This is going to be fun.
Almost could not ask for a better primary season. Though I know if you are reading this, you will not be voting in the Repugnitant primaries, but I will start with them. I will run all the major candidates on both sides. Sorry Tom Trencadero fans I know he is running, I know he is a racist and said Miami is not part of the USA. I kind of agree with him on that, but I would not know the guy if he came up and punched me in the face. So, if a political animal like me does not know him, what chance does he have? Hey Tom, save your money buddy, just some friendly advice.
So I would like to start with the King, Rudolf Giuliani, but before I get to him, you just have to read this post by Murray Wass in thehufingtonpost.com. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2007/12/04/documents-expose-huckabee_n_75362.html
This is really explosive but also very sensitive, if you or anybody you know has been a victim of a vicious crime you may not want to read it or protect them from it. I am in that situation and I know there is one person that I know should not read this.
But OK, back to the fun, Il Duche Rudolfo, many people know him as the hero of NYC and it’s understandable as that is the way he is portrayed constantly in our media. I have to admit this image has some merit. I remember on 9/11 screaming at my TV asking where the president was and looking for some reassurance that we, as a country were alright. Of course our chicken shit president was flying all over the country covering his ass or maybe making sure they had their story straight. In any case Il Duche was the only person on TV that day and he has made the most of it ever since. *Duche is an intended insult.
To understand Rudy, well you have to be a New Yorker, and I was for 33 years. He is the embodiment of the city, high brow, low brow and everything in between or at least he was when he got elected. There is no question he was a fighter and a smart one at that. In a city full of people always looking to the sky, always striving, citizens, residents and immigrants, a city that takes pride in their sky high real estate prices even if nobody can afford them. Hey, hell we live here, and we are exclusive and we like it that way. That is New York. A city I love and will always be a beacon of hope. If you are a dreamer this is your city, never perfect, but always on the verge.
So what created the Rudy miracle, a combination of things that cannot possibly exist in today’s vicious political climate. The most responsible person would probably be Mayor Edward Koch. He was abrasive, many people hated him, but he got the job done. After Beame a very ineffective mayor Koch defined the city. Abrasive, could probably mention abrasive 10 times and it still would not be enough, he dealt with the bankruptcy of the city. Big headline in the New York Daily News, ”Ford to City, Drop Dead.” Probably the best headline ever and the biggest reason NY decided, FU, we don’t need Ford or any other idiot in Washington, we were almost a country on our own. Just to clarify, NYC is the city and outlying suburbs, upstate is another country, Long Islanders that do not work in NYC don’t count and New Jersey, if they are not on the Hudson River or working in NYC, they are in another continent.
But back to Koch, he outlived his usefulness was re-elected 3 or four times but by the time he left office everybody was tired of him. He is the reason term limits were passed. That is how tired people were of him. His racism began to show, his allegiances were more geared to Jerusalem than the city he led and people decided to go in another direction.
Enter the much maligned, and justifiably so, David Dinkins. In fairness to Mr. Dinkins, NYC does not have a Mayoralty training program, being Borough President does not prepare you for anything.
He was or is a decent man, he is not dead, but he inherited a city full of racial strife, much of it stoked by Mayor Koch. NYC fact, unless you live in NYC you may not know, a very large part of Brooklyn is shared by blacks and Hassidic Jews, they live side by side in adjoining enclaves, but both surrounded one by the other. This led to several melees both during the Koch and the Dinkins administration. I guess depending on whether a Jew or a black man was in the Mayor’s office one group or the other felt empowered.
But in any case, this is what Dinkins inherited and he managed through good intentions to make it worse. There is one thing we all agree on, black, Jew, Christian, white, whatever, if you are middle class you do not want crime in your neighborhood. Dinkins was born and raised in Harlem. He understood the plight of poor or black people, but had limited understanding of the concerns of the city at large. There is one issue that may never be resolved, poor people white or black do not want crime in their neighborhoods, but view the police with suspicion. With good reason I might add. But unfortunately law enforcement in these neighborhoods it’s a little like war. It does not help that most police are middle class whites, but as soon as a black recruit gets hired he becomes a middle class black and largely immune to what he sees in the community he may have lived in. It’s a dirty job, I do not envy them.
