Rudy Drop: 'Giuliani Life Long Liberal'
A dossier under the title, "Rudy Giuliani Life Long Liberal," edited by New York conservative activist George Marlin, has just been circulated to a small circle of New York journalists. And, now, NYSunPolitics.com publishes it online in its entirety (click to download the Word document) — appearing for the first time anywhere.
According to the email accompanying the dossier in my mail box, "This is the 'Small Book' consisting of 40 Pages of Quotes of Liberal Rudy that will haunt him and his campaign for [sic] here on in nationwide. Facts were research [sic] and compiled for 15 years by Author and NY Post contributor George Marlin. He is sending this nationwide later this week."
As Drudge might say, developing...
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Mr. Marlin is a longtime critic of Mayor Giuliani from the Right. He ran for mayor against Mr. Giuliani and David Dinkins in 1993. He's also put up a Web site, www.rudysreallyliberal.com (written up by the New York Post here).
According to the dossier's introduction, "From undergraduate days writing for his college newspaper, throughout his extensive legal career, and especially in his very visible political service—up to an including his actions after 9/11—Giuliani has held and promoted leftist views."
The dossier itself is quite simple: It consists of roughly 40 pages, broken down by topic, of quotes from and about Mr. Giuliani. Topics range from abortion to gay rights to gun control to the former mayor's thoughts (while in college) on Barry Goldwater.
The Giuliani camp responds as follows: "People are entitled to their own opinions, not their own facts. The facts are these: Rudy Giuliani is a proven fiscal conservative with a long record of fighting crime, reducing welfare and lowering taxes, leading George Will to call his time a Mayor the most successful example of conservative governance in 50 years."
(The Giuliani folks also offer up this rather odd citation in the mayor's defense: "New York Amsterdam News: '[Giuliani's] Only Hope For An Overwhelming Victory In Upstate New York Would Be To Remain As He Is: A Hard-Nosed, Evil, Racist Republican Conservative." — Editorial, "White Men Can't Jump, Sing Or Dance," New York Amsterdam News, 3/22/00)
And, so, without further ado, here are some highlights:
* ABORTION:
"I'd give my daughter the money for it [an abortion]."
"I never called for the overturning of Roe vs. Wade."
Rudy Giuliani
New York Newsday, September 1, 1989
* BILL CLINTON:
Most of Clinton's policies are very similar to most of mine.
1996 statement attributed to Giuliani by
Columnist Jack Newfield. Quoted in column
by Newfield in New York Daily News, June 8, 1999.
* CRIME AND GIULIANI:
Giuliani has done a magnificent job in reducing crime. But his character flaws make it impossible for him to give credit to former police commissioner Bill Bratton, who put together the police team responsible for the initial successes, and to David Dinkins, whose legislation funded an additional 8,000 cops for the city.
Edward Koch
New York Post, July 18, 1997
* CUOMO ENDORSEMENT BY GIULIANI:
"From my point of view as the mayor of New York City, the question that I have to ask is, ‘Who has the best chance in the next four years of successfully fighting for our interest? Who understands them, and who will make the best case for it?' Our future, our destiny is not a matter of chance. It's a matter of choice. My choice is Mario Cuomo."
Rudy Giuliani
New York Times, October 25, 1994
* GAY AND DOMESTIC PARTNERSHIP RIGHTS:
"I have no objection to the concept of domestic partnership."
Rudy Giuliani
Informed Sources
New York T.V. Show (PBS), May, 1993
* GAY PRIDE PARADE — GIULIANI REASON FOR MARCHING WITH LOG CABIN REPUBLICAN CLUB:
"I want to show that our campaign embraces everyone in the City of New York."
Rudy Giuliani
New York Post, June 28, 1993
* GAY RIGHTS AND THE REPUBLICAN PARTY:
In his interview in The Advocate, Mr. Giuliani spoke out for an inclusive Republican party, saying, "There is no reason why the party shouldn't appeal to gays and lesbians in the same way it does to all Americans."
He criticized the anti-abortion, anti-homosexual oratory of Patrick J. Buchanan at the 1992 Republican National Convention as a mistake and held up Gov. William Weld of Massachusetts as a model of more tolerant Republicanism.
And yesterday he noted that he believed in a Republicanism that preaches an economic philosophy of limited government. If Republicans "were consistent – and some are and some aren't," he said, "then they'd come to the same view about someone's sexual orientation or sexual preferences, that this is not something the government was designed to get deeply involved in."
New York Times, June 18, 1994
* BARRY GOLDWATER:
He [Giuliani] described John Kennedy as "great and brilliant." Barry Goldwater was an "incompetent, confused and sometimes idiotic man."
New York Daily News, May 13, 1997
* SCHOOL VOUCHERS:
Vouchers would be a terrible mistake because they would bleed the public schools of needed financing.
Rudy Giuliani
New York Times, August 15, 1995
* VIETNAM WAR — DRAFT AND RUDY GIULIANI:
"Giuliani did not attend the war in Vietnam because federal Judge Lloyd MacMahon wrote a letter to the draft board in 1969 and got him out. Giuliani was a law clerk for MacMahon, who at the time was hearing selective service cases. MacMahon's letter to Giuliani's draft board stated that Giuliani was so necessary as a law clerk that he could not be allowed to get shot at in Vietnam."
Jimmy Breslin
Newsday, October 1, 1989 |
