RUDY VERITAS

Update 5-18

A few things.  For those of you who thought or were hoping that with the posting of Gov't Shutdown this would be the end, well not quite yet.  Over the next three weeks I will be posting the next, possibly two, chapters in the continuing story of my case, 'J'ACCUSE.'  There will be the Cristyne Lategano piece entitled, 'CFL & What Might Have Been.'  Alternately titled, 'How Cristyne Lategano Almost Killed My Mother.'  In the next two days I will post the story of how the 93 Giuliani campaign attempted to have the reporter covering them from the NYT removed and the outcome of that effort.  Also, for no one's benefit or possibly interest, I will post a piece I've written called 'Beginnings.'  It's about my early life and how I became who I am.  It's more catharsis for me than anything else.  But some people have asked about my childhood and my father's early political life so I wrote this many months ago and have decided to finally post it.  Lastly, I will write at some length about the 89 RWG campaign.  That piece is entitled, 'The Zoo.'  A name given to the Radio City campaign offices by Ray Harding.

Lastly, once again, in order to make the Home Page less cumbersome, I have bundled old writings into a post called 'Old Musings  II'. 

UPDATE 11/20 - NEW POST 'LAW & ORDER'

UPDATE 11/12 - See New Post, 'FAVORS'

THE SAVIOR?

Today's New York Post says that key state Republican party leaders are seeking to replace Joe Mondello with Rudy Giuliani.  They say he is the savior of the Party.  Hmmmm.  Anyone happen to see Newsweek naming Rudy one of the ten losers coming out of the 2008 campaign?  Or on their chutzpah scale rating him highly for cravenly pandering to New Hampshire voters by saying that this life-long, die-hard Yankee fan would root for the Red Sox in a World Series?  I think the state party is conveniently missing the message from all this.  John Faso could not have stated the problem more clearly than in his piece in last week's Post.  The state senate Republicans are what's wrong with the state party, not Joe Mondello.  Yes, Joe Mondello was/is a poor chairman.  He was a pick from a former era.  But the reason the public turned so blue on Tuesday was because for years now the senate leadership has offered no alternative to the Democrats.  Faso hit the nail on the head when he said that it would have been unthinkable under Ralph Marino to even consider congestion pricing let alone endorsing it.  But the state party has sold their soul to Mike Bloomberg.  Without his annual $500K they would have no functioning outreach apparatus.  He's not a Republican, never was.  Yet they take his money and endorse his left-wing agenda.  I suppose it is more honorable than taking his money and opposing his agenda, but all the same they've sold out.

As for Rudy "coming home" and saving the day.  Which Rudy is it exactly who will be riding that white stead?  The pro-immigration Rudy who saved but one outreach liaison office when he took over in 1994, that being the Mayor's Office of Immigration Affairs, or the Rudy who now believes we need to beef up the borders and re-examine amnesty?  The unflaggingly pro-choice Rudy or the one who believes we need more pro-life Supreme Court appointments?  The virulently anti-gun Rudy or the one who thinks we need a second look?  I could go on and on.  He sums up the problem in Albany and across the state party.  We don't have any firm convictions so why would anyone vote for us?  His or Tony Carbonetti's appointment as State Chair would only underscore the problem.  Their is no quick fix to this problem - people don't trust us.  Trust has to be won back over time.  Trust me, I know.

Set out a clear moderate-libertarian program -pro-choice, lower taxes, smaller more efficient government, new investment in infrastructure and high-speed rail, opposition to any Bloomberg efforts to tax bridges or entry-points, a true bi-partisan plan (not ESDC corporate boondoggles) to solve the systemic economic troubles of the upstate economy, decriminalize marijuana possession and drastically reduce the prison population and wasted law enforcement resources.  These are just a few ideas, I'm open to many more and a discussion of what our state party is and where it is going.  More of the same will get you more of the same.  Namely, a lot more counties turning blue.  This 1980's experiment of turning the state Republican party into the state Conservative party failed.  We've now tried turning it into the state Democratic party which the results of last Tuesday show us worked no better.  Is Rudy the savior?  I've written here repeatedly that old Rudy could have been.  I've seen no evidence that new Rudy gets it.

