Congressman Bob Turner, left, shakes hands with former mayor Rudy Giuliani. Photo courtesy of Bob Turner’s campaign.
Former mayor Rudy Giuliani announced on Wednesday that he officially supports Rep. Bob Turner (R-Queens) in his bid to unseat U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-New York).
“Bob Turner is the definition of a citizen legislatorwho took his lifelong business experience toWashington,” said Giuliani. “Now he is running for Senate for the same reason: to put our country back on a path toward job growth and prosperity.
He is a proven winner and the only candidate who can defeat the nation’s most liberal senator, Kirsten Gillibrand, in November. I urge my fellow Republicans to join me in supporting him.”
Giuliani endorsed Turner, a former TV executive,in his first political bid to replace Anthony Wiener in Congress last September.
News of this endorsement came in an email from Turner’s campaign.
“I’m honored and humbled to receive Mayor Giuliani’s endorsement,” said Turner. “To the world, he became ‘America’s Mayor,’ but to us here in New York, he was always ‘our’ mayor—a man who had the vision and courage to transform the city in a way critics never thought possible.
We are all still benefiting from the results of his leadership and I will look to him for advice and counsel as I seek to make a similar transformation of the federal government in the U.S. Senate.”
