I don’t think they were purged. Or at least what they said at the time was that they were leaving in disgust.
I was open to Rudy myself at the start of the campaign. I said that if he strongly repudiated some of his previous positions, on abortion and gay rights, I might be willing to support him, because he tends to be honest.
Well, as it turned out, he didn’t repudiate anything. So he’s more honest than some of the others, but about what?
I saw the way he turned around New York. I’m willing to put up with some unpleasant personality traits if someone can get the job done. But not if the job includes unlimited abortion and perversion. So, he lost me. But no bad feelings toward my old friends here who supported him.
Allegations of unfair treatment of Giuliani supporters In 2007, moderators removed the posting privileges of many members who supported the presidential campaign of current Republican front-runner Rudy Giuliani. The New York Observer reported: Over the past few weeks, chaos has reigned in the "Freeper" community as members sympathetic to the former mayor's candidacy claim to have suffered banishment from the site. They were victimized, they say, by a wave of purges designed to weed out any remaining support for the Giuliani campaign... [72]