Rudy Giuliani is best known for his term as Mayor of New York City from 1994 until 2001. He began his career as New York law clerk and prosecutor, moving on to work in the Reagan and Ford Justice Departments. He returned to New York to serve as the federal US Attorney, where he was criticized for...
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Giuliani Holds Fundraiser At 'Exclusive' And Controversial Club In New York
He never said he was the 'unity' candidate.
Republican Presidential Candidate Rudy Giuliani
CNN Senior Political Analyst Bill Schneider reported on the network's blog, Political Ticker, that former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani helped deliver New York for Sen. John McCain. Our exit polls show the former New York City mayor's endorsement...
"As the LA Times notes, that's the worst dollar for delegate record in American presidential history."
Rudy Giuliani placed third in last night's Florida primary, behind John McCain and Mitt Romney. Below is a clip from Rudy's speech. Yeah... I liked it better when it was delivered by Howard Dean several years ago....
"Everywhere we go, it's standing-room only. People can't wait to see [Rudy Giuliani]. There's a lot of energy and enthusiasm."
Tomorrow is the Republican Party's Florida primary: Rudy Giuliani's last stand. Giuliani, who is tearing it up in delegates with two, put all of his eggs in the Florida primary basket when he decided to retreat from Iowa, Wyoming, New...
Earlier today it was reported that Giuliani staffers were "volunteering" not to get paid because the campaign needed to save its money for television ads in the big states.
Bondad over at the Huffington Post takes a look at Giuliani's tax cut claims at the debate, where he tried to claim that his cuts would pay for themselves.
Republicans aren't very excited about their presidential candidates in New Hampshire.
Giuliani's New York canvassers are trolling Red Sox Nation in Yankees garb, in advance of the primary:
Cheney?!?!?
After diverting his private plane to seek emergency medical care last week, Rudy Giuliani showed just how out of touch he is with the needs of average Americans when he told the Tampa Tribune editorial board that Republican voters are not concerned about health care "maybe because Republicans have health care."
Giuliani’s late-state strategy isn’t panning out exactly the way he planned:
In his new ad, he lashes out at a staffer for questioning the idea of giving out fruitcakes. A joke, but with an odd execution showcasing an anger we haven't seen since he flipped-out at somebody advocating for ferrets.
Rudy exaggerated his record on his US Attorney service:
Giuliani's trip to the Granite State today ironically comes as he sharply reduced his ad buy in the region. In lieu of investing his campaign coffers to engage New Hampshire voters, he has decided to save the cash for Florida even when a new poll shows that Giuliani has fallen from first place to third in the state.
Rudy Giuliani, the serial-exaggerator, strikes again. John S. Martin Jr., who preceded Giuliani as the U.S. Attorney, wrote a blistering op-ed in The New York Times today disputing Rudy's claims that he "turned around" the U.S. Attorney's office in New York.
Because adding a tobacco company lobbyist to the ticket will distract from Giuliani's shady clients?
Rudy Giuliani today is trying to distract voters from his shady past by launching a television ad in New Hampshire called "Will" which outright distorts his record on immigration.
The Republican presidential candidates are set to take part in the Iowa Public Television/Des Moines Register debate Wednesday but if previous debates are any indication, it's unlikely the American people will hear anything more than the same over-the-top rhetoric and failed Bush foreign policy from the Republican hopefuls.
Giuliani continues to offer questionable excuses on Judi security expenses:
After launching a negative ad misleading Iowa on his immigration record, flip-flopping on the issue of amnesty for undocumented workers, and after getting caught having undocumented workers doing his yard work TWICE, Mitt Romney issued the following press release criticizing Rudy Giuliani for -- you guessed it -- flip-flopping and harboring illegal aliens.
Giuliani won't release client list or cut ties with his firm.
During his first appearance as a presidential candidate on NBC's Meet the Press this morning, Rudy Giuliani continued his refusal to fully disclose his business dealings and connections to shady figures.
As he hunkers down with his advisers today and prepares for his appearance on NBC's Meet the Press, Rudy Giuliani should finally answer questions he has been dodging for months.
After consistently exaggerating a myriad of facts and
figures about his record as mayor of New York City on the campaign trail, Rudy Giuliani is at it again. Giuliani launched a new TV ad in New Hampshire today that overstates the details of the 1979 hostage crisis in Iran and fails to mention that Rudy has exaggerated his experience with Islamic terrorism.
Vanity Fair unveils an investigative article about some of Giuliani's clients since he left New York. The article describes conflicts of interests that arose while Giuliani represented the companies while running for president.
Phone/email campaign highlights Giuliani's shady inner circle and includes mentions of "pedophile priest" accusations.
