11/25/98
by Robert Lederman, President of A.R.T.I.S.T. (Artists' Response To Illegal State Tactics)
provided through OPENAIR-MARKET NET
"I take a different view of someone comparing me to Adolf Hitler than when someone calls me a jerk." Mayor Giuliani, N.Y. - Daily News 10/25/98
"Freedom," Giuliani argued, "is about authority.
Freedom is about the willingness of every single human being to
cede to lawful authority a great deal of discretion about what
you do and how you do it." Taking Liberties / Courts, critics
fault Rudy on free speech, public access. - New York Newsday 4/20/98.
"I don't regard associations of my people that support me
as fascists as a light matter ....But it's ultimately the results
that matter." - NY TIMES 6/24/98.
"You don't have to be too polite about somebody who's taking
advantage and trampling on the rights of other people". 11/5/98.
Mayor Giuliani during his call-in show on News Radio 88, Channel
2 News on 11/6/98 also: NY POST 11/7/98.
"We'll say it simply: Just because people don't like Rudy
Giuliani doesn't give them license to compare him to Adolf Hitler.
The Hitler analogy is something that seems to amuse many people
in this city. Cutesy stories have been written and published in
the past week about an art installation on Madison Avenue called
No York in which the mayor is depicted with a Hitler mustache.
This image was first bandied about by an obnoxious twerp who claims
to represent a group called A.R.T.I.S.T. - but which really ought
to be called M.O.R.O.N. - who is outraged that the mayor attempted
to enforce plainly written statutes regarding sidewalk clutter
in front of the Metropolitan Museum. For this, the twerp (whose
name we shall never again use because he deserves no more public
mention) imagines that Rudy Giuliani deserves comparison with
the personification of evil in this century...As the New York
Times' gleeful seizure of the "bunker" story indicates,
you don't have to be a cabbie, a vendor or a M.O.R.O.N. to issue
forth such repulsive opinions. - NY Post Editorial 6/16/98.
"In satire and protest, the Mayor of the City of New York
is again being likened to some of the vilest figures in history.
But this time Rudolph W. Giuliani is learning to accept it....
Deputy Mayor Randy M. Mastro goes so far as to detect a touch
of flattery in the Giuliani-as-Dictator analogies." NY TIMES
6/24/98 "Hudson Hitler? Midtown Mussolini? Giuliani Grins
and Bears It".
"Mayor Rudolph Giuliani is now bracing for a whole other
order of urban treachery and cataclysm by building a $15.1 million
emergency control center for his administration...bullet-proofed,
hardened to withstand bombs and hurricanes, and equipped with
food and beds for at least 30 members of his inner circle."
-NY Times 6/13/98 Giuliani's $15.1 Million 'Emergency Control
Center.
"With only 30 beds, who stays and who goes? Mayor Rudolph
Giuliani, who one day could face such a decision, said he had
not made up his mind. "People admitted would depend on the
nature of the emergency," he said. "It has nothing to
do with my family." "He has made arrangements for his
wife and children to come into this bunker with food and water
for days," complained former Mayor Ed Koch. "What are
the other people in this town supposed to do?"- Newsday 6/14/98.
"The city is working to meet any potential terrorist threat of germ warfare", Mayor Giuliani said yesterday. "It's the reason why I established a new agency in the city, quietly, because I didn't want to frighten people or alarm them." -Daily News 11/9/98 Rudy Praises City's Moves Vs. Threat of Germ Warfare.
"...the current mayor thinks he's a dictator and does not
have sufficient respect, not only for other branches of government,
but also for the citizenry and its opportunities to speak out
and be heard" -Eliot Spitzer N.Y. Post 10/15/98.
"Giuliani said Spitzer's remarks should disqualify him from
holding office. "I think his remarks are insulting to a lot
of Jewish people, for the overstated use of the Hitler and Nazi
phraseology, and I'm really surprised that he would engage in
that kind of language", the mayor fumed." - N.Y. Post
10/15/98 "Hitler Remark Sparks Pol Feud" .
