[WorkerbeeCitizen]

My vote will never go to Rudy - dunno who, but not Rudy.

[Neville72]

Thanks, Jim, for doing this.

Rooty’s own words and previously held positions(when he wasn’t trying to appeal to conservatives) make him unqualified to lead the party.

[mkjessup]

Ohhh this is good stuff Jim.

Hope you got some sleep last night?

[sig226]

Today’s poll is the best I’ve ever seen on this site. Thanks for the great work.

[narses]

• Disdain for the Constitution
  Mayor Giuliani routinely disregarded the First Amendment as he rejected requests for information from news organizations and civic groups and opposed public access to city hall steps and parks for demonstrations. "Freedom is about authority," Giuliani said, responding to critics in 1998. "Freedom is about the willingness of every single human being to cede to lawful authority a great deal of discretion about what you do and how you do it."

• Withholding Public Information
  In a legally questionable transaction on December 24, 2001, just days before the end of the mayor's second term, Giuliani secretly moved all 2,100 boxes of mayoral files and videos from his eight years in office. The records, which by law were to become the property of the Municipal archives, were transferred to a gated private storage facility, and their control was transferred to the Rudolph W. Giuliani Center for Urban Affairs, a newly-established private nonprofit group controlled by Giuliani.

  Angry archivists and historians denounced the unprecedented hijacking of public property to private hands. Tom Connors, of the Society of American Archivists, said the transfer seemed part of a movement to "create barriers to the American citizen's right to know what their governments are doing."

• Profiting From His Hero Status
  In February, 2002, Giuliani insisted upon transferring guardianship of the $100 million remaining in the city-run Twin Towers Fund to a private charity he controlled.

  The families of the police and fire rescuers who died in the attack balked at Giuliani's plan to take up to a year to dole out the money, with his new organization billing $2.2 million in anticipated administrative expenses (including six-figure salaries for friends he appointed as officers). The families argued that the fire union had far more quickly distributed $111 million with an estimated administrative cost of just $30,000.

  Under embarrassing pressure from the victims' families, unions and state Attorney General Elliot Spitzer, Giuliani backed down. He promised to distribute the money within 60 days and fund his overhead from new donations. The families of the deceased rescuers, the real heroes of the September 11 attacks, received a one-time benefit of about $230,000 each from the Giuliani-privatized fund in 2002. That year, the former mayor earned some $8 million in speaking fees alone, more than $650,000 per month.

• Heather MacDonald, City Journal, January 14, 2004 (FrontPageMag.com)
  Former mayor Rudolph Giuliani sued all the way up to the Supreme Court to defend the city’s sanctuary policy against a 1996 federal law decreeing that cities could not prohibit their employees from cooperating with the INS. Oh yeah? said Giuliani; just watch me. The INS, he claimed, with what turned out to be grotesque irony, only aims to “terrorize people.” Though he lost in court, he remained defiant to the end. On September 5, 2001, his handpicked charter-revision committee ruled that New York could still require that its employees keep immigration information confidential to preserve trust between immigrants and government. Six days later, several visa-overstayers participated in the most devastating attack on the city and the country in history.

  New York conveniently forgot the 1996 federal ban on sanctuary laws until a gang of five Mexicans—four of them illegal—abducted and brutally raped a 42-year-old mother of two near some railroad tracks in Queens. The NYPD had already arrested three of the illegal aliens numerous times for such crimes as assault, attempted robbery, criminal trespass, illegal gun possession, and drug offenses. The department had never notified the INS.

  On the issues: Liberal Party endorsement of Giuliani

  National Review: Rockefeller quote

  New York Observer: Reagan Republican quote

  New York Observer: Republican convention quote

  New York Observer: Goldwater quote

  New York Observer: Clinton quote

  New York Observer: 'Good hands' quote

[Silly]

Jim,

I live in NYC and feel very safe here. The gun issue is hard for me, because I have never owned one. My interest in owning one is increasing, but only after I get rigorous training and discpline. If/when I own a gun, I want it to be above board, legal, and use it in the company of the very best men and women.

My question to you is: If you were Mayor of NYC, what specifically would you change about the gun laws here? Which of our laws would you attempt to get rid of, and which new ones, if any, would you implement? And, if your efforts had negative consequences, what would your response to the City be, both in words and actions, as Mayor?

[Sybeck1]

Still, I can’t get excited for the McCainiac.

[Vaquero]

[Mr. Brightside]

Giuliani to NARAL- 65% Of GOP Want To Remove Pro-Life Plank

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1823017/posts

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[sig226]

I almost forgot - the peak number of annual murders pre Giuliani was about 50,000. Nationally, it dropped to about 12,000. With a 65 - 70% reduction, New York City was actually behind the curve.

[Mr. Brightside]

Giuliani in 1989: There must be public funding for abortion
00:29

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWIrlKujUKk

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Giuliani’s Abortion Views Have Not Changed
01:32
Rudy Giuliani tells Dana Bash he stands by his pro-choice beliefs.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fX6YTkGZ060

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Giuliani on Abortion
00:42
Former Mayor Rudy Giuliani on Abortion

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PL29j08AlH0

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Rudy Giuliani on partial birth abortion
01:03

http://ncregister.com/site/article/2017

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=giZx5i3Ntv0

[Manic_Episode]

Thank you Jim. It does my heart good to see Rudy exposed for what he is, an enemy to the constitution and to conservatism, and to see those who are promoting liberalism here at FR slapped around like they deserve.

