The Daily Background

Hey, I just wanted to encourage everbody to check out my latest piece over at Truthout.org. The subject is Rudy Giuliani, and how if the Republican party chooses him as their nominee, it would make history because he’s totally unlike any other candidate they’ve ever had. Here’s a teaser:

America’s mayor or not, some of the events of the day that made him famous are inconvenient for many conservatives - the same conservatives who decide the ever-important Republican primaries in southern states like South Carolina. Most are unaware that on that fateful morning, Giuliani did not wake up in Gracie Mansion, the official NYC mayoral residence, but instead got out of bed in an Upper East Side apartment - an apartment that he shared with two gay men.

Gay roommates aside, nobody can say that Rudy isn’t a family man. He’s had plenty of families. He’s even married into his own family: in 1982 he sought an annulment from his first wife, whom he suddenly discovered was actually his second cousin. This, after they had already been married for 14 years. No doubt an awkward conversation between the two (who had once spent childhood vacations together) followed that revelation.

Or perhaps there wasn’t a conversation at all. Giuliani’s second wife found out that her husband was seeking a divorce from her by way of the ever-gentle New York City press corps after he abruptly made the announcement at a press conference one day. By this time the couple had had two kids and he had allegedly cheated on her with two other women - one a staff member, the other a “very good friend” who eventually became his third wife. It was between divorcing his second wife and marrying the next that Giuliani had moved in with the gay couple with whom he had met and “hit it off” during his first failed bid for City Hall, years earlier.

Go check out the full item, The Unlikely Republican Frontrunner.

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