Rudy Giuliani used the NYPD to chauffeur his current wife, then girlfriend. The police officers who apparently weren't happy about the arrangement also had to walk her dog, and chauffeur her friends and family around New York.
Rudy's current clients, he's still taking a salary while he runs for president, are presenting real conflict of business issues and show how low he was willing to go to earn a buck. Newsweek reports that Giuliani is earning money from Qatar, who have in the past helped hide terrorists from law enforcement sources.
Mitt and Rudy's ever-evolving positions:
Rudy describes an imaginary NYC in new ad. From Factcheck.org
"The city will pay $125,000 to settle a suit by a former Correction Department officer who claimed that disgraced ex-Commissioner Bernard Kerik sidetracked his career because he's African-American."
Giuliani, once again, exaggerates NYC fiscal record:
A firefighter who supported Rudy Giuliani to the NY Times ends up on the Giuliani payroll.
Nine days after registering his presidential exploratory committee last November, Rudolph Giuliani appeared in Singapore to help a Las Vegas developer make a pitch for a $3.5 billion casino resort.
GIULIANI: My very first feeling, when I first thought about it, maybe within an hour of the event -- was what a shame that I have to deal with this towards the end of my administration.
Rudy Giuliani has for too long exaggerated his work as a mayor focused on public safety. Now firefighters and 9/11 families plan to speak out about Rudy Giuliani's actual record on protecting New Yorkers and first responders.
Rudy Giuliani's newest position on public health is different from his last position while he was mayor of New York City.
On the same day 9/11 firefighters and families are in New Hampshire rebuking his failure to prepare New York City for a terrorist attack, Rudy Giuliani launched an ad that ironically touts his so-called leadership credentials.
TPM Muckraker has the story:
Just days after Rudy Giuliani's right-hand man and protégé Bernard Kerik was indicted on corruption charges, Giuliani is trying to distract voters from the scandal today by launching his first television advertisement of the campaign season.
"New York City firefighters group critical of presidential contender and former Mayor Rudy Giuliani is bringing its message to the campaign trail in the first primary state."
Former HaperCollins publisher who had a relationship with Bernard Kerik is accusing supporters of Rudy Giuliani at News Corp of urging her to lie to federal prosecutors about her relationship with Bernard Kerik in order to protect Rudy Giuliani.
Paul Kiel at TPMMuckracker has put together the definitive list of Kerik scandals.
Giuliani, counting his chickens before they've hatched:
Bernie Kerik and Rudy Giuliani have been the best of friends. We put together a presentation to shed some light on how we got to where we are today, with Kerik indicted on 16 felony counts.
Washington, DC -- Upon hearing the news that Bernard Kerik would be indicted on multiple corruption charges, Rudy Giuliani refused to say whether or not he would pardon his long time friend. Having helped shepherd Kerik's career, evidence suggests that Giuliani knew about Kerik's ethical problems and still promoted him from driver in his 1993 mayoral campaign to New York City's Corrections Department Commissioner to the city's police chief to business partner. [Daily News, 11/09/07]
A FEDERAL GRAND JURY HAS VOTED TO INDICT EX-N.Y. CITY POLICE COMMISSIONER BERNARD KERIK ON CHARGES STEMMING FROM TAX EVASION AND CORRUPTION ALLEGATIONS, SOURCES TELL ABC NEWS.
The Iowa Christian Alliance bucks Robertson's choice of Giuliani:
Despite evidence showing that Rudy Giuliani knew about Bernard Kerik's ethical problems and still promoted his once-close friend throughout his career, Rudy astonishingly continues to claim ignorance.
With some fanfare Rudy Giuliani accepted the endorsement of one of the most extreme members of the far right, Pat Robertson. Shortly after 2001 Pat Robertson blamed the 9/11 attacks on because the government was more liberal.
Despite the fact that he's running for President, presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani is still being paid by his firm, Giuliani and Partners who are representing foreign governments and companies.
In the same week he told the Associated Press he did not need to disclose his business dealings because they were "totally legal, totally ethical," The Wall Street Journal revealed today that Giuliani's consulting firm Giuliani Partners has recently - and may still have - a contract with the government of Qatar.
Giuliani says he has "confidence" in Bush Foreign Policy:
The relationship between Bernie Kerik and Rudy Giuliani gets weirder every day. Yesterday the conservative New York Post reported that Kerik's website, Kerik and associates uses Rudy Giuliani and President Bush to woo new clients.
From the Concord Monitor:
Giuliani's campaign says that they'll continue to use bad health care statistics, even after various news organizations have shown those numbers to be wrong.
