When Giuliani was a prosecutor and a mayor he was thought of as a hard-charging law n’ order New York Republican asshole. Liberals like me always hated him. He wanted to ban art and bring the hammer down on Black neighborhoods and everything we hate about big city, tough guy wingnuts. But he was pro-choice and pro-gay rights and culturally identifiable as a blue state Republican, a dying species.
We all know what happened after 9/11. Despite screwing the pooch big time by placing the disaster command center in the World Trade Center, America was so shaken it looked for leaders anywhere it could find it and Giuliani became “America’s Mayor” and the front-runner for the presidency in 2008. He didn’t do particularly well, but he managed to maintain a reputation as a reasonably serious person.
Then came Trump and you know the rest.
I don’t think there’s ever been someone who fell so far so fast into clownish disrepute as Rudy Giuliani. The Borat movie and his “press conference” next door to a sex shop and crematorium last week were beyond embarrassing. But he hasn’t reached the low point yet:
Brooks was incarcerated in the 1990s on charges of sexual assault, lewdness and endangering the welfare of a minor for exposing himself to two girls ages 7 and 11, according to news accounts.
Brooks has run for various offices, including U.S. Senate and the House of Representatives.
“I started watching it and all of a sudden I was like, ‘there’s New Jersey’s perennial candidate claiming to live in Philadelphia and Giuliani claiming him to be a poll watcher and Philadelphia resident,” Trenton Mayor Reed Gusciora said in a phone interview.
James Gee, chief of staff to U.S. Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-N.J.), also said he immediately recognized Brooks.
“Yeah, I know Daryl. It’s so fitting that he would be there,” Gee said.
Sadly, I’m pretty sure that Rudy will be going lower still. It’s hard to imagine what it might be, but he has shown there is no bottom.
What an ignominious end to a big career. But he went with Trump and Trump destroys everything he touches.