Giuliani: I'll discuss my family my way
By LIBBY QUAID
Associated Press
A day after urging people to "leave my family alone," Republican presidential hopeful Rudy Giuliani on Friday said he'll talk about his family — on his terms.
"Sure I will," Giuliani told reporters outside a cafe where he visited with voters. "But I'll talk about it appropriately, and in a way to preserve as much as I can the privacy of my family and my children, which I think any decent person would."
Giuliani asked again — as he did Thursday — that people judge him on his record as New York City mayor and a federal prosecutor.
"I think the best thing to do is to concentrate on the public things that I accomplished," he said. "Measure that, take a look at that, and then see how much do newspapers really have to probe into these things, or how much of it is being done really for reasons that have nothing to do with measuring public performance."
"And I think that's the only way in which we can kind of create an appropriate balance, given the kind of scrutiny that now goes on," Giuliani said.
On Thursday, Giuliani was asked by a voter in Derry, N.H., why he should expect loyalty from GOP voters when his children aren't backing him. His daughter has indicated support for Democrat Barack Obama, and his son has said he didn't speak to his father for some time. Giuliani and their mother, Donna Hanover, had a nasty and public divorce while Giuliani was New York's mayor, and he has since remarried.
"I love my family very, very much and will do anything for them. There are complexities in every family in America," Giuliani told the voter. "The best thing I can say is kind of, 'Leave my family alone, just like I'll leave your family alone.'"
Associated Press
A day after urging people to "leave my family alone," Republican presidential hopeful Rudy Giuliani on Friday said he'll talk about his family — on his terms.
"Sure I will," Giuliani told reporters outside a cafe where he visited with voters. "But I'll talk about it appropriately, and in a way to preserve as much as I can the privacy of my family and my children, which I think any decent person would."
Giuliani asked again — as he did Thursday — that people judge him on his record as New York City mayor and a federal prosecutor.
"I think the best thing to do is to concentrate on the public things that I accomplished," he said. "Measure that, take a look at that, and then see how much do newspapers really have to probe into these things, or how much of it is being done really for reasons that have nothing to do with measuring public performance."
"And I think that's the only way in which we can kind of create an appropriate balance, given the kind of scrutiny that now goes on," Giuliani said.
On Thursday, Giuliani was asked by a voter in Derry, N.H., why he should expect loyalty from GOP voters when his children aren't backing him. His daughter has indicated support for Democrat Barack Obama, and his son has said he didn't speak to his father for some time. Giuliani and their mother, Donna Hanover, had a nasty and public divorce while Giuliani was New York's mayor, and he has since remarried.
"I love my family very, very much and will do anything for them. There are complexities in every family in America," Giuliani told the voter. "The best thing I can say is kind of, 'Leave my family alone, just like I'll leave your family alone.'"
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