Not an editorial: On Andrew Giuliani’s run for governor

We are not writing an editorial about Andrew Giuliani’s run for New York governor. We are not commenting that the son of the not-so-suddenly unhinged former mayor is barely qualified for the Assembly, never mind leading the executive branch of a state with a $1.75 trillion economy.

We will not say anything about a resume of a young man who was a minor pro golfer and an intern at finance and real-estate firms before landing a job in Donald Trump’s White House, no doubt in no small part because his daddy had quite the in. (Another Andrew born to another powerful New Yorker only ran for governor after having headed a major nonprofit and served in a president’s Cabinet, and been elected attorney general.)

We will not point out that when he was associate director of the Office of Public Liaison under Trump, Andrew’s job seemed to consist mainly of organizing White House events with athletes and whacking the little ball with the boss. We will not scrutinize the grandiose claims in his bio of having crafted tax policy and being directly involved “with several initiatives that saved millions of American jobs amid the coronavirus pandemic.” We will also leave alone his claim to have “won eight tournaments” as a golf pro when the PGA’s website says he has no career victories.

We will not mention the 2018 episode in which Trump Chief of Staff John Kelly, confused by Andrew’s loose relationship with the president and the lack of value he added, revoked Andrew’s access to the West Wing, prompting his dad to flip out and the president to restore it.

We will not mock the 35-year-old’s claim that he’s “the only candidate that’s spent parts of five different decades of my life in politics or public service,” which minutes later he clarified to mean “parts of five decades,” including his father’s first run for mayor in 1989, when Andrew was 4 years old.

We will not editorialize on any of this. It would be too easy.

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