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  Giuliani, Rudy
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AffiliationRepublican  
<-  2023-08-23  
 
NameRudy Giuliani
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New York, New York 10065-6102, United States
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Born May 28, 1944 (79 years)
ContributorClassical Liberal
Last ModifedE Pluribus Unum
Aug 24, 2023 08:45pm
Tags Caucasian - Italian - Divorced - Married - Catholic - Christian - Straight -
InfoRudolph William Louis Giuliani

In 1944, Rudolph W. Giuliani was born to a working class family in Brooklyn, New York. As the grandson of Italian immigrants, Mayor Giuliani learned a strong work ethic and a deep respect for America's ideal of equal opportunity. He attended Bishop Loughlin Memorial High School (Class of '61) in Brooklyn, Manhattan College (Class of '65) in the Bronx and New York University Law School in Manhattan, graduating magna cum laude in 1968.
Upon graduation, Rudy Giuliani clerked for Judge Lloyd MacMahon, United States District Judge for the Southern District of New York. In 1970, Giuliani joined the office of the U.S. Attorney. At age 29, he was named Chief of the Narcotics Unit and rose to serve as executive US Attorney. In 1975, Giuliani was recruited to Washington, D.C., where he was named Associate Deputy Attorney General and chief of staff to the Deputy Attorney General. From 1977 to 1981, Giuliani returned to New York to practice law at Patterson, Belknap, Webb and Tyler.

In 1981, Giuliani was named Associate Attorney General, the third highest position in the Department of Justice. As Associate Attorney General, Giuliani supervised all of the US Attorney Offices' Federal law enforcement agencies, the Bureau of Corrections, the Drug Enforcement Agency, and the US Marshals.

In 1983, Giuliani was appointed US Attorney for the Southern District of New York, where he spearheaded the effort to jail drug dealers, fight organized crime, break the web of corruption in government, and prosecute white-collar criminals. Few US Attorneys in history can match his record of 4,152 convictions with only 25 reversals.

In 1989, Giuliani entered the race for mayor of New York City as a candidate of the Republican and Liberal parties, losing by the closest margin in City history. However in 1993, his campaign focusing on quality of life, crime, business and education made him the 107th Mayor of the City of New York. In 1997 he was re-elected by a wide margin, carrying four out of New York City's five boroughs.

As Mayor, Rudy Giuliani has returned accountability to City government and improved the quality of life for all New Yorkers. Under his leadership, overall crime is down 57%, murder has been reduced 65%, and New York City - once infamous around the world for its dangerous streets - has been recognized by the F.B.I. as the safest large city in America for the past five years.

New York City's law enforcement strategies have become models for other cities around the world, particularly the CompStat program, which won the 1996 Innovations in Government Award from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. CompStat allows police to statistically monitor criminal activity on specific street corners as well as citywide, holding precinct commanders accountable for criminal activity in their neighborhoods. Because this data is updated constantly, it enables the police to become a proactive force in fighting crime, stopping crime trends before they become crime waves that negatively effect the quality of life for neighborhood residents.

When Mayor Giuliani took office, one out of every seven New Yorkers was on welfare. Mayor Giuliani has returned the work ethic to the center of City life by implementing the largest and most successful welfare-to-work initiative in the country, cutting welfare rolls in half while moving over 640,000 individuals from dependency on the government to the dignity of self-sufficiency. In addition, Giuliani has enacted a record of over $2.5 billion in tax reductions - including the commercial rent tax, personal income tax, the hotel occupancy tax, and the sales tax on clothing for purchases up to $110 dollars. In addition, hundreds of millions of dollars have been returned to the private sector as a result of the Mayor's aggressive campaign to root out organized crime's influence over the Fulton Fish Market, the private garbage hauling industry, and wholesale food markets throughout the City. These reforms, combined with the fiscal discipline which enabled the Mayor to turn an inherited $2.3 billion dollar budget deficit into a multi-billion dollar surplus, have led the City to an era of broad-based growth with a record 450,000 new private sector jobs created in the past seven years. As news of the City's resurgence has spread around the nation and the world, tourism has grown to record levels.

Mayor Giuliani is committed to nurturing and empowering New York City's children. By creating the Administration for Children's Services, New York City now has an accountable, proactive and effective protector for our City's most vulnerable children that is recognized as a national model. Moreover, New York City is working everyday to find loving families for children requiring adoption. The City has completed a record number of adoptions since 1996 - more than 20,000 - marking a dramatic 65% increase over the previous six-year period. Mayor Giuliani has also been a leader in getting health insurance to children through the innovative HealthStat initiative, which uses computer technology to coordinate a citywide effort to enroll children in existing health insurance programs. To date, 96,000 eligible children and families have been given access to health insurance through the HealthStat initiative. These improvements have increased hope and opportunity for all New York City's children and laid the foundation for our City to be even stronger in the 21st century.

