• @ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works
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      6 months ago

      Giuliani was a popular mayor. I think Adams would love to see a large drop in crime during his term and win reelection like Giuliani did.

      • @frickineh@lemmy.world
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        296 months ago

        Giuliani got “lucky” that he was in office on 9/11. He wasn’t a particularly good mayor and plenty of people knew it but he managed to turn that into a lot of goodwill. Now that he’s shown his ass repeatedly, people are losing the rose-tinted glasses big time. Adams just decided he wasn’t gonna wait 15 years to make people hate him. He’s an overachiever.

        • @ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works
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          -46 months ago

          Giuliani was re-elected before 9/11 because he was “tough on crime” and crime declined dramatically while he was in office. By the time 9/11 happened, he was not eligible to run for mayor again due to term limits.

          • @lolcatnip@reddthat.com
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            86 months ago

            Yeah, I remember him instituting blatantly unconstitutional policies like “stop and frisk”. I’m still not sure how he got away with it or how people didn’t realize he was a fascist.

            • HobbitFoot
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              26 months ago

              He got lucky in that a lot of the reasons for the nationwide decrease in crime happened during his administration.

              You also had enough people in NYC happy that the city was becoming more orderly.

        • @ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works
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          26 months ago

          He was elected mayor twice, both times before 9/11 (which happened only a few months before the end of his second term). After 9/11 he was never elected to any office again, despite his efforts.

          • @givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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            06 months ago

            Did you just now figure out the two party system usually results in a general with two options who are unpopular?

            Congrats? I guess someone figures it out every day…

            • @ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works
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              46 months ago

              As a matter of fact, he was popular.

              Right before his re-election,

              Mayor Rudolph Giuliani’s approval rating has edged up to an all-time 68 - 28 percent high, matching a record of 70 percent of New Yorkers who are “very satisfied” or “somewhat satisfied” with life in the city, according to a Quinnipiac College Poll released today.