UPDATE 11/7

Sorry I have been remiss in keeping the content fresh.  I will do a better job starting next week.  Things to be on the lookout for in the coming days:

1. There seems to be a lot of talk about the deal that EDC/IDA cut for the Yankee Stadium project.  I can't shed any light on that, although I'll have some thoughts, but I can tell you in detail about how Randy Levine cost the city millions of dollars and abused his office as Deputy Mayor for another sweetheart deal that the IDA did during my tenure at EDC and how I tried unsuccessfully to stop it.

2. I'll be posting a piece called 'FAVORS' that will give you some small idea of the power that Tony Carbonetti wielded over city agencies and again, how the taxpayers were shut out of millions of dollars.

3. In another piece called 'REVELATIONS' I will tell you of two extraordinary pieces of information  I learned of from Tony in April of 2001.

4. And lastly, I will begin the process of chronicling my legal case.  I can promise you it won't be as dry as it sounds.

Please bear in mind that the biggest piece I have written I am saving for the end.  That may be weeks or months from now.  It details how, unbeknownst to an entire city, the government of New York City came to a halt and ceased to function for two weeks.  Look out for that piece in the weeks ahead.

10/22

Check the new posts titled "Rubenstein - Bought & Sold" & "Bribery?".

Update 10/8 - Village Voice

Today's Village Voice recounts this site's McCain piece.  To look at or read the story you'd think there was something new to report.  Nope.  All Tom Robbins does is repeat this site's account.  Not a single bit of original reporting or new facts.  In fact, after six years Robbins could not even discover that convicted former HPD Commissioner Richard Roberts was the reason for the $424 charge back at the Bellagio.  He canceled his trip at the last minute.  Six years, a federal indictment and plea later and he still couldn't ferret this out from his "sources?"  He takes this site's account, adds no new information, confirms every detail and still manages to essentially call me a scumbag. This is the e-mail he sent me last week:

Russell:

I'm writing a story about your blog, with focus on the McCain - Vegas episode. If you care to comment further or discuss I'd of course be glad to talk to you. If so, I'd need to speak with you today.
Hope that's not too syrupy.

Sincerely,
Tom Robbins
trobbins@villagevoice.com
212-475-2096

Too syrupy?  Jesus Christ, you want to throw-up from this guy.  There is a reason Robbins can't add new details or do any original reporting.  I'll get to that in a few weeks.  In fact, all about it. 

RAH

10/1

The new post listed under "The 2008 Race" is being published prior to the regular bi-weekly post.  As I have said, events and timeliness may cause things to be published sooner, later or in a different order than I originally intended.  I am keeping to my original timetable and the next regularly scheduled major post will appear, as promised, next week. 

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DOI

I urge you to read a post submitted by someone calling themselves "noway"@privacy.com (ip address   75.161.127.15.)  Given the facts he portrays and how unashamedly he's willing to come off an idiot I have no doubt it is the same NYC Dept of Investigation yahoo who came to my house on the day my apt was searched and later when I was arrested.  First consider that he feels compelled after 6 years to post something so full of scorn, hate and rage.  I went to prison - they won.  Nope, not good enough.  This is the same guy who on the day of my arrest complained to the Fed agent in charge that I was putting on my shoes and socks in the wrong order.  The Fed told him to shut-up.  I will be writing extensively about the NYC DOI and law enforcement in general, but nothing, nothing could prove the points I will make better than the post from this presumably current DOI employee.  These guys don't just do a job professionally and then go home.  They are filled with self-loathing and hatred towards those they perceive have it better than them at some unfair advantage.  It colors their whole view of the world and in doing their jobs leads them to make, at first, small compromises and then ever greater ones.  The ends always justify the means.   This guy was a tag along, as was DOI, to the Feds.  They treated him as such.  Naturally he didn't realize that, although it was obvious.

Six years later this guy is still haunted by the fact that they cuffed me in the front instead of the back. Sick.  As my mother would say, "Nicht Normal."  I really encourage you to ask yourself what would motivate someone to write that post.  In a sane world a guy like that would say, "I did the work, I helped put a bad guy away - end of story - move on to the next case."   But he can't.  Like I said they are filled with hate, consumed by it.  Why else would someone from 'law enforcement', and we never considered DOI law enforcement, write something like that.  I thank him for the post.  He will make my job immeasurably easier.