answer for himself, but leave the kids out of it.
You have a way with words; it was definitely an eye-opening read.
Except that he believes in fighting the WOT, reducing crime, welfare, regulations, and taxes. I would like to hear more about his promise to nominate judges like Alito and Roberts (e.g., what does he think about Thomas and Scalia), but to dismiss him as a Liberal Democrat dismisses the facts.
BTW, The best thing going for Rudy is the hatred that NYC leftists (who have a disproportionate amount of influence in this country) have for him. When you judge a man by his enemies, Rudy looks pretty good.
Is it normal to marry your second cousin?
Or announce to your wife via a news conference that you're divorcing her?
Or move into an apartment with two gay men?
If those are "normal", then I'm as strange as they get.
What you said.
What a piece of crap as a father.
Newt does...
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