• Giuliani Notes,  President 2008,  Rudy Giuliani

    Giuliani Notes: Rudy RIGHTS A Campaign Slight FLAP

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    Deborah VonSprecken said she and her husband feverishly made preparations on their Olin farm for a visit by Rudy Giuliani before he canceled the event days later.

    Rudy Giuliani Announces Deborah VonSprecken as Jones County Chair in Iowa

    The Rudy Giuliani Presidential Committee announced today that Deborah VonSprecken from Olin, Iowa will serve as the Jones County Chair. As part of Mayor Giuliani’s Iowa leadership team Mrs. VonSprecken will spearhead the campaign’s organizational efforts in the county. The announcement followed a visit from Rudy Giuliani to the VonSprecken’s family farm in Olin where Mayor Giuliani apologized for the misunderstanding surrounding his last visit to the state. After spending nearly two hours visiting with Mr. and Mrs. VonSprecken, Deborah expressed her interest in supporting Mayor Giuliani and leading his efforts in Jones County.

    “I am honored to have Deborah as part of my team in Iowa. As the hard-working owner of a family farm she understands the importance of cutting taxes and implementing fiscal discipline to grow the economy and increase opportunity,” said Mayor Rudy Giuliani. “Her support is tremendous and will be of great value to our efforts in Iowa.”

    The original story of the FLAP is here.

    Senator John McCain’s cheesy attempt to capitalize on this misunderstanding and his smack down are here.

    Kudos to Rudy. Now, he really did not have to do this and Flap knows how campaigns run and get screwed up. But, he gets some credit for crawling back……

    McCain gets a poison apple for being an opportunist.

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    Republican presidential hopeful former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani discusses small business issues with local Republicans Friday, May 4, 2007, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

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    Giuliani Notes: Rudy Weighing Ames Straw Poll Decision

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    Republican presidential hopeful former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani discusses small business issues with local Republicans Friday, May 4, 2007, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

    Des Moines Register: Giuliani waits to pick a path on straw poll

    News Analysis: Aides say he’s not sure joining in the pre-caucus GOP vote would help him.

    Republican Rudy Giuliani has been stuck for weeks on a key decision in his presidential campaign: whether to compete in the Iowa Republican Party’s straw poll in Ames this summer.

    The former New York City mayor’s top Iowa advisers have encouraged him to take part in the year’s marquee national GOP event as part of building what Giuliani has said he hopes will be a winning campaign for the leadoff Iowa caucuses in January.

    But the final say belongs to Giuliani, who plans to decide in the coming weeks how the event could benefit or cost him.

    If he says yes to the straw poll, it will raise the stakes for this closely watched first measure of Iowa support by ensuring the participation of all the better-known candidates in the race. Giuliani’s participation also would underscore the significance of the caucuses in the new fast-track presidential nominating schedule.

    A decision to take part in the straw poll would also put to its first test Giuliani’s oft-stated assertion that he can withstand social conservatives’ differences with him on some key social issues, such as his support for abortion rights.

    “I think that a candidate creates his or her electorate in many ways, if they are a strong enough candidate or a powerful enough candidate,” Giuliani said in a recent interview with The Des Moines Register.

    If he says no, it will make the straw poll a less meaningful early test of campaign strength in Iowa.

    Likewise, should Giuliani pass on the straw poll, it would make less clear Iowa’s significance in the heavily front-loaded caucus and primary schedule.

    Flap sees NO advantage to Rudy to participate. Every campaign has to make resource allocation decisions and frankly Iowa’s outdated system of caucuses costs too much money and candidate time.

    The Mayor would be much better to save those resources for Florida and California that have many more GOP delegates in play. Televison ads in Florida and California are a much better bet.

    In the early primary states of New Hampshire, Iowa and South Carolina, Giuliani polls the worst. He might be able to win one of these three or come in second in all of them. But, Rudy’s real strength comes in the Northeast, Florida and the West on February 5th.

    This decison is a NO Brainer.

    Update:

    Hotline has Rudy’s Competing In New Hampshire, Iowa, and South Carolina

    Rudy may have “budgeted” money for New Hampshire, Iowa and South Carolina but why bother with states where it is almost certain you will not win.

    Flap agrees that Nevada’s caucuses that are held January 19th are worth contending but Iowa and South Carolina?

    Not going to happen……..

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    Giuliani Notes: Club for Growth – Rudy Giuliani Enacted Pro-Growth Policies

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    Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani speaks during the GOP presidential candidates debate at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California, May 3, 2007.

    Big Apple Success Story, Giuliani brought pro-growth policies to liberal New York.

    Today, the Club for Growth released its fourth presidential white paper on former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani’s economic record. These white papers are extensively researched and seek to provide readers with a thorough analysis of the candidates’ economic records during their time in public office.

    Over the past couple of months, critics and supporters alike have cherry-picked one or two issues out of Rudy Giuliani’s extensive record to bolster their pro or con stance.

    However, any exploration of a candidate’s record must take into account the larger picture and the unique context in which that record is achieved. In New York City, Rudy Giuliani governed a locality dominated by liberal Democrats; public-sector labor unions; social-welfare activists; and a powerful local news media actively hostile to a limited-government philosophy. In the face of such tremendous headwind, Giuliani’s economic accomplishments are remarkable.

    Read it all.

    The success of Rudy in New York is well documented.

    Do ANY of the candidates, GOP and Democrat, have this level of success?

    NO WAY

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    Michael Ramirez on Global Warming and Intelligence Services

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    Intelligence chief OK’s global warming study

    The question of whether the country’s spy agencies, already burdened by the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan as well as the global hunt for members of Al Qaeda, ought to investigate the security implications of global warming has been debated in Congress for several weeks.

    A provision requiring a national intelligence estimate on climate change was in the 2008 intelligence authorization bill that the House passed Friday. The amount of the authorization is classified but it is believed to be about $48 billion, which would be the largest intelligence authorization ever considered by Congress.

    Republicans had tried to defeat the provision on the national intelligence estimate, saying that intelligence resources were too precious to be used to study the impact of climate change.

    “Let other federal agencies, as more than a dozen already do, cover the ‘bugs and bunnies.’ But let our spies be spies,” Representative Peter Hoekstra of Michigan, the ranking Republican on the House Intelligence Committee, wrote Thursday in a Wall Street Journal op-ed article.

    Good grief. But, it is ONLY $48 billion.

    They spend taxpayer money like it is water in Washington. And what did American voters expect from a Democrat controlled Congress?

    Hell, the GOP couldn’t resist spending.

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