Giuliani open to running for governor of New York.
By on Mar 28th, 2008 at 12:23 pm
Giuliani open to running for governor of New York.
“A top adviser” to Rudy Giuiliani says the former mayor of New York City “is eyeing a run for governor in a special election this fall should Gov. [David] Paterson be forced to resign.” Since taking office, Paterson has disclosed “one bombshell announcement after another” about past affairs and decades old drug use. The New York Post reported earlier this week that “state lawmakers are researching who will succeed Gov. Paterson if he has to resign,” but the chances of that do not seem likely, as his “disclosures have raised little outrage, either from the public or his colleagues in Albany.”
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Oh goody.
March 28th, 2008 at 12:28 pmHe is “Mr. 9/11″ after all…
March 28th, 2008 at 12:28 pmIsn’t it generally traditional to wait for an actual resignation before announcing a special election?
March 28th, 2008 at 12:29 pmLet’s see, which serial adulterer do I want to be governor?
Um. I think I’ll go with the frank, non-lisping, non-fascist.
March 28th, 2008 at 12:29 pmDoes he honestly think that people would vote him in as Govenor?
March 28th, 2008 at 12:29 pmHis first act as governor would be to rename New York State to N9/11 York
March 28th, 2008 at 12:30 pmFinally, we have a candidate for NY Governor who is faithful to his wife.
/snark
March 28th, 2008 at 12:31 pmOK — let’s pretend there IS an actual special election, and Giuliani decides to throw his hat into the ring. Does Rudy not realize that he will have to get the support of a significant percentage of New York City to win? Unless he has a way of kicking NYC out of the state, he’s got about a snowball’s chance in hell.
March 28th, 2008 at 12:31 pmWOW. Now that’s a plot twist I don’t think any of us predicted!
I can’t imagine that there’s any connection whatsoever between 9iu11ani’s close relationship with AG Mukasey, the targeting of Elliot Spitzer in a prostitution sting, and 9iu11ani’s desire to run for governor of New York.
NONE!
March 28th, 2008 at 12:32 pmwhat would he wear to the inagural ball?
March 28th, 2008 at 12:34 pmGood to see the small, little man is still searching for that balcony.
March 28th, 2008 at 12:34 pmSeriously…Resign!?!?
It’s in the past, Rudy. The Governor has owned up to his, something you expect a free pass from doing.
You’re one overrated human being, Rudolph.
March 28th, 2008 at 12:35 pmI’m eying a run for emperor of Rome, should there be a restoration of the Empire.
March 28th, 2008 at 12:35 pmThis sounds like a great idea — I mean, it’s not like JulieAnnie has any skeletons in HIS closet, right???
/sarc
March 28th, 2008 at 12:36 pmOne constant question that the press should stop asking prospective candidates is wether they tried drugs. The odds are that the answer is yes, of course. Born 1950? Dope in the 60’s and 70’s. Born in the 60’s? Cocaine in the 80’s.
Who DIDN’t try drugs?
March 28th, 2008 at 12:36 pmHey neocons, mind your own f ucking business. Let’s discuss, for a change, not how/when/why two consenting adults have intercourse, but the people you’ve murdered, the people you’ve shoved into poverty, and the children you’ve molested.
March 28th, 2008 at 12:38 pmAt least Spitzer had the balls to get up to the podium, admit his wrongdoing, and resign.
When’s the last time we saw a Repuke do that?
March 28th, 2008 at 12:39 pmOh wait – I guess someone DID predict this. My mistake:
http://www.democracynow.org/2008/3/12/as_spitzer_prostitution_scandal_dominates_headlines
March 28th, 2008 at 12:41 pmLOL, because Giuliani has never had any past affairs or drug use, right?!
March 28th, 2008 at 12:44 pmfletc3her Says:
March 28th, 2008 at 12:44 pm
LOL, because Giuliani has never had any past affairs or drug use, right?!
But TRudy look marvelous in the red dress…
March 28th, 2008 at 12:46 pmPaterson should resign after he’s been found guilty of allowing 9/11, murdering hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqis, and losing a major American city because of incompetence and sociopathic behaviors. Not until.
March 28th, 2008 at 12:50 pmDoesn’t anybody retire any more. There must be limit put in place. A maximum of 8 yrs can be served in Washington, that’s it. This way, no one can set up allignences that would last. Rudy, you had your day in the Sun, move on. I heard Florida has a lot of ex New Yorkers.
March 28th, 2008 at 12:51 pm# fletc3her Says:
March 28th, 2008 at 12:44 pm
Thanks to Reagan (if I’m correct), there’s been this nasty stigma that democrats are in sole existence to prove their worth to Republicans.
Because sex, drugs, and rock-n-roll are sins much greater than blanket bombings and random broken bottle-swinging invasions. So is universal health care, income protection, environmental protection, and other human qualities.
March 28th, 2008 at 12:56 pmNice catch Hussein Toasterhead!
