RACIST ?Television would cover something and they would show these pathetic people sort of holding hands and kissing each other, and then say this man and wife were separated by this cruel, vicious government. That?s very graphic and dramatic. It?s not as graphic and dramatic to explain the following facts: These peeple don?t come over with marriage certi?cates. And they keep claiming that different people are their wives. And the women get very upset, because if you let the men into the women?s camp, they go around raping them. So you have to separate them.? Rudolph Giuliani, Barron?s, 10/24/83 A-41 COP RIOT A42 "Dinkins has said that Giuliani?s participation in the rally would come back to ?haunt? him. Daily News, 9/29/92 A-42 THE SCREAM PART ONE: THE COP RIOT CHARGE: RUDY PERFORMANCE AT THE POLICE RALLY DEMONSTRATES THAT HE IS TEMPERAMENTALLY UNF IT TO BE MAYOR OF NEW YORK CITY. HIS INFLAMMATORY PROF ANITY- LACED SCREECHING BEFORE THOUSANDS OF DRUNK, GUN- TOTING, OFF-DUTY NEW YORK CITY COPS TURNED AN OVERTLY RACIST POLICE RALLY INTO A DANGEROUS POLICE RIOT. CONTEXT: David Dinkins promised Rudy Giuliani his participation in September 1992?s police rally would come back to "haunt" him in the upcoming mayoral campaign. It?s no wonder, the cop rally may be Giuliani?s only political mistake in the four years since losing the mayoralty to David Dinkins in 1989 but, nonetheless, it?s a doozie. Giuliani?s shrieking performance at the con rally may be his greatest political liabil_ity this year. To beat Dinkins, Giuliani must effectively neutralize this very damaging vulnerability before Dinkins even raises it during the campaign. Two quick lessons that should have been learned from the cop rally: 1. No shrieking; 2. swearing. REBUTTAL STRATEGY: Rudy Giuliani should take a page out of David Dinkins? book when inoculating himself on the police rally issue. Dinkins understands his vulnerability on the crime issue. That?s why he always says he is the toughest mayor on crime in the city?s history. Giuliani needs to understand his vulnerability on the police rally issue. That?s why he should always say, when speaking of the police, that he will be the toughest mayor in the city?s history on police corruption and brutality. As Peter Powers likes to say, a "man bites dog" A-43 strategy on this problem could prove most successful. Moreover. Giuliani must stress -- in detail his record of prosecuting Corrupt cops. The police rally forces people to think Giuliani?s support for cops is unequivocal. Giuliani?s prosecutions of transit authority police are especially important because of the racial nature of the wrong?doing. Providing these suspicious people with specific information on Giuliani?s commitment to rooting out all kinds of wrongdoing police included should move perception closer to reality. When dealing with direct questions about the police rally, Giuliani should acknowledge and criticize the underlying racial nature of the protest. The biggest problem most voters may have with Giuliani?s participation in the cop rally is his unwillingness to criticize those at the rally taking overtly racial pot-shots at the Mayor. Giuliani has yet to admonish those who attacked the Mayor with racist code-words on signs and banners. Why not? Giuliani also should try to set the record straight on what really happened at the rally. In his initial attacks on Giuliani, Dinkins was fast-and-loose with the facts about what actually occurred. During the campaign, Giuliani can help diffuse the issue by rebutting the factual inaccuracies as soon as they are detected. A factually inaccurate hit always is an unsuccessful hit. The Giuliani campaign should seek to humanize the candidate. Four years ago, almost no attention was paid to ?eshing out just who Rudy Giuliani is and where he comes from. Defining the Giuliani biography will prevent political opponents, like David Dinkins, from painting a negative picture of the former prosecutor -- and selling it to the voters. A great deal of good can come from biographical definition. Look at Bill Clinton. He rediscovered Hope, Arkansas and used a dusty little town in southwestern Arkansas as the theme for his general election campaign against George Bush. Finally, when answering Dinkins? attacks on this issue, Giuliani should never engage in the kind of personal sniping at the Mayor that characterized his responses last fall. Mean- spirited counter?charges will do nothing to disprove Dinkins? assertion that Giuliani is an out- of?control hot-head incapable of governing the city; they only reinforce what Dinkins is trying to prove. A-44 A COP RALLY TURNS INTO A COP RIOT Dangerous questions for Rudy Giuliani "?Did Rudy Giuliani?s actions stop people from storming City Hall? Did Rudy Giuliani?s actions stop people from stopping traffic on Brooklyn Bridge? Did Rudy Giuliani?s actlons stop people from shouting racist, sexist and homophobic expletives?? Leland Jones said last night. "?The answer is no, no, no, no and no. "?Rudy Giuliani should take a long vacation and re?ect on the damage that he has done to New York City over four days. And upon re?ecting what he has done he should realize that he is not qualified to be mayor of New York City. ewsday, 9/22/ 92 and a threat from David Dinkins. "Dinkins has said that Giuliani?s participation in the rally would come back to ?haunt? him. Daily News, 9/29/92 The Patrolmen?s Benevolent Association?s demonstration near City Hall against Mayor Dinkins? proposal for an all-civilian complaint review board spins out of control. "While about 6,000 officers participated in a peaceful rally on Murray Street, more than 4,000 swarmed over police barricades, blocked the entry to City Hall and later marched onto the Brooklyn Bridge, where they tied up traffic for nearly an hour. New York Times, 9/17/92 "Officers carried signs reading, ?Mayor, have you hugged your dealer today? and ?Hey Dinkins, we?ll pay for your funeral,? apparent references to Dinkins? handling of the Garcia shooting. Other officers carried signs stating ?No Justice, No Police. Some signs had racial overtones, including one that [said] ?Dump the Washroom Attendant? and ?Dinkins Sucks? with a shaded-in drawing of a face with a 19603- looking afro and large lips. Newsday, 9/ 17/92 A-45 "Thousands of off-duty police officers thronged around City Hall yesterday, swarming through police barricades to rally on the steps of the hall and blocking traffic on the Brooklyn Bridge for nearly an hour in the most unruly and angry police demonstration in recent memory." New York Times, 9/17/92 "In a telling moment, Chief David W. Scott, the highest ranking uniformed officer in the department, was booed down by the crowd when he implored the officers to move off the steps of City Hall. ?I?m disappointed in the fact that police officers would Violate the law,? Chief Scott said later. New York Times, 9/ 17/92 "At one point, a New York Times photographer who was taking pictures was surrounded by demonstrators, punched in the back and shoved. A police lieutenant told the photographer, Keith Meyers, that he should leave the bridge. can?t protect you up here,? the officer said. A New York Times reporter, Alan Finder, was also kicked in the stomach. New York Times, 9/ 17/92 RUDY PERFORMANCE AT THE POLICE DEMONSTRATION IS DISTURBING Giuliani at the cop rally -- no portrait of probity. "At the demonstration, Mr. Giuliani said, using a vulgarity, that Mr. Dinkins was merely protecting himself politically with his proposal of an all?civilian police review board. He also derided Mr. Dinkins?s claim that he has been tough on crime and supportive of the police, repeatedly using a vulgarity [bullshit] -- the same word that the Mayor had used a week earlier in response to a police officer who had criticized him during a visit to a police station house. New York Times, 9/23/92 "The 2 l/2-hour PBA demonstration was punctuated with chants of ?Rudy! Rudy!? for expected mayoral candidate Rudolph Giuliani -- who told the gathering that rock? bottom police moral is the result of Dinkins? policies toward cops. A-46 "He also said the Mollen Commission put together by the mayor to investigate police corruption was created ?to protect David Dinkins? political ass. Daily News, 9/ 17/92 THE OFF-DUTY COPS AT THE RALLY ACT EVEN WORSE Off-duty cops at the police rally -- no paragons of racial tolerance. "And two black Brooklyn councilwomen, Una Clarke and Mary Pinkett, said they were abused during the disorders. Clarke said an off-duty officer blocked her from crossing Broadway and said, ?There?s a nigger who says she?s a council member.? Pinkett said her car, stuck on the Brooklyn Bridge, was rocked and shaken by the off- duty officers, frightening two elderly passengers. Newsday, 9/18/92 "While attempting to walk across Broadway to a council meeting at City Hall Wednesday afternoon during the police demonstration. [Una] Clarke, a petite woman, said she was stopped in her tracks by a beer-drinking, off?duty police officer who said to his sidekick: ?This nigger says she?s a member of the City Council.? "Clarke was outraged -- and afraid. identified myself as a City Council member and I showed him my identification and he said, don?t care who the you are, you are not going across the street.?" Newsday, 9/18/92 Channel 2 cameraman, John Haygood, said that some protesters who yelled at him had used the word ?nigger.?" New York Times, 9/ 18/92 "?Dinkins is just afraid we are going to go on a rampage shooting all of his black people,? one cop, who asked not to be identified, said. ?That shows how much respect he has for cops.? Newsday, 9/ 17/ 92 A-47 FIRST REACTION TO THE POLICE RALLY IS RELATIVELY LOW- KEY Mayor Dinkins? initiai reaction to the police raiiy is remarkably low-key. Dinkins holds only the P.B.A. president, Phil Caruso, responsible for the rowdiness of the off-duty cops. According to Dinkins, Giuliani is merely an "opportunist" who "egged on" the protest. "Dinkins spokesman Leland Jones said the mayor ?condemned lawlessness in Crown Heights, in Washington Heights, and on the steps of City Hall. Mr. Giuliani is Daily News, 9/19/92 A JIMMY BRESLIN COLUMN OPENS THE DOOR TO THE RACE ISSUE A Jimmy Breslin column changed it all. perverted sex acts. A sign said, ?Dinkins, We Know Your True?Color Yellow Bellied. ??Now others began screaming, ?Crown Heights! How was that?? "?How do you like what the niggers did to you in Crown Heights?? "?Now you got a nigger right inside City Hall. How do you like that? A nigger mayor. Jimmy Breslin, Newsday, 9/17/92 "And they put it right out in the sun yesterday in front of City Hall: We have a police force that is openly racist and there is a question as to what good they possibly can be in a city that will be famous forever as existing grandly with every color there is between here and Mars. Jimmy Breslin, Newsday, 9/ 17/92 DINKINS, DEALT THE RACE CARD BY BRESLIN, PLAYS HIS WINNING HAND Breslin?s description an off-duty cop blurting out racial epithets, gave Dinkins the political cudgel necessary to pummel Giuliani and the police. In an instant, it would be Dinkins who became the political opportunist "The Mayor said the source for the slurs was a Jimmy Breslin column in yesterday?s Newsday. Five New York Times reporters who covered the demonstration did not hear racial slurs. A Council member, Una Clarke of Brooklyn, said she was called a ?nigger? as she tried to get into City Hall by a man in a police uniform who was not wearing a badge. New York Times, 9/ 18/92 "The mayor is making the most [of the cop rally]. He pummeled the PBA all day yesterday, in a public hearing, in a press conference and on a late night TV interview program. "No one?s going to defend heavy?drinking, weapons?carrying cops making ugly racial remarks, brushing past police lines, stomping on cars and hitting reporters and photographers. David Seifman, New York Post, 9/ 18/92 A-49 "And, elegantly, calmly, but firmly, David Dinkins will turn yesterday into the greatest political break seen around here in a long time. It is something these poor folks from the suburbs don?t understand: They gave their enemy a ton of votes in the next" New York City election. Jimmy Breslin, Newsday, 9/17/92 bashing first his own police department New York Times, 9/ 18/92 "[Dinkins] asserted that some of the 10,000 protesters at the rally outside City Hall, besides damaging property and blocking traffic on the Brooklyn Bridge for nearly an hour, had used racial slurs, demonstrating why an independent agency was needed to restore confidence that complaints against rude or abusive officers would be investigated. "?Some of them out there yesterday who were calling out ?nigger,? for instance, Mr. Dinkins said. ?Why would the people in our communities have the confidence in them, that they would have the sensitivity to handle a tense situation in the minority community?? he asked. New York Times, 9/ 18/92 "An angry Mayor Dinkins yesterday lambasted cops who called him a ?nigger? and ?washroom attendant? at a raucous police rally the day befor . A-SO ?If some officers in full View of camera and public and their superior officers would use racial slurs, yelling ?niggers and some of the signs they were carrying then I fear how they would behave when they are out in the streets,? a visibly angry Dinkins told Public Safety Committee members in a rare appearance before a council panel. Newsday, 9/ 18/92 "Mayor Dinkins said yesterday some of the cops who ?behaved like hooligans? in last week?s police demonstration at City Hall should be fire . "?It?s dangerous for our city for such people to have a badge and a gun,? Dinkins declared. New York Post, 9/22/92 and political opponent Rudy Giuliani. According to Dinkins, Giuliani is no longer an opportunist, but a racist. ewsday, 9/ 22/ 92 A-51 "Dinkins accused Giuliani of ?all but inciting those officers to riot? when the former prosecutor spoke Wednesday at a rowdy police protest against Dinkins and a proposed all?civilian complaint review board. Daily News, 9/19/92 "The mayor charged Caruso, president of the Patrolmen?s Benevolent Association, and Republican mayoral challenger Rudolph Giuliani, who made a fiery speech to the cops, did little to discourage the rampage. Newsday, 9/ 18/92 "They accused Mr. Giuliani, the former Republican mayoral candidate who is expected to run again in 1993, of fueling racial tensions to boost his political stature. Mr. Giuliani spoke to the estimated 10,000 protesters at the rally, which veered out of control when some officers damaged cars, stormed the steps of City Hall, blocked traffic on the Brooklyn Bridge and shouted racial epithets. New York Times, 9/21/92 "?Now when we were cutting a lot of social-service areas health, education, all kinds of horrendous, difficult choices,? [Dinkins] said, advocates for those causes, who had been a vital part of his electoral coalition, berated him for spending money on the police. "?It was hard to do, it was tough, and people, continually, as they came down to lobby for whatever they wanted, they said, ?Why don?t you cut the police?? I said, ?You haven?t touched them.? I said, know. Public safety is the next priority after fiscal stability.? So I did that. I not only said it, I did it. Now, instead, I get called a nigger and treated with the utmost disrespect and it is all sanctioned by the REA. and Rudy Giuliani.? New York Times, 9/ 19/92 "?If you put that issue [who is playing the race card] before columnists, editorial boards or the general public,? Dinkins said, ?it would be Mr. Giuliani who would be found guilty of the charge.? My, 9/23/92 A-52 ENTER THE SURROGATES The Dinkins political operation works in concert with several surrogates to make the cop rally a "defining event 3' for his re-election campaign. First, the