Letters to the Editor
Published Letters: 361 Editor's Choice: 12
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Why Sex on the City is a scandal
[Read the article: The NYT's Michael Cooper demonstrates what real reporting is]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]First off, the numbers are awfully big. They're large in absolute terms, and, you know, if he was trying to keep this secret, the numbers should have been smaller than usual. You don't sneak off to your girlfriend's house in a motorcade with bubblegum machines spinning on Route 27. It's too conspicuous. It's my guess that these were expenses not for travel--not for the weekend or evening jaunt, but meat stationed at her place all the time. Otherwise there would be no increase in marginal cost for Rudy!! to go to Hamptons, or to Peter Luger's. Moreover, it's hard to see why this kind of thing wouldn't be in budget, if it really was just Rudy's travel. His driver and a minimal security team would have to be on call 24/7 anyway.
Now I do have a bias, because I remember when Nathan started having a bodyguard. She lived nearby at the time, and suddenly she and her dog had a security detail. So I think it'll turn out that these funds went to guarding her. Which Glenn concedes is a problem.
It is a whole lot juicier, though, to imagine Rudy!! skulking away to boff Judi with Donna and the kids forlornly looking over the East River. (And do you really think he had death threats? Real death threats?) That's what the tabs won't be able to resist.
And while we're talking about unfairness of coverage, imagine a woman doing this? Would she be able to run for Selectman in Old Mystic if she were openly engaged in an affair? It may not be right to bring people's person lives into their public lives, but until everyone gets the same treatment, it's hard not to engage in some schadenfreude.
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More on Rudy!
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]A commenter over on FDL is saying that there is some evidence being cited on an local NYC public radio broadcast that it wasn't really Judy at all--that there was a spike in Giuliani's travel expenses because he was traveling in support of his expected Senate campaign and billing it to the City.
This would explain why the numbers are so big--just not consistent with security on overnights to Southhampton. But those numbers I'm referring to come from TPM. The Poltico story links to one Amex bill, with lots in airfare,and 250 dollar per night per cop stays at hotels.