Rudy Giuliani: Serial-Exagerrator?
In the last two days Giuliani has shown he's uncomfortable with his record as Mayor in New York City. During the Republican debates yesterday and during a "policy" rollout today Giuliani made simple to fact check but big exaggerations about his record.
First he exaggerates the situation in New York City before he became mayor. So much so, that an NBC reporter called him out on the exaggeration.
Giuliani may have put a special emphasis on increasing adoptions during his 8 years as mayor, but he may not have been all that successful.A review of an official New York City document conducted by Factcheck.org looking at adoptions over a ten-year span shows that although Giuliani increased adoptions at a rate higher than his predecessor David Dinkins, adoptions under Giuliani declined five out of the last six years he was in office. Perhaps the former mayor is overstating his accomplishments just a bit.
Then he exaggerated the rate of crime before he took office as Mayor.
Giuliani actually said before he became mayor of New York, people were afraid to go outside, or even buy groceries. What?? I am a native New Yorker and can tell you, I was never afraid to buy groceries. True, crime went down under Giuliani, the subways became safer, but afraid to buy groceries? That's a stretch -- one Giuliani, I suppose, hopes middle America will buy.
And he exaggerates his own record on taxes.
Critics say the ad exaggerates - and strictly speaking, they're right. After all, while the mayor of New York is an exceptionally powerful executive, there's little he can do about taxes without cooperation from the City Council and the State Legislature.
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