mayor calls for an investigation of the police New York Post, 9/17/92 then Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau begins a separate criminal investigation into the incident New York Times, 9/19/92 and the Guardians, an organization of African-American police officers, call for another investigation into Giuliani?s behavior at the rally "Giuliani?s remarks came one day after the Grand Council of Guardians, the 5,000- member black police assocration, urged Dinkins to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate whether Giuliani helped incite a riot last week when 10,000 off-duty police officers, some armed and drinking beer, stormed City Hall. Dinkins said yesterday that Giuliani contributed to the racially charged bitterness by his presence at the Newsday, 9/22/ 92 next Police Commissioner Kelly upbraids his rank-and-file officers for their misconduct "If you work in this department, you have to act within certain norms and certain A-53 bounds -- otherwise get yourself another job,? [Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly] told reporters at police headquarters. ?Don?t come in here and act like hoodlums and run up the stairs of the seat of government of the city. I found it really shameful.? ?Kelly said he was particularly disturbed by reports that some demonstrators carried racist signs or shouted racial slurs when they stormed the steps of City Hall during the protest against Mayor David Dinkins? proposal for an all?civilian board to review complaints against police. you has asked me prior to yesterday, I would say that our relationship with minority communities has never been perfect but I would have said it was better than it?s been in my memory in the department,? said Kelly, who joined the force in the 19603. Newsday, 9/18/92 and Calvin Butts draws attention to Giuliani?s use of bad language. "?The great disgrace was to stand there and see Rudolph Giuliani as he incited that crown,? the Rev. Calvin Butts 3d told parishioners at the Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem. ?He incited those officers with his vile and filthy language.? New York Times, 9/21/92 then, the Guardians say racism is ultimately responsible for the chaos at City Hall "?The mayor is receiving a lot of static and disrespect from the PBA and its membership because he is black,? Guardians Association President Robert Rivers told the Daily News after a boisterous PBA rally at City Hall. "Referring to PBA President Philip Caruso, Rivers said: ?Why is he so vehemently against the mayor, who is not anti-police? Dinkins has done as much for police as any mayor, if not more. Daily News, 9/ 17/92 Eric Adams, Vice president of the Guardians association of black officers, who denounced the protesters as ?right out of the 19503: A drunk, racist mob storming City Hall and coming in here to get themselves a nigger. Newsday, 9/ 18/92 A-54 "?We?re hearing a lot of ugly, racist rhetoric out here,? said Eric Adams, a vice president with the transit police Guardians Association, an organization of black officers. African-Americans in this department, you either speak up or assimilate,? said Sgt. Lloyd Finley, chairman of the Grand Council of Guardians, an umbrella group for the city?s black police officers. "?This really wasn?t about the CCRB or Washington Heights,? said one high?ranking black c0p. ?It?s about race. It?s about white cops who don?t live in our city. It?s about white cops who don?t want any part of a black mayor and will never accept a black mayor. That?s what this is really about.? Newsday, 9/ 18/92 an African-American cop shows just how fractured the city and its police force is as a result of this rally. 48-year-old black officer who grew up in Harlem and has been a member of the force for 24 years and is now a precinct administrator in Harlem, denounced the behavior of the City Hall protesters. ?Those cops acted like criminals,? he said. ?If that had been a predominantly black demonstration, there would be a lot of us walking around here today with bandages and crutches because that behavior would not have been tolerated. bad he said. What happens is they get assigned to a field precinct like Harlem and they come in here like a prince on a white horse. It?s culture shock because they never seen so many black people in all their lives. And they?re scared. It also has to do with inbred prejudice.? New York Times, 9/19/92 ENTER THE EDITORIAL BOARDS AND THE COLUMNISTS The city?s editorial boards and columnists add to the pile of criticism of Giuliani and P.B.A. Rudy Giuliani is criticized by some for his participation in the police demonstration "What happened at City Hall wasn?t simply an embarrassment to police everywhere, as acting Police Commissioner Ray Kelly called it. It was a crime against citizens everywhere. After the riot started, Caruso and his accomplice, Rudolph Giuliani -- A-55 aka. The Human Scream Machine claimed innocence." Mike McAlary, New York "They were urged on by the noxious words of Rudolph Giuliani, who seems not to care if towns burn. Jimmy Breslin, Newsday, 9/17/92 to prevent one. Jimmy Breslin, Newsday, 9/24/92 "Equally shameful was the conduct of the so-called civic-leaders, including presumed mayoral hopeful Rudolph Giuliani, whose pandering rhetoric included not a word of condemnation. editorial, Daily News, 9/ 18/92 "Unlike apologists such as Phil Caruso and Rudy Giuliani, the commish knows rabble when he sees it. As part of his investigation into the lawlessness, he has called on supervisors and integrity?control officers from every single precinct to help identify culprits. editorial, Daily News, 9/ 19/92 "Rudolph Giuliani, expected to mount a Republican challenge to Mr. Dinkins, showed up to support the police demonstration and berate the Mayor. Apparently betting -- irresponsibly -- that divisiveness will win votes, Mr. Giuliani still glosses over the rioters? conduct. editorial, New York Times, 9/30/92 A-56 while others offer more generalized criticisms. "The demonstrators carried posters attacking Mayor David Dinkins in crudely racial, sometimes obscene terms. Some of them plunged through barricades to rush the doors of City Hall; others massed to block traffic on the Brooklyn Bridge. As alcohol increased the rowdiness, angry cops roughed up reporters and trampled parked cars. sorry lack of leadership was not limited to Phil Caruso, head of the P.B.A., who lamely acknowledged that he had lost control of the event. Rudolph Giuliani, the potential candidate for mayor, addressed the crowd but failed to speak out sternly against disorder and racism. Now he claims, implausibly, that he wasn?t aware officers were out of control. editorial, New York Times, 9/18/92 "As for the demonstration itself, yes, the off-duty cops would have done well to conduct themselves with a bit more decorum. On duty or off duty, they?re still cops; and the standard to which all New Yorkers hold them -- appropriately -- is high. They rambunctious. They shouldn?t have blocked the Brooklyn Bridge. Some, apparently, even hurled racial epithets. In short, any failed to conduct themselves in a manner befitting police officers. editorial, New York Post, 9/ 18/92 week of protest and nasty, polarizing rhetoric has left New York City edgy and raw. The racially tinged anger needs cooling, the city needs healing and everybody has a part to play. That includes Mayor David Dinkins, Rudolph Giuliani, police union leaders and other elected officials who seem to have lost their voices. "Mr. Giuliani, the once and presumably future Republican candidate for mayor, contemplates governing all of New York. But in an obvious play for white conservative support, he gave an overwrought performance at the raucous police demonstration against an all-civilian complaint review board. Where was his concern for the city? He knew that the largely white police union and the black Mayor were already at loggerheads. His decision to address the police was reckless, as were some of his harsher comments. A-57 "Worse even given time to recognize and repair the damage, Mr. Giuliani sharpened his racially tinged feud with Mr. Dinkins. Breathtakingly, he accused the Mayor of playing the race card. Mr. Dinkins has made mistakes, but it is wrongheaded to accuse him of racial pandering. His errors have been of tone, not intent. editorial, New York Times, no date editorial, New York Times, 9/22/92 GIULIANI EMBARKS ON A LAWED STRATEGY -- ATTACK DINKINS Under fire from David Dinkins, his surrogates and the media, Giuliani wrongly decides to take on the Mayor. The only problem is Dinkins already commands the high ground in this engagement. After all, it was Giuliani himself who used expletives and vulgarities to attack Giuliani attacks the Mayor personally and blames him for the police riot and low department morale. "The political war over police conduct escalated yesterday as Rudolph Giuliani called Mayor Dinkins ?a mayor who invites riots? and ?a hack politician. Daily News, 9/ 19/92 "Referring to police officers? behavior on Wednesday, [Giuliani] said: ?One of the reasons those police officers might have lost control is that we have a mayor who invites riots by talking that way.? Daily News, 9/19/92 "Giuliani later denounced Dinkins as ?anti-police,? adding ?The reason the morale is so low is for one reason and one reason alone, David Dinkins,? Giuliani said to thundering applause. Newsday, 9/ 17/92 A-58 ong support for the police -- almost in spite of their actions at the rally. "?This mayor talked about und people,? said Giuliani, discussing Dinkins? response to unrest in Los Angeles and Washington Heights. ?1 don?t hear him talking about understandin the rage of police in danger because of his irresponsible decisions. erstanding the ra Daily News, 9/19/92 A-59 THE GIULIANI DEFENSE OF HIS PARTICIPATION AT THE POLICE DEMONSTRATION Giuliani?s defense if his actions at the police rally almost are as ?awed as his attack strategy on Dinkins. First, Giuliani never really credibly explains that he was not in the Vicinity of City Hall when the off?duty officers took the steps. Second, Giuliani?s arrogance and self?righteousness make his rebuttals to Dinkins? inaccurate attacks unpersuasive. Giuliani?s performance at the rally was about as harsh as any politician in America ever gets. In all cases when answering charges about the police rally, Giuliani should fight a natural tendency to sound trident and shrill. Defense Giuliani wasn?t even at City Hall when the police rally turned into a police riot. The rowdiest off-duty cops couldn?t even hear Giuliani?s remarks. "At 10:50 A.M., a few demonstrators chanting ?Take the hall! Take the hall!? ?ooded Michael O?Keefe, the officer who was cleared by a grand jury recently in the shooting death of a Dominican man in Washington Heights. Many officers ?ooded the bars along Murray Street and drank openly on the street during the speeches. New York Times, 9/17/92 Defense Giuliani and Phil Caruso, P.B.A. president, successfully moved most of the protesters away from City Hall to the officially designated rally site -- conducted an impassioned, but peaceful demonstration. "In fact, Caruso tried to move the rally a block away, and thousands of cops followed him up Murray Street, just west of City Hall. But a renegade group of hundreds won?t budge, and instead charged the bridge. New York Post, 9/ 17/92 A-60 come with me,? [Gluliani] said. ?Those actions significantly reduced whatever disturbance may have taken place. New York Times, 9/21/92 "Watching the crowd disintegrate into disorder at City Hall, [Guy] Molinari and [Rudy] Giuliani said they grabbed a bullhorn and an American ?ag, and tried to lead the crowd towards the speaker?s stand on Murray Street. "At 11:09 am, the crowd began screaming it approval and Chanting, ?Rudy, Rudy Rudy.? Giuliani, repeated Molinari?s use of profanity twice. "Although his speech elicited a tumultuous reaction, the rowdiest officers those jumping on cars and banging on City Hall windows were out of earshot. ewsday, 9/ 24/ 92 Defense Rudy Giuliani was the only civic leader willing to sit down with all the aggrieved parties and work out the problems that lead to the police rally -- Phil Caruso and David Dinkins both refused to talk. Union?s offer to meet with civil-liberties groups Sunday to explore how to debate the issue in a ?nonracially polarizing manner. Daily News, 9/23/ 92 Daily News, 9/23/ 92 A-6l "And last night Giuliani told the Daily News that the ?few? cops who ?acted illegally? during the demonstration should be ?prosecuted to the full extent of the law. Daily News, 9/ 19/92 Defense The police rally was not racially motivated. As many of the reporters and participants attest: "From officers on the beat to commanders in precincts and detective squads, a pervasive anger at Mayor David N. Dinkins, spawned by months of smoldering resentments over his handling of street disturbances and other police matters, has swept large segments of the New York City Police Department. New York Times, 9/19/92 don?t think it?s a racial issue; it?s a political issue,? [Transit Police Sgt. Lloyd] Finley said. "?Phil Caruso is in support of Giuliani. [Caruso is] going to do everything he .can to discredit Mayor Dinkins in order for Giuliani to win the 1993 election. New York Post, 9/21/92 [Joseph V. Toal, president of the Sergeants Benevolent Committee] said he did not believe police anger at Mr. Dinkins was racially oriented. "?They?re upset at the Mayor for going to Washington Heights,? he said. ?When people there see the Mayor expressing sympathy for Jose Garcia? the slain man ?they think that means that the police must have done something wrong. It?s not the bill itself that they care about. It?s the way the Mayor treats the police.? New York Times, 9/19/92 "Among the many witnesses, the extent of racist remarks and signs is a subject of debate. Several reporters said they heard no racist remarks. ewsday, 9/ 24/ 92 A-62 "[Chief of Inspectional Services Robert] Beatty said two civilian complaints were lodged Wednesday, from people who were yelled at by cops on the bridge. One complainant said a cop used a racial epithet. Daily News, 9/ 8/ 92 Defense David Dinkins, through his chief political operator, Bill is the real racial polarizer. His comments comparing Giuliani to David Duke send a clear racial message that is ugly. To this day, both Dinkins and offer only half-hearted retractions to these divisive comments. "Deputy Mayor Bill has compared Rudy Giuliani to eX?Ku Klux Klansman David Duke because of Giuliani?s comments about Mayor Dinkins during last week?s rowdy police rally outside City Hall. New York Post, 9/23/92 "Giuliani also denounced [Bill] whom be labeled Dinkins? ?political operative,? for appearing on a WLIB radio talk show and comparing him to former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke. "?You compare me to David Duke in order to get people angry, in order to get them mean, so that you can polarize them in your direction,? he said. ?Bill being on WLIB comparing me to David Duke is playing the racial card to get a largely African-American audience bitterly angry at me. To compare me to David Duke is sick and indicates that what you?re interested in is not racial peace but racial polarization. ewsday, 9/23/92 "?The Mayor plays the race card when he thinks it is to his advantage,? Mr. Giuliani said, ?and then he condemns other people when he believes they?re doing it and that is very phoney. I?ll say it once again: Bill being on WLIB comparing me to David Duke is playing the race card. It is to get a largely African?American audience bitterly angry at me, and no matter what they believe the comparison to David Duke is absurd. New York Times, 9/23/92 A-63 "Dinkins told reporters that it was unfair to compare