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With Mayor Bloomberg seemingly out of the running, state Republicans are turning their focus to Rudy Giuliani as a potential gubernatorial candidate. An adviser for the former mayor tells the Times that he and Giuliani have had a serious talk about the possibility of a 2010 run. Wanting to avoid another big loss by a little-known candidate, former State Island Borough President Guy Molinari said, "I can’t think of anyone who would be more popular than Giuliani." Many also see Governor Paterson, a relative unknown before being thrust into office after Eliot Spitzer's resignation earlier this year, as having positioned himself as a strong incumbent in a short amount of time. "It would be Luke Skywalker against Darth Vader, and the force would be with our governor,” said Assemblyman Keith L. T. Wright, a Harlem Democrat.
State GOP Wants Rudy to Run, Baby, Run for Governor
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too bad gothamist is the only site on the www to view while at work
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Or, after Bloomberg spreads enough money around to nullify the law, Giuliani could run for mayor again.
Ugh. Giuliani needs to stay in the private sector. His presidential campaign was a disaster and he had less support in NY than in other parts of the country. I don't see how a gubernatorial run would be much different.
I hope he does run. It's about time for a rival campaign to plumb the depth of how corrupt a sleazeball he is.
Keepin' it creepy in da Empire.
I agree; let him run, and face the music; he dropped out before he could be buried once and for all by his record. It's just too bad that the entire nation won't get to find out what a truly unpleasant human being he is.
Run, Rudy, run, and let the sun shine in.
I'm sure if Rudy does run, there will be some things from his past that will come back to haunt him.
It is so exemplary of the GOP to put up yet another POS to run Albany politics. Do they not have ANY new players? Have they still not learned their lesson? My goodness, does name recognition even if it is associated with negativity and blatant hypocrisy act as the only requirement for GOP nominations?
Apparently there is no new GOP blood because few with vision beyond the dogma that is the Republican tow line are interested any longer. The king is dead, long live the king.
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/rudy-giuliani-for-governor-of-new-york
for the grownups...link to this site if you support Rudy Giuliani for Governor 2010, NY State.
I would find a way to return my residency to New York State if Mayor Giuliani were Governor. If you actually remember his two terms as mayor, even aside from that fateful day in September, you remember that he did everything he promised and then some, and then some and then some more. Many people I worked with and spoke to harkened back to a NYC that was safe and prosperous but not prior to Rudy. I lived on the Lower East Side during 1989, a notorious year where under the Honorable Mr. David Dinkins' "gorgeous mosiac," neighbors were slaughtering each other over the kind of bigotry you would have expected if you lived in this country during the days of lynching. It was frightening on a daily basis: Howard Beach and Crown Heights and Bedford Stuvesant. Many people depended on tourism to fuel their paycheck in NYC but who wanted to risk going to a Bway show and being shot in the face over some travelers' checks?
I'll vote for Giuliani because I witnessed real change and I would urge others to do the same.
pleassssssse, no one in their right mind would vote for this cross-dresser loser. He couldn't even win in Florida. LMAO
#10 - Please cut the BS already about Giuliani. The reduction in crime was due to the increase in police presence and better an improved crime fighting strategy initiated by Ray Kelly and Bill Bratton, and the bullish economy of the mid 90's. Rudy tried to take credit for it and when Bratton wouldn't give in, he fired his ass and put in his "yes man." During his reign race relationship was at an all time low, allowing opportunists such as Sharpton to gain political clouts and stir the pot of racial division even more. The most dispicable thing this clown has done of course was to milk 9/11 until it's dried up, and his popularity was at an all time low right before the tragic event. Overall he is just a vindictive and nasty person.
I might be a Republican but I cannot hate a politician more than Ghouliani, maybe except Schumer.
I was 5'2", weighed 130 lbs and carried home a large amount of cash a short distance from my bartending job at the original Village Idiot, the predecessor to the infamous Coyote Ugly. Life was a little tense to say the least and I don't consider crimefighting the sole responsibility of police officers. I depend on the community all the way around and in my mind it was a collective atmosphere that started to clean up in earnest because a person was in charge who made it clear he found crime unacceptable. It was not BS, it was very real if you actually lived there. I don't know the Gothamist, if it was a publication that was available at newstands, I never read it and the majority of people that post to it don't seem to have realtime NYC experience to me.
Sure, I remember the notorious "yes rudys" and there were times when the mayor was clearly drunk with power. But nasty is a word I affiliate with Prince songs and I guess the occasional donning of fishnet stockings might lead one to describe Mr. Giuliani as such (another positive trait, a sense of humour which readers of this blog seem not to possess.)
^ Tool.
elmiller + ides (we're waiting)= GOP tools. Stay in the city though, because folks like you keep us honest.
I'd love to see rudy run. he'll get this ass handed to him statewide too. is that the best the gop can offer?