Rudy’s 9/11, and Judi! Troubles
14 May 2007 1:25 pm by Taylor Marsh
Where would Rudy be without his 9/11 persona? He sure wouldn’t be running for
president and he wouldn’t be leading the GOP pack either. That’s why the stories finally surfacing about his leadership after 9/11 are potentially career ending, at least as far as the presidency is concerned.
Administration documents and thousands of pages of legal testimony filed
in a lawsuit against New York City, along with more than two dozen interviews
with people involved in the events of the last four months of Mr. Giuliani’s
administration, show that while the city had a safety plan for workers, it
never meaningfully enforced federal requirements that those at the site wear
respirators. … … ..“The city ran a generally slipshod, haphazard, uncoordinated, unfocused
response to environmental concerns,” said David Newman, an industrial
hygienist with the New York Committee on Occupational Safety and Health, a
labor group.City officials and a range of medical experts are now convinced that the
dust and toxic materials in the air around the site were a menace. More than
2,000 New York City firefighters have been treated for serious respiratory
problems. Seventy percent of nearly 10,000 recovery workers screened at Mount
Sinai Medical Center have trouble breathing. City officials estimate that
health care costs related to the air at ground zero have already run into
the hundreds of millions of dollars, and no one knows whether other illnesses,
like cancers, will emerge. … ..
Richard Land of the Southern Baptist convention hierarchy is now mounting a
very visible campaign against Rudy and in favor of Fred Thompson.
The Republican uncivil war is better entertainment than watching “24″
… .. well, almost. But it certainly is the gift that keeps on giving.
I’m loving it.
However, as much as all this Rudy stuff is tantalizing and continuing, it comes with a chaser. Because nothing compares to the dirt coming out on his wife. You’ve just got to read the article from Lloyd Grove in New York Magazine. It makes you almost wish Rudy as the nominee. The material on Judi! seems positively endless.
Before they were married, he indulged her desire to dine regularly at Le Cirque even though the heavy cuisine tended to make him queasy. “It was almost required daily, going to Le Cirque for dinner, and Rudy used to throw up afterward, because the food was so rich,” says a witness. “But she wanted to go, because it was the place to be seen, and the treatment by Sirio [Maccioni, the owner] was incredible.” … ..