Giuliani to Duke, and in a rare public chiding of said, think Bill would probably rethink that. New York Post, 9/23/92 "Dinkins said [Bill] ?probably would rethink? his comments. ?But said, stand on that statement. I don?t believe (Giuliani) holds the philosophy of David Duke, but that day, I think it was that kind of behavior out there. Daily News, 9/23/92 kind of comment that guy Giuliani made out there, with a mob out here, with a mob of police drinking beer, acting in an unruly fashion, and then egging them on. David Dinkins, Newsday, 9/23/92 "?Do I regret it? I don?t think Rudy Giuliani buys the philosophy of David Duke, but his behavior at the rally reminded me of David Duke,? told The Post. New York Post, 9/23/92 Defense Refer critics to the supportive editorial and columns devoted to the police rally. "So this one must have sent a loud wake-up call to Mayor Dinkins to begin mending fences. He might start with an apology to the cops who he dissed, as they say on the streets, by taking the mother of the dead drug dealer into Gracie Mansion and then by paying for the dead drug dealer?s funeral with city tax money. Dennis Duggan, Newsday, 9/ 17/92 "But I have two pieces of advice. One is for Mayor Dinkins. Remember what Fiorello LaGuardia used to say when he admitted making a mistake: ?When I make a mistake it?s a beaut.? Dennis Duggan, Newsday, 9/ 17/92 A-64 although no reporters covering the event recounted any in their news stories. (Of the five New York Times reporters in. attendance, not a single one heard racial slurs.) to suggest that the demonstration was animated by racism to imply, by extension, that the YPD is full of racists is to miss the point of the event, to ignore its extraordinary size and to slander the police. editorial, New York Times, 9/19/92 "The mayor properly protested use of the word ?nigger,? but he is silent when his friend Charles Rangel calls Ross Perot ?a white cracker.? Ray Kerrison, New York Post, 9/21/92 ?And a lot has been written about the event, to be sure, and Mayor Dinkins was certainly irked by it: On Tuesday, speaking on WLIB radio, Deputy Mayor Bill even drew a comparison based on the demonstration -- between former US. Attorney Rudolph Giuliani and David Duke. The comparison strikes us as highly inappropriate. And, in view of customary level-headedness, it?s hard not to wonder whether there isn a deliberate effort under way, on the part of ranking city officials, to heighten local racial tensions. editorial, New York Post, 9/24/92 attention. "Shortly thereafter, his top political aide, Bill went on a black radio station to liken the mayor?s chief political rival, Rudy Giuliani, to David Duke. (How would Dinkins respond to being compared to Louis Farrakhan?) Scott McConnell, New York Post, 9/26/92 A-65 Defense Refer critics to the legitimate complaints of police officers who patrol our streets and put their lives on the line. "Tom a six?year cop assigned to the 7lst Precinct in Crown Heights, called Dinkins ?the toughest mayor on the people who fight crime. New York Post, 9/17/92 "?Washington Heights was utterly, utterly disgraceful,? said a detective sergeant with more than 20 years on the force who, like many others interviewed yesterday, spoke only on the condition that he not be identified. ?Dinkins tries to whitewash the facts. Personally, I take offense when the Mayor says he has been the best friend to the Police Department. The man is sick.? New York Times, 9/19/92 "?We?re not going to get an impartial panel from the mayor because the mayor is basically anti?cop on every issue,? said Officer Jorge Gautreau. ?He?s anti-cop on the issue of the 9?mm. and he?s demonstrated that he?s anti-cop in this incident in the 34th Precinct where he sided with the criminal element.? Newsday, 9/17/92 .. The harsh emotional pitch re?ected the widespread anger among rank-and-file officers toward the Mayor for his handling of riots against the police in Washington Heights last July, his refusal to give them semiautomatic weapons and his appointment of an outside panel to investigate corruption. "?He never supports us on anything,? said Officer Tara Fanning of the Midtown South Precinct, echoing the View of many in the crowd. cop shoots someone with a gun who?s a drug dealer, and he goes and Visits the family. ,New York Times, 9/17/92 [Phil] Caruso said, ?Mayor Dinkins? support of police is symbolic; it is not sincere. Newsday, 9/ 17/92 A-66 "?We are not attacking the mayor because he is black, but because of his position on all the critical issues. We have attacked mayors whether they were white or black. Phil Caruso, Daily News, 9/17/92 Defense 8: Detail Rudy Giuliani?s record of prosecuting corrupt cops. Giuliani recognizes the image problems cops have in the minority community. don?t think having been involved in law enforcement for 15 years, that police brutality is any worse now than it?s ever been,? said Giuliani during an interview with editors and reporters of the Daily News. ?The situation is quite a bit better now than it used to be 10, 15 or 20 years ago.? "?And the more we isolate them, the worse the problems are going to become,? said Giuliani, 41, today?s cops are ?more honest? and ?more professional.? But he conceded that ?the perception of a lot of people in our society, particularly those in the minority groups, is just the opposite of that.? Daily News, 6/23/85 Rudy Giuliani, a well-earned reputation for prosecuting corrupt cops. once tried a case in which the police officer got ten years in prison. I didn?t like doing it, because I like police officers. I respect and understand their problems more than I do others. Anyway, when I finished with the police corruption cases, I felt I could then really do my job because I could set aside my personal feelings and do it as if I didn?t have them. Rudolph Giuliani, New York, 5/25/87 "That Giuliani plans to prosecute the case in not an empty gesture because of his past. Giuliani, as a young prosecutor, made an outstanding reputation for prosecuting the police detectives who were believed to be responsible for stealing the French Connection heroin from the New York City Police Department." ewsday, 6/4/85 A-67 Giuliani, the young assistant US. attorney, leads the Knapp Commission?s investigations into police corruption. "In the spring of 1971, he joined a small group of prosecutors working on cases ?owing out of the Knapp Commission?s investigation of police corruption. He prosecuted cases involving William Phillips, the ?rogue cop.? Giuliani began to hear of another investigation that ?was being held very, very tight.? Several weeks later, he was handed a series of reports detailing some of those cases, and the name of Detective Robert Leuci came to Giuliani?s attention for the first time. "Leuci, the linchpin for the best?selling book and the film ?Prince of the City,? didn?t come face to face with the young prosecutor until the stressful night Leuci blew his cover by leaving a government memo among the papers he handed two men under investigation. Giuliani, summoned to the office in Foley Square in the middle of the night, remembers: looked in the other room and there he was, pacing back and forth. Younger and a lot more innocent-looking than this guy I had read all about. We spent three hours talking about baseball, football, a whole bunch of things. He was worried, of course, but we convinced (the two subjects) to cooperate and he wasn?t blown.? "Leuci returned to the street and Giuliani inherited the cases he was making when the other assistant U.S. attorneys moved on to other jobs. The pair hit it off. remember thinking the first time I say Rudy, ?Here?s one of those Italians who is trying to become a recalled Leuci one recent afternoon at his Connecticut home. ?There was no emotion. I was talking and he just sat there not moving, just blinking his eyes, trying to get a read on me. He?s a no?bullshit guy, I learned as time went on -- a guy who?s comfortable with cops as well a lawyers. We were close.? "The feeling was mutual, and made the events of the next few months that much more difficult. Another cop in the Special Investigations Unit (SIU, where Leuci served) was talking to save himself from a perjury rap. It appeared that corruption was endemic among the detectives in SIU. ?Within 10 minutes of listening to this I knew that Bob Leuci had lied to us when he said he had done only three or four things wrong, These guys were taking everything that moved.? The next two months encompassed what Giuliani calls the ?most painful acts of my professional lifeadmit he had perjured himself in earlier court testimony and had to get him to tell us all he knew about crooked cops.? "Giuliani asked off the case, but the then-US. Attorney Paul Curran refused. The situation came to head one Saturday night when Leuci called Giuliani from his Virginia home and said he couldn?t cooperate with the government, felt terrible about letting down the prosecutors he had come to respect, and couldn?t bear the thought of prison. The only choice left, he said, was to kill himself. Giuliani ?ew down to A-68 Washington the next day with a colleague, and Leuci greeted them at National Airport. The trio drove aimlessly around the Washington area talking for hours. After a dinner of linguine and clam sauce at Leuci?s home, the three men talked until dawn. Giuliani left the next day. And the following morning, Leuci walked into the Foley Square office of Giuliani and sat down. Bob, tell me the worst thing first,? Giuliani gently prodded. ?Well, I didn?t kill anyone and I didn?t sell heroin,? began Leuci, prompting a sigh of relief from Giuliani. Then he went through an incredible tale featuring SIU detectives who accepted bribes, sold drugs and pocketed cash from arrested criminals. When the dust cleared a few years later, 50 of these ?Princes of the City? were indicted; about a dozen were successfully prosecuted by Giuliani; two of Leuci?s partners committed suicide; one went insane. "When the prosecutors met several times to decide whether to press perjury charges against Leuci, Giuliani was the most prominent member of the Love Leuci? fan club. had a great deal of empathy for what he had gone through,? Giuliani recalls. ?He had risked his life to clean up the Police Department. Before him no one would wear a wire not Serpico, not Bill Phillips. Leuci did that, and that made cases. The condition of the Police Department two years after Bob Leuci was a lot better than it was before Bob Leuci.? Curran decided not to prosecute. Leuci considers Giuliani a friend, but concedes that ?he can be a very tough guy.? Daily News, 8/ 14/83 As US Attorney, Giuliani continues to prosecute corrupt cops. former police sergeant and a patrolman have become the eight and ninth cops convicted in a federal probe of police corruption involving Manhattan after-hours clubs, US. Attorney Rudolph W. Giuliani said yesterday. Daily News, 8/11/83 "Insisting that ?police corruption still goes on even after the Knapp Commission,? an angry Federal Court judge slapped a crooked cop yesterday with a six-year prison sentence and a $4,000 fine for taking payoffs from after-hours clubs. "Alfano, 30, who worked out of the W. 20th St. station, was the first of 19 present and former cops to be tried and convicted in an FBI investigation of the 10th Precinct, which covers W. 14th to 43rd Sts. Daily News, 7/29/84 A-69 .. blamed the return of the ?bad old days? on a relaxation of the =ugh controls? that the department instituted in the early 19708 after the Knapp Commission hearings on police corruption." Daily News, 6/8/85 affairs investigation that concluded that the officers had made ?wrongful arrests? in the an Asian on sexual abuse charges. The arrests were made on the Lexington Avenue subway line. New York Times, 5/13/88 A-70 "Police Commissioner Benjamin Ward said yesterday that an inquiry into allegations of scores of false arrests by four transit police officer would be widened to include five other officers cited as having made an unusually high number of sexual-abuse arrests in 1983 and 1984. New York Times, 12/8/87 Giuliani prosecutes corrupt federal prison guards. "Nine federal prison guards, including the president of the employe[sic] union at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in lower Manhattan, were charged yesterday with taking cash bribes to smuggle drugs, cash and personal items to inmates at the center, authorities said. "The allegations stemmed from a yearlong FBI probe conducted with the aid of the Bureau of Prisons and the US. attorney?s office. Daily News, 10/13/83 Defense Explain Rudy Giuliani?s record fighting racial discrimination with Justice. Rudy Giuliani moves to re-write discriminatory police exams. "To avoid having another city police sergeant exam challenged as discriminatory in the courts, US. Attorney Rudolph Giuliani has decided to get involved in drawing up the new exam before it?s given. "?It seems to us that this thing has gotten to such a point that it was in the public interest to (step in now),? Giuliani said last night. "Rather than wait until the test is given to determine if it discriminates against minorities -- the normal procedur -- Giuliani said he will have his own testing expert cooperate with the city Department of Personnel as it writes the next sergeant exam, which could be given later this year. involvement comes partly in response to white fraternal groups in the Police Department who complained in late November when 160 black and Hispanic cops were promoted to sergeant even though they failed the 1983 exam. both groups had helped the city pick the consultant who drew up the 1983 test, they charged after it was given that it was discriminatory because only 1.6% of the blacks and 4.6% of the Hispanics passed, compared with 10.6% of the A-71 whites. [Judith] Levitt [city personnel director] said she is not sure how involved. the minority groups will be in the development of the next exam, but she does plan to hire a consultant to review what her staff has done. Daily News, 1/9/86 Rudy Giuliani prosecutes a discriminatory rental agency. Sopher and Co., one of the largest real-estate rental agencies in the country, agreed yesterday to a consent judgement settling civil and criminal proceedings brought by the federal government because of the firm?s alleged discrimination against blacks seeking apartments. "It was the third settlement reached between the firm and the Justice Department in six years. "Sopher agreed to spend $300,000 on antidiscrimination programs through 1990, and pay $50,000 in government attorneys? fees to resolve charges that its employees steered blacks away from vacancies in Greenwich Village and the Upper East Side, two of Manhattan?s most expensive -- and heavily white residential areas. judgement includes provisions that Sopher agree not to engage in racial discrimination, and provide notice to the public that apartments the firm handles are available without regard to race, color, sex, religion or national origin. Daily News, 11/15/85 FINAL THOUGHTS ON THE POLICE RALLY Three examples of how not to respond to police rally criticisms: "Mr. Giuliani called the Mayor?s remarks ?desperate and offensive.? He denied he had harangued the crowd and said he did not condone demonstrators breaking the law. ?The Mayor is dead wrong,? he said. ?What I attempted to do was to move them away from City Hall.? New York Times, 9/17/92 A-7 2 should be commended for leading 2,000 to 3,000 away from City Hall and reducing significantly the potential for civil disturbance,? Giuliani said. ?The others were engaged in activity which I didn?t see.?" Newsday, no date "?The Mayor is perpetrating a fraud about my activity,? [Giuliani] said. ?When he apologizes for that, when he has the wisdom and