I have put together this sampling of the worst aspects of Giuliani's record and the distortions or outright lies about it that he and his minions are attempting to spread in order to win your support for the candidate. Much of this has been reported over the years already, some might be new to you, and some will no doubt shock you. All of it is true, and can be proven -- I haven't seen it all compiled from over the years into one single, myth-busting exposure so far, and it was high time someone dug deep into their records and files and provided a narrative about the key points of his campaign. At the very end, I've included a collection of video links as well on some important issues and aspects of Giuliani for you to also consider. I think this compilation of facts is more than enough to demonstrate the truth about his record, and to disprove the lies he and his supporters attempt to spread. This is hardly totally comprehensive, but I think it more than makes the case that he is unworthy of being our nominee, let alone our president.

FACT: New York's crime rate had already plummeted before Giuliani came to power, with a nearly 14 percent drop in the murder rate, and almost 15 percent decline in robberies. Burglary, a big problem, had fell by close to 18 percent, and rapes saw a steady decline year after year. In fact, go back and examine the rate of major felonies tracked by the FBI, and New York had plummeted in all of them, before Giuliani ever set foot in the Mayor's office. This was achieved in part by sending over 6,000 new cops out into the city, by closing down the disgusting pornography district, and purging the streets of the homeless men harassing drivers by "cleaning" windows and threatening them for payment. Giuliani wasn't even in office yet when these things transpired – but that doesn't stop him from trying to take credit for them.

While crime was already sliding ever-downward in New York, nationally this trend was also continuing when Giuliani came into office, and it continued after he became mayor. However, it had nothing to do with Giuliani, who was not responsible for any significant crime initiatives during his time in office (the CompStat computer system instituted by Commissioner Bratton was the main initiative of the Giuliani years, and though he claims this was responsible for the continued drop in crime, the data shows how absurd is this claim). In fact, Giuliani presided over a drop in successful indictments on felony arrests (an almost 33 percent decline), while police actually began taking longer to respond to crimes and other emergencies in progress (nearly 25 percent longer, in fact). And let's not forget to mention that the biggest crime in U.S. history happened right in his city by terrorists who went undetected and boarded planes there – and yes, this is fair to mention just as it would be fair to mention if Bill Clinton or anyone else had been mayor at the time and went around claiming he made the city safer when he did not. It's part of the crime statistics, and it counts as much as any others do against anyone else. More on shattering the Giuliani 9-11 myth is below.

It's worth noting that Giuliani also includes his anti-gun positions as part of the "crime package" of his tenure as mayor. Policies supporting gun control and open animosity towards gun owners and the NRA were staples of the Giuliani administration, but are dishonest claims toward "law and order", something too many people are overlooking when Giuliani talks about his record on law enforcement.

Giuliani takes credit for most of the above positive developments on crime that occurred before he was mayor, telling outright lies by saying his administration made some or most of those achievements. You can go back and find numerous examples of Giuliani asserting that he was the one responsible for any number of these changes, demonstrably lying outright in each instance.

Combining his failures and lies about the New York crime rate with the facts about his record as prosecutor and the other facts about how he bungled 9-11 (again, discussed further below), his total real record on law and order is terrible, but you'd never guess that from the distortions and untruths espoused by him and his minions. Bottom line, he gets no credit for tackling crime in New York.

FACT: Giuliani pretends to be some sort of super-prosecutor, going after corrupt financers and corporations, when in truth he made a habit of harassing businessmen merely to appeal to liberals. His real record as prosecutor is grossly inflated and lied about – he had four of the big white-collar prosecutions, among the most famous that he touts, tossed out later when the cases were appealed. In fact, a review of his record demonstrates that Giuliani frequently made the big arrests and then was forced to either drop the charges later or reduce them to much more minor ones. People tend to just remember the on-camera arrests and parading of corporate employees in front of television cameras, and Giuliani's follow-up bluster about his investigations, but forget or just never heard about the cases and investigations being dropped, thrown out, or reduced to often trivial offenses. This played great to the liberal media in New York, but it does not represent the crusading prosecutor Giuliani pretended to be, and ultimately was just a way for him to generate press to further his own political aspirations – a charge leveled at him by businessmen and conservatives, not just liberals who in fact tended to love his theatrics when attacking supposed white-collar criminals.

