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Rudy Giuliani
Decency Czarby Robert Lederman
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June 26, 2001Rudy Giuliani loves to lecture New Yorkers about morality, decency and civic responsibility. Do these admirable qualities apply to him or the supposed "legacy" he leaves behind?
It wasn't exactly decent of the Mayor to dump his wife on live TV, simultaneously announce that he has a mistress and then in a pathetic attempt to garner sympathy, tell the media he's impotent. Can we consider a father responsible who would petition a judge to force his children to meet his mistress at the family home, then remove his wife's NYPD security detail while giving one to his girlfriend?
Donna Hanover is the latest target of Rudy Giuliani's egomania, indecency and cruelty. His vile efforts to demonize her are very familiar to the City's cabbies, street artists, community gardeners, unions, vendors, homeless people and welfare families.
Giuliani's sense of decency is unique. He cut funding for prostate cancer screening, EMS and other health-related services while receiving the best health treatment money can buy at taxpayer expense. He's allowed the schools to crumble, affordable housing to disappear and hospitals and health clinics in low-income neighborhoods to close while building baseball stadiums for his wealthiest friends.
His children go to private school and son Andrew plays golf with Tiger Woods on City-funded golf courses. Meanwhile, Giuliani has after-school programs for the poor eliminated and makes the Parks Department force New Yorkers to buy a permit to hold a family picnic or play softball.
Giuliani excels in exploiting the tragic death of a fireman or police officer to embellish his public image, making sure reporters cover his tearful comments about heroism and sacrifice. Yet, when it comes to raising their salaries or getting them the best safety equipment money can buy, he treats them like the inmates at Rikers.
Despite mounting public embarrassment about him, every candidate for public office assure us they will not roll back the so-called Giuliani Legacy - yet what was this hyped-up legacy besides racism, corporate welfare, constitutional violations and disinformation?
Giuliani violated the civil rights of millions and transferred control of the City's public parks and streets to private corporations. If your name is Disney, Chase Manhattan or George Steinbrenner you owe a huge debt of gratitude to the Mayor. For the rest of us, a lawsuit rather than a thank you note is in order.
In the past two years he poisoned us all with pesticide nerve gasses invented by the Nazis. The company that sprayed Giuliani's "completely safe" chemicals has just been fined one million dollars by NY State. The untrained spray applicators are suing the City for damaging their health and even pesticide enthusiasts have joined the chorus of experts telling the Mayor he grossly overdid the spraying.
His main claim to fame - lowered crime statistics - occurred simultaneously in all 50 states and even in foreign countries, yet every day we are reminded that he personally accomplished this "miracle". This "genius" lawyer has managed to lose virtually every lawsuit he brought or that was brought against him in the past seven-and-a-half years.
The police he claims to love are fleeing the City for jobs in the suburbs. Maintaining the 40,000 strong NYPD has become so difficult, entry requirements have dropped to what it takes to qualify for a job at McDonalds.
Lately, Giuliani improved his own quality of life by firing wife #2 Donna Hanover so that he can marry his girlfriend and make her the Big Apple's "official" hostess. Such actions - like banning his children's maternal grandparents from spending the night at Gracie Mansion - show there is no depth of indecency to which Rudy Giuliani will not sink.
Rudy's bizarre vision for his administration's finale apparently involves a big wedding at City Hall (with both he and his bride in white gowns), after which Judi Nathan will be crowned First Lady - if only for a day.
Will New Yorkers miss their daily dose of Rudy Giuliani once it's finally over? In four years he'll probably run for Mayor again. In a 2006 Giuliani administration, Transvestiani could serve as Mayor, First Lady and Decency Commissioner all rolled into one.
That would be real
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Robert Lederman is an artist, a regular columnist for the Greenwich Village Gazette [See: http://www.gvny.com/ for an extensive archive of Lederman columns] The Shadow, The African Sun Times, The Vigo-Examiner [see: http://www.vigo-examiner.com/archive.htm] and Street News, and is the author of hundreds of published essays concerning Mayor Rudolph Giuliani. Lederman has been falsely arrested 41 times to date for his anti-Giuliani activities and has never been convicted of any of the charges. He is best known for creating hundreds of paintings of Mayor Giuliani as a Hitler like dictator.
Robert Lederman,
President of A.R.T.I.S.T.
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robert.lederman@worldnet.att.net
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