Posted on 03/16/2005 5:03:13 AM PST by Liz
Ruina Giussolini the corrupt Coogini is NOT A FISCAL CONSERVATIVE. Spending only continued to increase under his administration.
"You really can judge a fella by the company he keeps. I can't stand it when folks get excited about a Rudy run for president. Ish. It would be horrible in so many ways."
I keep getting criticized here for such a statement, but as I've said before I will stay home if Rudy or McCain get the nod in '08. Even if the left loses, they still win....today's Republican party looks like a bunch of socialist-lites compared to our founding fathers.
In order to save America from impending doom, we need ultra radical change...a conservative revolution. In 08 we need someone MORE conservative than Reagan.
I've come to the same conclusion, plus Rudy has no problem with partial-birth abortion.
Were you ever in that city during Dinkens and then after when Giuliani took office? I worked in it during Dinkins and then Rudy. I say major difference, I mean major. It was disgusting before Rudy took office. Crime ridden, dirty place.
America's Favorite Mayor
On September 11, 2001, the rest of the world found out what New Yorkers already knew, that Mayor Giuliani was a determined leader who could bring them remarkable strength and stability at a time of great uncertainty. During the crisis he became, in essence, "America's Mayor." He calmed, consoled and reassured the public, while urging them to return to their normal lives and not to let the terrorists achieve their aim of disrupting life. In one of the saddest times in American history, the remarkable leadership of Mayor Giuliani and the extraordinary heroism of his fellow New Yorkers restored faith in the ideals that are so vital to a free society.
In 1944, Rudolph W. Giuliani was born to a working class family in Brooklyn, New York. As the grandson of Italian immigrants, Giuliani learned a strong work ethic and a deep respect for America's ideal of equal opportunity. He attended Bishop Loughlin Memorial High School (Class of '61) in Brooklyn, Manhattan College (Class of '65) in the Bronx and New York University Law School in Manhattan, graduating magna cum laude in 1968.
In 1970, Giuliani joined the office of the U.S. Attorney. At age 29, he was named Chief of the Narcotics Unit and rose to serve as executive U.S. Attorney. In 1975, Giuliani was recruited to Washington, D.C., where he was named Associate Deputy Attorney General and chief of staff to the Deputy Attorney General. From 1977 to 1981, Giuliani returned to New York to practice law at Patterson, Belknap, Webb and Tyler.
In 1981, Giuliani was named Associate Attorney General, the third highest position in the Department of Justice. As Associate Attorney General, Giuliani supervised all of the U.S. Attorney Offices' Federal law enforcement agencies, the Bureau of Corrections, the Drug Enforcement Agency, and the U.S. Marshals.
In 1983, Giuliani was appointed U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, where he spearheaded the effort to jail drug dealers, fight organized crime, break the web of corruption in government, and prosecute white-collar criminals. Few U.S. Attorneys in history can match his record of 4,152 convictions with only 25 reversals.
In 1993, Giuliani became the 107th Mayor of the City of New York. As Mayor, Rudy Giuliani returned accountability to City government and improved the quality of life for all New Yorkers. Under his leadership, overall crime went down 57%, murder was reduced 65%, and New York City - once infamous around the world for its dangerous streets - was recognized by the F.B.I. as the safest large city in America for the past five years.
New York City's law enforcement strategies became models for other cities around the world, particularly the CompStat program, which won the 1996 Innovations in Government Award from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.
When Mayor Giuliani took office, one out of every seven New Yorkers was on welfare. Mayor Giuliani has returned the work ethic to the center of City life by implementing the largest and most successful welfare-to-work initiative in the country, cutting welfare rolls in half while moving over 640,000 individuals from dependency on the government to the dignity of self-sufficiency. In addition, Giuliani has enacted a record of over $2.5 billion in tax reductions - including the commercial rent tax, personal income tax, the hotel occupancy tax, and the sales tax on clothing for purchases up to $110 dollars. Hundreds of millions of dollars have been returned to the private sector as a result of the Mayor's aggressive campaign to root out organized crimes influence over the Fulton Fish market, the private garbage hauling industry, and wholesale food markets throughout the City. These reforms, combined with the fiscal discipline which enabled the Mayor to turn an inherited $2.3 billion dollar budget deficit into a multi-billion dollar surplus, have led the City to an era of broad-based growth with a record 450,000 new private sector jobs created in the past seven years.
