When Rudy Guiliani was planning to run for mayor of New York City in 1993, he commissioned a study of his vulnerabilities so that he would be prepared to respond to attacks.
The vulnerability study compiled a long list of his deeds and misdeeds that would give ammunition to critics.
After he read it, Guiliani ordered that it be destroyed, lest it fall into the wrong hands.
So many Americans have sold out Haiti. Guiliani is one of those along with Bill Clinton, the supposed Haitian earthquake recovery “czar.” To this day, nobody knows what happened to all the money, but it certainly did not go to the Haitian people.
& let’s not forget Paul Vallas’ Haitian connection–of course, going there to “improve their education.” As I recall, Arne went w/him. Carpetbaggers, smelling money coming in after the earthquake! (Read a book about what the Haitians didn’t get (I’ll look up the title again & post it below.) Sean Penn even gave Vallas some kind of award. 2x + loser
(ran for IL guv–lost; ran for Chicago mayor–lost; kicked out as head of Bridgeport, CT schools, then tried to sue–lost). Went to cash-strapped Chicago State University as a “volunteer” consultant, unsurprisingly, given a paid job there as per appt. by the worst governor IL ever had–Bruce Rauner,–then, abruptly, left so he could run for mayor.
He is, unfortunately, often on Chicago Progressive (hah!) Talk Radio, & introduced as “our friend, Paul Vallas.” To coin a Pelto phrase: “Wait, what?”
Anyway–more to the point–I worked w/Haitian refugees in Miami from 1980-81: much worse than suspected. INS, et.al. were taking men away in the middle of the night–teenagers, some–on buses to other states to work in fields for slave wages. Of course, many had come to be w/family members, but they probably never saw them again.
Numerous “unaccompanied minors” were sent to live w/relatives, who were unable to pick them up insofar as FL HHS was supposed to sign w/a social service agency, first, so home studies could be undertaken. Stalling & stalling, & the detention center (still open for business!–Krone, right in the Everglades {i.e., out in nowhereland}–was very difficult to get to, required tons of paperwork & many other obstacles for those coming to give homes to beloved relatives. Lines & more lines–time working people cannot afford.
A social service agency contract was finally signed, because we had a press conference w/The New York Times &, also, had called Rev. Jesse Jackson to come down.
Still, more hoops had yet to be jumped through–instead of making one copy of paperwork, we had to make 3, then 10 (we were too efficient), being given only one tired, old copier. A nightmare of bureaucracy & inhumanity…
The book, published in 2014, is The Big Truck That Went By: How the World Came to Save Haiti & Left Behind a Disaster by Jonathan Katz, a former Associated Press writer.
Read it & weep.
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Diane, the proper spelling is Ghouliani
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ghoul [ gool ]
noun
an evil demon, originally of Muslim legend, supposed to feed on human beings, and especially to rob graves, prey on corpses, etc.
a grave robber.
a person who revels in what is revolting.
Sounds more like Trump. That means Ghouliannnie can only be a malignant mole on Trump’s _ i c _.
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And Fooliani is the Italian spelling.
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So many Americans have sold out Haiti. Guiliani is one of those along with Bill Clinton, the supposed Haitian earthquake recovery “czar.” To this day, nobody knows what happened to all the money, but it certainly did not go to the Haitian people.
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& let’s not forget Paul Vallas’ Haitian connection–of course, going there to “improve their education.” As I recall, Arne went w/him. Carpetbaggers, smelling money coming in after the earthquake! (Read a book about what the Haitians didn’t get (I’ll look up the title again & post it below.) Sean Penn even gave Vallas some kind of award. 2x + loser
(ran for IL guv–lost; ran for Chicago mayor–lost; kicked out as head of Bridgeport, CT schools, then tried to sue–lost). Went to cash-strapped Chicago State University as a “volunteer” consultant, unsurprisingly, given a paid job there as per appt. by the worst governor IL ever had–Bruce Rauner,–then, abruptly, left so he could run for mayor.
He is, unfortunately, often on Chicago Progressive (hah!) Talk Radio, & introduced as “our friend, Paul Vallas.” To coin a Pelto phrase: “Wait, what?”
Anyway–more to the point–I worked w/Haitian refugees in Miami from 1980-81: much worse than suspected. INS, et.al. were taking men away in the middle of the night–teenagers, some–on buses to other states to work in fields for slave wages. Of course, many had come to be w/family members, but they probably never saw them again.
Numerous “unaccompanied minors” were sent to live w/relatives, who were unable to pick them up insofar as FL HHS was supposed to sign w/a social service agency, first, so home studies could be undertaken. Stalling & stalling, & the detention center (still open for business!–Krone, right in the Everglades {i.e., out in nowhereland}–was very difficult to get to, required tons of paperwork & many other obstacles for those coming to give homes to beloved relatives. Lines & more lines–time working people cannot afford.
A social service agency contract was finally signed, because we had a press conference w/The New York Times &, also, had called Rev. Jesse Jackson to come down.
Still, more hoops had yet to be jumped through–instead of making one copy of paperwork, we had to make 3, then 10 (we were too efficient), being given only one tired, old copier. A nightmare of bureaucracy & inhumanity…
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The book, published in 2014, is The Big Truck That Went By: How the World Came to Save Haiti & Left Behind a Disaster by Jonathan Katz, a former Associated Press writer.
Read it & weep.
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