His prosecution of the mobs is perhaps tainted by his own connections to and promotion of individuals in his administration who had purported ties to organized crime, most notoriously Bernard Kerik, whom Giuliani later recommended – despite being warned of the strong suspicions that Kerik was connected to the mob and also had other likely criminal incidents tied to him, including failure to pay taxes -- as secretary of homeland security. Giuliani initially lied about having knowledge of Kerik's reported ties to the mob.

Since Giuliani claims on his resume that his history as mob-buster is relevant, we have every right to also consider the truth about his family's own ties to the mob. Giuliani's father, Harold Giuliani, is a convicted robber, and was identified as a participant in a mob loan shark operation in New York. Other members of Giuliani's family have been implicated in mafia activities. The biggest problem with this is not merely the disturbing fact about mob connections in Giuliani's own family, but that Giuliani might have lied about it during the FBI background check prior to taking his job at the Justice Department in the 1980's. Well, lying on that background check would be a federal crime, in case anyone is keeping track.

In the end, there is much about Giuliani's history that overshadows his touted record as uber-crimefighter, but he and his minions distort, lie, and attempt to redirect examination of these facts while never actually addressing the fundamental truth at the heart of the allegations.

FACT: Giuliani's claims that he took a budget deficit and turned it into a surplus are distortions and attempts to mischaracterize what really happened. Giuliani did inherit a shrinking budget deficit, but chose to increase New York's spending and had to use almost the entire budget surplus that had accumulated (largely due to national financial trends, not anything significant Giuliani did in office) to pay for his government spending increases that increased the size of city government. Giuliani likes to pretend that the huge budget deficit he left behind was due to the 9-11 attacks, but in fact he had already projected a deficit of almost $3 billion before the attacks took place, again because his liberal spending and government-growing policies were paid for by spending all of the surplus that temporarily accumulated. And actually, the deficit would have in fact been even bigger if the 9-11 attacks had not pumped federal dollars into the city while many government services were unable to work (and thus spend money) immediately following the attacks.

In short, had Giuliani not seen the influx of money and sudden budget surplus as an opportunity to speed up government spending and increasing the size of bureaucracy, New York's surplus would've remained untouched and would have continued to grow. This is the true economic legacy of Giuliani, who turned his back on conservative fiscal policies once the he saw money he could spend, but who likes to now walk around misrepresenting that legacy. His supporters have no problem with this, which is ironic since so many of them purport to be fiscal conservatives willing to overlook Giuliani's liberal social views because he is supposedly so good on economic conservative issues. It's just another fiction in the Giuliani narrative. While Mitt Romney is not someone who I endorse, his press release about Giuliani's true fiscal record is a good source of factual information and data:
http://www.mittromney.com/News/Press-Releases/Giuliani_Deficits

Bottom line, Giuliani is not a real fiscal conservative, and has been lying and misleading about his record.

FACT: Giuliani botched 9-11, despite his attempts to rewrite his history and to defame family members of rescue workers who are trying to get the public to listen to the truth about Giuliani's failure to protect his city, and it's firefighters and police.

Giuliani lied to the 9-11 Commission, claiming firefighters in the Twin Towers refused orders to evacuate. The fact is, they could not possibly have refused to evacuate, since they were unable to receive the warnings that the buildings were about to collapse – and that was Giuliani's fault. Giuliani created the Office of Emergency Management, which did not make sure rescue efforts were being coordinated or that the firefighters could maintain communications with each other, a dereliction of duty since they had known that this problem existed since the first attack on the WTC in 1993 but they never addressed it. Worse still, Giuliani and his team were right there during the 9-11 attacks, and they knew these deficiencies existed, but they did nothing to keep firefighters inside the Twin Towers in the loop, or to get word to them that the buildings were about to fall. Knowing all of this, Giuliani still went before the 9-11 Commission and covered his own tail by saying the firefighters refused orders they never even received.