The NYC City Council is starting an investigation into the radios and whether a no-bid contract led to a faulty radios.
He never said he was the 'unity' candidate.
The facts in his new radio ad aren't vetted and aren't true.
Although "truthful" might be a different matter.
Even though it would cost more than 8,700 kids in New Hampshire needed health care coverage, Rudy Giuliani continues to oppose the bipartisan plan to provide 10 million children nationwide with health care. In Manchester today, he'll likely continue to back President Bush's veto threat of the plan while also trying to justify his support for borrowing $196 billion just for one year of the war in Iraq.
Is Rudy Giuliani becoming unhinged?
The Republican presidential nominees haven't had a stellar track record of being forthright about policy discussion--but in a new radio ad describing his cancer diagnosis, Rudy Giuliani misrepresents several important facts about health care.
With Red Sox World Series win, Giuliani stops moonlighting as a fan.
Bernie Kerik's criminal investigation might cause problems for his old friend Rudy Giuliani.
More on Sox-gate.
Yankees fans may never forgive him.
Tonight, the AARP will be hosting a forum for the Republican candidates in Iowa to address issues important to America's seniors but only one of the Republican frontrunners will attend as the others cited "scheduling conflicts."
El Presidente Bush ofreció un discurso sobre la política hacia Cuba de su Administración luego de casi ocho años de ofrecerle promesas vacías a la comunidad Cubano Americana, y luego de haber repatriado a unos 8,000 refugiados Cubanos que huían del regimen Castrista durante su presidencia. [New York Times, 10/23/07; AP, 10/24/07; New York Sun, 1/18/06]
Rudy Giuliani has been meeting with right-wing pundit Norman Podhoretz about the possibility of war with Iran.
A controversial Republican effort to change the way California distributes its electoral votes is back--with help from key Giuliani supporters hoping to steal enough votes to win the White House.
As he files paperwork to get on the ballot in the Granite State today, Rudy Giuliani's allies are trying to distance him from potentially embarrassing allegations about his once-close friend Bernard Kerik.
"Presidential candidate Rudolph Giuliani hired a Catholic priest to work in his consulting firm months after the priest was accused of sexually molesting two former students and an altar boy and told by the church to stop performing his priestly duties."
Mitt Romney may be more proficient at the art of the flip-flop but there's very little doubt that Giuliani is better skilled at the art of the flip-flop, especially after this weekends attempt to pander to the religious right.
"Rudy Giuliani's law partner has been told to monitor the criminal probe of disgraced ex-NYPD boss Bernard Kerik, which threatens to muddy up the former mayor's bid to become president."
Even though he once supported gay rights.
The Republican Candidates are debating tonight at a country club. We'll be watching them and documenting their flip-flops, exaggerations, and pandering in this thread.
After a week of fighting over who is the true conservative candidate in the race, the Republican presidential frontrunners are in Washington this weekend trying to win over evangelical leaders at the Family Research Council's Values Voter Summit.
Giuliani can’t make up his mind on Social Security taxes either.
Rudy Giuliani's position on choice keeps changing.
Giuliani picks up a Bush endorsement in Florida.
Giuliani talks about "communist China" while his donors do business there.
Josh Marshall - "If you look at the people who are advising Rudy Giuliani it turns out that they seem to be all the people who were too insane or too extremist to even get on the George W. Bush team."
Feel the burn.
Buried in his campaign expense reports, Rudy Giuliani's high-flying style.
Rudy Giuliani's campaign only has $16.6 million cash on hand.
Rudy Giuliani opens his arms--and ears--to neoconservative advisors.
Rudy Giuliani knew that New York City firefighters had faulty emergency radios--and he did nothing. A new film shows how more lives could have been saved on 9/11 if Giuliani had acted sooner.
The New York Daily News reports the Kerik business partner, and close friend Bernard Kerik may have some legal headaches soon
Conservatives say they are tired of being treated "like a mistress."
Giuliani Misquotes Clinton:
Where's the fact-checking by mainstream media?
Rudy Giuliani is in South Carolina today, where he will likely continue to exaggerate his fiscal record as Mayor of New York City to score political points as he did earlier this week at the CNBC Debate.
The numbers just don't add up.
Rudy Giuliani claimed last night that he has a strong record in support of labor. He even said, "I think union have made a positive contribution." But he has a virulently anti-union record.
Once again Rudy Giuliani resorted to exaggerating his own fiscal record as mayor of New York City in order to score political points.
On his website, Rudy Giuliani makes several claims about security in the city of New York.
Rudy Giuliani's business dealings keep getting messier.
The four leading Republican presidential candidates embrace Bush's decision to veto health coverage for poor children.