the sense to apologize for that, then other people can apologize to him for things. New York Times, 9/23/92 The best example of how to respond to police rally criticisms. "After completing three hours of testimony, Caruso admitted he had apologized to acting Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly for the protesters? misbehavior. New York Post, 9/ 18/92 A cop offers a powerful re?ection on the police rally. "?We really screwed this up,? said one police member of the City Hall detail as he watched his colleagues take control of the steps. ?We had a chance to make a serious statement and we blew it.? Newsday, 9/ 17/92 A-73 GENERAL ELECTION NIGHT, 1989 A74 no, that! Quiet! Quiet!? screamed Giuliani in a bizarre scene where for a moment it seemed he couldn?t control his own crowd. New York Post, 11/8/89 A-74 THE SCREAM PART TWO: GENERAL ELECTION NIGHT, 1989 CHARGE: RUDY PERFORMANCE AT THE POLICE RALLY, WHEN COUPLED WITH HIS EXHIBITION ON ELECTION NIGHT IN 1989, SHOW A PATTERN OF A MAN TEMPERAMENTALLY UNFIT FOR THE OFFICE. IN 1989, GIULIANI SHOUTED AT HIS SUPPORTERS DURING HIS CONCESSION SPEECH. ALMOST THREE YEARS LATER, HIS PROF ANE SCREAMING DISPLAY AT A POLICE RALLY INCITED A DRUNKEN BAND OF OFF-DUTY COPS TO STORM CITY HALL AND SHUT DOWN THE BROOKLYN BRIDGE. CONTEXT: For months, every political operative in New York has been talking about the attack ad linking Rudy Giuliani?s two most famous shrieking performances the cop rally of last September and election night 1989. The linkage of the cops rally and election night 1989 is really a Video vulnerability. The prospect of watching Giuliani screaming at his supporters before conceding defeat to David Dinkins and shouting expletives to describe Mayor Dinkins? anti-police agenda is not pretty. Giuliani?s screaming during election night 1989 would not be a political problem if it were not for a similarly disturbing performance at the cop rally. Taken together, election night ?89 and the cop rally demonstrate a frightening pattern of Giuliani excess. REBUTTAL STRATEGY: This potential attack is best prepared for if it is seen as a cynical political smear. Election night ?89 must be put into a context more favorable to Giuliani. Yes, Giuliani was firm with his supporters on election night. His behavior, however, must be explained fully. Giuliani urging healing -- trying to stop hostility toward Dinkins. Giuliani faced a very angry crowd unwilling to support the new mayor and concede defeat. Giuliani?s tone was a stern command to his supporters to rally behind David Dinkins and reunite New York. Giuliani wasn?t the only candidate on election night who had to shout down his supporters. The New York Post (11/8/89) reported: "The divisions shown in the polls were loud and clear last night at their separate A-75 rallies as both Dinkins and Giuliani had to shout down their own supporters. "?Oh no, no, hear me please,? Dinkins told his supporters, who booed when he said Giuliani was a decent man. The Daily News (11/8/89) wrote of Giuliani?s election night: "Repeatedly shouting, ?No! No! No!? to quell disappointed supporters, Rudolph Giuliani conceded defeat in a bitter mayoral campaign 10 minutes before midnight yesterday, calling David Dinkins? narrow victory a ?historic event? for the city. "Giuliani, screaming until his voice broke, scolded the booing, hissing partisans at the Roosevelt Hotel into silence. "In a 20?minute concession speech, the defeated former prosecutor told the crowd: ?It?s very important for the future of our city? to unify behind Dinkins. want you to show that support.? harmonious chords not often heard during the acrimonious campaign, Giuliani said, ?Our city is in deep and serious ways. Every prayer you have ever said for me I ask you now to give to our new mayor. I will join David Dinkins in his desire for healing and unity.? This vulnerability can be addressed in two ways: 1. Take the high road. Put election night in its proper context. Have video footage ready that shows the concession speech?s most conciliatory passages. Release to the media full?text copies of Giuliani?s 1989 concession speech. 2. Get tough. Put together an ad from Dinkins? primary election victory celebration or Dinkins? general election celebration when his supporters booed mention of Giuliani?s name. Video footage from the Korean boycott, Washington Heights or Crown Heights might provide a good counter to an attack on the police rally. Given Giuliani?s perception as a gut-fighter, obviously taking the high road is the best strategy. But, understanding all options should help the campaign determine all its options in dealing with this issue. It must be noted that the tone of the campaign from today forward might dictate whether or not the "cop rally-election night" attack ad ever gets produced. Giuliani cannot change what is history, but he can control what happens tomorrow. If the campaign becomes excessively nasty and negative, expect to see a "human scream A-76 machine" ad. If Giuliani chooses to take the high road and stay on it, his campaign might prevent the opposition from producing an ad that is guaranteed to backfire because it will not fit into the context of the campaign. In any event, the campaign must be prepared for the worst. Expect to deal with this issue. A-7 7 PRACTICING THE POLITICS OF RACIAL POLARIZATION A78 think I know what he?s doing but I don?t intend to interpret it because to do so is to assist him,? Dinkins said. ?What I would want is people to say and do things that will assist us in bringing our city together instead of dividing it. United Press International, 9/29/89 A-78 RUDY GIULIANI: PRACTICING THE POLITICS OF RACIAL POLARIZATION CHARGE: RUDY GIULIANI IS A RACIST. HE RAN A RACIST CAMPAIGN AGAINST DAVID DINKINS IN 1989. HE IS THE RACIAL POLARIZER WHO PARTICIPATED IN THE COP RALLY WHERE OFF -DUTY OFFICERS VICIOUSLY ATTACKED THE MAYOR. AS U.S. ATTORNEY HE FAILED TO BRING CIVIL RIGHTS CASES AGAINST BRUTAL POLICE OFFICERS AND RUTHLESS VIGILANTES. CONTEXT: Rudy Giuliani is vulnerable to charges of insensitivity toward racial minorities. On the most basic level, any white candidate running against the first African?American mayor in the city?s history is going to have problems in the minority community. But as a Republican and a former prosecutor, Giuliani?s difficulties are even more acute. Look for David Dinkins to drive deep wedges among minority voters over Giuliani?s leadership of the Reagan Administration?s Haitian detention nolicv. Giuliani?s campaign for mayor four years ago was viewed as racist by many in the minority community. Giuliani?s exploitation of the Dinkins?Jackson relationship in the Jewish community was viewed by many as racist. Dinkins also may take Giuliani to task for racial slurs uttered by former Giuliani campaigner Jackie Mason. Further, Giuliani?s performance at the cop rally troubled many New Yorkers, none more than African-American and Latino New Yorkers. Giuliani?s support of the police and "police issues" -- like the all-civilian complaint review board, 9-mm. service pistols, and the death penalty does not help dissuade minority voters that Giuliani is sensitive to their concerns. The "Son of Brinks" case also might be racially exploited. Simply put, Dinkins won?t have to work hard during painting Giuliani as a racist Unless Giuliani reaches out and softens his image. Giuliani is in an enviable position. Sensitivity expectations for Giuliani with minorities are so low that a little effort could go a long way. Thus even small outreach efforts by Giuliani this year should have broad implications. Rudy Giuliani can -- and should -- be redefined for all voters, but especially minority voters. A-7 9 REBUTTAL STRATEGY: In order to reintroduce Giuliani to voters, the campaign should embark on an aggressive outreach program that includes some of the following tactics: The campaign should reach out to minority leaders and attempt to establish at least a cordial professional relationship with as many as possible. When bombs start ?ying, a few of these "friends" may provide some air-cover. The campaign should schedule more events in minority neighborhoods. Minority voters will have a more difficult time hating Giuliani if they see him in their community on a fairly regular basis. 0 The campaign should aggressively market Giuliani?s record on prosecuting corrupt cops as an inoculation against the charge that Giuliani wants a police state to arrest all minorities. Winning over large numbers of minority voters will always be a difficult task for the Giuliani campaign. Expectations for this inoculation strategy must not be overexaggerated. However, outreach to predominantly minority neighborhoods could produce more benefits than just improved relations in the minority community white liberal voters can be won over by softening Giuliani?s image on racial issues. Most importantly, the campaign must understand that if Rudy Giuliani is to govern effectively after he defeats David Dinkins, he must go out of his way to establish, at least, good working relationships with leaders in the minority community. As mayor Giuliani will have to bring New York City together. A-80 RACIST 1989 CAMPAIGN FOR MAYOR JACKIE MASON, PART 1 Rudy Giuliani ran a tough, hard-hitting 1989 campaign against David Dinkins. Giuliani campaign aide Jackie Mason made race an issue in the campaign when he criticized David Dinkins in racially derogatory terms. "In the article [Jackie Mason] was quoted as saying, ?There is a sick Jewish problem of voting for a black man no matter how unfit he is for the job. All you have to do is to be black and don?t curse the Jews directly and the Jew will vote for a black in a second. Jews are sick with complexes. They feel guilty for the black predicament as if the Jews caused United Press International, 9/27/89 "At another point, Mason refers to the need for a strong mayor to fight drugs and says: "?When there is a war going on you need a general. And you don?t need a guy like Dinkins, who spends his whole life putting on shirts and jackets and partng his hair. Dinkins looks like a black model without a job.?" United Press International, 9/27/ 89 Giuliani campaign endured harsh attacks resulting from Mason?s comments. "The Anti?Defamation League accused [Jackie] Mason, a prominent supporter of Republican mayoral candidate Rudolph Giuliani, of injecting race and religion into the campaign. United Press International, 9/27/89 "The American Jewish Committee, the Anti?Defamation League of B?nai B?rith, the Jewish Community Relations Council as well as Koch and Abraham Beame the city?s first Jewish mayor all denounced the comments. United Press International, 9/27/ 89 A-81 Jackie Mason takes himself out of the campaign, and Giuliani coldly distances himself from his remarks. "?He?s taken himself out of the campaign so the remarks don?t become an issue,? Mr. Giuliani said. ?The remarks, as reported, do not re?ect my views. New York Times, 9/28/89 Giuliani is criticized for his handling of Mason?s racist remarks. fair campaign practices group [the Committee on Decent Unbiased Campaign Tactics] Thursday strongly criticized Rudolph Giuliani for his mild response to Jackie Mason?s racially charged remarks and accused him of failing to live up to a pledge to campaign without appeals to prejudice. United Press International, 9/28/89 Characteristically, Dinkins "the healer" takes the high road when attacked, instead of becoming angry and shrill. "Mr. Dinkins, in responding to Mr. Mason?s published remarks, said he was sure that Mr. Giuliani ?would not condone or sanction the kind of remarks made by Mr. Mason. New York Times, 9/28/89 The Giuliani campaign should have known better. The ?89 mayoral campaign wasn?t the first time Mason had demonstrated racial insensitivity. "Mason, who recently completed a one-man Broadway show, has been embroiled in controversy previously. His monologue at last year?s Grammy Awards presentation was panned widely for disparaging comments about blacks." Washington Post, 9/28/89 A-82 JACKIE MASON, PART 2 Newsweek drops another Jackie Mason bombshell. The Giuliani aide made additional racist remarks about David Dinkins in the presence of Rudy Giuliani. "In the Oct. 9 issue of Newsweek magazine, Mr. Mason, a keen supporter of Mr. Giuliani, is quoted using a Yiddish word with racially pejorative connotations, calling David N. Dinkins a ?fancy shvartze with a mustache.? New York Times, 10/2/89 Giuliani has trouble getting his story straight about the new Mason flap. "Rudolph Giuliani said yesterday that he did not recall hearing comedian Jackie Mason using the Yiddish slur, schvartze, to describe David Dinkins at a luncheon almost a month before Mason bowed out of his campaign last week. "But a report in this week?s Newsweek magazine says that Giuliani ?laughed nervously? at the Aug. 31 luncheon with four Newsweek reporters when Mason described Dinkins as a ?fancy schvartze with a mustache.? Newsday, 10/2/89 "But according to the Newsweek account, after the statement was made, ?Giuliani joined in the nervous laughter, making no attempt to rebuke Mason.? The Oct. 9 issue of Newsweek is being distributed today. New York Times, 10/2/89 Giuliani?s fumbling responses to the second Mason brouhaha causes Jimmy Breslin to rip into the Republican candidate for mayor for incompetence as well as racism. "Because Giuliani, in a outrageous display of amateurism, has just been caught and convicted of the worst charge of all, attempted racism. Jimmy Breslin, Newsday, 10/3/89 The Giuliani campaign?s race baiting does not end with Jackie Mason racist remarks. Less than a week after Mason leaves the campaign, the Giuliani campaign purchases a A-83 racially polarizing ad in a Yiddish language newspaper linking David Dinkins to Jesse Jackson. full-page advertisement for Rudolph W. Giuliani this week in The Aigemeiner Journal, the nation?s largest Yiddish newspaper, declares, ?Let the people of New York choose their own destiny.? "Beneath the exhortation are two photographs: one of Mr. Giuliani, the Republican mayoral candidate, chatting amiably with President Bush; the other of David N. Dinkins, the Democratic mayoral nominee, clasping hands in celebration with the Rev. Jesse Jackson. Mr. Jackson may or may not be running for mayor of Washington next year, but he has unmistakably been injected into this year?s New York City mayoral campaign by both major party candidates, and with risk to each. New York Times, 9/29/89 "Mr. Giuliani began this week by describing Mr. Dinkins as a Jackson Democrat, ostensibly in response to Mr. Dinkins? repeated characterization of Mr. Giuliani as a Reagan Republican. But yesterday?s advertisement, sponsored by Friends of Giuliani an official campaign committee, and paid for by a supporter, represents the most graphic manifestation so far of the Giuliani campaign?s strategy of reminding voters of Mr. Dinkins?s association with Mr. Jackson. 