*Under David Dinkins, the Tawana Brawlley scandal happened. This was an incident where an upstate black girl spent the night out with her boyfriend and then for fear of her father, smeared herself with feces and accused several prominent white men of abusing her in a racist manner. This is how Al Sharpton came to national prominence defending this 17 year old. The whole story was eventually proved false but many people were smeared, lost their positions and their reputations. At the same time it incited a deep distrust between all races in the city. Tawana and her family moved to Atlanta and were never heard from again. Hopefully it will stay that way.
Dinkins decided to stay true to his community and crime totally got out of hand. People were looking for somebody that would get them out of that nightmare. As somebody that voted for Dinkins, I helped vote him out of office in one term and voted for Giuliani. At first many loved Rudy. I was working nights in the Bronx at the time for FEDEX. One day I should post those stories, they are better than taxicab confessions. We immediately saw a drop in crime. The first to go where the annoying window washers and everyone else after that. Basically small time annoyances that just made life difficult. I was impressed. Having lived in Germany I understood, the way to stop major criminals was to stop them when they were minor criminals.
NY under Rudy’s first term was actually very nice. Crime was down, things were back to normal, he endorsed our much loved Democratic Governor Mario Cuomo for re-election. His second term turned out to be very different.
Its difficult to say what went first, but the Rudy from the first term certainly became a different person in his second term in office. I guess the first thing as we saw as average people was the police brutality, or maybe the general racism. In Rudy’s second term there were several black men chased with baseball bats into highways to be run over by cars or beaten to death. On two occasions this happened in John Gotti’s neighborhood. Kind of ironic as Rudolf had been the US District Attorney in charge of putting Gotti behind bars, something he never accomplished.
Then the police department shot up a black man in the doorway of his home. Only pumped him with about 26 bullets, what is the problem? He took his wallet out for crying out loud.
Then there was the case of Amideu Dialo (MR. Dialo if you read this please excuse me) a man that was brought into a police precinct in Brooklyn and sodomized with a plunger and a broom. Yes, just in case you are wondering not sodomized in a nice way. In any case, there were many cases like this, these are just the ones that come to mind.
There was his annoying kid, OK, he was 11 and loving his father on the day he took office. Ask Andrew to look at that tape today, he’ll probably hit you.
There was his ever present wife on the evening news, Dona Hannover, yeah talk to her.
Talk to the police Chief in LA, Brannon, I think is his name, and what happened to him after he upstaged the duche.
How does a driver, bodyguard, become chief of corrections and then police chief and then trains the Iraqi Police force for three months, then runs out of the country, and then gets nominated to be Chief of Homeland Security while he is a member of Giuliani Partners, and is now under indictment?
How convenient is it that Giuliani had his Emergency Response Center at 7 WTC, steps from city hall, with a private suite where he could host his future wife, after knowing that that was the most likely place for another terrorist attack considering what happened in 1993. And how convenient was it that he decided to go to another makeshift emergency center on the day of the attack.
But you have to give it to them for chutzpas Rudy having sex with his mistress, now wife at 7 WTC and Bernie, his best friend and Police Commissioner across the street with Judith Regan, do you think they waved at each other, shared videos or a foursome? And when they were cheating on their wives and mistresses with their other mistresses, man o man, I would love to be a fly on the wall on that.
There are so many ways to examine this man that it is impossible to cover them all. He reminds me of my childhood friend from grammar school. He also had a name that ended in a vowel and his father was Joe Bonnano’s lawyer and he hated the Kennedy brother’s and I could not understand why. We both attended a school that hired teachers with names like Sister Mary Magilla.
But don’t get me wrong. The world is full of bad ugly people. Rudy is just colorful (ok, I’m lying). Leave him alone. And I really mean leave him alone. He has a comfortable life, he probably should be in some jail, but for the time being just don’t vote for him ok?
