Tag: George Pataki

The Story: Next year (on November 8, 2022) the voters of New York, the fourth most populous state in the United States, will elect a...

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When Donald Trump famously descended the escalator of Trump Tower to announce he was running for president in June 2015, I found my thoughts immediately turning to Rudy Giuliani. Here was another son of New York City making a wildly unrealistic bid for the White House, just as Giuliani had done eight years previously. US still under attack from 'pervasive campaign' by Russia, officials warn Read more When Trump won, it seemed like a big reward was on its way to Giuliani. Giuliani had been given perhaps the most important job of all: fighting Trump’s corner as Robert Mueller’s FBI investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election homed in relentlessly on the White House. So why did he bring up the allegation, which had apparently been put to White House officials, at all, deepening the intrigue surrounding the Trump Tower meeting? I’ve talked to influential business people in New York who know both men and did business with them in the 1990s, when Giuliani was New York mayor and Trump was rising as the city’s most egotistical developer. Some of Giuliani’s campaigning for Trump bordered on the unhinged. Trump’s strategy has been to attack Mueller relentlessly. He wanted an attack dog to bite back at Mueller and there was no one more snarling than Giuliani. The next day he was arguing that collusion was not a crime, anyway.

Sansone founded the New Era Democratic Club in Brooklyn with her husband, Zachary. She also created the Coalition of Italian-American Organizations. She also backed Republican George Pataki as well as Democrat Mario Cuomo for governor. In fact, her club referred to itself an “independent political organization.” Modal Trigger Bloomberg on Tuesday said Sansone’s endorsement gave his first run for mayor in 2001 credibility. “Back in 2001, when not a lot of people were predicting success for my mayoral campaign, Mary Sansone told me I was going to win. Her crystal ball proved to be as good as her famous meatballs,” Bloomberg said in a statement. “Mary passionately believed that partisan politics should never get in the way of serving the public. She and her husband, Zach, were always kind and generous to me, and I always enjoyed the visits to their home – and of course, her meatballs. Well, Mary Sansone, without question, to me, was the most interesting person in New York City, because a lifetime – a lifetime of changing this world and changing this city for the better,” de Blasio said. He declared June 12, 2016 Mary Sansone Day.

Ex-New York governor reflects on 9/11 anniversary. Former New York Gov. “If you think of the worst scene you could see in a horror picture - lower Manhattan was like that. Amid the rubble, there were still fires burning and smoke everywhere. The air was full of shredded paper from the Hudson to the East River, and it was so thick you could taste it as you tried to breathe," the former governor said. And yet among that, you’d look and you’d see on the rubble where the flames were firefighters working to try to put out the fires. You saw construction workers trying to cut through the twisted steel to see if they could find people alive and save lives," he continued. “So you had the two feelings of absolute horror and tremendous pride in the way in which the people in the face of this unspeakable evil were responding, and that is an image, and those are two feelings I will never lose.” Monday marks the sixteenth anniversary of 9/11, in which nineteen men hijacked four commercial planes. More than two thousand people were killed after the planes crashed into the Twin Towers, the Pentagon and a field outside of Shankesville, Pa. President Trump called for Americans to serve their communities and thank first responders in his first annual Patriot Day message in office. "The service members and first responders who lost their lives on September 11, 2001, and in the years of service since would be proud of what we have all witnessed over these last three weeks and what will undoubtedly unfold in the coming months of recovery," he said.