The command center for Giuliani during an emergency was located in WTC7, right next to the Twin Towers, despite warnings from many different people, including professional security personnel. The massive amounts of fuel beneath it and above the mezzanine, which of course ignited and brought the building down.

Later, an apartment that was supposed to be a rest spot for rescue workers at Ground Zero was taken over by Giuliani's protégé and police commissioner Bernard Kerik (already mentioned for his mob ties), and he used it for a sexual affair with publisher Judith Regan. This, however, was nothing compared to Giuliani's lies, caught on camera, about the danger of asbestos contamination from the collapse of the Twin Towers, or his refusal to guarantee that rescue workers at Ground Zero had the proper protective gear – especially to protect their breathing – and later has been denying the obvious health problems that these brave rescue personnel have experienced due to their exposure to hazardous materials thanks to Giuliani.

Adding insult to injury, Giuliani, when asked about the health problems these people were experiencing and why he had failed to properly protect them, stated that he had been down there at Ground Zero as much as they had, and he felt fine – comparing the number of times he visited and the short amount of time he stayed on each visit as if it were comparable to the terribly long hours these rescue workers spent there until they were exhausted.

Bottom line, Giuliani failed to inform firefighters trapped in a building Giuliani had been warned was about to collapse, he failed to make sure after the 1993 attacks that proper communications were in place and this cost those firefighters their lives, then Giuliani lied about it to the 9-11 Commission; he failed to protect rescue workers at the rubble of Ground Zero from hazardous materials he lied and said did not exist, then lied about whether their health problems were real, and compared his own comparably brief visits to the time those men and women spent digging through the rubble; and he failed to adequately prepare for a major emergency by ignoring professional advice from informed, educated people regarding the danger of his choice for location of is command center, further adding to the disruption of management of the crisis that he never got control of and spent the day running from, place to place and failure to failure. This is the real legacy of Giuliani on 9-11, not the lies and myths he and his minions attempt to spread to make him into the hero he never was.

FACT: Giuliani claims his past loud, open opposition to gun ownership has changed – because, of course, of 9-11. He says that day made him reverse his previous position on the issue. Unfortunately for him, he happens to have reiterated his support for gun control and gun licensing on video... three years after the 9-11 attacks. He said in comments on MSNBC in 2004 that he disagrees with the GOP Platform position opposing licensing and registering of guns. So he supported gun control before 9-11, then three years later he STILL supported gun control, and now that he's running for president he assures us that he changed his mind about gun control three years before he reiterated his support for gun control. Dizzy yet? Bottom line, either he lied in 2004 or he's lying now. Pick your poison.

FACT: Giuliani's position on energy policy is one of the most convoluted and full of contradictions of any of his positions. Even within his contradictory positions, the individual positions are internally contradictory. Consider that today, Giuliani tells us he supports making our nation energy independent and curbing global warming – energy independence is, in fact, one of his main campaign goals. However, just one year ago, he told the Manhattan Institute that energy independence was not a good idea. He even claimed conservation efforts were not effective. So that clearly contradicts what he says today. But wait, while saying energy independence wasn't the right solution, he also said we should build more nuclear power plants, drill in Alaska, pursue new clean coal production, use more ethanol, and increase our own oil refineries (we mostly rely on foreign refineries, as well as foreign oil). Aren't those all steps toward... energy independence? If you weren't dizzy from his positions on gun control, you should be plenty dizzy now.

