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Rudy Giuliani Radio Ads Hit Iowa, New Hampshire NewsMax.com Wires CONCORD, N.H. -- Rudy Giuliani on Tuesday plans to launch a trio of radio ads in New Hampshire and in Iowa, highlighting his accomplishments as New York's mayor and promises he has made during the campaign. "Leadership is about what we can do, what we can accomplish, never saying, taking 'No' for an answer," Giuliani says in one ad. The ads come weeks before Iowa's Ames Straw Poll, an early indicator of a candidate's strength. Giuliani and Arizona Sen. John McCain both plan to skip that contest, which former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney is widely expected to win. Giuliani's campaign made a national ad buy earlier this year, but these are his first in the key early voting states. In them, Giuliani tells voters he overcame expectations and turned around New York. "Every promise I made running as mayor of New York City they said couldn't be done, said I couldn't cut crime, New York City was the crime capital of the America - can't be done," Giuliani says. A voice-over says crime dropped 56 percent during Giuliani's tenure. The unseen narrator also tells voters that welfare rolls in New York City dropped 58 percent and that Giuliani turned a $2.3 billion deficit into "a multibillion-dollar surplus and cut or eliminated 23 taxes." Giuliani was mayor during a period of declining crime rates nationwide. Crime in New York peaked in 1990 and had been dropping for three years before Giuliani took office, according to FBI data. Story Continues Below
The crime rate decreased by 60 percent in New York and 24 percent nationally between 1993, the year before Giuliani took office, and 2002, when he left. Giuliani spoke Monday night to an invited audience of about 100 Republicans in San Francisco. He took Democratic White House hopefuls to task Monday for being soft on terrorists. "At no time during their three debates have they used the words 'Islamic terrorists,'" Giuliani said of the Democratic contenders who, as he spoke, were debating at The Citadel military college in South Carolina. "If they do tonight, I will take credit for it." He also spoke about his vision for weaning the U.S. off foreign oil and the need for trade agreements with developing countries.
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