Zach offers some associations with Rudy Giuliani other than "strong and effective leadership":

I associate the name "Rudolph Giuliani" with the murder of Amadou Diallo. i associate that name with the murder of Patrick Dorismond and the illegal leak of his police record to the media in a disgusting attempt to excuse the crime and depict his life as worthless. i associate Rudolph Giuliani with all those pictures of Abner Louima's brutalized face - his teeth broken from having the Plunger with which he was raped shoved down his throat - on that hospital bed. I also associate Rudy Giuliani with involvement in city workers' union election fraud aimed at keeping leadership amenable to the Giuliani vision of the theme park, safe for suburbanite city in power. I associate Giuliani with police tanks in tompkins square, LES community gardens destroyed to sate the greed of wealthy developers, the neoliberal city ruled at gunpoint, racial formations policed with repeating pistols. I associate Giuliani with political corruption, technocratic, arrogant, power, questionable use of public resources for private enjoyment, armed police officers patrolling the halls of public high schools, massive payoffs. The first political demonstration i ever went to was the October 22, 1998 march against police brutality, down Broadway from Union Square to City Hall. Because of the experience of growing up in Giuliani's New York, i started organizing. I wrote stuff in my school paper. I went to protests and marches. i wanted to get arrested and participate in civil disobedience. I tried to take over my student government. (Electorally, believe it or not.) I started an "anarchist collective." And then i wound up in New Haven, and saw a related but subtly different form of urban imperialism at work.The post-9/11 hagiographic rewriting of Rudolph Giuliani does a great deal of violence, and this is a violence directed precisely against those who suffered so much from Giuliani's policies the first time around.

Jack Newfield's The Full Rudy provides a telling exploration of just how cruel - and counterproductive - Giuliani's leadership style is.