Hey, Guess what? While you were shopping primary season is upon us.
This is going to be fun.
Almost could not ask for a better primary season. Though I know if you are reading this, you will not be voting in the Repugnitant primaries, but I will start with them. I will run all the major candidates on both sides. Sorry Tom Trencadero fans I know he is running, I know he is a racist and said Miami is not part of the USA. I kind of agree with him on that, but I would not know the guy if he came up and punched me in the face. So, if a political animal like me does not know him, what chance does he have? Hey Tom, save your money buddy, just some friendly advice.
So I would like to start with the King, Rudolf Giuliani, but before I get to him, you just have to read this post by Murray Wass in thehufingtonpost.com. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2007/12/04/documents-expose-huckabee_n_75362.html
This is really explosive but also very sensitive, if you or anybody you know has been a victim of a vicious crime you may not want to read it or protect them from it. I am in that situation and I know there is one person that I know should not read this.
But OK, back to the fun, Il Duche Rudolfo, many people know him as the hero of NYC and it’s understandable as that is the way he is portrayed constantly in our media. I have to admit this image has some merit. I remember on 9/11 screaming at my TV asking where the president was and looking for some reassurance that we, as a country were alright. Of course our chicken shit president was flying all over the country covering his ass or maybe making sure they had their story straight. In any case Il Duche was the only person on TV that day and he has made the most of it ever since. *Duche is an intended insult.
To understand Rudy, well you have to be a New Yorker, and I was for 33 years. He is the embodiment of the city, high brow, low brow and everything in between or at least he was when he got elected. There is no question he was a fighter and a smart one at that. In a city full of people always looking to the sky, always striving, citizens, residents and immigrants, a city that takes pride in their sky high real estate prices even if nobody can afford them. Hey, hell we live here, and we are exclusive and we like it that way. That is New York. A city I love and will always be a beacon of hope. If you are a dreamer this is your city, never perfect, but always on the verge.
So what created the Rudy miracle, a combination of things that cannot possibly exist in today’s vicious political climate. The most responsible person would probably be Mayor Edward Koch. He was abrasive, many people hated him, but he got the job done. After Beame a very ineffective mayor Koch defined the city. Abrasive, could probably mention abrasive 10 times and it still would not be enough, he dealt with the bankruptcy of the city. Big headline in the New York Daily News, ”Ford to City, Drop Dead.” Probably the best headline ever and the biggest reason NY decided, FU, we don’t need Ford or any other idiot in Washington, we were almost a country on our own. Just to clarify, NYC is the city and outlying suburbs, upstate is another country, Long Islanders that do not work in NYC don’t count and New Jersey, if they are not on the Hudson River or working in NYC, they are in another continent.
But back to Koch, he outlived his usefulness was re-elected 3 or four times but by the time he left office everybody was tired of him. He is the reason term limits were passed. That is how tired people were of him. His racism began to show, his allegiances were more geared to Jerusalem than the city he led and people decided to go in another direction.
Enter the much maligned, and justifiably so, David Dinkins. In fairness to Mr. Dinkins, NYC does not have a Mayoralty training program, being Borough President does not prepare you for anything.
He was or is a decent man, he is not dead, but he inherited a city full of racial strife, much of it stoked by Mayor Koch. NYC fact, unless you live in NYC you may not know, a very large part of Brooklyn is shared by blacks and Hassidic Jews, they live side by side in adjoining enclaves, but both surrounded one by the other. This led to several melees both during the Koch and the Dinkins administration. I guess depending on whether a Jew or a black man was in the Mayor’s office one group or the other felt empowered.
But in any case, this is what Dinkins inherited and he managed through good intentions to make it worse. There is one thing we all agree on, black, Jew, Christian, white, whatever, if you are middle class you do not want crime in your neighborhood. Dinkins was born and raised in Harlem. He understood the plight of poor or black people, but had limited understanding of the concerns of the city at large. There is one issue that may never be resolved, poor people white or black do not want crime in their neighborhoods, but view the police with suspicion. With good reason I might add. But unfortunately law enforcement in these neighborhoods it’s a little like war. It does not help that most police are middle class whites, but as soon as a black recruit gets hired he becomes a middle class black and largely immune to what he sees in the community he may have lived in. It’s a dirty job, I do not envy them.