To turn around the nation's largest urban public education system, Giuliani has worked tirelessly to restore accountability and raise standards throughout the City's schools. Student-teacher ratios are at an all-time low, while the annual operating budget for New York City's public schools has increased from $8 billion to $12 billion. Bureaucratic roadblocks to meaningful reform such as social promotion and principal tenure have ended, while programs such as bilingual education and special education have been reformed for the first time in a quarter century. Under the Mayor's leadership, New York City has introduced innovative new instructional programs that improve reading skills, give all students access to computers, and restore arts education as a fundamental part of the school curriculum. In the past year, these successful education initiatives have been accompanied by the establishment of 300-book libraries in every classroom and weekend classes for science and English instruction. In October 2000, the Mayor launched the New York City Charter School Improvement Fund, the first fund ever offered by a city government to help charter schools with equipment and facilities costs. The fund is the most recent example of the Mayor's commitment to both providing quality educational alternatives to all City families, regardless of their income, and to spurring the New York City public schools to improve through competition.

Under Rudy Giuliani's leadership, New York City has become the best-known example of the resurgence of urban America. From his success at cleaning up Times Square and other public spaces around the City to closing the Fresh Kills landfill on Staten Island, Mayor Giuliani has worked tirelessly to pass New York to the next generation better and more beautiful than it was before he entered office.

New York has established itself as the City others look toward when they want to study the most innovative strategies for reducing crime, reforming welfare, encouraging economic growth, and improving the overall quality of life. In the past decade, New York City's population has reached a record 8 million residents, confirming that New York is again a City on the rise, full of optimism and confidence that its best days are still ahead of it.


JOB APPROVAL POLLS
DateFirmApproveDisapproveDon't Know
10/16/2001-10/22/2001 Quinnipiac University 79.00% ( 0.0) 17.00% ( 1.0) 4.00% ( 2.0)
10/01/2001-10/08/2001 Quinnipiac University 79.00% ( 29.0) 16.00% ( 24.0) 6.00% ( 4.0)
07/17/2001-07/23/2001 Quinnipiac University 50.00% ( 1.0) 40.00% ( 1.0) 10.00% ( 2.0)
05/31/2001-06/05/2001 Quinnipiac University 51.00% ( 1.0) 41.00% ( 1.0) 8.00% ( 2.0)
04/23/2001-04/30/2001 Quinnipiac University 50.00% ( 1.0) 40.00% ( 1.0) 10.00% ( 0.0)
03/27/2001-04/02/2001 Quinnipiac University 51.00% ( 3.0) 39.00% ( 3.0) 10.00% ( 0.0)
02/20/2001-02/26/2001 Quinnipiac University 54.00% ( 3.0) 36.00% ( 2.0) 10.00% ( 1.0)
01/23/2001-01/29/2001 Quinnipiac University 51.00% ( 4.0) 38.00% ( 1.0) 11.00% ( 3.0)
11/13/2000-11/19/2000 Quinnipiac University 55.00% ( 7.0) 37.00% ( 5.0) 8.00% ( 2.0)
07/26/2000-07/31/2000 Quinnipiac University 48.00% ( 1.0) 42.00% ( 3.0) 10.00% ( 3.0)
FAVORABILITY POLLS
DateFirmFavorableUnfavorableDon't Know
01/26/2020-01/28/2020 YouGov 34.00% ( 2.0) 46.00% ( 1.0) 20.00% ( 3.0)
12/28/2019-12/31/2019 YouGov 32.00% ( 0.0) 45.00% ( 0.0) 23.00% ( 0.0)
06/08/2018-06/10/2018 Public Policy Polling 32.00% ( 0.0) 48.00% ( 0.0) 21.00% ( 0.0)
05/31/2018-06/05/2018 Quinnipiac University 29.00% ( 19.0) 44.00% ( 1.0) 26.00% ( 20.0)
01/08/2013-01/14/2013 Quinnipiac University 48.00% ( 0.0) 43.00% ( 0.0) 6.00% ( 0.0)

