Rudy was a bad mayor

To the editor:

Mr. Trump’s effusive praise of Rudolph Giuliani as New York City’s greatest mayor seems odd to me, because I grew with the mayor most historians regard as the city’s greatest: Fiorello LaGuardia.

He was as sharp in knowledge of management of the city as Jimmy Walker, but without Walker’s crooked streak. Giuliani left office with a bad odor. He had surrounded himself with dishonest officials, some of whom went to prison for their dishonesty in office.

He had invited his paramour to live with him in Gracie Mansion, and he had tried to twist the events of Sept. 11, 2001, into political capital for himself. You may also recall that soon after that date, when his second term as mayor was ending and the selected Republican candidate was Michael Bloomberg, he proposed that the crisis of 9/11 called for the Republicans to dump Bloomberg and substitute himself as their mayoral candidate.

Doing so would have violated the two-term limit, which had been adopted as law in New York City, largely because Giuliani had pushed for it.

No one but Trump has matched him for illegal chutzpah.

Alan Saks

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