Rudy Giuliani’s political rivals are digging through the archives from his eight years as mayor of New York City, searching for political dirt, but those opposition-research teams may have a hard time finding anything, says the New York Daily News.
More than five years after Giuliani spirited his papers out of City Hall in his last days in office - saying he would pay to have them privately archived - virtually all of the 2,118 boxes he took have been microfilmed and returned to the city, aides say. But the index offers little detail on specific files, and Giuliani’s archivists have yet to deliver a more comprehensive road map to the voluminous collection, now housed in an old court building behind City Hall.
"You would have better luck finding a picture of Rudy wearing a Red Sox cap than locating a meaningful accounting or record of his tenure as mayor of New York," griped one operative from a rival presidential campaign.
At the same time, files that would seem to pose a hazard to Giuliani as he now seeks the GOP nomination for President - those on abortion, gun control or his personal life, for instance - offer little insight into the once-moderate mayor, according to a review by the New York Daily News.
Some wonder if Giuliani sanitized his files in preparation for a possible presidential bid.
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