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EVENTS
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NEWS
Date Category Headline Article Contributor
Dec 15, 2023 03:20pm Legal Ruling Rudy Giuliani hit with $148M verdict for defaming two Georgia election workers  Article RP 
Jun 24, 2021 10:40am Legal Ruling Rudy Giuliani Suspended From Practicing Law in New York  Article IndyGeorgia 
Nov 15, 2019 11:45am Statement Giuliani offers bizarre explanation for 'misleading' claims about Clinton   Article RP 
Sep 27, 2019 02:50pm Commentary ‘I wish he would shut the heck up’: Republicans sour on Giuliani   Article RP 
Jan 11, 2019 07:55am Statement Trump team should be allowed to ‘correct’ final Mueller report, says Giuliani  Article RP 
Nov 29, 2018 03:00pm Event Party celebrating Rudy Giuliani nixed because no one wants to go  Article RP 

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FAMILY
Wife Judi Ann "Judith" Giuliani May 24, 2003-
Son Andrew Giuliani 1986-

INFORMATION LINKS
RACES
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  06/03/2008 US President - R Primaries Lost 2.82% (-43.67%)
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  01/08/2008 NH US Vice President - R Primary Lost 4.91% (-57.52%)
  01/08/2008 NH US Vice President - D Primary Lost 0.04% (-46.88%)
  08/11/2007 Iowa GOP Presidential Straw Poll Lost 1.28% (-30.30%)
  03/02/2004 MN US President - IP Caucus Lost 0.12% (-40.98%)
  11/04/1997 New York City Mayor Won 57.74% (+17.27%)
  11/02/1993 New York City Mayor Won 50.90% (+2.92%)
  11/07/1989 New York City Mayor Lost 47.84% (-2.59%)
  09/12/1989 NYC Mayor - R Primary Won 67.02% (+34.05%)
  05/06/1983 US Attorney - NY Southern District Won 100.00% (+100.00%)
SPECULATIVE, DID NOT RUN
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  02/08/2017 US Attorney General Lost 0.00% (-52.53%)
  02/01/2017 US Secretary of State Lost 0.00% (-56.57%)
  01/20/2017 US Secretary of Homeland Security Lost 0.00% (-88.89%)
  08/23/2004 US Vice President - R Convention Lost 0.00% (-100.00%)
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GA US Senate - Special Election - Nov 03, 2020 R Doug Collins
Chicago Mayor - Feb 26, 2019 D Garry McCarthy
LA District 03 - Nov 06, 2018 R Joshua S. Guillory
NH District 01 - R Primary - Sep 11, 2018 R Eddie Edwards
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AUS Marriage Law Postal Survey - Nov 07, 2017 YES Yes
NY - District 01 - R Primary - Jun 24, 2014 R George Demos
NYC Mayor - R Primary - Sep 10, 2013 D Joe Lhota
NH Governor - R Primary - Sep 11, 2012 R Kevin H. Smith
WI US Senate - R Primary - Aug 14, 2012 R Tommy Thompson
NY US Senate - R Primary - Jun 26, 2012 R Robert L. "Bob" Turner
VA US Senate - R Primary - Jun 12, 2012 R George F. Allen
NY US Senate - Special R Primary - Sep 14, 2010 R Peter T. King
NY Governor - R Primary - Sep 14, 2010 R Rick Lazio
NY District 13 - R Primary - Sep 14, 2010 R Michael G. Grimm
MA District 10 - R Primary - Sep 14, 2010 I Joseph D. Malone
FL US Senate - R Primary - Aug 24, 2010 R Marco A. Rubio
CA Governor - R Primary - Jun 08, 2010 R Meg Whitman
SC Governor - R Primary - Jun 08, 2010 R Henry McMaster
KY US Senate - R Primary - May 18, 2010 R C. M. "Trey" Grayson
New York City Council 32 - Nov 03, 2009 R Eric A. Ulrich
NJ Governor - R Primary - Jun 02, 2009 R Chris Christie
US President - R Primaries - Jun 03, 2008 R John McCain
CT US Senate - Nov 07, 2006 I Joseph I. "Joe" Lieberman
MD Governor - Nov 07, 2006 R Robert L. "Bob" Ehrlich, Jr.
GA Lt. Governor - R Primary - Jul 18, 2006 R Ralph Reed
St. Paul Mayor - Primary - Sep 13, 2005 DFL Randy C. Kelly
PA US Senate - R Primary - Apr 27, 2004 D Arlen Specter
New York City - Nonpartisan Elections - Nov 04, 2003 YES Yes
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NH US Senate - R Primary - Sep 10, 2002 R Robert C. "Bob" Smith
CA Governor - R Primary - Mar 05, 2002 R Bill Simon
MA Governor - Nov 03, 1998 R Paul Cellucci
NY State Senate 23 - R Primary - Sep 10, 1996 R Robert J. DiCarlo
NY Governor - Nov 08, 1994 D Mario M. Cuomo
US President National Vote - Nov 02, 1976 R Gerald R. Ford