9 New York Times, 9/29/89 A Giuliani staffer takes the racism issue head-on "?We have nothing to hide here,? [Ken Caruso] said. ?We?re running a legitimate campaign. But we?re not going to run away from issues that are legitimate issues simply because some people are going to say every time you raise a question that it?s going to be a racist issue. I do not subscribe to it, and I think it?s grossly unfair.? New York Times, 10/1/89 .. but, Giuliani defends the Dinkins-Jackson ad by pointing the finger at Dinkins "Giuliani angrily attacked his critics as partisan and said it was Dinkins who started the fight calling him a ?Reagan Republican.? "He?s the one who raised the presidential issue in the campaign,? Giuliani said after touring a Manhattan rehabilitation center. ?He had Jackson on the A-84 platform with him on primary night. I didn?t have Reagan with me. United Press International, 9/29/89 which allows Dinkins to take command of the high-road. think I know what he?s doing but I don?t intend to interpret it because to so do it is to assist him,? Dinkins said. ?What I want is people to say and do things that will assist us in bringing our city together instead of dividing United Press International, 9/29/89 "Mr. Dinkins, who has repeatedly called Mr. Giuliani a ?Reagan Republican,? said he did not mind getting called a Jackson Democrat New York Times, 10/1/89 The Dinkins campaign demonstrates its skill. While the candidate take the high road, the surrogates savage Giuliani. "Some of the Democratic mayoral candidate?s supporters, however, were furious over the ad. Brooklyn Rep. Stephen Solarz, appearing with Dinkins at a news conference on housing issues, called the ad ?a blatant appeal to racism.? United Press International, 9/29/89 "It is a naked effort to play on Jewish fears,? Rabbi Balfour Bricker, a liberal Jewish leader, said Friday. ?The net effect of what he?s doing is to increase racial polarization. It?s a contemptible low blow. Associated Press, 9/30/ 89 Giuliani has some defenders, too "Haskell Lazere of the American Jewish Committee said he did not think the ad was racist and said quotes attributed to him in Friday?s New York Post were taken out of context. United Press International, 9/29/ 89 A-85 some from interesting quarters. "As Mr. Dinkins stood Stone?faced by his side, Mr, Allen said that there was ?no malice or racism? in Mr. Mason?s position ?at all. think that he?s in no way racially prejudiced, and that he was just joking, and these are the same jokes that he?s always made, and that the press was pious and foolish and, you know, that he got a raw deal. New York Times, 10/13/89 GIULIANI PLAYS THE RACE CARD, AGAIN "Rudolph W. Giuliani, in an appeal largely directed at white New Yorkers, declared yesterday that yearnings for racial peace should not become the deciding factor in his campaign against David N. Dinkins, the city?s first black major?party candidate for mayor. New York Times, 11/1/89 ""It?s wrong for David Dinkins to expect the voters to choose him because his is black, if that?s what he believes,? [Giuliani] continued, just as it would be wrong for me to expect the voters to choose me because I am white.? New York Times, 11/1/89 "The Dinkins campaign said that in effect, Mr. Giuliani had managed to inject the issue of race into the campaign by insisting that is not What the contest ought to be about. New York Times, 11/1/89 "Bill the Dinkins campaign manager, said yesterday: ?David has not made any appeals because of race. He has an appeal on his record and what he hopes to New York Times, 11/1/89 "Democratic candidate David Dinkins? approach relies heavily on reminding voters that his opponent, Rudolph Giuliani, is a Republican in a city where Republicans are A-86 outnumbered by a ratio of 5 to 1. "In response, Giuliani has taken to reminding voters that his opponent is black in a city where blacks are outnumbered by about 4 to 1. Clarence Page, Chicago Tribune, 10/4/89 LATEST ATTEMPT AT RACIAL POLARIZATION: THE COP RALLY [Please see the "?Human Scream Machine? Part One: The Cop Rally piece leading off the Racist portion of the Political Vulnerabilities section for a complete analysis of this item] WRONG ON THE ISSUES An example of Giuliani?s insensitivity toward minorities is his opposition to residency requirements for New York City police officers. ?Does it matter where cops live? Should they be required to be city residents?? "Giuliani: think it?s good if they can be part of the community that they are policing and understand the community that they are policing. If where they live helps to further that, then I think it can be a factor. But I think that dealing with the problems that they are going to undergo as police officers is the most important things.? Daily News, 6/23/85 GIULIANI HAS TROUBLES WITH MINORITY LEADERS Giuliani can?t make a civil rights case against Bernard Goetz, but civil rights leaders withhold their criticism. Attorney Rudolph Giuliani said yesterday there will be no federal investigation of last December?s subway shootings by Bernard Goetz. prosecutor, who had looked into the case at the request of black activists, said that in response to another one of their suggestions he is establishing a task force within the civil rights division as an ?outreach? plan to handle future complaints of a similar kind. A-87 was our inclination that this never warranted federal action,? Barry Slotnick, Goetz? attorney, said after the decision. glad to have cooperated with Mr. Giuliani in coming to this finding.? "Rev. Herbert of Brooklyn, one of the black leaders who contacted Giuliani said: not terribly disappointed given the prevalent racial and political climate and the way the law is written. We took a long shot, but justice did not prevail. "?The point is that Mr. Giuliani is listening to us. New York Post, 2/26/85 Later, Rudy Giuliani incurs the wrath of minority leaders because of his inability to prosecute civil rights cases. "Two advisers to Tawana Brawley yesterday characterized US. Attorney Rudolph Giuliani as a man who has refused to prosecute cases where blacks are Victims of racial violence but who jumped at the chance to investigate them. Giuliani may be your fair-haired boy, but he is our civil rights nightmare,? Vernon] Mason said. was bitterly critical of Giuliani?s record on civil rights cases, and he cited several cases, including those of Michael Stewart and Eleanor Bumpurs. Those two people, both black, were killed by white policemen under controversial circumstances, though there have been no convictions on state charges filed in the cases. "Black activists have continually tried to get Giuliani on the federal level involved in such cases, where he is theoretically empowered to bring civil rights actions against the suspects. "?What did he do with those -- nothing,? said Mason, referring to Giuliani?s response to the killings in question. ?He has done absolutely nothing to prosecute these cases of civil rights Violations in New York State.? Newsday, 6/27/88 A-88 The "Son of Brinks" Case demonstrates Giuliani?s insensitivity to minorities. "But there was, too, the ?Son of Brinks? case, in which Giuliani?s assistants argued that a group of well?educated black activists were dangerous enough to warrant imprisonment even before a trial; they were acquitted of almost all charges and got off with probation. ewsday, 1/29/89 "Seven self-styled ?freedom fighters? were acquitted Monday of charges that they plotted to rob armored trucks and free comrades from prison, but all face possible prison sentences for convictions on lesser counts. Associated Press, 8/5/85 ?Seven secessionist ?revolutionaries? convicted in an armored car holdup in Rockland County in 1981 were provisionally sentenced in federal court Thursday to three months community service. United Press International, 10/17/85 "Prosecutors maintained that the group planned to carry on the work of the radical Weather Underground and Black Liberation Army, organizations decimated by arrests following the botched 1981 holdup of a Brink?s armored truck in Rockland County." Associated Press, 10/ 18/85 "The FBI ?acted in the best interests of the public? in rounding up what it termed a group of Violent radicals, despite a judge?s criticism that the arrests may have been premature, Manhattan?s chief federal prosecutor says. Attorney Rudolph W. Giuliani on Thursday defended the bureau?s handling of the case dubbed ?Son of Brinks? after a federal judge refused to impose prison sentences on seven of the eight defendants who were convicted of possessing illegal weapons, using false identities to gain access to federal prisons, or both. Associated Press, 1/ 17/86 "?The government, for fear that something would happen, apparently brought the case too soon,? the judge said. "?What (Judge Carter) seems to mean is that the FBI should wait until someone is murdered before they take action,? Giuliani said. "The defendants, most of whom are college?educated professionals, contended that they were being prosecuted for their left?wing political activities. The weapons, they say, were for self?defense. Associated Press, 1/17/86 A-90 PRACTICING THE POLITICS OF RACIAL POLARIZATION DEFENSE ANOTHER VIEW OF THE GIULIANI RECORD ON RACE RELATIONS: FIGHTING AGAINST AND FOR JUSTICE AT EVERY TURN Rudy Giuliani?s race vulnerabilities are rooted in misperceptions rather than the reality of the record. Everyone knows Giuliani was the equal-opportunity prosecutor. Whether corrupt politicians, street?level drug dealers, Wall Street swindlers, Mafia kingpins, tax evaders and especially corrupt cops, Rudy Giuliani enforced the law with without bias. And, as a result he won respect from all quarters. Rev. Herbert praises Giuliani?s open door at the US. attorney?s office. "?The point is that Mr. Giuliani is listening to Rev. Herbert New York Post, 2/26/85 Giuliani always possessed a commitment to civil rights for all. was an admirer of John and Robert Kennedy. And I was a Democrat, although not a partisan Democrat. I felt an emotional involvement in the civil-rights movement. I wasn?t a protester, but I taught catechism and worked in schools for the disadvantaged when I was young. Rudolph Giuliani, New York, 5/25/87 Rudy Giuliani redefines what civil rights mean in a society afflicted with ever rising crime. "Someone said in the early eighties that for the next twenty years, protection against crime is going to emerge as the most important civil right in the country because if you don?t have protection against crime, all the other civil rights are basically academic matters. I think that?s absolutely right. Rudolph Giuliani, New York, 5/25/87 A-91 Giuliani calls for unity: "?It is time to reach out to all races, religions, and ethnic groups, to build consensus for the programs and principles that unite us,? Giuliani said to the luncheon audience. ?We have spent enough time on things that divide us. ow let?s talk about our common concerns. Rudolph Giuliani, Press Release, 5/23/89 RUDY GIULIANI: CONCERNED THAT THE POLICE PROTECT PEOPLE INSTEAD OF PERSECUTING THEM Giuliani recognizes the image problems cops have in the minority community. don?t think having been involved in law enforcement for 15 years, that police brutality is any worse now than it?s ever been,? said Giuliani during an interview with editors and reporters of the Daily News. ?The situation is quite a bit better now than it used to be 10, 15 or 20 years ago.? "?And the more we isolate them, the worse the problems are going to become,? said Giuliani, 41, today?s cops are ?more honest? and ?more professional.? But he conceded that ?the perception of a lot of people in our society, particularly those in the minority groups, is just the opposite of that.? Daily News, 6/23/85 Rudy Giuliani, a well-earned reputation for prosecuting corrupt cops. once tried a case in which the police officer got ten years in prison. I didn?t like doing it, because I like police officers. I respect and understand their problems more than I do others. Anyway, when I finished with the police corruption cases, I felt I could then really do my job because I could set aside my personal feelings and do it as if I didn?t have them." Rudolph Giuliani, New York, 5/25/87 "That Giuliani plans to prosecute the case in not an empty gesture because of his past. Giuliani, as a young prosecutor, made an outstanding reputation for prosecuting the police detectives who were believed to be responsible for stealing the French A-92 Connection heroin from the New York City Police Department. ?awsday, 6/4/85 Giuliani, the young assistant U.S. attorney, leads the Knapp Commission?s investigations into police corruption. "In the spring of 1971, he joined a small group of prosecutors working on cases ?owing out of the Knapp Commission?s investigation of police corruption. He prosecuted cases involving William Phillips, the ?rogue cop.? Giuliani began to hear of another investigation that ?was being held very, very tight.? Several weeks later, he was handed a series of reports detailing some of those cases, and the name of Detective Robert Leuci came to Giuliani?s attention for the first time. "Leuci, the linchpin for the best-selling book and the film ?Prince of the City,? didn?t come face to face with the young prosecutor until the stressful night Leuci blew his cover by leaving a government memo among the papers he handed two men under investigation. Giuliani, summoned to the office in Foley Square in the middle of the night, remembers: looked in the other room and there he was, pacing back and forth. Younger and a lot more innocent?looking than this guy I had read all about. We spent three hours talking about baseball, football, a whole bunch of things. He was worried, of course, but we convinced (the two subjects) to cooperate and he wasn?t blown.? "Leuci returned to the street and Giuliani inherited the cases he was making when the other assistant U.S. attorneys moved on to other jobs. The pair hit it off. remember thinking the first time I say Rudy, ?Here?s one of those Italians who is trying to become a recalled Leuci one recent afternoon at his Connecticut home. ?There was no emotion. I was talking and he just sat there not moving, just blinking his eyes, trying to get a read on me. He?s a no-bullshit guy, I learned as time went on a guy who?s comfortable with cops as well a lawyers. We were close.? "The feeling was mutual, and made the events of the next few months that much more difficult. Another cop in the Special Investigations Unit (SIU, where Leuci served) was talking to save himself from a perjury rap. It appeared that corruption was endemic among the detectives in SIU. ?Within 10 minutes of listening to this I knew that Bob Leuci had lied to us when he said he had done only three or four things wrong, These guys were taking everything that moved.? The next two months encompassed what Giuliani calls the ?most painful acts of my professional lifeadmit he had perjured himself in earlier court testimony and had to get him to tell us all he knew about crooked cops.? A-93 "Giuliani asked off the case, but the then-U.S. Attorney Paul Curran refused. The situation came to head one Saturday night when Leucci called Giuliani from his Virginia home and said he couldn?t cooperate with the government, felt terrible about letting down the prosecutors he had come to respect, and couldn?t bear the thought of prison. The only choice left, he said, was to kill himself. Giuliani ?ew down to Washington the next day with a colleague, and Leuci greeted them at National Airport. The trio drove aimlessly around the Washington area talking for hours. After a dinner of linguine and clam sauce at Leuci?s home, the three men talked until dawn. Giuliani left the next day. And the following morning, Leuci walked into the Foley Square office of Giuliani and sat down. Bob, tell me the worst thing first,? Giuliani gently prodded. ?Well, I didn?t kill anyone and I didn?t sell heroin,? began Leuci, prompting a sigh of relief from Giuliani. Then he went through an incredible tale featuring SIU detectives who accepted bribes, sold drugs and pocketed cash from arrested criminals. When the dust cleared a few years later, 50 of these ?Princes of the City? were indicted; about a dozen were successfully prosecuted by Giuliani; two of Leuci?s partners committed suicide; one went insane. "When the prosecutors met several times to decide whether to press perjury charges against Leuci, Giuliani was the most prominent member of the Love Leuci? fan club. had a great deal of empathy for what he had gone through,? Giuliani recalls. ?He had risked his life to