Excerpts from Rudy Giuliani’s speech at the 2004 RNC
NYC firefighters, families blast Giuliani in video
Fire union leaders and relatives of firefighters killed at the World Trade Center in 2001 blasted Republican hopeful Rudy Giuliani in a video on Wednesday, pairing footage of the falling twin towers with charges that the city’s former mayor was woefully unprepared for Sept. 11, causing needless firefighter deaths.
Firefighters rip Giuliani, call him ‘urban legend’
The International Association of Firefighters has gone on the offensive against “America’s Mayor” Rudy Giuliani, releasing a 13-minute video that viciously rips into the former New York mayor, who has been using his self-professed leadership on September 11th to urge people around the country to vote for him.
Firemen douse Rudy’s image as 9/11 hero
With other families of 9/11 victims, fire battalion chief Jim Riches has vowed to torpedo Giuliani’s prospects of winning the White House by attacking his greatest source of strength, his reputation as a hero that day.
Firefighters: Giuliani Ditched 9/11 Body Recovery After Securing Buried Gold
Former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani has regularly touted his leadership in the wake of 9/11 as one of his major selling points. A host of 9/11 responders have alleged, however, that Giuliani provided them with poor radios for years, misled them into working amongst toxic fumes, and most recently, called off the search for bodies after securing $230 million in buried gold.
Giuliani’s key supporters ensnared in sex, drugs
Another key supporter of Republican presidential contender Rudy Giuliani suffered an embarrassment when he admitted the “serious sin” of at one time calling an escort service accused of being a prostitution ring. This implication comes just three days after Giuliani’s former state campaign chairman for South Carolina was arraigned in a federal criminal cocaine-possession indictment.
Three marriages, one huge problem
A senior campaign aide to former New York mayor Rudolph Giuliani jotted down some concerns about his boss last fall. Next to “Problems that are insurmountable?” the aide listed “business,” “past wife (Donna),” his current wife “Judith,” and the broad category of “social issues.”
Giuliani’s loyalty to an accused Catholic priest
A grand jury accused Alan Placa of child molestation and his diocese has suspended him, but presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani continues to employ his lifelong friend as a consultant.
Rudy Giuliani tied to ‘superhighways’
Questions are being raised over Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani’s policy on terrorism, after a report revealed he has strong ties to two foreign investment consortia working to own or lease U.S. toll roads, including the Trans-Texas Corridor, which is identified as part of the “NAFTA Superhighway.”
The 2007 version of Rudy Giuliani defends his past support of gun control as a necessary evil to fight crime. When pressed about his views of the Second Amendment, Giuliani attempted to tap dance around his gun control record.
Rudolph Giuliani, recipient of the first Lifetime Muzzle Award
In 2000, Giuliani received a “Muzzle Award” from the Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression. The Muzzles are “awarded as a means to draw national attention to abridgments of free speech.” This was Giuliani’s third such award, including the first awarding of a “Lifetime Muzzle Award,” which noted he had “stifled speech and press to an unprecedented degree.”
Giuliani gave to Planned Parenthood
Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani in his campaign appearances this year has stated that he personally abhors abortion. But records show that in the ’90s he contributed money at least six times to Planned Parenthood, one of the country’s leading abortion rights groups and its top provider of abortions.
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