Giuliani Not Fazed By 9/11 Family Member Attack
Says He Wasn't Confident In Every Decision That Day
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Marcia Kramer
5/29/2007
(CBS) NEW YORK Hundreds of New Yorkers helped Rudy Giuliani celebrate his 63rd birthday a day late Tuesday.
They attended fundraisers in the four outer boroughs where the birthday boy raked in campaign cash. But as CBS 2 HD has learned not everyone wanted to celebrate.
The questions began early at the start of Giuliani's four-borough fund-raising romp. Sabrina Rivera, who says she lost a family member on 9-11, grabbed Rudy's hand and wouldn’t let go as she and others confronted America's Mayor in the Bronx.
"I want a new investigation," Rivera said. "There was no reason why he should dump 45 percent of the victims in a dump."
And it continued in Brooklyn. But Giuliani, whose leadership on 9-11 is one of the pillars of his presidential campaign, wouldn't allow himself to be sucked in.
"No one that I knew had any idea that (the Twin Towers) would implode," Giuliani said.
Later In Queens, he said he wasn't upset by the anger some feel towards him.
"This is a very, very traumatic, horrible experience," Giuliani said. "I lived though it. I watched people die. I lost good friends, so any anger people displace I've never had any resentment about it."
Giuliani also said he realized at the time that not all the decisions he made that day would be right.
"I made like 10, 12, 15 decisions in a row and then I’d take a little stop and make a little prayer and say, 'God you got to make 'em right now,'" he said.
Campaign officials say Giuliani expects to raise half a million dollars from his day in New York.
Guy Molinari, Giuliani's state campaign chair, said the former mayor is doing so well in New York he doesn't think he'll face a primary here.
The other nine or 10 candidates, Molinari said, will just skip the state, and not run here.