Rudy Giuliani

The International Center for Transitional Justice usually focuses on bringing to light and holding perpetrators accountable for such heinous crimes as genocide, mass murder and systematic torture, often in far-off war-torn countries with dismal human rights records.
So it’s significant that today they’ve released a report calling on the United States to follow its legal obligation [...]

WATERTOWN, N.Y. — On a Sunday evening conference call with conservative bloggers — where he was joined by former Dede Scozzafava campaign manager Matt Burns — Rob Ryan, spokesman for NY-23 Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman, said that former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani had recorded a robocall for the campaign. That makes Giuliani one [...]

America’s mayor talks to the Dallas Morning News about whether he’ll run for president in 2012.

I’m keeping my options open is how I put it – meaning who knows? Things outside yourself determine whether you can run for president and then whether you can win in running for president. Before I would decide to [...]

Anything Fred Dicker reports can set people talking in New York, so this piece of informed speculation — rumors that Rudy Giuliani might make a comeback in 2010 by running for the U.S. Senate — is going to bring the spotlight around, again, on the man who blew $60 million for one delegate in the [...]

Via Ben Smith, we see Rudy Giuliani pondering a political comeback on the heels of a gay marriage bill in New York.
This will create a grass-roots movement. This is the kind of issue that, in many ways, is somewhat beyond politics.
Via Siena College, we see that… a majority of New Yorkers now favor legal gay [...]

Ben Smith clips an interview that noted Republican primary voter repellent Rudy Giuliani gave to New York radio.
The measures that [President Obama]’s taken don’t seem to me to be the measures that would be needed to an economy that’s in a serious recession… In a situation like this, you don’t spend more money, you don’t [...]

The big news for national Democrats in the new Marist University poll of New York voters is the Senate trial heat.
If the 2010 election for U.S. Senate in New York State were held today, whom would you support?
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D) – 49 percent
Rep. Peter King (R) – 24 percent
undecided – 27 percent
Whether King runs [...]

Moments ago, the McCain campaign press office sent out the following press release:

Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani is establishing himself as the Luca Brasi to Sen. John McCain’s Vito Corleone.
Whenever the situation calls for a hit job, there’s only one goon to which the don turns.
TPM reports Giuliani has lent his voice to what is perhaps the lowest of the McCain campaign’s robocalls — it portrays [...]