What Freddy Must Say  Calling Bloomberg a billionare Republican
isn't enough. Ferrer must prove he acts like one.  Editor's
note: TheVoice is submitting this speech to the Fernando Ferrer
mayoral campaign as a prototype of the core message he ought to
deliver in the coming days. Next week, we'll do the same for
Mike Bloomberg.  Four years ago today, on September 27, 2001, I
met with Rudy Giuliani for one hour right here at the city's
temporary emergency center on the pier at 52nd Street and
Twelfth Avenue. It was the day after I won the Democratic
primary for mayor and we were just starting the run-off
campaign. Before the meeting began, I was told that both of the
remaining mayoral candidates, Mike Bloomberg and Mark Green, had
already agreed to the extraordinary proposition I would soon
hear from the mayor. Rudy Giuliani wanted to cross a line never
before breached in the history of American democracy, even at
wartime. He wanted his term extended for three months.  If he
did not get the extension, Giuliani