Giuliani is canceling some campaign stops in New Hampshire due to that same illness that grounded him earlier this week. He’s still not saying what the illness was, though really that shouldn’t be too much of a surprise — the AP gives us some flashback quotes:
“I would make sure that government was transparent. My government in New York City was so transparent that they knew every single thing I did almost every time I did it.” — Rudy Giuliani
“If Rudy was president, nobody should make any mistake — there will be no transparency in government.” — Attorney Eve Burton, who represented the New York Daily News in the Giuliani era …
Giuliani’s claims of transparency are “beyond laughable. It’s preposterous. … I can’t think of any (mayor in the modern era) from whom it has been so difficult to pry information out of.” — Mike Wallace, distinguished professor of history at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York, who has criticized Giuliani for seizing his mayoral records in 2001 …
Giuliani “forced people to take appeal after appeal on freedom of information requests and delayed the release of information to the public by a process of resistance. … He is not a man who has high or even moderate regard for civil liberties.” — First Amendment attorney Floyd Abrams
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