The past several weeks were very frustrating seeing a liberal gaining momentum here at FR.

Glad to see us back on course.

[calcowgirl]

Rudy Giuliani on Judge John Roberts
Thursday, July 21, 2005
This is a partial transcript from "Hannity & Colmes," July 20, 2005, that has been edited for clarity.

. . .

COLMES: Now, Roe vs. Wade -- You are pro-choice. How important is it to you as a pro-choice Republican to have a pro-choice on the court as someone...

GIULIANI: That is not the critical factor. And what's important to me is to have a very intelligent, very honest, very good lawyer on the court. And he fits that category, in the same way Justice Ginsburg fit that category.

I mean, she was — she maybe came at it from a very different political background, very qualified lawyer, very smart person. Lots of Republicans supported her. I expect, and listening to Senator Nelson, I expect that John Roberts will get support from a lot of Democrats.

COLMES: Now, he is coming under fire from some Democrats for claiming — they're claiming he is a partisan, that he had a behind-the-scenes role in advising the Florida attorney general during the 2000 election fight, that he gave money to the Bush-Cheney 2000 campaign...

. . .

COLMES: So it's not an issue if you've donated ... donated money to the guy whose nominated you, if you've given him money, money to his campaign, if you've worked to get him elected, behind the scenes advising the attorney general?

GIULIANI: Sure. That's be exactly the kind of person you'd think that you'd want to appoint, somebody who shares kind of your general outlook, but hasn't indicated and hasn't really predetermined most of the cases that are going to be determined by the court.

Presidents, going back to the beginning of the republic, generally appoint people on the Supreme Court that they believe agree with them. . . .

[calcowgirl]

Ping!

[maggiecleveland]

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
H. L. Mencken

You must keep the money flowing from the gullible.

[wolfcreek]

Thanks for the new FRpoll! It’s hard to argue with although, it’s a bit disturbing some 25% of the respondents would still vote for Rudy just because he’s the GOP candidate. (or the fact they love him)

The nearly 50% who would vote for a 3rd party candidate is very interesting. Do you believe this will ultimately be the case?

[Alberta's Child]

Way to go, Jim!

The Giuliani administration's disgraceful abuse of asset forfeiture laws -- which were used to seize the vehicles of motorists accused of drunk driving (even those that were found not guilty in court) -- disqualifies this moron from ever holding government office in a free nation.

I'll post a lengthy rant on this specific issue -- with as much detail as I can get my hands on -- sometime over the next week or so.

[calcowgirl]

“I do believe there’s global warming, yes. ...The big question has always been how much of it is happening because of natural climate changes and
how much of it is happening because of human intervention. ... The overwhelming number of scientists now believe that there is significant human cause.’’
The debate on the existence of global warming is “is almost unnecessary...because we should be dealing with pollution anyway.”

—Rudolph Giuliani, San Francisco Chronicle, February 12, 2007

[Dad yer funny]

g’morning bookmark ping , .. (( more coffee ))

[Delphinium]

Rudy praising Margaret Sanger and saying abortion is a Republican issue

Archives of Rudolph W. Giuliani, 107th Mayor

Opening Remarks to the N.A.R.A.L. "Champions of Choice" Lunch

The Yale Club, Thursday, April 5th, 2001

Thank you very much for inviting me to say a few words of welcome. This event shows that people of different political parties and different political thinking can unite in support of choice. In doing so, we are upholding a distinguished tradition that began in our city starting with the work of Margaret Sanger and the movement for reproductive freedom that began in the early decades of the 20th century.

As a Republican who supports a woman's right to choose, it is particularly an honor to be here. And I would like to explain, just for one moment, why I believe being in favor of choice is consistent with the philosophy of the Republican Party. In fact, it might be more consistent with the philosophy of the Republican Party. Because the Republican Party stands for the idea that you have to restore more freedom of choice...

These are a few quotes from Sanger:

"The most merciful thing that a large family does to one of its infant members is to kill it." Margaret Sanger, Women and the New Race (Eugenics Publ. Co., 1920, 1923)

Margaret Sanger (1883-1966) On blacks, immigrants and indigents: "...human weeds,' 'reckless breeders,' 'spawning... human beings who never should have been born." Margaret Sanger, Pivot of Civilization, referring to immigrants and poor people

On sterilization & racial purification: Sanger believed that, for the purpose of racial "purification," couples should be rewarded who chose sterilization. Birth Control in America, The Career of Margaret Sanger, by David Kennedy, p. 117, quoting a 1923 Sanger speech.

On the purpose of birth control: The purpose in promoting birth control was "to create a race of thoroughbreds," she wrote in the Birth Control Review, Nov. 1921 (p. 2)

On the rights of the handicapped and mentally ill, and racial minorities: "More children from the fit, less from the unfit -- that is the chief aim of birth control." Birth Control Review, May 1919, p. 12

On the extermination of blacks: "We do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population," she said, "if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members." Woman's Body, Woman's Right: A Social History of Birth Control in America, by Linda Gordon

On adultery: A woman's physical satisfaction was more important than any marriage vow, Sanger believed. Birth Control in America, p. 11

On marital sex: "The marriage bed is the most degenerating influence in the social order," Sanger said. (p. 23