Did you know that Rudy Giuliani's first wife was his cousin?

[Poiuyt]

I just found that out. Maybe it's okay, but it seems kind of creepy to me.

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Giuliani's first marriage was to his cousin and childhood sweetheart, Regina Peruggi, to whom he was married from 1969 to 1982.

more-

http://redstatesinners.blogspot.com/2005/01/rudolph-giuliani-lust.html

[JI7]

1. yes, he also dumped wife #2 on national television

and the Right Wing Primary voters wont like it that he stayed with a gay couple after he separated from wife #2.

[Catherine Vincent]

2. !st, 2nd or 3rd? n/t

[Alexander]

3. So was FDR's. Out of curiousity, which cousin?

It's not like there's a huge risk of birth defects or anything like that when you speak of cousins marrying.

I still think it's kind of icky, but I remember reading some statistics which indicated that the increase in birth defects due to cousins marrying was negligible.

[Princess Turandot]

4. I don't know how often it occurs..

but around 20 states have no prohibitions on first cousins marrying including NYS, MA, CA as well as several southern states.

[Goat or Panic]

5. Second cousin

Still strange that the "liberal media" hasn't made a big deal of this. :sarcasm:

[Tom Joad]

6. Do you hear dueling banjos, or is it just me?

[Bucky]

7. Well, it's New York, so it would probably be dueling street corner du-wop groups

But yeh, Rudy's gonna carry a lot of baggage into the primary season. They understand his marital problems in New York and Nevada--I suspect Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina will be less forgiving of his record of having a live in mistress at Gracie Mansion.