The best way to determine how a candidate will lead is through their past performance. Here is a look at the successful past Rudy has had in government and and his plans as President.

Past Results

The following facts are based on Rudy Giuliani’s tenure as Mayor of New York City:

Taxes

• Inherited $2.3 Billion deficit when he began as Mayor of New York City
• Enacted $2.5 Billion in tax reductions – 23 city taxes were reduced or eliminated
• Growth in city spending was reduced dramatically – from an average increase of 7.4% to below 4% during his last 6 years (1995 and 2002 had reductions in spending)
• Rudy left New York City with a $2.9 billion surplus

Economy

• Created 450,000 new jobs through strategic developments, business partnerships, and by breaking up crime’s influence on the job market
• Created one of the most successful welfare-to-work programs – the initiative cut the number of people on welfare in half, helping move over 600,000 individuals off welfare (from over 1.1 million to under 500,000) by changing the welfare agency into the employment agency and creating 27 job centers throughout the city
• Increased rate of home ownership by 10%

Crime

• Reduced Crime by 57%
• Reduced criminal related shootings by 72%
• Reduced Murder by 67%
• Reduced inmate on inmate violence by 93%
• New York City was named the “Safest Big City in America” by the F.B.I.
• Indicted 11 organized crime figures in the mafia
• Anti-gun initiatives took 90,000 illegal guns off the street

Education

• Project Smart Schools – installed 7,000+ computers – giving every student access to computers and funded 300-book libraries in 21,000 classrooms
• Project Read - intensive reading training
• Project Arts – permanently instituted arts education
• Set up a New York City Charter School Improvement Fund - increased competition and alternatives in schools – gave parents the opportunity to choose the best schools for their children
• Established a system of performance-based pay to increase accountability

Children are the Future

• Increased the number of adoptions by 65% (21,000 kids)
• Decreased the number of children in foster care by 40%
• Decreased abortion by 16%
• Hired 1,700 additional caseworkers
• HealthStat initiative that helped get health insurance to kids – 96,000 kids were given health insurance access through the initiative

Collaboration

• All of this change was made in collaboration with a Democratic city counsel
• Rudy Giuliani was able to focus on results, not politics

Awards

• Times Magazine 2001 “Person of the Year”
• 2007 Honorary Doctorate in Public Administration from The Citadel
• 2005 Honorary Degrees from Loyola College and Middlebury College
• 2004 St. Vincent’s Hospital created Rudolph W. Giuliani Trauma Center
• 2002 Ronald Reagan Freedom Award for “those who have made monument and lasting contributions to the cause of freedom,” and who “embody President Reagan’s lifelong belief that one man or woman can make a difference.”
• 2002 Honory Knighthood by Queen Elizabeth II for his leadership on an after September 11
• 2002 Fiorello LaGuardia Public Service Award for Valor and Leadership in the Time of Global Crisis by the Episcopal Diocese of New York
• 1998 Hundred Year Association of New York’s Gold Medal Award “in recognition of outstanding contributions to the City of New York
• 1996 Innovations in Government Award from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University for his CompStat initiative that tackled the crime problem in New York City

Future Action

Rudy’s 12 Commitments to the American People

1. I will keep America on offense in the Terrorists’ War on us
2. I will end illegal immigration, secure our borders, and identify every non-citizen in our nation
3. I will restore fiscal discipline and cut wasteful Washington spending
4. I will cut taxes and reform the tax code
5. I will impose accountability on Washington
6. I will lead America towards energy independence
7. I will give Americans more control over and access to health care with affordable and portable free-market solutions
8. I will increase adoptions, decrease abortions, and protect the quality of life for our children
9. I will reform the legal system and appoint strict constructionist judges
10. I will ensure that every community in America is prepared for terrorist attacks and natural disasters
11. I will provide access to a quality education to every child in America by giving real school choice to parents
12. I will expand America’s involvement in the global economy and strengthen our reputation around the world