MIAMI - A heckler gave Republican presidential hopeful Rudy Giuliani a little in-your-face grief on Sunday, calling the former New York mayor “a baby killer.”
Giuliani, who has pinned his presidential hopes on the Jan. 29 Florida primary after largely ignoring Iowa and New Hampshire, was working the crowd at a restaurant in Miami’s Coconut Grove neighborhood when the protester began shouting.
“This man is a baby killer! An abortionist!” Joseph Landry, of St. Augustine, Florida, yelled, startling people having brunch at the Green Street Cafe in the affluent area.
“It’s not true, it’s not true,” some Giuliani supporters shouted back.
Giuliani, who was raised a Roman Catholic, has been deemed unpalatable to many Republicans for views that have put him at odds with the party’s conservative evangelical base.
He has been married three times and supports abortion rights, despite expressing his personal distaste for abortion. He opposes gay marriage, but in other respects supports gay rights.
Landry identified himself as a member of Society for Truth and Justice, a group that opposes abortion rights.
He called Giuliani a Democrat in Republican clothing.
“Florida needs to know that Rudy Giuliani is not pro-life,” Landry said. “He says he’s personally opposed, but that doesn’t save babies.”
Landry turned up at two other Giuliani events on Sunday, following the candidate along the street through Miami’s Little Havana, shouting into a megaphone “Rudy is a baby killer.”
Anti-abortion rights groups say they will have campaigners at each of Giuliani’s stops during the next two days. He has 10 events scheduled in Florida Monday and Tuesday, spanning the state from Naples in the southwest to Jacksonville in the northeast.
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[...] up, a story that I’m completely torn on: Anti-choice demonstrators have been following Rudy Giuliani to all of his campaign stops in Flordia, heckling and disrupting his speeches. How the hell are we to feel about that? On the one hand, I [...]
- Posted by Pro-Choice News Round-Up : The CurvatureI was in midtown on 9/11 when tragedy struck, and I can say with authority that Rudy’s performance on that day and in the days afterward was heroic. From great tragedies, great heroes emerge, and that’s exactly what happened on that day. Rudy’s actions during the greatest crisis in American history is enough to earn him my vote, and anyone who says that’s “all” Rudy talks about should be ashamed of themselves for making light of an event that killed 3,000 Americans on American soil. If you were in NYC on 9/11, you know exactly what I’m talking about. The fact is, however, Rudy spends the vast majority of his time talking about how he plans to bring accountability to Washington, and get rid of corruption, in the same way he did it in NYC. Rudy took a failing city, and turned it back into the “Greatest City in the World.” This takes vision, guts, determination, and courage - and Rudy is the only candidate who has what it takes to defeat “business as usual” in DC. Cut taxes, cut spending, stay strong - that’s Rudy. If you think the next 4 to 8 years are going to be a smooth ride, vote for any other candidate - but if you think we’re in for some major changes requiring big decisions, your only choice is Rudy. NOW is the time for Rudy’s supporters to spread the message, to their family, friends, everyone - vote Rudy!
- Posted by Joe CrandallI have lived in New York all my life. I am a Catholic and I attended Catholic School. I have seen New York at it’s best and worst. New York was a disgusting slim whole during the 70s and 80’s. I saw cops watch homeless men pee on the walls of Grand Central and do NOTHING. The cops were depressed, the city was depressed and everybody blamed everybody for everything…then came RUDY. Not everybody liked what had to be done, what he had to say…but EVERYONE LIKED THE RESULTS. I saw New York City after a few years of RUDY and I couldn’t believe my eyes…she was beautiful, and for the first time in my memory I was not ashamed to say I was from New York City (I am 46).
RUDY is not for abortion, he is FOR people being responsible for his actions. Why don’t we have commercials that are PRO-LIFE. We have commercials about everything else.
RUDY is the only person who has achieved anything. You can promise change, you can give Kennedy-like speeches, but in New York we demand results and Rudy gave results! I vote RUDY our only choice!
- Posted by Geri DillonI was downtown, just blocks from 9/11, when it happened. I lived there. And I can say with authority that Rudy Guiliani is NOT the hero he purports to be. His steps prior to 9/11 made the catastrophe worse: he insisted on building his multimillion-dollar taxpayer-funded emergency bunker be in the twin towers…despite a previous attack just years earlier; he illegally stored diesel fuel in 7 World Trade Center, causing it to explode; and he was constantly distracted by his seemingly endless string of affairs. He could have done a lot more toward protecting us. It’s a joke that he’s now considered a “hero”.
- Posted by Gabrielle