Question: Why did people criticize Mayor Giuliani?
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Supporters of Giuliani claim that while he was mayor of New York he displayed leadership skills in the aftermath of the World Trade Center Attacks.
In 2002, Giuliani released a book called "Leadership" in which he gave techniques that he used while he was mayor.
According to a Gallup Poll, taken February 9–11 2007, respondents who supported Giuliani for president were asked why they supported him.
The results showed that 13% of supporters did so because of Giuliani's strong leadership and 53% did so because of leadership related topics such as time as mayor and handling of 9/11.
Another poll taken by Marist, showed that 42% of Giuliani supporters believed that leadership is the most important quality for a candidate, this is compared to 34% of McCain supporters who believed the same.
However Giuliani also has been criticized by vocal opponents from his mayoral days, homing in on Giuliani's support for the NYPD during the racially-charged cases of Abner Louima and Amadou Diallo and his crackdown on porn shops in Times Square.
In November 2006, civil-rights lawyer and frequent Giuliani critic Norman Siegel pledged to "swift boat" the former Mayor by bringing attention to these and other controversies.
A CNN/Opinion Research Corp. poll conducted November 28, 2007 found that in the state of Florida, where Giuliani campaigned most often during his presidential campaign, 53% of voters found Giuliani to be the best candidate to fight the War on Terrorism.
33% of the Florida voters found Giuliani to be the best to deal with the Iraq conflict and 34% viewed him as the best candidate concerning economic issues. 
Giuliani expressed frustration with the New York City Board of Education.
In April 1999, two days after the Columbine massacre, he stated that he would like to "blow up" the Board of Education.
Conflict between Giuliani and schools chancellor Ramon C. Cortines over some of the mayor's proposals for public education eventually resulted in Cortines' resignation.
However, the decision on the policies was not up to City Hall, but the Board of Education.
In particular, Giuliani supported a for-profit privatization plan for public schools that parents voted against.
Cortines and Giuliani had however been able to agree on a plan to privatize school maintenance and repair that earned praise from the "New York Times".
Cortines was the first of three school chancellors, all people of color who left office during Giuliani's tenure.
Cortines, Mexican-American and gay, resigned after a spat in which Giuliani told the press Cortines should not "be so precious" and called him "the little victim," terms that many later felt had a gay-baiting tone.
Cortines said that Giuliani was intolerant of ideas other than his and demanded total conformity from those he worked with: "He's made it very clear that no matter what I do or say, unless I acquiesce to all of his wishes, that I am not a good manager and I am not showing good leadership.
"Cortines' replacement as schools chancellor, Rudy Crew, had been a close friend of Giuliani's for years, but their relationship soured over the issue of school vouchers.
Giuliani had said in his 1993 campaign that parochial school vouchers were "unconstitutional."
Yet in 1999 he placed into the budget for parochial school vouchers.
Crew felt that Giuliani began pressuring him to leave immediately they were on less friendly terms.
The day of Crew's wife's funeral, Giuliani leaked a letter to the tabloids and Crew fielded press calls before leaving to deliver her eulogy.
He later told a Giuliani biographer: "This is a maniac.
On the day I was burying my wife, I have these people concocting this world of treachery...
When Rudy sees a need to take someone out, he has a machine, a roomful of henchmen, nicking away at you, leaking crazy stories.
He is not bound by the truth.
I have studied animal life, and their predator/prey relations are more graceful than his."
Of Giuliani's disagreement with Chancellor Crew, former Mayor Ed Koch said, "It's like his goal in life is to spear people, destroy them, to go for the jugular.
Why do this to Crew?
And I'm not a fan of Crew."
Some speculated that Giuliani pursued the issue of vouchers at the expense of his relationship with Crew because he was looking towards an upcoming Senate run.
When the city's five-year contract with schoolteachers ran out and negotiations with the city had not yet begun, teachers' union president Randi Weingarten said that a strike was not off the table if the city did not offer a contract.
Giuliani told the press that he would put Weingarten in jail if she led a strike; under New York state law, government employees could not strike.
Weingarten said that she would lobby the state legislature to allow employees to strike if the government had refused to negotiate in good faith.
Giuliani objected to the teachers' request for a pay raise to align their salaries with those in the suburbs.
Teachers pointed out the city's then budget surplus and the number of teachers leaving the city.
Giuliani called for merit pay based on student test scores, a plan which was derided by teachers as ineffective. 
Mayor Giuliani said that neither he nor his aides could remember being briefed about Kerik's involvement with Interstate Industrial.
However, a late 2007 "New York Times" investigation of the diaries and investigator's notes of Edward J. Kuriansky, the city investigations commissioner, indicates that such a meeting did indeed occur.
