Giuliani got “lucky” that he was in office on 9/11. He wasn’t a particularly good mayor and plenty of people knew it but he managed to turn that into a lot of goodwill. Now that he’s shown his ass repeatedly, people are losing the rose-tinted glasses big time. Adams just decided he wasn’t gonna wait 15 years to make people hate him. He’s an overachiever.
Giuliani was re-elected before 9/11 because he was “tough on crime” and crime declined dramatically while he was in office. By the time 9/11 happened, he was not eligible to run for mayor again due to term limits.
Yeah, I remember him instituting blatantly unconstitutional policies like “stop and frisk”. I’m still not sure how he got away with it or how people didn’t realize he was a fascist.
He was elected mayor twice, both times before 9/11 (which happened only a few months before the end of his second term). After 9/11 he was never elected to any office again, despite his efforts.
Mayor Rudolph Giuliani’s approval rating has edged up to an all-time 68 - 28 percent high, matching a record of 70 percent of New Yorkers who are “very satisfied” or “somewhat satisfied” with life in the city, according to a Quinnipiac College Poll released today.
Giuliani was a popular mayor. I think Adams would love to see a large drop in crime during his term and win reelection like Giuliani did.
Giuliani got “lucky” that he was in office on 9/11. He wasn’t a particularly good mayor and plenty of people knew it but he managed to turn that into a lot of goodwill. Now that he’s shown his ass repeatedly, people are losing the rose-tinted glasses big time. Adams just decided he wasn’t gonna wait 15 years to make people hate him. He’s an overachiever.
Giuliani was re-elected before 9/11 because he was “tough on crime” and crime declined dramatically while he was in office. By the time 9/11 happened, he was not eligible to run for mayor again due to term limits.
Yeah, I remember him instituting blatantly unconstitutional policies like “stop and frisk”. I’m still not sure how he got away with it or how people didn’t realize he was a fascist.
He got lucky in that a lot of the reasons for the nationwide decrease in crime happened during his administration.
You also had enough people in NYC happy that the city was becoming more orderly.
He was only popular with people outside of NY who had no idea who he was before 9/11…
He was elected mayor twice, both times before 9/11 (which happened only a few months before the end of his second term). After 9/11 he was never elected to any office again, despite his efforts.
Did you just now figure out the two party system usually results in a general with two options who are unpopular?
Congrats? I guess someone figures it out every day…
As a matter of fact, he was popular.
Right before his re-election,
Rudy wasn’t popular with New Yorkers…
New York was popular with New Yorkers