clean up the Police Department. Before him no one would wear a wire -- not Serpico, not Bill Phillips. Leuci did that, and that made cases. The condition of the Police Department two years after Bob Leuci was a lot better than it was before Bob Leuci.? Curran decided not to prosecute. Leuci considers Giuliani a friend, but concedes that ?he can be a very tough guy. Daily News, 8/ 14/83 As U.S Attorney, Giuliani continues to prosecute corrupt cops. former police sergeant and a patrolman have become the eight and ninth cops convicted in a federal probe of police corruption involving Manhattan after-hours clubs, U.S. Attorney Rudolph W. Giuliani said yesterday. Daily News, 8/11/83 "Insisting that ?police corruption still goes on even after the Knapp Commission,? an angry Federal Court judge slapped a crooked cop yesterday with a six?year prison sentence and a $4,000 fine for taking payoffs from after?hours clubs. "Alfano, 30, who worked out of the W. 20th St. station, was the first of 19 present A-94 and former cops to be tried and convicted in an FBI investigation of the 10th Precinct, which covers W. 14th to 43rd Sts. Daily News, 7/29/84 blamed the return of the ?bad old days? on a relaxation of the ?tough controls? that the department instituted in the early 1970s after the Knapp Commission hearings on police corruption." Daily News, 6/8/85 high?ranking New York state police officer, responsible for investigating allegations of corruption and misconduct in the force, was charged yesterday with extortion and conspiracy in a scheme to sell false Vermont birth certificates to people seeking American passports." New York Times, 12/4/87 Giuliani prosecutes transit authority cops for racially-motivated false arrests. "Two transit police officers were arrested on Federal charges yesterday in the first cases to result from the department?s false?arrest scandal. "The action comes four years after the questionable arrests were first investigated. In December 1984 the office of the Manhattan District Attorney, Robert M. Morgenthau, declined to prosecute the officers despite a Transit Authority internal affairs investigation that concluded that the officers had made ?wrongful arrests? in the subways and lied about them in 1983 and 1984. "The officers were charged by Rudolph W. Giuliani, the United States Attorney in Manhattan, with conspiring to violate Federal civil rights laws. officers arrested yesterday, Mary McDermott and Alphonse Iannacone, were both assigned to the plainclothes anti?crime unit of Transit Police District Four, at the 14th Street-Union Square station. They were charged with falsely arresting six people four of whom were black, one of whom was a Hispanic man and one of whom was an Asian -- on sexual abuse charges. The arrests were made on the Lexington Avenue subway line. Emery, a civil rights lawyer who has filed a class?action suit on behalf of 12 of those arrested said he was gratified that the US. Attorney has filed charges A-95 that mirror the charges we have made in our civil complaint.? New York Times, 5/13/88 "Police Commissioner Benjamin Ward said yesterday that an inquiry into allegations of scores of false arrests by four transit police officer would be widened to include five other officers cited as having made an unusually high number of sexual-abuse arrests in 1983 and 1984." New York Times, 12/8/87 Giuliani prosecutes corrupt federal prison guards. ?Nine federal prison guards, including the president of the employe[sic] union at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in lower Manhattan, were charged yesterday with taking cash bribes to smuggle drugs, cash and personal items to inmates at the center, authorities said. "The allegations stemmed from a yearlong FBI probe conducted with the aid of the Bureau of Prisons and the US. attorney?s office. Daily News, 10/13/83 RUDY GIULIANI: FIGHTING DISCRIMINATION WITH JUSTICE Rudy Giuliani moves to re-write discriminatory police exams. "To avoid having another city police sergeant exam challenged as discriminatory in the courts, US. Attorney Rudolph Giuliani has decided to get involved in drawing up the new exam before it?s given. ?It seems to us that this thing has gotten to such a point that it was in the public interest to (step in now),? Giuliani said last night. "Rather than wait until the test is given to determine if it discriminates against minorities -- the normal procedure Giuliani said he will have his own testing expert cooperate with the city Department of Personnel as it writes the next sergeant exam, which could be given later this year. involvement comes partly in response to white fraternal groups in the Police Department who complained in late November when 160 black and Hispanic A-96 cops were promoted to sergeant even though they failed the 1983 exam. both groups had helped the city pick the consultant who drew up the 1983 test, they charged after it was given that it was discriminatory because only 1.6% of the blacks and 4.6% of the Hispanics passed, compared with 10.6% of the whites. [Judith] Levitt [city personnel director] said she is not sure how involved the minority groups will be in the development of the next exam, but she does plan to hire a consultant to review what her staff has done. Daily News, 1/9/86 Rudy Giuliani prosecutes a discriminatory rental agency. Sopher and Co., one of the largest real?estate rental agencies in the country, agreed yesterday to a consent judgement settling civil and criminal proceedings brought by the federal government because of the firm?s alleged discrimination against blacks seeking apartments. "It was the third settlement reached between the firm and the Justice Department in six years. "Sopher agreed to spend $300,000 on antidiscrimination programs through 1990, and pay $50,000 in government attorneys? fees to resolve charges that its employees steered blacks away from vacancies in Greenwich Village and the Upper East Side, two of Manhattan?s most expensive and heavily white -- residential areas. judgement includes provisions that Sopher agree not to engage in racial discrimination, and provide notice to the public that apartments the firm handles are available without regard to race, color, sex, religion or national origin. Daily News, 11/15/85 A-97 RACIST HAITIAN DETENTION POLICY A98 "?If Mr. Giuliani doesn?t have any second thoughts about putting 2-year-old kids in jail, about Haitians who were beaten up in detention camps, about putting people in sub-zero conditions, I strongly question his fitness to hold public of?ce. Ira Kurzban, Miami Herald, 4/19/85 A-98 RUDY GIULIANI, THE POINT MAN FOR RACIST HAITIAN DETENTION POLICY CHARGE: CONTEXT: GIULIANI, AS THE NUMBER-THREE MAN AT THE REAGAN JUSTICE DEPARTMENT, SERVED AS THE ARCHITECT OF A RACIALLY MOTIVATED POLICY TO IMPRISON HAITIAN REFUGEES. HIS LACK OF SENSITIVITY ON THIS ISSUE DEMONSTRATES THAT HE IS UNFIT TO GOVERN AN ETHNICALLY DIVERSE CITY LIKE NEW YORK. In 1989, David Dinkins? exploitation of the Haitian issue accomplished two things: 1. It reinforced the natural perception that Republican Rudy Giuliani was a right- wing extremist toady of the conservative Reagan and Bush administrations in Washington; It allowed the Dinkins campaign to call into question Giuliani?s racial sensitivity and ability to "heal" a divided and racially diverse city. Giuliani neither inoculated himself against these charges before they became an issue in the ?89 campaign nor did he defend his position well once these issues were raised by his opponents. This time around, thanks to the ascendancy of Bill Clinton to the White House, Giuliani has some cover on the Haitian issue. 0 First, Bill Clinton?s ?ip-?op on the Haitian issue [During the presidential campaign he called Bush?s policy "illegal" and "immoral"; but after his election he continued the Bush policy] provides tremendous inoculation. A Dinkins criticism of Giuliani on the Haitians is a criticism of President Clinton. Second, Clinton?s selection of Ron Brown. Babv Doc Duvalier?s $150,000?a? year representative in America, as commerce secretary gives Giuliani further ammunition to rebut Dinkins? now hypocritical charges. Every time Ron Brown comes into New York to campaign or raise money for David Dinkins his deplorable record on Haiti should be emphasized. A-99 REBUTTAL STRATEGY: Every Giuliani response to a question about the Haitian policy should make specific reference to these three things: 1. President Clinton?s flip-?op on the Haitian issue and David Dinkins? failure to make a difference on an issue he says is so important to him; Ron Brown?s service to the Duvalier government as their highly paid Washington lobbyist and his close ties to David Dinkins; David Dinkins? close ties to Harlem Congressman Charles Rangel who, like Clinton, ?ip??opped on the Haitian issues. Giuliani?s concern for the safety of the women in the camps. Four years ago, this natural defense of Giuliani?s statement about rapes was bungled because it wasn?t emphasized enough. Nobody believed this rebuttal because Giuliani didn?t act like he believed it himself. If the Giuliani campaign aggressively forwards the notion that Giuliani truly cared about the women in the detention camps, the nasty edge might be taken off this issue. In short the bottom-line on the Haitian issue is: Rudy Giuliani, Bill Clinton and Charlie Rangel all agree on the current US policy toward Haitian refugees and Ron Brown, a close political associate of Mayor Dinkins, received $150,000 in Haitian blood-money from Duvalier to lobby Washington on his behalf. Pro?actively, Giuliani should do at least the following three things to enhance his standing in the Haitian community and inoculate himself against renewed attacks on his Haitian record: 1. Giuliani should craft a progressive immigration policy statement that includes a discussion on the current Haitian situation; Giuliani should reach out early in the campaign cycle before charges and accusations start ?ying to leaders in the city?s Haitian community to smooth out potentially rocky relations. Giuliani should challenge Dinkins to run a campaign devoid of race?baiting appeals. In 1989, Dinkins turned the Haitian issue into a race issue and his supporters attacked Giuliani?s position in an ugly and divisive manner. Pledging to take the racial high?road in the current campaign will nullify any potential Dinkins appeals to race on this issue. RUDY GIULIANI ENFORCES THE REAGAN RACIST IAN INIMIGRATION POLICY "Also at Justice, Rudy tackled the issue of illegal immigration, the largest storm of publicity coming with the landing on these shores of boatloads of illegal Haitians. was personally hurt by the whole way in which the immigration issue was covered,? [Giuliani] admits. ?It was just impossible to communicate reasonably and rationally about the problems of immigration without people trying to accuse you of being a racist, which I consider a very vicious thing to call somebody. It?s used now so loosely. Barron?s, 10/24/ 83 Rudy Giuliani responds to the Haitian refugee problem in South Florida by locking up those illegally entering the United States "As an associate US. attorney general in charge of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, Giuliani was responsible in the early 19808 for enforcing the policy that led to the detention of thousands of Haitians ?eeing the regime of Jean? Claude ?Baby Doc? Duvalier." United Press International, 6/20/89 "At the time, the Administration discouraged the immigration of Haitians seeking political asylum in Florida because of concerns by Florida officials that they were being overwhelmed by thousands of immigrants. "As a result of the policy, thousands of Haitian refugees were kept in overcrowded detention centers, some for more than 18 months. New York Times, 10/11/89 Federal appellate court said today that it would rehear arguments in a case challenging the Government?s authority to detain 1,800 Haitian refugees who had been held in camps in six states and Puerto Rico. ?Last year, Associate Attorney General Rudolph Guiliani[sic] sought a stay of Judge Spellman?s order, saying the stay would permit the Justice Department to enact a plan announced by Attorney General William French Smith for patrolling the Haitians. A-lOl "The plan, unlike the one ordered by Judge Spellman, would not encourage mass defections to the United States and would not pose a threat to national security, Mr. Guiliani[sic] had said. New York Times, 8/17/83 "[Giuliani] also came off as the heavy in the government?s Haitian detention policy of the early ?805. The federal policy of imprisoning thousands of Haitian refugees at the Krome Avenue Camp still rankles many. Miami Herald, 4/ 19/85 women and children. "Giuliani says he brought in federal prison officials to improve the camps. But Ira Kurzan, then a lawyer for the Haitian Refugee Center in Miami, says Giuliani acted only in response to a suit by the state of Florida. "?He was actively involved in the defense of a case that resulted in the incarceration of women and children and separated family members,? says Kurzan. thought the detention program was a necessary and required action in light of the emergency situation." Daily News, 4/30/89 Guiliani, considered a crimebuster in America, has a difficult time recognizing foreign criminals like Baby Doc Duvalier in Haiti. "Testifying in a lawsuit challenging the policy in April 1982, Mr. Giuliani argued that the refugees were seeking economic opportunity, not ?eeing political oppression. He said, ?There is not a problem, a major problem, a systematic problem of political repression in Haiti. New York Times, 10/11/89 Giuliani said that political officials in Haiti told him the problem of people ?eeing the island stemmed from hunger and poverty and not persecution. "Giuliani said Duvalier had given him his personal assurance that no Haitian returning A-102 to Haiti would be persecuted. didn?t expect to get an objective View from Duvalier,? Giuliani said in a recent interview. didn?t come away from it with the notion that there was no political repression in Haiti.? Yet in his report, Giuliani wrote that the Haitians he saw walking around, while living in extreme poverty, seemed to be left to their own devices with ?little government interference.? Police and military presence seemed ?extremely light,? Giuliani wrote. "In its report covering events in 1982, Amnesty International, the human rights monitoring group, said there were continued reports of ill-treated political prisoners, as well as alleged ?disappearances? of prisoners in Haiti. Newsday, 5/5/89 "The facts of the matter are too plain to excuse a silence that only a general absence of human sensibility in our politics could explain. In 1982, Giuliani was director of the Department of Justice?s Immigration and Naturalization Service, then busily interning and pursuing deportation measures against Haitians whose only claim to mercy was as escapees from terror at home. Giuliani went to Haiti for the official purpose of studying the merits of a claim his bureaucratic necessities had already impelled him to deny. He was there for three days. "President Duvalier invited him to the palace and ?at my request, gave me his personal assurance that Haitians returned to Haiti are not, and will not be, persecuted. Newsday, 6/6/89 Rudy Giuliani compounds his political vulnerability on this issue by contending Haitian men and women needed to be separated to prevent the Haitian men from "go[ing] around raping" the women. "Rudolph Giuliani said in a interview published six years ago that male and female illegal Haitian immigrants had to be held in separate detention facilities because ?if you let the men into the women?s camp, they go around raping them.? "Giuliani made the comment during a 