Ben Nadeff-Haffrey
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1,009 appearances
5 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 6 Aug
Ben Nadeff-Haffrey’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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The day Giuliani announced his first mayoral run in 1989, it was Molinari who went to all five boroughs with him making introductions.
Part of what they shared was an outer borough view of the city.
Both were familiar with the politics of white people living on the periphery.
And while some Staten Islanders were trying to leave the city entirely, Molinari was looking for someone who could remake it in Staten Island's image.
David Dinkins beat Giuliani during the mayoral election of 1989 and became the city's first black mayor.
But that election had been a warning sign to liberals in New York.
Giuliani had lost by the slimmest margin of any mayoral race since 1905.
His supporters were angry.
They demanded a recount.
Malcolm Gladwell, reporter covering New York for The Washington Post back then.
who somehow waited until our final episode to reveal to me that he had met Giuliani and gone to Staten Island with him in 1993.
He wrote about it in an article called Rudy Giuliani's Whispered Revolt.
It's the people who resent Manhattan.
Giuliani spoke to exactly the kind of person who might want to secede from New York.
He promised to do whatever it took to put New York City to order again.
He would be Bruce Wayne to New York's Gotham.
As U.S.
attorney, he seemed to love to publicly shame his victims with these dramatic perp walks.
His message was that all the other mayors had been too tolerant.
He promised a kind of illiberalism.
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