Mayor Giuliani was committed to nurturing and empowering New York City's children. By creating the Administration for Children's services, New York City now has an accountable, proactive and effective protector for our City's most vulnerable children and is recognized as a national model. Moreover, New York City is working everyday to find loving families for children requiring adoption. The City has completed a record number of adoptions since 1996 - more than 20,000 - marking a dramatic 65% increase over the previous six-year period. Mayor Giuliani was also a leader in getting health insurance to children through the innovative HealthStat initiative, which uses computer technology to coordinate a citywide effort to enroll children in existing health insurance programs. To date, 96,000 eligible children and families have been given access to health insurance through the HealthStat initiative
To turn around the nation's largest urban public education system, Giuliani worked tirelessly to restore accountability and raise standards throughout the City's schools. Student-teacher ratios were lowered, while the annual operating budget for New York City's public schools was increased from $8 billion to $12 billion. Bureaucratic roadblocks to meaningful reform such as social promotion and principal tenure were ended, while programs such as bilingual education and special education were reformed for the first time in a quarter century. Under the Giuliani's leadership, New York City introduced innovative new instructional programs that improve reading skills, give all students access to computers, and restore arts education as a fundamental part of school curriculum. In the past year, these successful education initiatives have been accompanied by the establishment of 300-book libraries in every classroom and weekend classes for science and English instruction. In October 2000, Giuliani launched the New York City Charter School Improvement Fund, the first fund ever offered by a city government to help charter schools with equipment and facilities costs.
Under Rudy Giuliani's leadership, New York City became the best-known example of the resurgence of urban America. From his success at cleaning up Times Square and other public spaces around the City to closing the Fresh Kills landfill on Staten Island, Mayor Giuliani worked tirelessly to pass New York to the next generation better and more beautiful than it was before he entered office.
BTW: As bad as Dinkens was, the Abe Beame years were far worse. Koch was no prize either. I remember seeing 10 homeless per block in midtown during Mayor "How'm I doin's" administration.
Rudy is the media's favorite Republican for a reason...
In 2006 btw, either Pataki or Jeannie Pirro will run against Hillary, and they will go down like Lawn Guyland Loozio did. If the NY GOP couldn't even get 30% of the vote against a walking ethnic stereotype like Schumer (who pisses me off for being a hardcore socialist), they aint gonna defeat Hillary.
All that said, I do have a problem with the partial birth abortion stand and I would not want him as President. I won't trash him on his former record though.
I'd love to have him as Governor of NY though.
Koch was worse.
I would like to see him in Albany as well. Joseph Bruno needs a good smack down and Shelly Silver needs to be booted to Century Village in Florida.
You may have lived around NYC, I was in it. You didn't read the facts within the article. Common sense. You don't accomplish what he did with common sense. Do you remember the condition of that city? Read the facts about crime and welfare, etc. provided. Your right those other mayors were no prize and Rudy had inherited one heck of a mess!
I love Rudy. He was my favorite guy, and guess what? His 'Ask the Mayor' show was personal and YES he did call people personally. He's not like Bloomberg who doesn't care what people think.
Did you see the article in the newspaper about the mother of the boy killed in the traffic accient on Queens Blvd? She accuses Sheldon of using her for a photo-op *LOL*!!!!!!
Other parts of the country actually arrested criminals, including petty vandals long before Rudy, other parts of the country have NEVER tolerated vagrancy or urine all over the sidewalks. Its just that NYC has historically been more dysfunctional than other parts of the country. I agree that Rudy was a find Mayor and agree that his aggressive QOL initiatives changed the city for the better (considerably). The fact that arresting aggressive panhandlers was considered a bold step in NYC says more about the dysfunctional environment of NYC than anything else.
Yet another reason to never support this guy for president.
Shelly Silver is SLIME. If only the Chinese (who are now the largest ethnic group in his district) could get one of their own into the Dem Primary to challenge Shelly, he could be taken out.
New Tale of Sex & City Aide (NYC ex-housing chief Russell Harding scandal)
NY Daily News | May 28, 2003 | Robert Gearty and Tracy Connor
FR Posted on 05/28/2003 7:34 AM PDT by mountaineer
Former city housing boss Russell Harding expected taxpayers to foot the bill for his out-of-town romps with male prostitutes, new court documents reveal. Harding, 38, has been indicted on fraud charges for allegedly using city funds to pay for a cornucopia of perks - luxury junkets, gifts for friends and even DVDs.
But E-mails sent to a cyberpal suggest he also schemed to bill the Housing Development Corp. for sex sessions, according to documents filed last week.
The messages were turned over to the feds, who used them to obtain a search warrant forHarding's Manhattan apartment. Agents who executed thewarrant in May 2002 seized kiddie porn on his computer, officials said.
In one E-mail, Harding told his friend Fred Sawyers, 34, of Indianapolis, that he recently had visited San Diego and spent nearly $1,000 on two male escorts. "I'll get it back on my expenses," he vowed in the May 17, 2001, note.
A week later, he complained in an E-mail to Sawyers, who is cooperating with investigators, that he needed to figure out a way to pad his expense report.
"It's not that easy," Harding wrote. "I didn't take anyone out to eat. ... I saw an escort last night and I need to work it into my expenses without it being known."
It's unclear whether Harding put the sexcapades on his expenses.
He also is charged with possession of child pornography - the subject of another graphic E-mail sent to Sawyers.
"Isn't he adorable?" Harding allegedly wrote after E-mailing Sawyers a photograph of a nude prepubescent boy.
"I guess, but he looks sad," Sawyers replied.
"Who cares what he looks like, emotionwise," Harding answered.
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