Rudy Guliani

I found out a little about Rudy Guiliani via my teacher in Employment Law and I had to look it up for myself. I would tell you I could never vote for Guiliani.

These are snippets I pulled off the internet about Guilianis handling of 911. Definitely Republican possibly criminal.

http://www.infowars.com/articles/sept11/toxic_dust_ground_zero_illness_giuliani_legacy.htm
An examination of Mr. Giuliani's handling of the extraordinary recovery operation during his last months in office shows that he seized control and largely limited the influence of

experienced federal agencies. In doing that, according to some experts and many of those who worked in the trade center's ruins, Mr. Giuliani might have allowed his sense of purpose to

trump caution in the rush to prove that his city was not crippled by the attack.
Administration documents and thousands of pages of legal testimony filed in a lawsuit against New York City, along with more than two dozen interviews with people involved in the events

of the last four months of Mr. Giuliani's administration, show that while the city had a safety plan for workers, it never meaningfully enforced federal requirements that those at the site wear

respirators.
At the same time, the administration warned companies working on the pile that they would face penalties or be fired if work slowed. And according to public hearing transcripts and

unpublished administration records, officials also on some occasions gave flawed public representations of the nature of the health threat, even as they privately worried about exposure to

lawsuits by sickened workers.

http://www.democrats.org/a/2007/06/rudy_giuliani_p.php
Despite Rudy's desperate attempts to shift blame, records show that his administration was aware of the toxic levels of asbestos in air samples of Ground Zero but he "sidelined" federal

agencies with "extensive disaster response experience." Giuliani's administration assigned clean-up to an unknown city agency and re-opened sections of Manhattan "despite knowing the

air was toxic," "overruling" the city's Department of Environmental Protection which found high levels of asbestos in 27 of 38 tests conducted before Giuliani refuted concerns about the air

quality and said the "air quality is safe and acceptable." [The New York Times, 5/14/07; UPI, 9/7/06; Giuliani, 9/28/01; New York Post, 9/7/06; Daily News, 9/6/06]

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/05/nyregion/05masks.html
With mounting evidence that exposure to the toxic smoke and ash at
ground zero during the nine-month cleanup has made many people sick,
attention is now focusing on the role of air-filtering masks, or
respirators, that cost less than $50 and could have shielded workers
from some of the toxins.
Ground zero was about the most dangerous workplace imaginable: a smoking
heap of nearly two million tons of tangled steel and concrete that
contained a brew of toxins, including asbestos, benzene, PCB's, and more
than 400 chemicals. Indeed, recent health studies have found that many
people who worked on the pile have since developed a rash of serious
ailments, including gastrointestinal and respiratory problems.
In the chaos of the first 48 hours after the twin towers collapsed, only
the city's firefighters had any personal protective equipment suitable
for such an environment. But even that equipment was not sufficient.
According to the inspector general's exhaustive recounting of the
environmental consequences of Sept. 11, a federal emergency response
team prepared a report on the day of the attacks recommending that
respirators be used at ground zero.
But the report was never issued because it was decided that New York
City, and not the federal government, should handle worker protection
issues.
OSHA refused to answer questions about its handling of the respirators.
John M. Chavez, a spokesman, said lawyers from the Department of
Justice's environmental torts branch, which is handling trade center
litigation, advised against talking to reporters about respirators
because "the question goes to the heart of the issue of the litigation."
But perhaps the greatest impediments to compliance were the confusing
guidelines and spotty enforcement efforts. Overseeing the work, and
worker safety, was a horde of government entities that, at its peak,
exceeded 30 city, state and federal agencies with overlapping
jurisdictions and, at times, contradictory policies.
But several recent health studies have shown that exposure to ground
zero dust has caused serious respiratory and gastrointestinal problems
in hundreds of people who worked at the site. Doctors have also started
to notice an unusual number of lung-scarring diseases, especially among
firefighters. So far there has been only one death officially linked to
dust exposure, that of Detective James Zadroga, whose death early this
year was attributed to lung scarring caused by the work he did at ground
zero.

http://projectdisaster.com/?cat=54
From the beginning, there was no doubt that Mr. Giuliani and his team ruled the hellish disaster site. Officials from the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the Army Corps of

Engineers and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, all with extensive disaster response experience, arrived almost immediately, only to be placed on the sideline. One

Army Corps official said Mr. Giuliani acted like a “benevolent dictator.”
Despite the presence of those federal experts, Mr. Giuliani assigned the ground zero cleanup to a largely unknown city agency, the Department of Design and Construction. Kenneth

Holden, the department’s commissioner until January 2004, said in a deposition in the federal lawsuit against the city that he initially expected FEMA or the Army Corps to try to take over

the cleanup operation. Mr. Giuliani never let them.
In this environment, the mayor’s take-charge attitude produced two clear results, according to records and interviews. One, work moved quickly. Although the cleanup was expected to

last 30 months, the pit was cleared by June 2002, nine months after the attack.
And second, the city ultimately became responsible for thousands of workers and volunteers while, critics say, its health and safety standards went lacking.
“I would describe it as a conspiracy of purpose,” said Suzanne Mattei, director of the New York office of the Sierra Club, which has been critical of how the cleanup was handled. “It wasn’t

people running around saying, ‘Don’t do this safely.’ But there was a unified attempt to do everything as fast as possible, to get everything up and running as fast as possible. Anything in

the way of that just tended to be ignored.”
Records show that the city was aware of the danger in the ground zero dust from the start. In a federal court deposition, Kelly R. McKinney, associate commissioner at the city’s health

department in 2001, said the agency issued an advisory on the night of Sept. 11 stating that asbestos in the air made the site hazardous and that everyone should wear masks.
Many workers refused. No one wanted to be slowed down while there was still a chance of rescuing people. Later on, workers said that the available respirators were cumbersome and

made it difficult for them to talk.