Giuliani was in San Francisco yesterday.
According to this account in the SF Chronicle, he picked a fight with that city's liberal, Hillary-supporting Mayor Gavin Newsom (left), suggesting that Frisco isn't giving tough-enough love to its homeless, while Newsom's office reminded everyone that it took a bunch of court orders to get Rudy to actually provide shelter for the NYC homeless.
Notably, Giuliani also got grilled at the Chronicle over the Judith-security issues that his campaign would like to die. And Rudy is still trying to make the case that by funnelling payments for police details through the loft board and similarly obscure agencies his administration was incredibly transparent about the whole thing:
"These accounts were discoverable. If these had been paid directly by the Police Department, it never would have been discovered, because they are exempt from Freedom of Information."
From this, we gather that the Giuliani strategy on this issue is to keep giving the same answers over and over, even if they don't make any sense, in hopes that they'll eventually become accepted through repetition. But really: Isn't this the lamest of all the excuses and explanations he's come up with?
Giuliani's team refused to discuss the amount of spending on Judith when it occurred, back in 2000, and it remained secret for seven years. The fact that someone got lucky or someone got a tip to check some totally illogical agency's records does not show how open the people who originally refused to reveal the information were. And it's not so clear to us that seven-year-old records on NYPD details would not be subject to an NYPD FOIA, either.