"Giuliani also lashed out yesterday at a reporter who asked
him whether there was a difference between Spitzer's comments
and those of Police Commissioner Howard Safir, who called former
Nation of Islam spokesman Khallid Muhammad a "black Hitler"
after the Million Youth March last month. Giuliani replied, "There's
a difference between Khallid Muhammad and me, and if you can't
figure it out, you probably shouldn't be in the journalistic profession."
- Newsday 10/19/98 .
"Mayor Giuliani vows to have cops with hammers and chisels
pry the medallions right off the hood of any cab in the demonstration."
- NEWS RADIO 88 5/21/98.
"City officials declared total victory. "We've moved to stop the terrorists from carrying out their act," Police Commissioner Howard Safir said. "I was sending them a message," a feisty Mayor Giuliani crowed. "The message is: You don't get to close down the city of New York. Just don't get to do it". "They know that we broke their strike - destroyed it, really. Nobody showed up today and that didn't happen just because we allowed business to go on as usual. That happened because we had a plan to stop them from doing it." - NY Post 5/22/98 Taxi Protest.
"When a couple of protesting drivers gathered on the corner
of Murray Street and Broadway on the edge of City Hall to talk
with reporters, police officers whisked them across the street,
where, about five minutes later, other officers told them to keep
walking -- which they did, shaking their heads. "This is
what it has been like all day," muttered Kuljeet Singh, 28,
as he headed down Broadway." - NY Times 5/22/98 Taxi protest.
"Addressing the recruits for the first time, Mayor Giuliani
said, "Today, you take the first step toward becoming New
York City Police Officers - members of the finest, best trained,
best equipped, most restrained and most professional police force
in the nation...The Department's CPR program will teach you that
courtesy, professionalism and respect must be at the root of every
interaction you have with the public. And you must also remember
that your allegiance to the law must supersede your allegiance
to your fellow officers no matter how close those bonds may become...In
the oath of office you took today, you swore to uphold the Constitutions
of the United States and of the State of New York. It means from
this day forward you will take on tremendous responsibilities
to enable the people of the City to live freely and independently.
-7/3/98 Giuliani Press Release #315-98 'Giuliani and Commissioner
Safir Welcome 800 NYPD Recruits.
"The Big Apple is plagued with killer cops and abusive prison
guards Amnesty International says in a report today. Police officers
have beaten and shot unresisting suspects; they have misused batons,
chemical sprays and electro-shock weapons, the report says. Police
said they couldn't comment on the report, which outlines numerous
cases in New York where it says unarmed civilians have been assaulted
and even killed by cops. The overwhelming majority of victims
... are members of racial or ethnic minorities, the report says.
- N.Y. Post 10/6/98. "Amnesty International Chews Up Big
Apple".
"What brings this tendency into focus this week is an attack
on the Mayor by the Rev. Calvin Butts, a prominent Baptist minister
from Harlem. Mr. Butts labeled Mr. Giuliani a "racist"
and accused him of not liking black people and of instituting
policies that have not only devastated minorities but are moving
New York "toward a fascist state." - NY TIMES Editorial
5/22/98.
Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani, who visited the area after the collapse,
said that the city also intended to find out whether homeless
people were living under the Boardwalk. "We can't have people
coming back and living here illegally, which they don't have a
right to do," Giuliani said. - NY TIMES 5/26/98.
"Facing a combative audience at a town hall meeting at Bishop Laughlin High School...Giuliani seemed to draw energy from biting questions about the city university, police conduct towards minorities and workfare. Amid numerous interruptions and catcalls, Giuliani lectured the audience that workfare was one of his greatest accomplishments.....Minutes earlier, when a heckler screamed, "Everybody's angry at you" Giuliani responded unexpectedly; "That's actually truer than you realize. Everybody is angry at me. That's why I'm a good mayor." - NY Post 5/20/98 "Rudy to hecklers: Workfares my gem" .
"The Commissioner of the city's Human Resources Administration
apologized yesterday for making an errant remark during a television
interview that was construed by some viewers as anti-Semitic.
During a televised discussion of the city's welfare-to-work program,
the Commissioner, Jason A. Turner, said, "Work makes you
free." - NYTIMES 6/27/98.
