Giuliani Hires Racist Campaign Chair, Secretly Supports Anti-Gay Marriage Amendment

Posted by Adam Howard at 2:00 PM on October 22, 2007.

Adam Howard: I give up. Giuliani has got to be the most sinister politician on the planet.

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I used to have this ongoing debate with my friends in New York about who I hated more: President Bush or Rudy Giuliani. I give up. Giuliani has got to be the most sinister politician on the planet. I know, I know, what about Dick Cheney? Hey, it's not easy to pick the worst. And plus Cheney is more of mythical beast than a politician.

I guess Bush and Cheney are diminished in my mind because they're on their way out, while on the other hand Giuliani seems to be just getting started. First I read this today:

Sheriff Richard Stanek was appointed to the post of chair of Minnesota Law Enforcement for Rudy. The campaign's press release promised that Stanek "will work with law enforcement personnel throughout the state to communicate Mayor Giuliani's record of fighting crime and his commitment to first responders."

But as a rival campaign has pointed out to us, it turns out Stanek has admitted to having a history of racially charged remarks. He was forced to resign his post as Minnesota's public safety commissioner in 2004 after it came to light that he'd admitted in a deposition that he'd used racist slurs in the past, including repeated use of the word "nigger."

This isn't the first time this has happened to Rudy. Last June, he appointed a new co-chair to his South Carolina campaign who also had a history of racially charged remarks.

Then I see this linked to over at The Huffington Post

Tony Perkins, head of the Family Research Council, told The Hill Saturday that former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani (R) would support a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage.

Perkins said Giuliani told him in a private meeting that if the Defense of Marriage Act appeared to be failing or if multiple states began to legalize same-sex marriages, then he would support the constitutional amendment.

Giuliani did not mention the amendment or the issue of gay marriage during his address to the Values Voters Summit, but that position could win him favor with some social conservatives who view the former mayor warily.

Perkins said that was not enough to assuage his concerns about Giuliani, but "it was nice to hear."

"Nice to hear" huh?! Wow, just when you think Romney is the best panderer of all the '08 candidates, Giuliani schools him on how it's done. Little do they know that either of them will likely be torched in a landslide by any of the leading Democratic candidates. So as Nelson from The Simpsons would say, Ha-Ha!

Tagged as: racism, gay marriage, election08, giuliani, homophobia

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Counting you chickens . . . [Report this comment] Posted by: olddansker on Oct 23, 2007 3:51 AM Current rating: 2 [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] Little do they know that either of them will likely be torched in a landslide by any of the leading Democratic candidates. What country has Howard been living in these past six years to be so confident about the rational thinking of US voters? [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5] voters [Report this comment] Posted by: robmikejas on Oct 23, 2007 8:23 AM Current rating: 3 [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] never underestimate the ignorance of the American people. [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5] Just one thing to remember about Rudy, [Report this comment] Posted by: StPeteRican on Oct 23, 2007 8:44 AM Current rating: 5 [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] Motorola Radios! http://youtube.com/watch?v=StE_Xa6TiQU [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5] Volt [Report this comment] Posted by: Volt on Oct 23, 2007 12:22 PM Current rating: 5 [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] And Now There is This: Giuliani Employs and Defends Priest Who Molested Teens Brian Ross and Avni Patel, ABC News, October 23, 2007 http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=3753385&page=1 Presidential candidate Rudolph Giuliani hired a Catholic priest to work in his consulting firm months after the priest was accused of sexually molesting two former students and an altar boy and told by the church to stop performing his priestly duties. The priest, Monsignor Alan Placa, a longtime friend of Giuliani and the priest who officiated at his second wedding to Donna Hanover, continues to work at Giuliani Partners in New York, to the outrage of some of his accusers and victims' groups, which have begun to protest at Giuliani campaign events. "This man did unjust things, and he's being protected and employed and taken care of. It's not a good thing," said one of the accusers, Richard Tollner, who says Placa molested him repeatedly when he was a student at a Long Island, N.Y. Catholic boys high school in 1975. At a campaign appearance in Milwaukee last week, Giuliani continued to defend Placa, who he described to reporters as a close friend for 39 years. [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5] ...more unhatched chickens [Report this comment] Posted by: Afban on Oct 23, 2007 6:35 PM Current rating: 5 [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] I guess Bush and Cheney are diminished in my mind because they're on their way out, " I'm not placing any bets about that until January 21, 2009. [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5] Is he wearing eyeliner?! [Report this comment] Posted by: nc green on Oct 24, 2007 9:25 AM Current rating: Not yet rated [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] Look closely at that shot. If he's not wearing eyeliner, there's some mascara. And lots of rouge ... [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5]

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