what's up in the pasture.
Posted on 05/15/2007 10:45:31 AM PDT by jdm
The other day on Fox News Sunday, Rudolph W. Giuliani blamed a former aide for the decision to put the city’s emergency command center at 7 World Trade Center, where it was destroyed on 9/11. Now the aide, Jerome M. Hauer, the former director of emergency management, has fired back, giving Lloyd Grove of New York magazine a February 1996 memo that shows he argued for a Brooklyn location. He says the mayor overruled him.
Here is what Mr. Giuliani said on Fox:
Jerry Hauer recommended that as the prime site and the site that would make the most sense. He recommended that site as the site that would be the best site. It was largely on his recommendation that that site was selected.
Mr. Hauer’s memo to First Deputy Mayor Peter J. Powers recommended the MetroTech Center in downtown Brooklyn: “The building is secure and not as visible a target as buildings in Lower Manhattan.” The World Trade Center had been bombed three years earlier.
Mr. Hauer told Lloyd Grove in an interview:
Rudy’s getting a lot of heat for the decision. He’s trying to run on his homeland-security and national-security background, and if you start peeling back the skin on the errors he made when he was mayor, you take away a lot of the basis for his candidacy… I feel sad that he would betray somebody that had served him loyally in the past, and I’m angry, too. But when you get to know Rudy, you know that this is the kind of thing he does. That’s just his personality.
(Excerpt) Read more at empirezone.blogs.nytimes.com ...
BTW, the link I provided you earlier was him addressing the nation at 12:36 pm. . . . who is not reading posts? Three hours is not a long delay when it was thought that Air Force One was one of the next targets, sorry.
And I’m a strong swimmer, thanks.
(Sorry for continuing to ruin the thread, Giuliani is near the bottom of my list for ‘08, despite his strong leadership & definite improvement of NYC)
drjimmy is indeed doing far more than you are in that regard.
Infinitely more, in fact.
He is near the bottom for me as well.
I’m sorry you feel that way.
But if you insist that Kerik has not been connected in any way with the Mob after *he himself* admits it, there’s precious little I can do to change your mind.
A concrete admittance in court by Kerik that he did accept free contracting services at his home from people he understood to be mafia-affiliated is sufficient proof.
I do not know if Kerik claimed to be oblivious to the contractors' connection to organized crime or not - but no one gives anyone $165K of services for free.
After all, when it comes to lies--Rudy would still have you believe that he didn't know his first wife was his second cousin (the basis for his annullment). He says he 'thought' she was his third cousin.
Now wait a minute, here. After 14 years, you would think that SOMEONE at the wedding reception, wedding, anniversaries, birthdays, family get-togethers, family parties, family gossip, etc WOULD HAVE NOTICED THAT! That lie doesn't even pass the 'sniff test'.....lol
Looks like you're looking like an ass too.
What are you talking about? You are off track. You're showing your immaturity and underdevelopment again.
Hear me. Rooty IS NOT A CONSERVATIVE!,
I know you are slow getting things...but I never said he was.
Whatever what’s up. I had forgotten all about you.
Hahaha-----that Rudy---he loves dressing
in costume. All for sweet charity, of course.
Not surprised; your forgetfulness again confirms my suspicion that you lack quite a bit in grey matter.
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