FACT: Giuliani has a terrible record of choices as a lawyer, and he claims nobody should be holding his professional choices as a lawyer against him, since such matters don't have any bearing on politics (apparently, he doesn't mean this to extend to the myths he likes to create about his record as a lawyer while prosecutor). Well, besides the obvious problem of asking us to accept that moral and business decisions he made about who he would represent and do business with shouldn't change our opinion of him (much like Fred Thompson saying his personal opposition to abortion had nothing to do with his willingness to work for abortionists), there is the fact that Giuliani pretty much HAS to take this stance on the matter of his record as lawyer, considering who he represented and did business with. Bracewell and Giuliani, for example, have represented the state oil company of Hugo Chavez's Venezuela, and they worked to block indecency laws for television programming. The firm White & Case, which Giuliani joined in 1989, was representing Manuel Noriega's Panama and the company that participated in Libya's chemical weapons program. Bracewell and Giuliani even held a fundraiser for Giuliani in Kazakhstan, the anti-Semitic government of which has also been their client.

Other problems with Giuliani:

He not only ran New York as a sanctuary city for illegal immigrants, he said illegal immigration should not be a federal crime, and he endorsed the McCain-Kennedy immigration legislation. If conservatives should oppose anyone's position on immigration, it should be Giuliani's.

Giuliani not only supports abortion, he has openly, publicly insisted on public funding for abortions for poor people.

Giuliani's entire record regarding families and marriage is terrible. He married his first cousin, then had it annulled and got married again, then cheated on his wife and had his mistress living at his home while his wife still lived there; he then announced his plans to divorce his wife at a press conference – which is how she found out. He divorced and remarried yet again. His son still won't speak to him. But in the meantime, he temporarily lived with two gay men, who say he gave them a goodbye kiss every morning on his way out the door, and whom he told he would perform their marriage ceremony if and when gay marriage was legalized. Rumblings have already started in some circles in New York City about a possible "bombshell" revelation after New Year, and there are whispers among conservatives in the city that it may involve some visits to a prominent gay bar in Manhattan -- which, even if merely innocent visits, would still demonstrate a much closer relationship with the gay community and acceptance of lifestyles deemed unacceptable to many conservatives. We might also note here that Giuliani showed up in public dressed in women's clothing on at least three occasions and maybe a fourth one. This is hardly a track record of which a conservative should be proud.

Despite Giuliani supporting abortion, gay rights, dressing in drag, engaging in marital infidelity, repeatedly getting divorced and remarried, and living with a two gay men, Pat Robertson still endorsed Giuliani -- a mayor who supported and encouraged exactly the behavior that Pat Robertson cited as the behavior he felt led to God not protecting our nation from the 9-11 attacks. How consistent is that, Mr. Robertson? Giuliani is more responsible than even the left-wing ACLU in terms of not only supporting but actively encouraging and enabling such behavior, and it is shocking to the conscience that Pat Robertson would betray principles merely for the sake of political expediency.

Bottom line, Giuliani has lied about his record, lied about his past positions, and is repeatedly inconsistent and dishonest. He holds liberal positions on nearly every conservative social issue – guns, gay rights, abortion, marriage and family, indecency in the media, and immigration. He was fiscally liberal, not conservative. There have been consistent instances of corruption among those close to him, from family and friends to work associates. He is not the man he and his minions make him out to be, and he is not the man worthy of our votes.

Here are some interesting video clips of Giuliani for you to also consider. Enjoy.

Giuliani calls for confiscating guns:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARFHUHTD5s0&feature=related

Giuliani lied when he said 9-11 changed his views on gun control, he supported it in 2004:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0NKUph0ErI&feature=related

Giuliani says illegal immigration should not be a crime:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDo-ZVK4dc0&feature=related

Giuliani supported McCain-Kennedy Immigration Legislation:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLvZT2lcPhc&feature=related

Giuliani calls for public funding for abortions:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALDfwXIYUX0&feature=related

Firefighters oppose Giuliani and call him out for lies:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vaCYEEO-58I&feature=related

More on firefighters and their families opposing Giuliani:
http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/11/20/giuliani.firefighters.ap/index.ht...

Giuliani lies about asbestos exposure from the 9-11 attacks:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wK4nsQOi3bA

Giuliani says he'll march in gay pride parade:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rW6qe9-8g14&feature=related

Giuliani in drag kissing Donald Trump:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IrE6FMpai8&feature=related

Giuliani in drag multiple times:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0XMQvKpyBE&feature=related