Yet another reason to not vote for the Judi Rudy tag team in 2008… Apparently, Judi has a bit of a nasty history with regards to animals…

April 2, 2007 — 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.

Feral said U.S. Surgical’s demonstrations on hundreds of dogs each year through the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s were done to boost sales, not for medical re search or testing.

And just so you understand, Friends of Animals is not PETA and isn’t some always-angry activist group. Anyway, here’s some more information:

In Sunday’s Post, Rudy Giuliani’s presidential campaign spokesman, Michael McKeon, said of Judi Giuliani’s work with U.S. Surgical, “She was in the operating room hundreds of times, using her nursing skills and training doctors in the stapling technique.”

Asked yesterday about the procedure being performed on dogs, McKeon said, “I’ve never heard any of this before.”

Then McKeon said he would have to ask Judi.

Finally, he said only that Judi had not been involved in procuring dogs for sales demonstrations - but did not comment on whether she participated in demonstrations involving dogs.

So she “bought” the dogs, but didn’t kill them herself. Kinda like a guy who drove trains to Auschwitz saying he didn’t kill the prisoners, he just drove ‘em to the place.

Whatever.

Ethical issues are going to be a major problem for Rudy and this isn’t going to help. Yes I understand she’s not running, but let’s be honest here… No first lady just sits there and does nothing.

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