*Under David Dinkins, the Tawana Brawlley scandal happened. This was an incident where an upstate black girl spent the night out with her boyfriend and then for fear of her father, smeared herself with feces and accused several prominent white men of abusing her in a racist manner. This is how Al Sharpton came to national prominence defending this 17 year old. The whole story was eventually proved false but many people were smeared, lost their positions and their reputations. At the same time it incited a deep distrust between all races in the city. Tawana and her family moved to Atlanta and were never heard from again. Hopefully it will stay that way.
Dinkins decided to stay true to his community and crime totally got out of hand. People were looking for somebody that would get them out of that nightmare. As somebody that voted for Dinkins, I helped vote him out of office in one term and voted for Giuliani. At first many loved Rudy. I was working nights in the Bronx at the time for FEDEX. One day I should post those stories, they are better than taxicab confessions. We immediately saw a drop in crime. The first to go where the annoying window washers and everyone else after that. Basically small time annoyances that just made life difficult. I was impressed. Having lived in Germany I understood, the way to stop major criminals was to stop them when they were minor criminals.
NY under Rudy’s first term was actually very nice. Crime was down, things were back to normal, he endorsed our much loved Democratic Governor Mario Cuomo for re-election. His second term turned out to be very different.
Its difficult to say what went first, but the Rudy from the first term certainly became a different person in his second term in office. I guess the first thing as we saw as average people was the police brutality, or maybe the general racism. In Rudy’s second term there were several black men chased with baseball bats into highways to be run over by cars or beaten to death. On two occasions this happened in John Gotti’s neighborhood. Kind of ironic as Rudolf had been the US District Attorney in charge of putting Gotti behind bars, something he never accomplished.
Then the police department shot up a black man in the doorway of his home. Only pumped him with about 26 bullets, what is the problem? He took his wallet out for crying out loud.
Then there was the case of Amideu Dialo (MR. Dialo if you read this please excuse me) a man that was brought into a police precinct in Brooklyn and sodomized with a plunger and a broom. Yes, just in case you are wondering not sodomized in a nice way. In any case, there were many cases like this, these are just the ones that come to mind.
There was his annoying kid, OK, he was 11 and loving his father on the day he took office. Ask Andrew to look at that tape today, he’ll probably hit you.
There was his ever present wife on the evening news, Dona Hannover, yeah talk to her.
Talk to the police Chief in LA, Brannon, I think is his name, and what happened to him after he upstaged the duche.
How does a driver, bodyguard, become chief of corrections and then police chief and then trains the Iraqi Police force for three months, then runs out of the country, and then gets nominated to be Chief of Homeland Security while he is a member of Giuliani Partners, and is now under indictment?
How convenient is it that Giuliani had his Emergency Response Center at 7 WTC, steps from city hall, with a private suite where he could host his future wife, after knowing that that was the most likely place for another terrorist attack considering what happened in 1993. And how convenient was it that he decided to go to another makeshift emergency center on the day of the attack.
But you have to give it to them for chutzpas Rudy having sex with his mistress, now wife at 7 WTC and Bernie, his best friend and Police Commissioner across the street with Judith Regan, do you think they waved at each other, shared videos or a foursome? And when they were cheating on their wives and mistresses with their other mistresses, man o man, I would love to be a fly on the wall on that.
There are so many ways to examine this man that it is impossible to cover them all. He reminds me of my childhood friend from grammar school. He also had a name that ended in a vowel and his father was Joe Bonnano’s lawyer and he hated the Kennedy brother’s and I could not understand why. We both attended a school that hired teachers with names like Sister Mary Magilla.
But don’t get me wrong. The world is full of bad ugly people. Rudy is just colorful (ok, I’m lying). Leave him alone. And I really mean leave him alone. He has a comfortable life, he probably should be in some jail, but for the time being just don’t vote for him ok?