Well, folks, Rudy Giuliani was that kind of mayor. While still married to his second wife, Mr. Giuliani provided NYC police coverage to his then mistress, Judith Nathan.
NY Times:
Rudolph W. Giuliani last night called a Web site’s account of his spending a “political hit job” as his campaign struggled to explain why hundreds of thousands of dollars in travel expenses for his mayoral security detail were billed to obscure city offices instead of the Police Department.....
.....The Web site report focused largely on the security detail’s expenses for trips that Mr. Giuliani took to Southampton, N.Y., at a time when he was beginning an extramarital affair with Judith Nathan, who is now his third wife. Ms. Nathan had a condominium there, but the Web site said it was impossible to say how many of Mr. Giuliani’s 11 trips there in the summers of 1999, 2000 and 2001 were to visit her....
....Overall travel expenses for the mayor’s office — which included a broad range of trips beyond just those involving the security detail — were clearly growing at the end of the mayor’s term, according to the city comptroller, with a 151 percent increase from the fiscal year 2000 to the 2001 fiscal year, to $618,014 from $245,896.....
Then there is this from The Blotter by Brian Ross at ABC News:
Well before it was publicly known he was seeing her, then-married New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani provided a police driver and city car for his mistress Judith Nathan, former senior city officials tell the Blotter on ABCNews.com.
"She used the PD as her personal taxi service," said one former city official who worked for Giuliani....
....The former city officials said Giuliani expanded the budget for his security detail at the time. Politico.com reported yesterday that many of the security expenses were initially billed to obscure city agencies, effectively hiding them from oversight....
Then there is this from the NY Times (10/10/99) about Giuliani's paybacks:
(Background information: After Giuliani was angry about the Brooklyn Museum of Art and he later cut funds to the museum (the museum had to sue to get the funds restored: CBS), the public noticed a few things.)
''The Mayor tends to take those who disagree with him as enemies to be punished,'' Martin McLaughlin, a lobbyist for the cultural institutions, wrote in an E-mail circulated among museum directors.
Similarly, New Yorkers traveling by subway last weekend to the Brooklyn Museum to see ''Sensation,'' the exhibition that is the object of Mr. Giuliani's ire, believed they were targets of mayoral punishment. They complained that train service was suspended as part of a City Hall plot to torpedo the exhibition. Subway repairs, however, had been scheduled for months by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which the Mayor does not directly control.
Paranoia over the Brooklyn Museum is a reminder that after nearly six years in office, Mr. Giuliani's reputation for retribution has grown to near-mythic proportions, prompting tremulous hand-wringing among those who contemplate crossing him and convincing many New Yorkers that he is out to get them, even when he is not....
This is the man that some people support as the next President??????? You've got to be kidding!!!
