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Giuliani Tackles Questions About His Family Life
BY JOSH GERSTEIN - Staff Reporter of the Sun
March 6, 2007 NY Sun
URL: http://www.nysun.com/article/49890

MONTEREY PARK, Calif. - The moment long anticipated by many outside and
inside Mayor Giuliani's presidential campaign came yesterday as he was
confronted on the hustings here with a flurry of questions about his
complicated family life.

As he and Governor Schwarzenegger emerged from an anti-gang summit intended
to showcase the former mayor's law enforcement credentials, reporters
demanded that Mr. Giuliani respond to comments his son, Andrew, made over
the weekend about his distant relationship with his stepmother, Judith
Nathan, and his father.

"My wife, Judith, is a very loving and caring and good mother . and
stepmother," Mr. Giuliani said. "She's done everything she can. The
responsibility is mine. And I believe these problems with blended families
are, you know, are challenges. Sometimes they are, and the challenges are
best worked on privately. In other words, the more privacy I can have for my
family, the better we're going to be able to deal with all of these
difficulties." Mr. Giuliani seemed to have chosen his words carefully. When
reporters clamored for more, he repeated his earlier statement nearly
verbatim.

In 2000, Mr. Giuliani had a less than amicable split from his second wife,
Donna Hanover, who is Andrew's mother. Ms. Hanover called a press conference
to complain that she learned from news reports about her husband's desire to
separate. They were later divorced and, in 2003, Mr. Giuliani married his
longtime companion, Ms. Nathan.

In recent interviews with ABC News and the New York Times, Andrew Giuliani,
21, said the divorce and the new marriage soured his relationship with his
father. "For a while there, we weren't talking, for a decent amount of
time," the younger Mr. Giuliani told the Times. The Duke University
sophomore and aspiring professional golfer said he would not have time to
join his father on the campaign trail, but hopes he is successful.

"I have problems with my father, but it doesn't mean he won't make a great
president," Andrew Giuliani told ABC.

As Mr. Giuliani fielded the uncomfortable questions yesterday, he was
flanked by Mr. Schwarzenegger, whose historic election in the face of
numerous allegations of sexual impropriety is testimony to how forgiving
Californians can be about such personal matters. However, forgiveness should
not be mistaken for a lack of interest. The tabloid fodder drew about 20
television cameras, including one from "Inside Edition."

A political analyst at California State University, Barbara O'Connor, said
both the timing of the family flap and the fact that Mr. Giuliani was forced
to deal with it while in the Golden State work to his advantage. "It's
clearly good for him to have it come up out here and to have it come out
early," she said. "Bringing it up now gets it over with in people's minds."

Ms. O'Connor said Mr. Giuliani acted wisely by trying to defuse the
situation with an admission of personal responsibility and a call to respect
his family's privacy. However, she said one phrase in the former mayor's
well-rehearsed response, "blended families," may have fallen a bit wide of
the mark. "'Blended' assumes they're all working together and living
harmoniously. It's not the term I would have picked," Ms. O'Connor said. "It
doesn't sound like his son feels like he's blended very well." One leader of
social conservatives in California said the new publicity would hurt Mr.
Giuliaini's bid. "One divorce is a failure; a second divorce reveals a
significant character problem," Randy Thomasson of the Campaign for Children
and families said. "Giuliani put his family through the blender, and they're
still hurting over it."

Because of the flare-up about personal issues, the former mayor received no
questions at the news conference yesterday about his political views. The
only non-family query put to Mr. Giuliani sought his reaction to the use of
an anti-gay slur by a conservative commentator, Ann Coulter, to describe a
Democratic presidential candidate, John Edwards.

Even before the questions about his son, the anti-gang event was something
of an awkward fit for Mr. Giuliani, who is on a two-day fund-raising swing
through the state. As photographers and video crews were led into the
meeting room, he was telling the governor and several sheriffs that gangs
were a minor concern in New York. "I would never list it as the no. 1 or 2
or 3 or 4 or 5 problem," Mr. Giuliani said. "It was never the no. 1
challenge."

[Somehow, Giuliani was and still is blind to pervasive white-collar and
organized crime. This was true in New York, even while he was defending
rogue cops that tortured and killed innocent Blacks. His racist police-state
tactics were aimed at the poor alone; criminals with wealth and connections
were and still are safe. His firm, Giuliani Partners, has advised and
defended corporate criminals.]

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What truly is a sad commentary on the values of American voters is that
Giuliani's family-related cruelties are considered impediments to his
candidacy, but the following apparently goes unnoticed:

Though sworn to uphold our Constitution, by the end of 2002 the courts had
found Giuliani in violation of the First Amendment TWENTY SEVEN TIMES. Mayor
David Dinkins, his predecessor in office, bravely stated that Giuliani is
" - a bully, mean-spirited, and he rules through fear and intimidation." New
York's previous mayor, Ed Koch, has said that Giuliani " - uses the levers
of power to punish." Former schools Chancellor Rudy Crew, a one-time pal of
Giuliani, stated: "There's something very deeply pathological about Rudy's
humanity - - He was barren, completely emotionally barren, on the issue of
race." Giuliani's vile racism has even been acknowledged by his successor,
Mayor Bloomberg: "You forget that every single decision [in the Giuliani
administration], everybody, every story, everything was always couched in
terms of race" - quoted in the November 4, 2003 Daily News from Vanity Fair
magazine.

Among the many hypocrisies and arrogant abuses of power by "mayor morality"
was the assignment, at taxpayer expense, of several NYPD detectives as
round-the-clock bodyguards for his MISTRESS.

But the tyrant's own words say it best:

" - FREEDOM IS NOT A CONCEPT IN WHICH PEOPLE CAN DO ANYTHING
THEY WANT, BE ANYTHING THEY CAN BE. FREEDOM IS ABOUT AUTHORITY.
FREEDOM IS ABOUT THE WILLINGNESS OF EVERY SINGLE HUMAN BEING
TO CEDE TO LAWFUL AUTHORITY A GREAT DEAL OF DISCRETION ABOUT
WHAT YOU DO AND HOW YOU DO IT."
- Mayor Giuliani, quoted in the New York Times, March 17, 1994.

"State authority must provide for peace and order, and peace and order in
turn must conversely make possible the existence of state authority. Within
these two poles all life must now revolve...Ideas of 'freedom,' mostly of a
misunderstood nature, inject themselves into the state conceptions of these
circles." - Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf.

Berlin, Monday, Aug. 20, 1934 -- Eighty-nine and nine-tenths percent of the
German voters endorsed in yesterday's plebiscite Chancellor Hitler's
assumption of greater power than has ever been possessed by any other ruler
in modern times. Nearly 10 per cent indicated their disapproval. The result
was expected.