Additionally, Kuriansky also remembered briefing one of Giuliani's closest aides, Dennison Young Jr., about Kerik's involvement with Interstate Industrial just days before the police commissioner appointment.
Regarding Giuliani's appointment patterns and loyalty as a factor in professional relationships, former deputy mayor (under Giuliani) Fran Reiter said, "Rudy can fall for people big time, and sometimes qualifications are secondary to loyalty."
Following a series of criticisms from conservatives about his views on abortion, Giuliani made a pledge in February 2007 to nominate Supreme Court Justices in the mold of John Roberts, Sam Alito, Antonin Scalia, and Anthony Kennedy (all Ronald Reagan appointees, former colleagues of his in the Reagan Justice Department or both).
According to a Gallup Poll taken February 9–11 2007, responders who supported Giuliani were asked why they supported him.
The results showed that 13% of supporters did so because of Giuliani's strong leadership and 53% did so because of leadership related topics such as time as mayor and handling of 9/11.
Another poll taken by Marist showed that 42% of Giuliani supporters believed that leadership is the most important quality for a candidate, compared to 34% of McCain supporters who believed the same.
In February 2007, the International Association of Fire Fighters issued a letter accusing Giuliani of "egregious acts" against the 343 firemen who had died in the September 11th attacks.
The letter asserted that Giuliani rushed to conclude the recovery effort once gold and silver had been recovered from World Trade Center vaults and thereby prevented the remains of many victims from being recovered: "Mayor Giuliani's actions meant that fire fighters and citizens who perished would either remain buried at Ground Zero forever, with no closure for families, or be removed like garbage and deposited at the Fresh Kills Landfill."
The Giuliani camp stated that the union was politically motivated from tough contract negotiations from Giuliani's second term as mayor and quoted a retired firefighter, Lee Ielphi (a father of 9-11 victim who was called to duty as a firefighter that day), saying "Firefighters have no greater friend and supporter than Rudy Giuliani."
The union denied political motivation for the criticism.
President and Chief Executive Officer of Forbes, Editor-in-Chief of "Forbes" magazine and former perennial Presidential candidate Steve Forbes announced his endorsement of Giuliani on March 27, 2007.
He cited the economic platform and leadership of the candidate in his reasoning for support.
"I am honored to support Rudy Giuliani for President, As Mayor of New York City, Rudy Giuliani showed how exercising fiscal discipline, including tax cuts, lowers deficits, spurs economic growth, and increases revenue.
It is time the rest of the country benefit from a true fiscal conservative leader who gets real results."
Forbes was named National Campaign Co-Chair and Senior Advisor for the campaign following his endorsement.
Giuliani and the nine other Republican presidential contenders participated in the first MSNBC 2008 Republican Presidential Candidates Debate on May 3, 2007, held at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library.
In the non-scientific six part MSNBC online vote following the debate, Giuliani finished in 3rd place (15%).
Giuliani portrayed himself as the candidate who could beat Hillary Clinton in the general election by being competitive in traditional blue states such as New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, and Delaware.
A May 10, 2007 Quinnipiac University Polling Institute poll put Giuliani ahead of Hillary Clinton, 48% to 42% in Connecticut.
Giuliani participated at the May 15, 2007 GOP debate in South Carolina where the notable exchange occurred when the former Mayor challenged a statement made by Congressman Ron Paul.
Paul claimed that the United States' presence in the Middle East over the past decade incited hatred towards the United States among many Middle Easterners and provided terrorists with extra incentive to commit the September 11 attacks:PAUL: No, non-intervention was a major contributing factor.
Have you ever read about the reasons they attacked us?
They attack us because we've been over there.
We've been bombing Iraq for ten years.
We've been in the Middle East years.
I think Reagan was right.
We don't understand the irrationality of Middle Eastern politics.
Right now, we're building an embassy in Iraq that is bigger than the Vatican.
We're building 14 permanent bases.
What would we say here if China was doing this in our country or in the Gulf of Mexico?
We would be objecting.
We need to look at what we do, from the point of view of what it would be like if someone did it to us.MODERATOR: Are you suggesting we invited the 9/11 Attacks, sir?PAUL: I'm suggesting that we listen to the people who attacked us and the reason they did it, and they are delighted that we're over there because Osama bin Laden has said, "I'm glad you're over on our sand because we can target you so much easier."
They've already now since that time have killed 3,400 of our men, and I don't think it was necessary.GIULIANI: That's really an extraordinary statement.
That's an extraordinary statement, as someone who lived through the attack of September 11, that we invited the attack because we were attacking Iraq.
