Yikes! More bad press for Giuliani!

The hits just keep coming. Giuliani is being used as a punching bag by the New York press, left and right. The latest revelations concern Giuliani's third (and current) wife Judith.

Judith Giuliani once demonstrated surgical products for a controversial medical-supply company that used dogs - which were later killed - in operations whose only purpose was to sell equipment to doctors, The Post has learned.

"It was a horribly cruel, outrageous program," Friends of Animals President Priscilla Feral said about the demonstrations of medical staplers on dogs conducted by U.S. Surgical Corp. employees during Giuliani's tenure there in the late 1970s.[1]

Wow, I mean wow. The conservative Rupert Murdoch-owned New York Post is calling Judith Nathan Giuliani a "puppy killer." On the bright side, according to the politically centrist New York Daily News, her "secret" first husband--the one she concealed from everybody--has emerged to give her a big thumbs up:

In his first public statements since the Daily News revealed that Rudy Giuliani's wife was on her third marriage, husband No. 1, Jeffrey Ross, had only good things to say about the former Judith Ross.

In what must have triggered a huge sigh of relief at Giuliani's campaign headquarters, the reclusive Ross said, "The only thing I will say is that Judith will make a terrific First Lady. That's my only comment on her."

"She is a terrific lady," he added while pausing outside his Tampa condo. When pressed to discuss his former wife, Ross said, "That was 30 years ago, and I'd like to leave it there."

Ross conceded he was stunned to find himself in the spotlight as the 20-year-old woman he married in a Las Vegas wedding chapel is now in the running to be the country's First Lady.

Aw, Las Vegas--isn't that romantic? Just like Britney Spears and her first marriage. Who says the Republican Party isn't the party of family values?

Well, actually Judith Nathan Giuliani's second husband has something to say on the subject:

The five-year [first] marriage ended in 1979. Five days later, she married husband No. 2, Bruce Nathan. That lasted 13 years, and she and Giuliani were wed in 2003.

Her split with Nathan wasn't as kind. It involved a bitter custody dispute over their daughter, and in his divorce papers, Nathan scathingly called his ex-wife an "unfit" mother, a "social climber," a heavy drinker, "a manipulator and a pathological liar and exaggerator."[2]

Ouch. Not quite Laura Bush, is she?