Word: giulianis
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Clinton, it was time to get moving and get started a long time ago. Unlike expected GOP opponent Rudolph W. Giuliani, who has an obligation to his elected position as New York City mayor, Clinton has been inexcusably camouflaging her possible Senate bid with her unofficial role as the First Lady. Especially since her candidacy was never really in doubt--Westchester Rep. Nita Lowey (D-N.Y.), the only other potential Democratic contender, dropped out months ago--the delay represents a lost chance for Clinton to appeal to voters still uneasy about the "carpetbagger" label. It doesn't help that...
Like him or not, Giuliani is who he is. Which may be part of the reason the mayor, despite growing Rudy fatigue, now leads Clinton among such crucial voter blocs as suburbanites and women. The numbers will change, her advisers promise, after she declares her candidacy and moves to the state early next year. But sometimes you wonder whether Clinton should start believing those rumors...
With Hillary Clinton's senatorial campaign managing to entangle itself in its own feet while running in place, New Yorkers find themselves returning to the question of whether or not Mayor Rudolph Giuliani has precisely the right temperament for the Senate--a deliberative body in which the acceptable responses to a colleague's disagreeing with you have traditionally not included trying to have a homeless shelter put in his neighborhood...
...Giuliani's attempt last year to put a homeless shelter in the district of an uncooperative councilman eventually fizzled, but this fall alone city hall has cut off funds from a museum whose paintings the mayor found offensive, torpedoed the federal grants of an AIDS service organization whose protest tactics irritated the mayor, and informed some state legislators who voted against the city's position on a tax bill that they would not be permitted on the stand at the Yankees ticker-tape parade. (The first two actions were reversed by courts on First Amendment grounds; the barred legislators...
...opportunities for petty vindictiveness on the schoolyard level. In fact, Jesse Helms has carved out a specialty in just that sort of thing, the way some other Senators have made themselves masters of farm policy or defense appropriations. But the arsenal of retaliatory weapons is rather thin. Expecting Giuliani to operate in the Senate, some New Yorkers think, is like asking a saloon brawler to conduct his business in a place that lacks both barstools and pool cues...