Rudy Giuliani: Oppose making English the “official language” of the U.S.

www.rudysreallyliberal.com ^ | August 1989

[flashbunny]

Out of all the quotes so far attributed to Rudy, none that I've seen have proven to be false - regardless of the protestations by the rudyboosters. In fact, once researched, some of them tend to be worse for rudy.

[William Terrell]

The Senate is capable of only aggregate actions. The executive is capable of solitary action.

[RightWhale]

Congress has control of the money.

[Old_Mil]

If there are any "george soros" plots, Rudy would be the last candidate targeted...as he's the Republican candidate with views that are most in line with Soros.

[William Terrell]

The House has control of the money. The Congress must make only aggregate decisions. The President makes solitary decisions.

The executive matters, and who is the executive matters. If it did not matter, some many would not want it so badly.

[RightWhale]

I am convinced that nobody actually wants the job but those who pull the strings of commerce want their man in the office and have to sweeten the deal to get anybody to stand for election.

[Al Simmons]

Soros would probably cut off his own (by now useless) ***k to help Hitlary get elected. Rudy is the one that looks like the main obstacle to that happening. Soros would also like the US to withdraw and 'Go UN'. Now between Hitlary and Rudy, who do you think has that agenda?

[Old_Mil]

Soros promotes liberalism, and identifies with the Democratic party only to the extent that it reflects those values. Viewing his actions through your distorted partisan lens won't help you understand them.

Soros will lose no sleep over the election of a candidate, who by his own admission, agrees with Clinton most of the time.

[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