"As the arts capital of the world. New York City is proud
to give our children the opportunity to nurture a future in the
arts...New York City, which is blessed with boundless treasures
of art and culture, and is filled with millions of the most talented
and creative people on the planet, should have the best arts education
in the world."- From Giuliani press release: Giuliani Declares
May 18-22, 1998 Arts Education Week.
"An exhibition of paintings is not as communicative as speech,
literature or live entertainment, and the artists' constitutional
interest is thus minimal." - Giuliani appeal brief against
street artists having First Amendment protection, Giuliani v Lederman
et al and Giuliani v Bery et al, filed with the U.S. Supreme Court
2/24/97.
"Elizabeth Freedman, an attorney speaking on behalf of the
N.Y.C. Corporation Counsel's office [Mayor Giuliani's lawyers],
explained the City's anti-art position. "Visual art...does
not express ideas", Ms. Friedman said, "and as such
is not entitled to First Amendment protection." - 2/24/97
radio interview WNYC's syndicated business news show, Marketplace".
"An exhibit of the mayor's photographs opened today at a downtown Manhattan gallery, displaying 23 of his color and black-and-white pictures taken over the last two years. Panning the exhibit altogether were the sidewalk protesters, who are fighting a city requirement that they need permits to sell artwork in parks and in front of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Since his first day in office, Giuliani has been waging a war on artists and artists' rights," said painter and printmaker Robert Lederman. "He's doing this show purely to change his image, posing as an artist in the arts capital of the world." - 5/9/98 Washington Post.
"Mayor Rudolph W. Guiliani pledged Thursday that the city
would contribute $65 million over the next three years to help
pay for a major expansion project at the Museum of Modern Art...Facing
its huge price tag, trustees from the museum's expansion committee,
including David Rockefeller, the real estate developer Jerry Speyer
and Donald Marron, the chairman of PaineWebber Inc., approached
City Hall. Mr. Rockefeller, whose mother, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller,
was a founder of the Modern, said the city money was "the
financial cornerstone" of the expansion. Of the remaining
$585 million the museum must raise, he said that about $200 million
had been pledged by "the family and trustees." Then
he quickly added a qualifier: "When I say family, I mean
the museum family, not my family." - NY TIMES 4/24/98 MOMA
to Get $65 Million for Expansion.
"It's wonderful to be here with you to celebrate the greatest
legal system in the world and to spread an understanding of and
appreciation for our legal heritage to people throughout New York,"
the Mayor said. "There are thousands of subtle ways that
we interact with the law every day. Whether it is better law enforcement
that has helped make the City a safer place or civil rights protections
or the Bill of Rights, we learn valuable lessons, and help shape
the system through our participation. Today, we celebrate the
law and celebrate our freedom," the Mayor continued. "As
Thomas Jefferson wrote in 1816, 'The most sacred of the duties
of a government is to do equal and impartial justice to all its
citizens,' we recognize that law affects everyone and is the foundation
of our civil and moral society. It is in this spirit that I proclaim
today, "Law Day 1998" and honor the celebration of freedom."
- Giuliani Press Release: Mayor Giuliani Proclaims 5/1/98 as Law
Day.
"A defense attorney at the federal corruption trial of Assemblyman
Dov Hikind yesterday charged that the Brooklyn Democrat's prosecution
was "politically motivated" and was instigated by Mayor
Rudolph Giuliani and a top aide...attorney Benjamin Brafman said
he had received information that Giuliani and one of his key advisers
had prompted the investigation of Hikind and the Council of Jewish
Organizations of Borough Park because they felt the two had become
"too powerful." - NEWSDAY 6/30/98. Defense Claims Mayor
Sought Hikind Charges.
"I don't get offended any longer when people call me crazy,"
Giuliani said at a news conference, responding to the attack from
one doctor. "But I wonder about a doctor running a methadone
program who, when a mayor raises the idea that we should end methadone,
which is a way of keeping people dependent, describes my idea
as crazy." -NY TIMES 7/22/98 .
