Saturday, December 01, 2007
Judy! Judy! Judy!
What goes around... (Vol. XXXXVIII):0 comments
Many of you across the country may not know that NYC has a 24-hr. all news channel on Time Warner Cable here that reports solely on New York City stories. Very handy to have.
Andrew Kirtzman was its City Hall reporter for much of Rudy's two terms, and has since moved over to the CBS affiliate here. He, like much of the rest of the City Hall press corps then, was shat upon pretty severely by Rudy. Kirtzman, again like much of the rest of the City Hall press corps, is slowly letting out all those tasty items in their notebooks that they could never use before. We can safely assume this trend should continue. Words like "payback" and "bitch" come to mind.
From Kirtzman:"The Rudy Giuliani campaign has denied allegations that Judith Nathan, Giuliani's one-time mistress and current wife, abused police protection during his tenure as mayor. The campaign issued a statement, saying: 'That assertion is absolutely ridiculous. The security detail was only used to protect the personal safety of Mrs. Giuliani.'"
Ummmmm, that, of course, would be the police protection that she never should have had in the first place?
Honest, everybody! Judy NEVER abused her corruption of the Mayor of New York!
Even Rudy's own staff is having fun being sources, and getting into the payback party:A source involved with the mayor's operations at the time tells CBS 2 HD that Nathan took flagrant advantage of that police car and driver.
The source says Nathan forced police to chauffeur her friends and family around the city—even when she wasn't in the car. (Emphasis: GN)
That set off alarms with ethics watchdogs.
"The rules are clear, you can't use city resources for private reasons," said Gene Russianoff of the New York Public Interest Research Group. "And if you're using a city car, a police driven car to chauffeur around relatives, unless they're explicitly protected and they're deemed to be the subject of potential security threats, it's just wrong."
Nathan's detail was approved by the NYPD after a stranger made an unspecified threat to her. The commissioner at the time was Bernard Kerik, who was recently indicted on tax fraud charges in an unrelated matter.
"It wasn't about her being the mayor's girlfriend," Kerik said. "The person spoke to her by name and made comments to her."
Gee, I wonder, could that have been Giuliani's WIFE?
And Bernie..., that's different from the hundreds of thousands of NYers who get called by name every day and have comments and threats made to them, HOW?
Are there hundreds of thousands of police details protecting all of THESE people? Uh,... nah! Again, we see what a useless sack of shit Kerik was as Commish—always with the bodyguard/driver mentality.
Question: Did Nathan ever have a moment of civic duty, when she said, "Thank you, honey, that's very sweet of you, but won't you get into trouble by having all these very nice policemen around me all the time?"
Or was she just having too much fun enjoying all the perks that come from fucking the Big Guy?
Also, the campaign flak above has glaringly missed their "mrs." Judy Nathan wasn't "Mrs." Giuliani at that point, although she was working very hard to become one. New York First Lady Donna Hanover was "Mrs." Giuliani at that time, and it was SHE who had the correctly allocated, city-financed security detail which was "only used to protect the personal safety of Mrs. Giuliani."
"Aspirin salesgirl" doesn't usually require 24/7 police protection under the New York City Charter.
Hell, if SHE gets a police detail, WE ALL want a police detail!
AND A CAR!! We all want cars!
posted by Gotham 7:52 PM
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