Giuliani fears ex-wife will hit presidential bid

[spindrifter]

The Sunday Times January 07, 2007

THERE is one woman who could cause Rudy Giuliani, the former New York mayor, more problems than Hillary Clinton in the race for the White House: she is Donna Hanover, his second wife, writes Sarah Baxter.

Hanover, an actress and broadcaster, was enraged by Giuliani’s flagrant infidelity towards the end of their 18-year marriage and the divorce case was vicious. Giuliani’s advisers fear that she could be a loose cannon in the 2008 campaign.

Giuliani was acclaimed as the “mayor of America” for his heroic role during the attacks on September 11, 2001 and is revered for his leadership. At the time he was living in the spare room of an apartment belonging to gay friends after Hanover forced him out of Gracie Mansion, the official residence.

Hanover refused to confirm that she would vote for Giuliani as mayor of New York even when she was married to him. “What kind of wife is that?” Raoul Felder, Giuliani’s lawyer, fumed. “She’s essentially saying she’s not going to vote for him.”

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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2089-2534621,00.html

[SoCalDem]

1. "Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned"...Adultery's a no-no Rudy

'specially for devout Catholic guys like you :)

[hippiechick]

3. Par for the course with the 'Family Values' crowd ...

Hypocrisy, thy name is Republican. Sigh. :(

[SmokingJacket]

2. If I were her I'd hire someone to taste my food. nt

[latebloomer]

4. My thought exactly

and avoid private planes!!

[TerdlowSmedley]

5. Don't forget first wife,who is Rudy's first cousin, and third wife, who is a nutjob.

[MonkeyFunk]

17. His first wife

was his second cousin.

[goclark]

6. Hello! Surprise, surprise

I hope she spills the beans all over town.

He is :puke:

[HockeyMom]

7. He moved his girlfriend into Gracie Mansion

while Donna and the kids were living downstairs.

It caused so much furor in the NY Press, that he had to move out.

What a "nice" guy, St. Rudy of 9/11 is.

[Agnomen]

8. Donna Hanover has plenty of reasons to be furious.

Not only did Giulliani move his mistress into the Gracie Mansion while she and the children were living there, but he spent more on his evening gowns than on hers.

[NYCGirl]

9. In all seriousness, he announced their divorce at a press conference before he

told her!

[NYC]

13. I clearly remember that.

And she had to speak next.

[salin]

22. wow!

have lived in and around college towns most of my life - always distasteful when a firing (high administrator or coach - others don't make it into the news) - are released to the press before the person knows. Have seen it happen (and cringed) numerous times - but announcing a divorce this way - wow - a whole other level of ugh!

[Bucky]

19. Thanks for the info. I was going to ask why, since he was the mayor, she kept Gracie Mansion.

The size of his "above the rules" ego is incredible. I just don't think his candidacy is going to hold up. He's gonna be the biggest GOP bubble since John Connaly's "inevitable" nomination in 1980. The Republican race will come down to McCain and Brownback. My money is on Brownback.

[no_hypocrisy]

10. As much as I enjoy the prospect of Giuliani earning the karma he's created,

especially the fact that he has humiliated most of the women who have cared for him in the worst possible ways, I still wish that this fact wouldn't be the dealbreaker for his campaign.

Anthony Biaz, Abner Louima, Patrick Dourisman, Amadu Diallo all died by the hands of Giuliani's police force that was never chastized or held accountable by the mayor. This takes precedence over personal foibles.

[stranger]

11. Rudy's "leadership"

Giuliani was acclaimed as the “mayor of America” for his heroic role during the attacks on September 11, 2001 and is revered for his leadership.

===yeah. He would go down to the crater practically every day,(after notifying the press of his itinerary) and honk emotionally charged slogans like "we shall overcome", etc etc..
And of course making dramatic, maudlin speeches while the firemen worked.

And the toadies in the press hailed his "leadership". Mayoral candidate Mark Green called him on his theatrics -and the press was on Green like a lime green lesiure suit.

Asa result of his 9-11 histrionics, the dumbass voters then elected his billionaire geek friend named Blumberg- who called the striking transit workers, who make $12.50 per hr, "greedy".
Imagine being called greedy by a repub billionaire. Oh yeah, Blumberg also refused to live in Gracie Mansion because it wasnt nice enough

But back to Rudy. Rudy's zero tolerance for crime spurred yuppie gentrication of historical ethnic NYC neighborhoods, driving out life long residents who could no longer afford to live in their homes after the rents tripled.

If he had just kept rent controls in place that rampant gentrification wouldnt have happened and poor and working class New Yorkers would now have had beautiful, reasonably crime free neighborhoods with affordable housing.

But,no! rent controls interfere with the hallowed "market" according to Rudy.

And that, ladies and gentlemen, is whats wrong with "socially liberal" repubs-they are still Social Darwinists.So that very good idea they have is tweaked and tailored so that it only
works for the already affluent.

Thus, the yuppies are polluting the lower East Side, Greenwich village, Spanish Harlem, and even neighboirhoods in Brooklyn, like Redhook, Williamsburg, Dumbo, Fort Green, and most all of Brooklyn-except maybe Coney Island.


Thanks Rudy-for nothing!

[SoCalDem]

15. Hiya, stranger... looks like you got Rudy pegged and

to DU :hi:

[seabeyond]

12. what kind of wife... a wife that has been pissed on.... asshole

giuliani has more than his wife in his closet to hide i am soooo sure. i am not worried about him, never have been. too much trash and not well hidden

[KG]

14. guliani, gingrich, any other serial adulterers gonna run for prez

in the 'family values' party?

[WinkyDink]

16. I think she will have enough class to say, "No comment."

[Vidar]

18. Three wives & Kerrick, oh my!

[Lex]

20. I hope Donna Hanover gets some much deserved payback on Guiliani.

I say, you go girl!

[johnaries]

21. OMG! He was living with GAYS?!??!?!?!?

That would drive the Freepers NUTS!

Ok, they're already nuts. But you know what I mean.... :evilgrin:

[renate]

23. his advisors' calling her "a loose cannon"

...as if she had any obligation to keep quiet about his in-her-face infidelity, is so pompous.

There's always the possibility those are the words of the author of the article, but considering that the Times is a responsible newspaper, I doubt it.