Blinded by the White

By Matthew Yglesias
racial_diversity_in_staffs.jpg Ann Friedman notes that Rudy Giuliani doesn't only have the most male-dominated staff of any presidential candidate, he takes the prize for whitest campaign staff as well, clocking in at a striking 100 percent white. Phoenix Woman terms Team Rudy bad for diversity, but only Giuliani among the major contenders has child molesting priests and mobbed-up former police commissioners in his retinue. It's only diversity in the racial and gender senses that he's lacking.

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