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As a platform from which to launch a political career, Saturday Night Live is second only to the professional wrestling ring. So perhaps it was no coincidence that New York City mayor Rudolph Giuliani showed up in the great presidential primary state of Iowa one year after he appeared on SNL in wig, support hose and flour-sack falsies.
His drag act may have set the image of Italian American womanhood back 30 years, but it helped to attract a large crowd of heartlanders curious to know what the mayor with undeclared-but-obvious-presidential ambitions looked like in a suit.
Conventional wisdom claims no New York mayor has a chance in the national political
arena, the notion being that city slickers from the Northeast are too parochial to relate to the rest of the country (although I’ve never understood why this logic does not apply equally to senators from Mississippi).






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