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Giuliani Says He is Equal to 9/11 Recovery Workers
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ABC News' Jan Simmonds Reports: In Ohio on Thursday, Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani R-NY handed his critics new ammunition regarding his role surrounding 9/11.
Speaking to reporters in Cincinnati, Giuliani said: "I was at ground zero as often, if not more, than most of the workers. ... I was there working with them. I was exposed to exactly the same things they were exposed to. So in that sense, I'm one of them."
Michael Palladino, head of the Detectives Endowment Association, the union of NYPD detectives, told the Associated Press that the mayor's record can't compare to those who spent 12 months sifting through toxic debris for evidence and human remains.
"As a result of their hard work, many are sick and injured. The mayor, although he did a fine job with 9/11, I don't think he rises to the level of being an equal with those men and women who were involved in the rescue, recovery and cleanup," Palladino said.
The former New York City mayor has already faced a large wave of criticism from first responders and relatives of those killed at the World Trade Center, who have contended that Giuliani was woefully unprepared for 9/11.
Just last month, the International Association of Fire Fighters (IAFF) released a 13 minute video on the internet urging its members to oppose Giuliani’s bid for the presidency, questioning his leadership both before and in the aftermath of the September 2001 terrorist attacks. At the time of the video’s release, the Giuliani campaign denounced what they called a 'clearly partisan' video and cited the IAFF's history of endorsing and supporting Democratic candidates.
Watch the IAFF video HERE.
August 10, 2007 in Thompson, Fred | Permalink | User Comments (41)
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ARG, Cant stand how he just wraps him self in the flag! GET OUT OF OUR COUNTRY!
Posted by: Andrew | Aug 10, 2007 1:44:21 AM
This guy is not what American needs now he is a lying, selfish politician who doesn't represent true American values.
Posted by: Mike | Aug 10, 2007 1:50:46 AM
While Rudy stumps across the Nation, proclaiming himself as "America's Mayor", -someone who supposedly knows how best to protect us, one FACT that shouldn't be lost on voters is that Guiliani is the "genius" who decided to put New York City's Office of Emergency Management Command Center- get this- IN the World Trade Center! He did this despite the WTC having been bombed once before in 1993, It was well known that it had been targeted for future attacks. Can we afford to have someone with this lack of judgment as President? God help us all should he win.
Posted by: Jamie Delman | Aug 10, 2007 2:27:31 AM
My source for each Rudy Scandal is RUDY HIMSELF. He has flip flopped on every issue and said he was full of **** and I agree.
Posted by: sm0ky | Aug 10, 2007 4:01:45 AM
Has Jan Simmons corroborated Giuliani's claims? Or is she just letting Rudy get away with spouting unchecked info that benefits him?
Posted by: jill | Aug 10, 2007 9:22:35 AM
Rudy you helped clean up 9/11 about as much as President Bush helped to clean up New Orleans. Leave the credit where the credit is due. You're already exaggerating and you haven't even been chosen to run for your party. Get over yourself, go home, you'll never be president, of this country anyway....
Posted by: Judy Slater | Aug 10, 2007 10:40:18 AM
Deosn't he belong to the party filled with hypocrites? "Family values" after 5 marriages? Yes that's the kind of "Family Values" America needs. And yes he is one of them - that lie comfortably not one of the heros who gave up their lives.
Posted by: RepNature | Aug 10, 2007 10:55:40 AM
Rudy is one of them...A neo con that is!
Posted by: JP | Aug 10, 2007 11:35:19 AM
To be frank, I don't think Rudy did much at all after 9/11, except arrange buses for unneeded blood donors and then stand like King Kong over New York City on a magazine cover. Like the other person said about Bush and New Orleans -- these so-called leaders watch while the work gets done.
Posted by: Brian | Aug 10, 2007 12:01:37 PM
If his own children won't give him an endorsement, how can I?
Posted by: waleeg | Aug 10, 2007 12:14:49 PM
Obviously Rudy is what we used to call a blow hard, a guy that exagerates his role in an event but at least he didn`t get lost for hours like our fearless leader and then show up to wrap himself in the flag with a fireman who was a real leader and hero.
Posted by: A Viet Nam Vet | Aug 10, 2007 12:17:56 PM
And was he on the first Apollo mission to the moon?
Posted by: Gregory | Aug 10, 2007 12:29:56 PM
Rudy served more time at Ground Zero than most rescue workers, and Romney's boys are serving their country by working for him.
What a bunch of sissies!
Posted by: frank | Aug 10, 2007 12:44:22 PM
Nice try, Rudy. I don't know about the rest of your audience but I'm wearing my rubber boots, and it looks like they are, too. You will never be one of them, Rudy. Never.
Posted by: Henry | Aug 10, 2007 12:53:35 PM
All of you who folks that flame Rudy are very stupid, ultra left wing...agenda seeking morons!!!
Go ahead and vote for the guy who's name rhymes with Osama or the polorizing senator with the husband who can't really stomach the sound of his own wife's voice!!
Posted by: michael | Aug 10, 2007 1:04:43 PM
As we say in Texas to describe blowhards like Giuliani who resort to puffery instead of substance: "He's all hat and no cattle."
Posted by: beeker77 | Aug 10, 2007 1:04:55 PM
When was Guiliana doing his "cross-dressing" schtick? It wasn't during the 9/11 crisis, was it?
Posted by: Jim Schwartz | Aug 10, 2007 1:30:30 PM
How does his healthcare compare to the 9/11 workers? Equal there?
Posted by: Dali | Aug 10, 2007 2:10:06 PM
Give me a break. All this guy did - in between his drag sessions - was walk around NYC for photo ops.
Posted by: Don | Aug 10, 2007 2:11:46 PM
Is it any surprise Giuliani's own kids won't have anything to do with him? He's too sneaky and too creepy.
His sneakiness and creepiness starts with his *marrying his cousin* and then getting the marriage annulled after fifteen years of marriage on a technicality because he originally had failed to get a dispensation from the Catholic Church to marry his cousin and so the marriage was not considered valid and so was annulled -- after being together as man and wife for fifteen years!
Good grief.
Posted by: Jhopolong | Aug 10, 2007 2:40:43 PM
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