Posted on 01/22/2008 6:05:07 AM PST by Mrs. Don-o
Rudolph W. Giuliani likens himself to a boxer who never takes a punch without swinging back. As mayor, he made the vengeful roundhouse an instrument of government, clipping anyone who crossed him.
In August 1997, James Schillaci, a rough-hewn chauffeur from the Bronx, dialed Mayor Giuliani’s radio program on WABC-AM to complain about a red-light sting run by the police near the Bronx Zoo. ...That morning, police officers appeared on Mr. Schillaci’s doorstep. What are you going to do, Mr. Schillaci asked, arrest me? He was joking, but the officers were not.
They slapped on handcuffs and took him to court on a 13-year-old traffic warrant....A police spokeswoman later read Mr. Schillaci’s decades-old criminal rap sheet to a reporter for The Daily News, a move of questionable legality because the state restricts how such information is released. She said, falsely, that he had been convicted of sodomy.
Then Mr. Giuliani took up the cudgel.
“Mr. Schillaci was posing as an altruistic whistle-blower,” the mayor told reporters at the time. “Maybe he’s dishonest enough to lie about police officers.”
Mr. Schillaci suffered an emotional breakdown, was briefly hospitalized and later received a $290,000 legal settlement from the city. “It really damaged me,” said Mr. Schillaci, now 60, massaging his face with thick hands. “I thought I was doing something good for once, my civic duty and all. Then he steps on me.”
Mr. Giuliani was a pugilist in a city of political brawlers. But far more than his predecessors, historians and politicians say, his toughness edged toward ruthlessnessand became a defining aspect of his mayoralty. One result: New York City spent at least $7 million in settling civil rights lawsuits and paying retaliatory damages during the Giuliani years.
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Very Clintonian.
sorry = its the NYTimes and there would be much more to offer with a Billary expose
Good for Rudy!
If you think this is interesting, ping it around. If you want to refute it, refute away. But myself, I’m inclined to agree with Tax-chick: Rudy looks very Clintonian.
Better he should look “Clintonian” than look like another hick from the hills of Arkansas, or an insane old liberal from Arizona...
I suppose it's theoretically possible that the entire piece is fiction. However, that's true of any journalism, and if we make that assumption on a regular basis, we might as well read nothing but the Latin classics and Jane Austen.
and there would be much more to offer with a Billary expose
Irrelevant.
And I thought he only seized property of INNOCENT people and trampled all over the Constitution and Bill of Rights on bad advice of underlings. Or went ape-sh*t nutz only when Ferrets were mentioned, oh well.
Seems to me that Rooty is mentally ill with a God Complex and is the LAST person in the world who should be near the Nuclear Football and have the launch codes (the wacko would prolly nuke Wyoming, just for spite)
Wonder why?
It’s going to take someone with ruthless, killer instincts to go up against the clintons in Nov. The truth is, though, there is no one more ruthless than the clintons, which is why they will destroy all their opponents.
Ah, such good choices!
Dems are likely to retain control of both houses of Congress in 2008. This article describes qualities a Republican president would require.
Oh, I don't know. He's got a mansionful of skeletons which would be paraded out, bone by bone, if he were to get the Elephantine nomination; and if, GOP forbid, he were to become President--- pro-abortion, pro-gay,/ SanctuaryCity USA --- can't you just hear it being chanted? From Left point of view, tsk tsk, he's got his warts, but still there's so-o-o much to like.
Given your flair for words like “hick” and “insane” and “Clintonian,” in speaking of Republicans, I do believe there’s a seat with your name on it in the putred Dem corner — can we help you pack?
The guy plays hardball! After eight years of illegal amnesty and no child left behind maybe a barracuda would be nice for a change. What have we got to lose.
You can’t be a NY politician without at least some of this.
You think Mario and Andrew Cuomo are “nice guys” who should respect for their opposition. You think the Spitzer family doesn’t play vengence-filled hardball? Charlie Rangel?
However, it says something that none of these nasty vengence-filled NY RAT politicians guys would EVER cross the Clintons!!!
Once again, people here are joining arms with the Left on Giuliani.
Enjoy what it’s gotten you, guys.
Seeing as how President Bush has been stabbed in the back at every turn by career bureaucrats in the CIA, State Dept. and elsewhere perhaps a candidate who knows how to clean house is what we need.
Rudolph W. Giuliani likens himself to a boxer who never takes a punch without swinging back. As mayor, he made the vengeful roundhouse an instrument of government, clipping anyone who crossed him.
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