1983 interview with Barron?s the financial weekly, just after leaving his post as associate U.S. attorney general, where he served A-103 as the point man for the Reagan administration?s controversial Haitian detention policy. "?These people don"; come over with marriage certificates. And they keep claiming that different people are their wives,? Giuliani said of the Haitian detainees. ?And the women get very upset, because if you let the men into the women?s camp, they go around raping them. So you have to separate them. Newsday, 7/5/89 "What people on the other side of the issue among them, Rudy charges, lawyers using the Haitians to advance their own financial positions and social viewpoints claimed was racist was the Justice Department?s detaining of the refugees pending processing. ?Television would cover something and they would show these pathetic people sort of holding hands and kissing each other, and then say this man and wife were separated by this cruel, vicious government. That?s very graphic and dramatic. Its not as graphic and dramatic to explain the following facts: These people don?t come over with marriage certificates. And they keep claiming that different people are their wives. And the women get very upset, because if you let the men into the women?s camp, they go around raping them. So you have to separate them.? Barron?s, 10/24/83 Officials in Florida at the time remember no evidence of Haitian men raping Haitian "The Republican mayoral candidate last week defended the tone of his remarks, explaining he was simply articulating the safety concerns of female detainees who had complained of rapes at the South Florida detention facility. "But federal immigration officials and others familiar with the detention center outside Miami said they could not recall any allegations of rape at the facility during the years in question: 1980 to 1983. "?There was no formal investigation of any rapes that I?m aware of,? Duke Austin, a spokesman for the Immigration and Naturalization Service, said after checking with agency officials. MSd?al?, 7/5/89 A-104 think [the rape allegations are] totally fabricated and it?s not consistent with a number of other fabrications made at the time to justify the administration?s illegal and immoral conduct,? said attorney Ira Kurzban, who has long been a critic of Giuliani. Newsday, 7/5/89 "Maria Lula Rodriquez, a former screening officer for the US. Public Health Service who now serves on the staff of Florida Sen. Bob Graham, said, ?The women did not get upset because they were being raped. I was there from the beginning and I don?t remember any accusations of rape. Newsday, 7/5/ 89 "Greg Leo, the director of congressional and public affairs for the immigration service, said the agency?s records dating to the time in question are not complete and the agency had not been able to interview all the key people involved in the camp back then. But a preliminary review, the immigration officials said, had not turned up any evidence. Newsday 7/5/89 but one official gives Giuliani the benefit of the doubt. [Greg] Leo, [the director of congressional and public affairs for the immigration service] expressed respect for the ?excellent? job Giuliani had done as associate attorney general, said it was possible that the ?rapes may have occurred and they [the victims] might not have reported "Giuliani?s investigators, he said, may have heard about the rapes even though they were never formally reported. Newsday, 7/ 5/ 89 The Haitians Giuliani detained were the first immigrants to be held by the United States in 30-years. "Refugees coming in hadn?t been detained since they closed Angel Island in San Francisco and Ellis Island in New York 30 years earlier,? said Bruce Winick, a University of Miami Law School professor who sued the government to let the A-105 Haitians go. "In 1968, Winick and Giuliani had both been editors of the NYU Law Journal. At the time, Giuliani ?seemed like a bright fellow,? says Winick. liked him." "They met again in 1982, when Giuliani was called as a witness in the Haitian suit. ?He was the administration?s point man on immigration,? said Winick. "At the trial, Giuliani described his findings after a two?day visit to Haiti. ?There is not a problem, a major problem, a systematic problem of political repression in Haiti,? he said. "Winick saw it differently. ?This was during the reign of President?for-Life ?Baby Doc? Duvalier and the tonton macoutes,? he said. ?There was a great deal of political persecution. The Haitian were being singled out unfairly [for detention].? "Eventually, the courts agreed, ordering the government to release the refugees. Giuliani appealed but lost, and press coverage of the issue rankled him for years. Newsday, 10/22/89 David Dinkins attacks Giuliani?s Haitian "And sounding the battle cry of his general election campaign, he charged that the Republicans stood idly by while drugs ?ooded into the country, choosing instead to detain and intercept boatloads of Haitian refugees ?eeing repression. "Giuliani was ?the architect? of that Haitian policy, he declared. "Giuliani, who was the Justice Department official in charge of the Haitian program in the early 1980s, vigorously defended the policy during the primary this summer as one that was necessary to prevent Miami from being overwhelmed by crime and disease. United Press International, 9/13/89 "[Dinkins] said that Giuliani, while serving as associate attorney general, was ?busy turning back or locking up the tide of Haitian refugees trying to escape poverty and oppression. Washington Post, 9/ 14/89 A-106 "After all, Dinkins has already accused Giuliani of being a die?hard Republican who has a fuzzy-headed position on abortion and directed the Reagan Administration?s controversial detention of Haitian refugees." New York Times, 9/15/89 and calls the detention policy racially motivated. "Dinkins, who is seeking to become the city?s first black mayor, said the policy was ?apparently? based on race. think he?s defending a bankrupt policy, one for which our country should not be proud, one for which our country should hang its head in shame,? Dinkins said. United Press International, 6/20/89 "[Dinkins] called Giuliani the ?architect? of Reagan administration efforts to turn away Haitian refugees, saying the ?distinction [between Haitians and other refugees] was color. Newsday, 7/21/89 Giuliani?s position on Haitian refugees shows racial insensitivity "Haitian activists in Miami and New York quickly denounced Giuliani as a ?racist? and a ?fascist? and vowed to organize to defeat the Republican?Liberal mayoral hopeful in the fall elections. United Press International, 6/20/89 "?[Giuliani] was involved in a brutal program that singled out Haitian refugees,? said Arthur Helton of the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights, the group that sued the Government over the immigration policy. ?It has implications for his ability to be sensitive to the diverse communities in New York City.? New York Times, 10/11/89 "?Accepting Giuliani to become mayor of New York is like accepting Hitler or Mussolini to run New York,? said Rev. Gerard Jean-Juste, executive director of the Haitian Refugee Center. ?Because we have experienced fascism during the period of Giuliani and the justice group, Giuliani is a devil to United Press International, 6/20/ 89 A-107 and just plain cruel-heartedness. "Miami attorney Ira Kurzban, a counsel for the Haitians in their successful suit against the government, bitterly challenged Giuliani?s reflections. "?If Mr. Giuliani doesn?t have any second thoughts about putting 2?year-old kids in jail, about Haitians who were beaten up in detention camps, about putting people in sub?zero conditions, I strongly question his fitness to hold public office,? said Kurzban. Miami Herald, 4/19/85 "In Manhattan, Henry Frank, director of the Haitian Neighborhood Service Center, bitterly said Giuliani was making Haitians sound like modern-day ?lepers.?" United Press International, 6/20/89 Giuliani is called to answer an array of charges concerning his handling of the Haitian refugee problem in South Florida. First, the bold defense of the detention policy defended that policy and still do,? [Giuliani] said Tuesday. ?The city of Miami was in chaos It was overwhelmed with illegal immigration problems (not only from Haitians but from Cubans who came over during the Mariel boatlift). "?The reason for the detention program and the interdiction program was to restore order in a city in which the crime problems and even some of the disease problems that were occurring were becoming very, very frightening to people,? he said. United Press International, 6/20/89 "To this day, he defends the Haitian policy that made him controversial in South Florida during that time. "?Don?t forget -- the point of detaining Haitians was to deal with an emergency situation that had gotten completely out of hand,? Giuliani says. Miami Herald, 4/ 19/85 A-108 and a belated claim about "privately" fighting against the policy "Mr. Giuliani has said in his mayoral campaign that the detention policy was needed because of an ?emergency situation? in Florida. Once the emergency abated, he said, he argued privately within the Administration to limit how long immigrants were detained. New York Times, 10/11/89 next, a meek response to his comments about Haitian men and women being separated to prevent rapes from taking place "Asked last week if he had made the comments, Giuliani said, imagine I did.? Newsday, 7/5/89 then he passes-the?buck on the decision to separate the men and women "Giuliani said he had not set the separate detention policy at the Krome South facility outside Miami, but had asked his Justice Department staff to investigate the reasoning behind it. "And the reasoning came back -- the men and women are separated because the women were complaining that the men were abusing them,? he said. ?There had been some rapes. I can?t tell you how many.? Newsday, 7/5/89 and his misjudgment of Baby Doc Duvalier "Mr. Perkins said Mr. Giuliani?s views on political repression in Haiti were based on State Department reports." New York Times, 10/11/89 A-109 then he trots out his spokesman to respond to the tone of his remarks about the conduct of the Haitian men "Asked if the language Giuliani used in the interview had been intemperate, Giuliani spokesman Charles Perkins said, ?When interviewed by a reporter, he was trying to express his concern about the number of rapes being reported there and his concern for the group. Newsday, 7/5/89 and has a staff member decline an invitation to participate in an immigration forum because of fears about Haitian questions "The Giuliani staff has the jitters again on the Haitian question. "Result: A ?urry of telephone calls between Giuliani staffers and Arthur Helton, an immigration attorney who has criticized Giuliani?s role in Reagan administration detention of Haitian refugees in 1981. "Helton said Jennifer Raab, campaign issues director, told him that Giuliani might not attend an immigration forum sponsored by a State Bar Association committee and the New York Immigration Coalition. Raab said she was worried he might take heat on the Haitian issue. Newsday, 7/ 28/ 89 Finally, Giuliani goes to the immigration forum and appears to reverse his position on the issue. "In a forum on immigration issues earlier this year, Mr. Giuliani said he opposed, in most instances, the detention of aliens seeking political asylum. He also said he favored wider amnesty for illegal aliens and he pledged to continue to provide city services to them. New York Times, 10/11/89 A-llO BILL CLINTON LIP-F LOPS ON HAITIAN INIMIGRATION POLICY President Clinton?s flip-?op on the Haitian issue makes it much more difficult for David Dinkins to be so self-righteous and racialiy polarizing on the issue. "The land is already strewn with Clinton?s broken campaign promises. Whoops! Haitian boat people must be sent back without refugee screening after all a safety precaution. Toronto Star, 1/ 17/93 "Within days of taking office, Clinton will face a humanitarian crisis on his doorstep of the armada sweeps into Miami riding on the hope of his election pledge to reverse a ban on formal hearings for Haitian asylum seekers. Last week, however, Clinton began backpeddling: ?What I said to them was that I thought all the refugees should have a chance to have their claim reviewed. Not that they would all get to come to the United States to stay if they just got off the boat.? "In a radio broadcast to Haiti, he reneged on his policy promise and declared forced repatriation would continue. To reinforce his announcement, the United States navy launched Operation Able Manner an unprecedented blockade of Haiti to prevent ?massive loss of life at sea.?" Sunday Times, 1/ 17/ 93 "Clinton, meanwhile, was ducking and diving: ?1 still think the policy should be changed. We are changing it. But I don?t think we can do it on a dime.? Sunday Times, 1/ 17/ 93 "Clinton?s new hard line on immigration is proving small consolation to officials in south Florida, who have a two-boat border patrol tracking the 125 Haitian vessels already at sea. Ever since the 1980 Mariel boatlift, which brought 125,000 Cuban refugees to the state, Florida has been pushing for a clear immigration strategy. ?We want to avoid both a human and logistical disaster,? said Lawton Chiles, the governor. Sunday Times, 1/ 17/ 93 Dinkins "strongly urges" President Clinton to re-reverse his position on the Haitians. Let?s see how much Dinkins really cares about this issue. Let?s see how much influence Mayor Dinkins will have with the new Democratic administration strongly urge that he re-evaluate his posture with regard to the current discriminatory federal policies against Haitian refugees, and that he act quickly to undo this great wrong,? the mayor said. talked with people in Little Rock and I was told that the president-elect and President Aristede of Haiti are going to make statements urging the people to remain in Haiti and that our government was going to do all it could to restore Aristede to power in Haiti.? "The mayor added, ?The problem of course is how soon can this be accomplished, and will those persons in Haiti feel safe and secure, because the reason people are ?eeing is because of political persecution.? "Dinkins said he supports Manhattan Democratic Rep. Charles Rangel?s position that instead of turning Haitians back, they should be granted temporary asylum until the issue can be resolved. "?The return of individuals who yearn to be free, without the benefit of hearing or any exercise of due process, remains a dark blot on our nation?s conscience and history,? Dinkins said." Newsday, 1/16/93 forget about Clinton, Dinkins can?t even convince Charlie Rangel to hold the line. Rep. Charles Rangel (D-Harlem) joining Clinton in the flip-flop tank, reverses his opposition to the Bush Haitian policy. "After bitterly fighting the Bush administration over the policy, Rep. Charles Rangel (D-Harlem) said yesterday he supported President Bill Clinton?s decision to continue turning back Haitian refugees seeking to enter the United States. "Rangel said he reversed his decision because the Clinton administration, unlike President George Bush?s, has demonstrated a willingness to help return democracy and former Haitian president Jean-Bertrand Aristede to power. my, 1/22/93 A-112 David Dinkins refuses to believe Rangel, his close political ally, has had a change of heart on the Haitians -- even though everyone seems to call it like it is: "Dinkins said last night that he did not see Rangel?s position as a reversal. ?Charlie?s position has been that the Bush administration and this administration should permit temporary political asylum while they hash