[A few hours after ordering newspapers confiscated in front of
the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Mayor Giuliani began a Presidential
Campaign trip in Milwaukee Wisconsin, and made the following comments:]
"Giuliani said the core of his programs give people "freedom"
from such things as welfare dependency and fear of crime. When
crime was high, he added, "New Yorkers . . . had the same
feeling of oppression that someone would have in a totalitarian
government."- N.Y. Daily News 8/26/98.
"A dictator who oppresses people is someone who should be
ostracized by the United States," Giuliani told leaders of
the Cuban American National Foundation, which calls itself the
country's leading anti-Castro group." - Daily News 10/2/98.
"The Mayor's unnecessary and unconscionable war on the weak
and the poor and the black and the brown continues. Let the cleansing
begin." "Cleansing CUNY" - NY Times 5/28/98.
"Mayor Rudolph Giuliani...proposed cutting the library budget
by $15 million -- even while trumpeting a $2 billion budget surplus
-- and asked the libraries to make up some of the shortfall through
private fund-raising. Librarians say this is the first time the
city has asked the system to raise money for basic operating expenses."
- NY TIMES 5/20/98 Editorial: Hacking Away at the Libraries.
"One of the things I enjoy most about being Mayor is visiting school children, reading with them and hearing about what they want to be when they grow up," the Mayor said. 10/13/98 Giuliani Press Release #476-98: "Mayor Giuliani Helps announce Debut of the Children's Book "Day In The Life Of A Mayor".
"Die-hard Yankee fan Mayor Giuliani yesterday said he would
let his son, Andrew, skip school to attend today's ticker-tape
parade and suggested other children should do the same because
they could learn something from baseball." - Daily News 10/23/98.
"Mayor Rudolph Giuliani has a propensity to keep arguing
even when the law and good sense go against him. This has been
particularly true in cases involving the release of information.
For nearly two years his administration has refused to hand over
relevant police files to the Public Advocate. - Mark Green"
11/10/98 NY Times Editorial.
NY Times 4/7/98 NYC: Once Again, the Mayor Hogs the Ball "Forest
City Ratner, a major New York developer...spent more on lobbying
the municipal government last year than any other business group,
according to a study released Thursday. The company spent $382,385
on lobbying, which included hiring five of the top 10 lobbyists
in the city to influence decisions relating to several real estate
projects in the five boroughs. The figure accounted for 3.4 percent
of all the money spent on lobbying in the city last year, and
it far surpassed the $181,842 spent by Merrill Lynch, which ranked
second. Among other groups that spent a lot of money lobbying
last year was Reuters, the British information services company,
which recorded $143,224 in lobbying fees. Last November, Reuters
got a $26 million tax break to build a headquarters on a parcel
at 42nd Street and Seventh Avenue in Times Square. - NY TIMES
5/15/98 .
"For the second time in two years, The New York Post has
received large tax breaks and other subsidies from city and state
officials after threatening to move some of its operations out
of New York City. Officials have granted the newspaper $24.4 million
in incentives to build a new printing plant on 17 acres at a rail
yard in the South Bronx."- NY TIMES 7/21/98.
"Mayor Rudolph Giuliani yesterday opened a self-promoting
extravaganza known as the New York City Police Department's second
annual spring COMPSTAT conference. This year's conference, at
the Marriot Marquis hotel, got off to a better start than last
year's, when the mayor barred COMPSTAT's founder, ex-police commissioner
Bill Bratton. Meanwhile in the ballroom, each visitor found upon
his seat a copy of Sunday's Parade magazine, which featured on
its cover a picture of the mayor and Police Commissioner Howard
Safir standing beneath the Brooklyn Bridge with the caption "They've
made big changes that are making the city safer." Somehow
in the picture, Giuliani, who stands 5 feet, 9 inches, appears
taller than Safir, who is 6-foot-3." - NEWSDAY 5/12/1998.
"With crime rates dropping at record rates, former Police
Commissioner William Bratton said it's time to cut as many as
3,300 cops and stop making them chase "after petty obscure
offenses...Cops have to be careful," Bratton told this week's
edition of New York magazine, "that they don't move from
working on things that drive people crazy ... to things in which
the benefits are far less tangible and have the risk of alienating
people and making them feel like Big Brother is upon us."
