Rudy Giuliani asked me to cancel 2001 election so he'd stay mayor post-9/11: Pataki

[Dennis Donovan]

https://nypost.com/2020/02/26/rudy-giuliani-wanted-to-cancel-election-and-stay-mayor-after-9-11-pataki/

By Bruce GoldingFebruary 26, 2020 | 4:39pm

He wanted to be “America’s mayor” a whole lot longer.

Rudy Giuliani secretly asked then-New York Gov. George Pataki to cancel New York City’s 2001 mayoral election so he could remain in office following the Sept. 11 terror attack, a new book reveals.

The bombshell revelation is contained in Pataki’s upcoming memoir of 9/11, “Beyond the Great Divide: How A Nation Became A Neighborhood.”

In an excerpt obtained by The Post, Pataki recalls how he attended a press conference with Giuliani and then-Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi at Manhattan’s Pier 92 on Sept. 24, 2001.

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Of course...

[Me.]

1. Not At All Surprised

He was begging the people of NYC and it goes to show what we really thought of "America's Mayor' that we didn't want to have anything more to do with him.

[jimfields33]

7. I heard that back in 2001.

At least that failed.

[thesquanderer]

2. What is it with New York mayors thinking term limits should not apply to them? n/t

[C_U_L8R]

3. Wasn't this common knowledge?

I lived in NYC then and there was talk of exactly that and Rudy was rebuffed quickly.

[WePurrsevere]

6. We lived in northern NY and I had

heard about it. I believed, and now even more so, Pataki over Ghouliani.

I didn't always agree with Pataki as gov but I always felt he was at least a fairly decent human being. Ghouliani, OTOH, not so much and he's gotten much much worse.

[BilltheCat]

4. Seems entirely plausible

Ghoulie's ego is , if at all possible, even bigger than the inept clown in the WH

[kimbutgar]

5. I heard this while working in an office in the financial industry

This guy was visiting the office who was from NY and laughed and said New Yorkers can’t wait to get rid of him!!!!