Hussein Mary
March 28th, 2008 at 12:56 pmI’m not a fan of Spitzer but it sure did seem as though he was targeted.
March 28th, 2008 at 12:57 pm“A top adviser” to Rudy Giuiliani says the former mayor of New York City “is eyeing a run for governor in a special election this fall should Gov. [David] Paterson be forced to resign.”
Meanwhile , I’m eyeing a run for Pope , in case the present one is forced to resign ……
March 28th, 2008 at 1:01 pmPoor Rudy, flinging rocks in that big glass house of his.
NOLIESPLEASE Says:
March 28th, 2008 at 12:51 pm
“Rudy, you had your day in the Sun, move on. I heard Florida has a lot of ex New Yorkers.”
Yeah Rudie, you campaigned enough down there. Why don’t you run for the Emperor of Florida?
March 28th, 2008 at 1:08 pmHe wants the charge… ANY charge!
March 28th, 2008 at 1:12 pmScrew that, he can keep his ass out of Florida thank you guys very much.
March 28th, 2008 at 1:14 pmSorry IgnoranceIsNotBliss but Rudy turns 65 next year and that’s the law. He’s got to move to Florida!
March 28th, 2008 at 1:18 pmmisshusseinmolly Says:
March 28th, 2008 at 12:29 pm
Isn’t it generally traditional to wait for an actual resignation before announcing a special election?
See, that’s because you’re basing your assumption on the linear model of time.
If you look at this situation from the perspective of quantum mechanics, the eigenstate in which Governor Paterson resigns exists, always has existed, and always will exist. We are currently merely in a state in which 9iu11ani is simultaneously the Governor of New York and not the Governor of New York, but as this wavefunction has not collapsed. We could attempt to calculate the momentum of the system’s quantum state using the Schrödinger equation, but then we’d be running smack-dab into the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen paradox.
March 28th, 2008 at 1:28 pmAs long as Ghouliani doesn’t manifest as a naked singularity., I’ll be fine…
March 28th, 2008 at 1:33 pmA Patriot Acting Says:
March 28th, 2008 at 1:18 pm
A pox on you Patriot!!
March 28th, 2008 at 1:39 pmJew_lee_annie……he’s going back to his zionist roots…they love him down there on Wall St
March 28th, 2008 at 1:53 pmYou make a sure bet that Mukasey, Rudy, and Bush’s illegal wire taps had a hand in Spitzer getting nabbed.
This exactly why Bush wants illegal wire taps, to spy on the opposition and even his own (to keep them inline).
Bush uses the threat and revenge tactics on everyone he deals with, typical punk ass bully mentality.
March 28th, 2008 at 2:00 pmHaven’t New Yorkers suffered enough?
March 28th, 2008 at 2:10 pmTrudy couldn’t win a run for dog catcher. But then again he really wouldn’t want to wear a uniform when he can wear a little black dress.
March 28th, 2008 at 2:46 pmRudy…
March 28th, 2008 at 2:46 pmMayor
Governor
President
King
God
…in that order
Well a lease New Yorker wont have to have a Gov. who hired a prostitute. Now they will have a cross dresser, Mayor who used taxpayers money for his mistress, moved his mistress in the house with his wife/kids and now Rudy who works for the Mob. But being a Republican that’s all good if he were a Democrat he’d get stoned out of State. Roger Stone did such a great job setting up Spitzer, Rudy might ask for his help with this one. New York will only have the best honest and Religious Leaders to lead the State. A Governor has to be like a saint and of course perfect. Only a Republican candidate fits that image. Governor Rudy and first lady Rudy all in one. At lease Rudy’s male soul mate Bernie would be able to have his charges dropped for the crimes he committed. This hold Country has become a joke. Maybe Denver Republican Federal Judge Edward Naughty Nottingham could run for Governor as he has proved he’s a true Republican Christian Family man as he hires prostitutes from his Court computer and has been doing it since 1989 and continues today with no problems. Mark Foley needs a new job maybe he can run for office to get more kids names and addresses so he can molest them, he might have run out of names in Florida by now.
March 28th, 2008 at 3:16 pmLemme get this straight — Giuliani and others are anticipating that the Governor of New York might have to resign because he cheated on his wife. So, in anticipation of a special election that would be held in this event, Giuliani thinks that the people of New York State would elect — a guy who cheated on his wife???
Can’t wait to hear his spin on that one.
March 28th, 2008 at 4:17 pmLOL!
Memo to Rudy: Are you on crack?
Let’s see how many strikes Rudy have:
1. Many of the NYC newspapers didn’t even endorse him as the Prez nominee.
2. He is a cross-dresser.
3. He got in bed with the mob.
4. He took the NYC taxpayers’ money for his Shag fund for his mistress now wife.
5. He is certainly not the poster boy for moral values.
Would you buy a used car from this man? He makes Spitzer look like a saint. Good luck Rudy/Rudia trying to get the New Yorkers in your corner. It’s hard out there for a GOP pimp.
March 28th, 2008 at 5:23 pm