- NYPOST 7/13/98.
"Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani appointed Robert M. Harding as his budget director yesterday, choosing to fill a critical position with a lawyer with strong political skills but little experience in fiscal matters and who is the son of one of Giuliani's closest political allies...Harding, 40, has little experience with municipal budgets compared with his predecessors, and his selection surprised many fiscal experts, government officials and government watchdog groups. Several critics dismissed the appointment as a payoff to Harding's father, Raymond B. Harding, the leader of the Liberal Party, who has supported and advised Giuliani since 1989." - NY TIMES 7/8/98: Mayor Places An Ally's Son in Budget Post.
"A Queens precinct commander says he will punish cops who
don't make enough arrests by denying them days off, even in an
emergency, The Post has learned...Although the Police Department
denies there are arrest quotas in any of the precincts, the memo
proves that cops who don't bring in enough bad guys face repercussions.
"The pressure from the department to meet these numbers has
surpassed the pressure that the officer encounters while on patrol,"
said Patrolmen's Benevolent Association official Daniel Tirelli.
"Unfortunately, these pressures are not just in the 110th
Precinct, they're in all precincts throughout the city."
- NY POST 6/11/98.
"Kenneth Starr and Rudolph Giuliani worked together at the
Reagan Justice Department. And they also have this in common:
both pranced around in drag for variety shows. "Ken's a good
friend," says Mr. Giuliani." - NY Times 3/1/98.
"Even though there is generally no expectation of privacy
in a public space, most people expect freedom from government
monitoring when they eat lunch on a park bench or stroll down
a street. The growing use of police video monitors in New York
City may threaten the free and anonymous nature of public space."
- 1/3/98 NY Times Editorial: Police Cameras in the Park.
"If the mayor says no, then there is a minimum 40% chance
the true answer is yes, on any topic. That is the state of the
mayor's credibility on matters of importance, a reputation he
has earned in three years of saying any blessed thing he wishes
were true. Now, a magazine article has said that he destroyed
his marriage over a personal relationship with a press aide. "The
best thing that can be done with this article as far as I'm concerned
is it could be thrown it in the trash," said Mayor Giuliani
yesterday...He is 53. She is 32. They spend every moment together,
nearly 18 to 20 public hours on some days. He shopped for dresses
with her one Sunday afternoon. They turn up at building collapses
at 1 in the morning, and at private parties at 10 in the evening.
In denying the Vanity Fair magazine story, Giuliani says he didn't
have sex with Lategano. But sex would only make this relationship
less weird. Lategano - whose resume doesn't get much deeper than
sneaker saleswoman and campaign worker - now runs the biggest
city in the country with Giuliani. You cannot get a streetlight
fixed unless it is good for the mayor's image." - 7/5/97
Daily News.
"The [unions] structure has contributed to corruption, these
critics say, by discouraging executive board members from questioning
how the union is run and by engendering a management style characterized
by skimpy financial oversight little questioning and a lot of
looking the other way...District Council 37 is one of the city's
biggest, most powerful unions and, under Hill, is known for being
close to Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani and for negotiating contracts
that set the pattern for all city workers." "Critics
Contend Power Structure Bred Corruption in City Union" -
NY Times 11/9/98.
"Marcus Aurelius is one of two great Roman symbols, representing
the universality and history of Rome. As emperor, he was noted
for his humanitarian philosophy and his sensitivity to the Empire's
poor". - 6/3/98 Giuliani Press Release #251: "Giuliani
accepts statue of Emperor Marcus Aurelius from Mayor of Rome".
"Federal officials say New York City's new welfare policies
may improperly deprive thousands of poor people of access to food
and medical assistance, and they have begun reviewing the public
assistance programs to determine whether they violate Federal
law...The inquiry focuses on the city's application procedures
and marks the first time Federal authorities have questioned Mayor
Rudolph W. Giuliani's new welfare policies, which discourage the
needy from applying for public assistance in an effort to push
them to rely on themselves, not government. " U.S. Inquiry
Asks if City Deprives Poor" - NY. Times 11/8/98.
