Remember when Giuliani tried to exploit 3000 dead people to prolong his term as mayor?

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http://www.wsws.org/articles/2001/oct2001/giul-o04.shtml

New York mayor exploits tragedy in bid to prolong his term

By Bill Vann
4 October 2001

New York City’s Mayor Rudolph Giuliani’s extra-legal bid to extend his term in office or override laws barring him from serving a third term are a particularly sinister expression of the ongoing attempts to exploit the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in order to curtail democratic rights.

Giuliani officially abandoned his drive for a third term on Wednesday, after failing to garner sufficient support in the New York state legislature. However, he reiterated his bid to extend his present term of office. Whatever the outcome of these maneuvers, the very fact that Giuliani has made such a blatantly undemocratic effort and been given substantial backing from sections of the media and the financial establishment has immense political significance.

While according to the city’s constitution, Giuliani must leave office at the end of this year, on the eve of the September 25 primary he floated his proposal to hold onto power. The mayor, who exercised a jealous monopoly on public pronouncements in the wake of the September 11 disaster, deliberately downplayed the vote to select the Democratic and Republican candidates to replace him. While forcefully urging New Yorkers to go shopping, to the theater or to a movie to affirm the city’s return to normalcy, he reluctantly acknowledged that they could vote for the candidate of their choice “if they want to.”

Aides told faithful media flacks that their boss felt compelled to stay on because of a groundswell of popular support. Meanwhile, this former prosecutor and darling of Wall Street sought to cloak himself in the heroism of working class New Yorkers—firefighters, paramedics and construction workers—who sacrificed their lives by rushing into the burning and collapsing towers to save others.

As time wore on, however, those closest to the mayor increasingly put forward another argument for keeping Giuliani in office: security demands it, regardless what the law says.

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1. Yes. Yes I do. It didn't seem too float long, thankfully...

I remember the chill it sent down my spine. The speed with which his "proposal" was brought forth was alarming..

[NNN0LHI]

3. If this guy ever starts calling himself "the decider in chief" and we will never get rid of him

That is obvious.

Don

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2. We don't need another 'signing statement and executive order.......

self privileged dictator'.