Rotten Rudy is a pathetic IDIOT!!

Memo Details Objections to Command Center Site
By WILLIAM K. RASHBAUM
Published: January 26, 2008

The New York Police Department produced a detailed analysis in 1998 opposing plans by the city to locate its emergency command center at the World Trade Center, but the Giuliani administration overrode those objections. The command center later collapsed from damage in the Sept. 11 terrorist attack.

“Seven World Trade Center is a poor choice for the site of a crucial command center for the top leadership of the City of New York,” a panel of police experts, which was aided by the Secret Service, concluded in a confidential Police Department memorandum.

The memorandum, which has not been previously disclosed, cited a number of “significant points of vulnerability.” Those included: the building’s public access, the center’s location on the 23rd floor, a 1,200-gallon diesel fuel supply for its generator, a large garage and delivery bays, the building’s history as a terrorist target, and its placement above and adjacent to a Consolidated Edison substation that provided much of the power for Lower Manhattan.

Rudolph W. Giuliani, the mayor then, has acknowledged some police skepticism about the site, but he has described it as resulting from a jurisdictional dispute between police officials and his emergency management director, who had played a role in selecting the site.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/26/us/politics/26emergency.html?_r=1&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&adxnnlx=1201457127-AeSqLFAHHicS9zQ7brXKyg

Talk about fumbling the ball and kicking it towards your own end zone...did he really think he had shot at this with all this crap waiting in the wings?

He is the most flawed candidate for anything I've ever seen...he's like the poster boy for a"Don't ever run for anything." campaign...

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fire dept can't even reach the 23rd floor. my FD boyfriend always said to stay below
the 14th floor in a hotel.

to the office of the president, (of which i am one), Rudy would jump forward in leaps and bounds.

I have family back East, and some of the friends of my family are now retired cops...the whole city infrastructure despised Rudy w/a passion. he was always there for the "glory shots", but blamed hi own failures on anyone that happened to be around...and there were plenty of them.

Rudy saw himself as some sort of Roman Proconsul, answerable to no one, and capable of doing no wrong. When he announced his run for the presidency, some people I know actually cheered, knowing that he would be exposed nationwide as the fraud he is.

Clean up NYC?...all he did was say "go for it", using plans that were drawn up years before, he had nothing to do with it, in any sense of the situation...but he sure took all of the credit for work that others did.

The guy is nothing more than a turd in the punchbowl.

from his love nest.

He wanted it to be within walking distance of City Hall, while the smart people in NYC government wanted to put the command center over in Brooklyn.

And yes, he was apparently boinking Princess Judi in a back room of the command center.

And if you want to really get a feel for how far Rudy's sense of entitlement went, read Wayne Barret's series in the The Voice about how he traded away millions in tax payments from the Yankess in return for his own World Series rings!

http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0719,barrett,76566,2.html

With Giuliani's name inscribed in the 1996, 1998, 1999, and 2000 diamond-and-gold rings, memorabilia and baseball experts say they are collectively worth a minimum of $200,000. The Yankees say that Giuliani did pay for his rings—but only $16,000, and years after he had left office. Anyone paying for the rings is as unusual as a mayor getting one, since neither the Yankees nor any other recent champion have sold rings to virtually anyone. The meager payment, however, is less than half of the replacement value of the rings, and that's a fraction of the market price, especially with the added value of Giuliani's name.

What's more troubling is that Giuliani's receipt of the rings may be a serious breach of the law, and one that could still be prosecuted. New York officials are barred from taking a gift of greater than $50 value from anyone doing business with the city, and under Giuliani, that statute was enforced aggressively against others. His administration forced a fire department chief, for example, to retire, forfeit $93,105 in salary, and pay a $6,000 fine for taking Broadway tickets to two shows and a free week in a ski condo from a city vendor.

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Frequently ensconced in George Steinbrenner's eight-seat 31A box and four Legends 31AA seats next to the Yankee dugout while he was mayor, Giuliani and his many guests were also repeatedly given Yankee jackets, caps, autographed balls, and other gifts. "He would require gifts at every game," says a former close Giuliani aide, whose account is supported by both a Yankee source and an ex-cop assigned to the mayor. He even wanted a fitted cap with the World Series logo and other special caps, and the equipment management had to reach into the players' uniform case to find one for Giuliani's large head. The Giuliani group also raided the closet in Steinbrenner's office, even taking DiMaggio jackets with red piping for the mayor and guests. "They finally turned the spigot off in 2000 and said we just can't do it anymore," the aide recalls. The cop remembers jackets and balls—some signed by all the Yankees—stuffed in the back of the city cars they used to drive back from the stadium.

Much, much, much more at the link.

Bastard. There is no level of public humiliation and ridicule that would be sufficient.

- as

that's an amazing achievement.