this out. The difference is that Charlie?s pushing like for mad for them to restore Aristede to a position of power and authority as president. ewsday, 1/22/93 Like Clinton and Rangel, Dinkins sells out the Haitians he claims to care so much about. You?ll find very little criticism of Clinton?s flip-?op on the Haitians from these "stand up? guys: "Noticeably missing yesterday at a Manhattan union hall, where [Jesse] Jackson was joined by Rep. Charles Rangel (D-Harlem) and Mayor David N. Dinkins, was any criticism for Clinton?s reneging on a campaign pledge to reverse former President George Bush?s policy of forced reparation of refugees." Newsday, 1/26/93 "Dinkins said Clinton deserves ?the opportunity and the time to respond appropriately? to the Haitian situation. "That angered some Haitians here yesterday. "?We understand Clinton wants to help [deposed President Jean-Bertrand] Aristede, but we face an immediate crisis of people on the sea,? one man said. "Michael Ratner, a Center for Constitutional Rights attorney who represents 271 Haitians stranded at Guantanamo, said he was ?disgusted? at critics of Bush?s repatriation policy who fail to criticize Clinton. "?Clinton himself said [during his campaign] it was illegal and cruel,? Ratner said, vowing to press a US. Supreme Court challenge to the repatriation policy. He pointed to [Jesse] Jackson?s detention as evidence Haitians seeking U.S. asylum face political persecution at home. Newsday, 1/ 26/ 93 A-113 How about Ron Brown? Where will he be on this issue? Scurrying for cover! "One Clinton aide not playing a leading role in the de?ection of the refugees is Ron Brown, appointed commerce secretary, who was once paid $12,500 a month as a lobbyist for Jean?Claude ?Baby Doc? Duvalier. Brown worked for him encouraging American funding for the country?s reform until the hated dictator was deposed in 1986 after allegedly embezzling $100m. Sunday Times, 1/ 17/93 RON BROWN PERSONALLY REPRESENTED NOTORIOUS DICTATOR DUVALIER David Dinkins believes Rudy Giuliani?s Haitian policy was racist. How then does he explain the fact that his close political ally Ron Brown served as a highly-paid Washington lobbyist for Haiti?s brutal dictator Baby Doc Duvalier? "During its final years of power, the corrupt regime of Haiti?s Jean-Claude (Baby Doc) Duvalier had a polished Washington lawyer on its payroll. Now that lawyer, Ron Brown, wants to become the next chairman of the Democratic National Committee. Jack Anderson, Newsday, 12/27/88 "Haiti was the first big client Mr. Brown brought to Patton, Boggs Blow, the aggressive Washington law firm known for lobbying on behalf of unpopular clients. Dallas Morning News, 12/23/92 [Brown] brought to the firm [Patton, Boggs], or helped bring in, such heavy hitters as Haiti under the Duvalier regime (?the ambassador saw me on ?One on One? with Pat Buchanan?) Washington Post, 2/ 11/89 "One of [Brown?s] most notorious clients, for instance, was the brutal Haitian dictator Jean?Claude ?Baby Doc? Duvalier, whose regime Brown represented right up until Baby Doc ?ed from power in 1986. People, 1/ 18/93 A-114 "The ousting of Duvalier ended the 28-year reign of his family. The Duvalier?s left Haiti the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere. Amnesty International claims that Haitian authorities under Baby Doc arbitrarily arrested, tortured and killed his enemies. A New York law firm is now trying to help Haiti recover some of the $500 million to $700 million that Duvalier allegedly siphoned from Haiti?s treasury." Jack Anderson, Newsday, 12/27/88 As the old adage goes, crime doesn?t pay -- but Ron Brown proves lobbying for vicious dictators, Baby Doc Duvalier, does [Ron Brown] brought in clients ranging from American Express to the Republic of Haiti, which hired Brown in 1982 to help the impoverished nation increase its US. aid, paying the firm $545,000 over a 3 1/2?year period. Washington Post, 1/ 6/ 93 "Brown?s business relationship with Haiti began in October, 1982. The $150,000-a? year contract was signed by Brown and three of Duvalier?s ministers." Jack Anderson, Newsday, 12/27/88 "The firm received $12,500 a month from the Haiti Government until 1986, when the Duvalier family was forced to ?ee the country." New York Times, 12/20/92 "While Haiti?s Jean?Claude ?Baby Doc? Duvalier looted the hemisphere?s poorest country in the mid-1980s, the regime?s top Washington lobbyist was Ron Brown. Brown was paid a retainer of $12,200 a month to represent Haiti from October 1983 to July 1986. Opinion is split on what he accomplished for his client. Dallas Morning News, 12/23/92 feel that representation did a lot of good,? [Brown] says. It certainly did plenty of good from Brown and the firm, which at one point was reaping fees of $22,000 a month from Baby Doc?s treasury. People, 1/ 18/93 A-115 How do you accept huge amounts of money to represent brutal dictators and still sleep at night? It?s easy, follow Ron Brown?s example and make sure your ethical compass doesn?t have a rear-view mirror. "In the discussion about the new ethics meant to make the Clinton administration the cleanest wash in town, everyone seems to have a different idea about what matters. No rear?view mirror for lawyer Ron Brown, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, whose clients have included such unsavory characters as the Duvalier government of Haiti. ?That?s not what the ethics requirements are,? he said. ?They?re on the other end, what you do when you leave government. Financial Post, 11/21/92 Brown is misleading about what he did for Duvalier?s Haiti but the facts tell the true story "According to documents filed with the Justice Department?s foreign-agents registration section, Mr. Brown pleaded Haiti?s case about 60 times a year Dallas Morning News, 12/23/92 was a Washington lawyer for the Republic of Haiti for three years. I was approached by the Foreign Ministry about 1992 (sic), because that was a country that was in grave poverty and was trying to get more assistance from the United States. Frankly, they approached me because I had been a civil rights lawyer; a human rights activist that understood that the only way that aid to Haiti was going to be increased is if the human rights record was improved. And frankly, during those years, notwithstanding information to the contrary, there were improvements. And there were improvements, which was proven by the fact that humanitarian aid during those years was increased threefold; that the Peace Corps went into Haiti for the first time; and that Haiti was certified for participation in the Caribbean Basin Initiative. So, I have no apologies to make for that service. As a matter of fact, I think we made great progress in assisting that country during that time. Ron Brown, National Press Club, Federal News Service, 2/15/89 [Brown?s] main lobbying goals were to increase US. aid to Haiti, promote US. investment, minimize U.S. tariffs on imported Haitian goods and improve Haiti?s image, particularly with regard to human rights, according to Justice Department documents. Dallas Morning News, 12/23/92 A-116 no progress on human rights "In a brisk autumn day in 1984, Ron Brown arrived at the Capitol Hill office of Walter Fauntroy, the Democratic delegate to Congress for the District of Columbia, intent on doing some lobbying. His client was the government of Haiti, then controlled by President-for-Life Jean?Claude Duvalier. Fauntroy was a harsh critic of the Duvalier dictatorship, and Brown, who was paid $12,500 a month by Duvalier, was there to reassure the delegate. ?He tried to put the best face on things and talked about all the reforms going on,? says Steve Horblitt, then a Fauntroy aide. ?And then we asked him about the latest event, the arrest of 30 innocent people in a rural area. He said he hadn?t heard about it. Apparently the Duvaliers didn?t tell him much.? US. News and World Report, 1/18/93 "While Brown allowed that Haiti?s affairs were not ideal, he maintained that ?there was an improvement in the human-rights situation.? Such progress escaped human- rights monitors, however, many of whom chronicled numerous incidents of arrest, torture and murder by Duvalier?s thugs. Haiti?s dismal record was even highlighted by Pope John Paul II during a 1983 visit to the country." US. News and World Report, 1/ 18/93 no success in increasing foreign aid "But State Department records show no growth in the roughly $50 million in annual US. government aid to Haiti from 1983? to 1986. Only after Jean?Claude Duvalier ?ed in 1986 did US aid jump to $99.5 million. By then, Haiti?s successor government was seeking a new Washington lobbyist. Dallas Morning News, 12/23/92 no impact on bringing the Peace Corps into Haiti "Clayton E. McManaway Jr., who served as US. ambassador to Haiti from January 1984 until August 1986, does not recall Mr. Brown?s having ?anything to do with bringing the Peace Corps Dallas Morning News, 12/23/92 A-117 Could Brown?s work have inadvertinently helped Duvalier steal millions from the people of Haiti? "By some accounts, Mr. Brown helped convince Mr. Duvalier that the Reagan administration had serious concerns about human rights in Haiti and persuaded him to tolerate Haiti?s ?edgling labor movement. "But others say Mr. Brown lent legitimacy to despotic leaders who deposited about $86 million in private overseas accounts while he was working for them, according to investigators seeking to recover the money. The sum includes millions skimmed in the processing and distribution of US. food aid. Dallas Morning News, 12/23/92 "Jocelyn Macala, executive director of the National Coalition for Haitian Refugees, based in New York, says Mr. Brown?s legitimacy was part of the problem. Dallas Morning News, 12/23/92 Brown is misleading about representing the infamous Baby Doc but the facts tell the true story. "Among other clients, Brown represented Jean Claude (Baby Doc) Duvalier?s Republic of Haiti -- from October, 1982, until about February, 1986 -- when Duvalier was forced to ?ee the country. "Brown defended his work for Haiti, saying his client was the country and not the Duvaliers. Los Angeles Times, 12/13/92 "The Duvalier family has never been a client of my law firm or for me. As I indicated, I worked for the Foreign Ministry of the government. I was not involved in any of the personal affairs of the family. I barely met the family. I met the President on two occasions over a three-and-a-half year period. So we never had any involvement either on a client basis or any other basis with the family. Ron Brown, National Press Club, Federal News Service, 2/15/89 A-118 "Mr. Brown has repeatedly said he did not work for the Duvaliers but for the Republic of Haiti. ?We never had any involvement either on a client basis or any other basis with the family,? he said at a news conference in February 1989 after becoming chairman of the Democratic Party. "But among the matters for which Mr. Brown and his law partners billed the Haiti Government was helping secure the release of Franz Bennett, a brother?in?law of Jean-Claude Duvalier who pleaded guilty to drug charges in a Federal court in Puerto Rico in the early 1980?s." New York Times, 12/20/92 "Brown has emphasized that he worked for the Haitian government, not the ruthless Duvalier. But records show meetings at the Justice Department to discuss the case of Franz Bennett, Duvalier?s brother-in-law, then charged with US. drug Violations." Washington Post, 1/6/93 recently published book, "Haiti: The Duvaliers and Their Legacy" by Elizabeth Abbott, recounts that Michele Duvalier became distressed when efforts failed to ?convince, bribe or otherwise cause US. officials to release Franz.? "The foreign agent records show Brown?s firm met with high?level Justice Department officials regarding the drug case. Brown said that happened only after Bennett was convicted and sentenced. But he refused to explain how his work on Bennett?s case would have benefitted the Haitian government." Jack Anderson, Newsday, 12/27/88 "But ?to represent Haiti in those days was to represent the Duvalier government,? says Anthony P. Maingot, a Florida International University sociologist who has written extensively on Haiti, Duvalier and his father, Francois ?Papa Doc? Duvalier. Dallas Morning News, 12/23/92 How did Ron Brown feel about representing a ruthless dictator? He provides conflicting answers: "Brown, who has a background in civil rights law, told us that he did have some ?apprehensions? about going to work for Haiti, but that he thought he could ?do more good than harm. Jack Anderson, Newsday, 12/27/88 After Duvalier fled Haiti, his lobbyist, Ron Brown, tried to solicit the new government -- but the Duvalier-free government in Haiti said "no thanks" "Haitians have never forgotten how the secret police, the dreaded Tonton Macoutes, were responsible for scores of killings as Duvalier struggled to regain control in the death throes of his regime. After Duvalier ?ed, Brown is said to have asked to stay on as Haiti?s $150,000-a-year man in Washington; the new regime rejected the offer. Sunday Times, 1/ 17/93 can you blame them, Brown continues to maintain a friendship with Duvalier?s thugs in exile in Washington! "Our sources tell us that Brown still has close ties with several Duvalier cronies who have settled in Washington, including Jean?Robert Estime, formerly Duvalier?s minister of foreign affairs. Brown said he has associated with Estime. Jack Anderson, Newsday, 12/27/88 Editorial boards and human rights interest groups have real problems with Ron Brown?s representation of Haiti: ?Democratic National Committee Chairman Ron Brown should not be commerce secretary because he was a paid lobbyist for foreign countries that commit human? rights atrocities, the head of the Center for Public Integrity said yesterday. "?Ron Brown represented the notorious government of Haiti under ?Baby Doc? Duvalier in the early ?808 while he was simultaneously deputy Democratic National Committee chairman,? said Charles Lewis, releasing a study on Washington in?uence- peddling for foreign human?rights abusers. "?Brown is today a partner at the Washington firm of Patton Boggs Blow which last year received $220,000 from Guatemala at the same time hundreds of Guatemalans were executed for political reasons,? Mr. Lewis said. Center for Public Integrity, a non-partisan public interest group funded by foundations, corporations and labor unions, primarily studies in?uence peddling and A-120 con?icts of interest. Washington Times, 12/ 16/92 "More important, [Brown?s] law firm represented Haiti?s vicious dictator Jean?Claude (Baby Doc) Duvalier Hey, a guy has to make a living." Caryl Rivers, Los Angeles Times, 2/9/93 "Few Republicans showed any interest in putting Mr. Brown on the rack, and he sailed through his hearings faster than Haitian immigrants embark of Miami. Even the New York Times questioned his confirmation and wondered editorially, ?Where were the Republicans?? Washington Times, 1/29/93 "How come Commerce Secretary Ron Brown -- a former lobbyist who represented numerous corporations and the interests of Haiti under the infamous Papa Doc (sic) Duvalier -- wasn?t grilled more intensely during his Senate confirmation hearings?" editorial, The Cleveland Plain Dealer, 1/31/93 Now that Ron Brown has been exposed as the front-man for Baby Doc Duvalier and Bill Clinton and Charlie Range] have flip-?opped on their opposition to Bush Administration policy, you shouldn?t hear this kind of self-righteous attack from David Dinkins during this campaign: [Giuliani] said ?atly: ?The policy saved a lot of lives.? wonder which lives he?s talking about,? Dinkins said curtly. ?Some of those people who went back, I dare say we never heard of again.? United Press International, 6/20/89 A-121