I don't think I've heard that before, and I've heard some pretty absurd explanations for September 11th.
And I would ask the congressman to withdraw that comment and tell us that he didn't really mean that.MODERATOR: Congressman?PAUL: I believe very sincerely that the CIA is correct when they teach and talk about blowback.
When we went into Iran in 1953 and installed the Shah, yes there was blowback.
The reaction to that was the taking of our hostages, and that persists.
And if we ignore that, we ignore that at our own risk.
If we think we can do what we want around the world and not incite hatred, then we have a problem.
They don't come here to attack us because we're rich and we're free, they come and attack us because we're over there.
I mean what would we think if other foreign countries were doing that to us?The debate was sponsored by Fox News.
News Corporation, the parent company of Fox News, is a client of the Bracewell & Giuliani law firm.
Accuracy in Media editor Cliff Kincaid charged after the debate that this represented a conflict of interest, and that Fox News moderators Chris Wallace and Wendell Goler and post-debate interviewer Sean Hannity failed to ask Giuliani pertinent follow-up questions regarding the Ron Paul exchange about the causes of the September 11 attacks.
In May, influential Christian conservative leader James Dobson, wrote that he could not fathom Giuliani's stance on the abortion issue and he would not vote for him if he were the Republican presidential nominee.
He also cited Giuliani's three marriages and the former mayor's support for civil unions for gays as reasons why he could not support the candidate.
Dobson wrote, "I cannot, and will not, vote for Rudy Giuliani in 2008.
It is an irrevocable decision.
"According to the Federal Elections Commission, Giuliani raised $18,029,974 in the first quarter of 2007, second to Mitt Romney among Republicans and fourth overall.
Out of that money he spent only $6,080,239.
Among that money he raised the second-most from Wall Street of all presidential candidates, with $1.8 million raised. 
Giuliani supports all forms of same-sex civil unions but has a personal viewpoint against same-sex marriage.
During Giuliani's mayoralty of New York City, gay and lesbian residents asked for domestic partnership rights.
Giuliani, in turn, pushed the city's Democratic-controlled City Council, which had avoided the issue for years, to pass legislation providing broad protection for same-sex partners.
In 1998, he codified local law by granting all city employees equal benefits for their domestic partners.
For this reform, the Empire State Pride Agenda, an LGBT political advocacy group, hailed this law as establishing "a new national benchmark for domestic partner recognition.
"During his aborted 2000 run for office in the U.S. Senate, Giuliani declared: "The institution of marriage should remain defined as a man and a woman.
"In 2003, Giuliani discussed his support for civil unions, which he said were the same as domestic partnerships.
Giuliani said:"Marriage should be a man and a woman...I think that the domestic partnership legislation in NY has worked very, very well.
I think that's a good way to deal with it, and I think that would be a good model for other states to have.
Some places call them domestic partnerships, some states call it civil unions, and I think that would be the best way to deal with it.
"In a 2004 interview with Bill O'Reilly on Fox News, Giuliani said, "I'm in favor of ... civil unions."
On NBC's "Meet the Press", also in 2004, Giuliani stated that he would oppose the federal ban on gay marriage.
In an April 27, 2007 "New York Sun" story, Ryan Sager stated that Giuliani made a "departure from his previously stated position on civil unions" when his campaign wrote:"Mayor Giuliani believes marriage is between one man and one woman.
Domestic partnerships are the appropriate way to ensure that people are treated fairly.
In this specific case the law states same sex civil unions are the equivalent of marriage and recognizes same sex unions from outside states.
This goes too far and Mayor Giuliani does not support it.
"Michael Long, chairman of the Conservative Party of New York stated, "I just don’t see Rudy Giuliani being able to sway conservatives within the Republican Party.
The gay marriage issue draws a line down the middle of the street, and Rudy Giuliani is something of a champion of gay rights."
Bipartisan political consultant Joseph Mercurio said, "You can't get much more to the left than Giuliani was on gay issues.
"According to 365 Gay News, "Giuliani said that broad-brush themes, like limited government, ought to define the Republican Party – not hot-button social issues like abortion and gay rights.
"Giuliani opposes the Don't ask, don't tell policy, but thinks the repeal of it should wait until after the war on terror is over.
He also supports LGBT adoption, sexual orientation to be added to the hate crimes legislation, and all other rights.
The Empire State Pride Agenda issued a report of Giuliani's record and statements on LGBT rights.
Giuliani was invited to the wedding of Howard Koeppel and Mark Hsiao – the gay couple he lived with following his separation from Donna Hanover while Mayor – in Connecticut on May 2, 2009 but did not attend.