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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRudy Giuliani has tried to subvert the will of the voters before. He did it after 9/11
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Sept. 11 was also primary day in New York City. A mayoral election was underway. Giuliani was termed out it was the end of his second term and his time in City Hall was up at the end of the year. More than half a dozen candidates including Mark Green and Michael Bloomberg, who eventually became the nominees in the general election were fighting for their parties support. Because of the World Trade Center attacks, that days primary was put off for two weeks.
Delaying the primary was entirely reasonable. People werent going to turn out to vote on a day when the city had been violently terrorized.
But Giuliani saw an opportunity for something else. In the days that followed as he watched his poll numbers rise Giuliani and his aides and supporters began hinting that the mayor shouldnt be required to leave office when his term was up. What the city really needed was an extraordinary three-month extension of his term to help deal with the fallout of the attack and ease the transition for the next mayor. This was a catastrophe after all. Steady leadership was needed. The November election should be canceled.
Or maybe that wasnt enough. In fact, according to Giuliani and his aides, the 1993 law barring him from serving a third consecutive term should be overturned entirely if his bid for an extension was rejected and he should be allowed to run again. Giuliani even considered trying to get himself on the ballot despite the term limits law. He lobbied the governor and the Legislature to keep him in office.
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-11-24/giuliani-power-grab-september-11
BigmanPigman
(51,430 posts)It is posted in the Videos Forum.
myohmy2
(3,118 posts)...but you would think that a lawyer that skirts the law, attacks the legal and judicial process, spreads false claims and lies and deals in conspiracy theories would find himself disbarred...
...I must be missing something...
SharonAnn
(13,766 posts)His behavior since then didnt really surprise me.