[American Quilter]

I found out from a friend who listens to the Bill Bennett show early in the morning that Rudy has appointed a bunch of liberal judges in New York; the opposite of what he is saying he will do as president. If people can't count on Rudy appointing conservative judges than his support for legal abortions becomes a whole lot worse.

A caller (same one?) to Laura Ingraham this morning said the same thing. I was in the car, and missed his name and what he said his job was, but he'd evidently worked in NYC during Rudy's years, and said Rudy had appointed very liberal judges.

[Al Simmons]

Re: NYC Judges - The Rat to GOP registration in NYC is about 9-1; and lawyers tend to be even more liberal than the average person. So,

1. There was certainly a dearth of qualified GOP lawyers to appoint as judges;

2. Even many of those would be unacceptable ideologically to some of you; and

c. Rudy had to work in a 9-1 'Rat system in NYC. That means if you want to get something done, you might need the support of a 'Rat councilman. And that person may want you to appoint someone to a local judgeship as a quid pro quo.

That's called politics. And bringing up these kinds of "stats" to criticize Rudy - without providing THE CONTEXT - is disingenuous and mendacious.