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Former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani (right) attended a 2002 news conference with California GOP gubernatorial candidate Bill Simon.

Republican hopeful takes tour of Tinseltown

Variety: Inside Move: Giuliani’s trip to Hollywood

While much attention in the past week has been paid to Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama’s courting of the entertainment industry, Republican presidential hopeful Rudolph Giuliani is planning to visit Los Angeles today for a fund-raiser.

Giuliani, who has not yet publicly declared whether he will run for president, will raise money for his exploratory committee at the Pacific Palisades home of Bill Simon, who ran for governor of California in 2002 and is spearheading the former New York mayor’s fund-raising efforts in the state. Giuliani is planning another fund-raising visit to the Los Angeles area in March.

Flap previously reported a February 15, 2007 fundraising event in Orange County on February 15th.

Although McCain has been courting industry donors and laying the groundwork for a run for quite some time, what will be interesting is to see the extent of Giuliani’s support in the entertainment industry. His moderate-to-liberal stances on social issues and conservative positions on national security and the economy could have some resonance among Hollywood centrists. Giuliani already has the support of former studio chief Frank Price and writer-director Lionel Chetwynd, among others.

Earlier this month, the New York Daily News obtained and published the contents of a strategy memo that showed Giuliani was looking to Brad Grey to help round up Hollywood support, even though the memo stated that the Paramount CEO is uncommitted.

Stay tuned……

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