"There is emerging a new New York that is increasingly authoritarian
and repressive,". New York Civil Liberty Union's executive
director, Norman Siegel." - NY Times 7/5/98.
"A Federal judge in Manhattan ruled Monday that a city policy
banning large groups from holding news conferences or rallies
on the steps of City Hall was unconstitutional, saying that the
Mayor used it selectively to allow groups like the Young Republicans
to gather there, while blocking an AIDS advocacy group that had
been critical of him." Judge Says Ban on Big Rallies at City
Hall is Unconstitutional" - NY TIMES 7/21/98.
"You pay for it, you've got it" hasn't yet become the
city's motto, but we are making steady progress in that direction.
Over the last four years, New York has sold off its public radio
station, tried to sell its hospitals, ceded to business improvement
districts the upkeep of large swaths of Manhattan and handed over
Central Park to be run by a group of private citizens. Now, it
is introducing Rent-a-Cop. For $27 an hour, plus handling charges,
it is possible to put an order in with the city's Police Department
for a uniformed officer -- complete with bulletproof vest and
the power of arrest -- to keep the peace at your private affair.
To sweeten the deal, the city will even pick up liability costs:
if your rented officer happens to apply excessive force or wrench
his back, taxpayers will pick up the tab." - NY TIMES 6/29/98:
Rent-a-Cop Program -- the Best Protection Money Can Buy.
`Increasingly, you see Mayor Giuliani handling dissent in a mean-spirited,
bullying, autocratic fashion, and increasingly using the police
as a private mayoral army to target those who disagree with him,''
said civil rights lawyer and activist Ron Kuby." - AP 4/30/98
"Giuliani Under Fire in New York" .
"At today's rally, which attracted about 400 vendors, street
artists, and a smattering of taxi drivers, the mayor was described
as: "Crueliani," "Jailiani," and "Stalag
Gholiani". Many of the protesting street artists have had
their artwork confiscated this year by police after they displayed
it without a permit in front of the Metropolitan Museum of Art
on Fifth Avenue. Lederman said police have confiscated his paintings
of the mayor on more than 30 occasions. He said there is one that
particularly attracts the confiscatory enthusiasm of the cops:
"It says 'Giuliani Equals Police State." -Washington
Post 6/4/98: "Mayor's on a Roll Vendors Aren't Buying".
"For as long as 15 years, New York City police officers from
the precinct responsible for eradicating much of the tawdriness
from Times Square frequented a neighborhood brothel -- in uniform
and while on duty -- for free sex, Mayor Rudolph Giuliani and
police officials acknowledged Friday." "Police Said
to Have Made Deal With Prostitutes" - NY Times 7/18/98.
"Employees of some topless clubs have said they hope to stay
in business by clothing dancers in bikinis or T-shirts. But Giuliani
declared that efforts to "just get around" the law's
intent would fail, since nudity was "only one of many criteria"
that would be considered." - NY TIMES 7/20/98 .
"They're not only going to have to get around things, they're
going to have to reform themselves and change the essential nature
of the kind of operation that they are," Giuliani said".
- NY Post 7/20/98. "Porn Shops Reach Date of XXXpiration
"
Giuliani said yesterday that the crackdown would be even more
aggressive. "A club may be violating this new zoning law
. . . but it may also be violating health codes, building codes,
fire codes and other things," he said. "So this is our
opportunity to look at this whole group of laws to make sure that
they're in compliance." Penalties for violations could be
severe. "In some cases, it's fines," Giuliani said.
"In some cases, it's putting them out of business."
- Daily News 7/22/98: "City, Rudy Zones In On Sex Shops.
"
"The Giuliani administration has granted a record $666.7
million in tax abatements, the lion's share of which went to businesses
locating in Times Square." - 8/25/98Village Voice "Porn
Free"..
