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Ground Zero Worker Outraged at Giuliani’s Boasts
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Last week, we noted former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani claimed, in the weeks of rescue and clean up after the Sept. 11 attacks, he was at the World Trade Center site “as often, if not more, than most of the workers.”
That statement shocked many who actually did spend a lot of time at the site, including Reggie Cervantes, a volunteer emergency medical technician who was on the emergency rescue team. As a result of her exposure to dust from Ground Zero, Cervantes says she now suffers from pulmonary fibrosis. Her struggle to get health care is featured in Michael Moore’s film “Sicko.”
Cervantes has responded to Giuliani’s claim in a powerful video. She accuses Giuliani of trivializing the suffering of those who, like her, were on the job and wound up with serious health problems. Cervantes says Giuliani is guilty of a failure of leadership:
You’ve done nothing, absolutely nothing to help us…you lack compassion, and your colossal mistakes cost civil servants their lives.
Firefighters and rescue workers also have taken Giuliani to task over his remarks, and former Sen. John Edwards released a statement condemning Giuliani’s grandiose claims.
It seems that Giuliani is determined to take every opportunity to exploit the memory of 9/11 for political gain, rather than honor the incredible sacrifices of our first responders. Enough is enough.
By the next morning, Giuliani started to backtrack from his statement during the radio show of conservative host Mike Gallagher:
“What I was trying to say yesterday is that I empathize with them because I feel like I have that same risk. And the way I said it, I probably could have said it better.”
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Giuliani represents the worst of American Politics, the blowhard who lies. It doesn’t matter which party or what beliefs he has, he’s a consumate liar. He’s not a good candidate, because he’s a terrible model for republicanism, he’s certainly no conservative, and I know the Democrats won’t want him, either. He should be set out on a boat in the middle of the ocean and left to drift by himself.
If Giuliani was truly concerned about the people of New York, he would have made it his mission to do everything in his power to take care of the medical and financial concerns of the survivors and rescue personnel from the 9-11 tragedy. All Giuliani did was exploit the situation for his own political gains. I would not trust him to put the needs of the American people above his own. Perhaps this is merely a reflection of the true colors of the Republican party.