"Thanks to Mayor Giuliani's quality-of-life program, New
Yorkers no longer have to step over quite so many vagrants in
order to enjoy the greenery of New York's parks or the aesthetic
stimulation of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Unfortunately,
thanks to Manhattan Criminal Court Judge Lucy Billings, they might
now find themselves navigating their way around hordes of self-described
"artists" who think it's appropriate to liken politicians
they oppose to Hitler." - NY Post Editorial 8/20/98: "Free
Speech or Free Exhibition Space?"
"The rules for food vendors will also affect street artists. Robert Lederman, a leader of the artists who has called for Mr. Giuliani's impeachment, said he was alarmed by all of the solutions being considered by the Council. Each, he asserted, would lead to the replacement of today's vendors with well-financed companies that could afford to buy the newly rationed right to sell on the sidewalk. "For the past 100 years, vendors have been poor immigrants who were struggling to establish themselves", Mr. Lederman said. "Anybody could get their start on the street. Now we're headed toward the privatization of public space". - NY Times June 26, 1998: "Mayor Abandons Plan to Ban Sidewalk Vendors."
``We're sick and tired of Rudy Giuliani's police state,'' said
street artist Robert Lederman, addressing the protesters with
a bullhorn. ``He's taking away the rights of vendors and giving
them to corporations.'' Giuliani said that although booksellers
enjoy First Amendment protection, it ``doesn't extend to unlimited
protection. If the city deems that a particular street is overcrowded,
then that affects all vendors,'' he said." - N.Y. Street
Vendors Protest. -Associated Press 6/3/98.
"As he continued to accuse City Council leaders of fiscal
waywardness, Mayor Rudolph Giuliani yesterday defended his decision
to forgive $594,000 in back rent...owed by one of his top campaign
contributors...Zachary Fisher, a real estate magnate who is the
museum's chairman and chief benefactor. Fisher donated generously
to Giuliani's past two bids for mayor." - Newsday 10/8/98:
"Mayor Defends Deal on Intrepid ."
"The parades have been rare in recent decades, with only
11 in the city since 1970. But the ticker-tape parade on Monday
will be the third in just the last month. The Mayor was jubilant
in announcing the event for the astronauts. "This is wonderful,"
he said. "I think the more ticker-tape parades I can have
during the time that I'm Mayor, the more great memories I'm going
to have later on." - NY Times 11/13/98: "Glenn Is Set
to Repeat Another Journey in Ticker-Tape Parade Up Broadway. "
"The mayor defended rejecting applications for parade permits
by other groups, including the activist group Housing Works to
mark World AIDS Day. "Obviously, you can't grant everyone's
request", he said. "If the city were to grant permits
to everyone who wants to have a parade, all the city would do
is have parades", Giuliani said. "We wouldn't have gridlock.
We'd be totally frozen". - NY Post. 11/13/98.
Motorists who cause gridlock are simply uncivil, Giuliani said.
"When you block the intersection, you're basically saying,
'I don't care about anybody else, I just care about myself,' "
the mayor said." -"Rudy's Road Rules" - Daily News
11/13/98.
"Nearly 10 percent of the city's 1,100 public schools is
now officially designated as failing, more than at any time in
the last decade. All but four of the schools on the state list
are in New York City." - NY Times 11/14/98: "State Adds
to List of Failing City Schools, Making Total of 97" .
"Nearly five years after a crucial deal lured the Walt Disney
Company to 42d Street and jump-started the revival of Times Square,
a coalition of Broadway interests is struggling to carry the economic
gains to the heart of the theater district. The issue's tangled
beginnings go back to January 1994, when the city and state offered
low-interest loans of almost $30 million to the Walt Disney Company
to renovate and take over the decrepit New Amsterdam Theater on
42d Street.". "The Broadway Theater Still Awaits Windfall
Build on Thin Air". - NY Times 11/12/98.
"The Coalition for Pro-Democracy in China has been instrumental in raising international awareness of the need to end political oppression there. I commend all the organizations that have joined the Coalition in its fight to give the Chinese people on the mainland the right to speak their conscience." - Giuliani Press Release Proclaiming 2/26/98 Coalition for Pro-Democracy in China Day.
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