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Rudy Giuliani Watch: Back on the Campaign Trail
Republican Presidential hopeful, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani leaves his Manhattan apartment after spending the morning at home, Friday, Dec. 21, 2007
Rudy is back on the campaign trail with an event in Rochester, New York as Flap writes this. Here is the rest of his schedule – at least for tomorrow.Saturday, December 22nd:
WHAT: Rudy Giuliani holds Town Hall Meeting
WHERE: Hopkinton Town Hall
330 Main Street
Hopkinton, NH
WHEN: 12:45 PM ET Doors open
1:00 PM ET Rudy Giuliani delivers remarks
WHAT: Rudy Giuliani attends House Party
WHERE: Home of Frank and Morgan Guinta
221 Crestview Road
Manchester, NH
WHEN: 3:45 PM ET
Rudy is scaling it back a bit.
“I’m feeling good, I got a good night’s sleep,” Mr. Giuliani told reporters as he left his Manhattan apartment Friday afternoon to run some errands before flying to Rochester for a fundraiser. “I’m feeling better than last night, but I’m taking a half-day today, and probably three- quarters of a day tomorrow.â€
His campaign lightened Mr. Giuliani’s weekend schedule by canceling some of the events it had planned for him in New Hampshire. “I’m going to cut it down for a couple of days to make sure I make a full and complete recovery,†Mr. Giuliani said, “but I’m doing fine.”
“My message to my supporters is we’re going to win,†he said. “And maybe this is a good opportunity to say Merry Christmas and happy holidays. Everyone should enjoy the season. It’s a great season and I’ve very thankful that I got such good care from the doctors, my own doctor, and from my wife Judith, who’s a nurse.”
Flap knows it is a campaign but, man, it is Christmas too – take it easy, Rudy. There is plenty of time to campaign after the 25th.
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Ron Paul Mugging and Signing Autographs for the Neo-Nazi Stormfront.org Bunch
Ron Paul, Don Black from Stormfront.org and his son Derek Black
Nice photo. But, at least Black received two photos for his $500 bucks.
Photos courtesy of and H/T to LGF
Guilt by association?
Well, we know Ron Paul associated……
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Mitt Romney Watch: Censorship 101
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Governor Mitt Romney’s Seventh Campaign Ad: Ocean
Mitt Romney wants to go after and jail retailers who sell violent adult video games?
I want to restore values so children are protected from a societal cesspool of filth, pornography, violence, sex, and perversion. I’ve proposed that we enforce our obscenity laws again and that we get serious against those retailers that sell adult video games that are filled with violence and that we go after those retailers.
Will he propose burning objectionable books too?
Or will Romney when confronted, change his mind AGAIN?
Flap does not want a President who will tell him what he can or cannot buy. Governor Romney have you not heard of the first amendment?
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Mitt Romney BackPedal Watch: “I SAW My Father March with Martin Luther King”
“I try to be as accurate as I can be,” he (Mitt Romney) said Thursday.
- Nonetheless, Romney faced snickers in April after his staff said he had been hunting on only two occasions despite his telling a New Hampshire voter, “I’ve been a hunter pretty much all my life.” Romney later said he had hunted more than twice but only for “small varmints” and that he did not own a gun or have a hunting license.
- During the same town hall meeting, Romney also cast himself as a reluctant politician, focusing instead on his 25-year business career and stint helping to resurrect the financially troubled 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Olympics.
“When I came home, some people in the Massachusetts Republican Party encouraged me to run for office and said, `We need somebody who can win and who can fix Massachusetts,'” Romney said.
Romney returned to Massachusetts from Utah on Sunday, March 17, 2002. He declared he was running for governor on Tuesday, March 19, just hours after his fellow Republican, acting Gov. Jane Swift, announced she was yielding to the Romney juggernaut.
“I’m in,” he said roughly 48 hours after returning to Massachusetts. “The bumper stickers are printed, the Web site’s going up. The papers are going in today.”
George Romney, Mitt Romney’s Daddy
Romney never saw father on King march
Mitt Romney acknowledged yesterday that he never saw his father march with Martin Luther King Jr. as he asserted in a nationally televised speech this month, and historical evidence shows that Michigan’s Governor George Romney and the civil rights leader never did march together.
Romney said his father had told him he had marched with King and that he had been using the word “saw” in a “figurative sense.”
“If you look at the literature, if you look at the dictionary, the term ‘saw’ includes being aware of in the sense I’ve described,” Romney told reporters in Iowa. “It’s a figure of speech and very familiar, and it’s very common. And I saw my dad march with Martin Luther King. I did not see it with my own eyes, but I saw him in the sense of being aware of his participation in that great effort.”
But historical evidence, including news accounts at the time, shows that George Romney never marched with King, though he supported King’s agenda.
How can you believe Mitt Romney? Romney is a LIAR who has been “OUTED” as such over and over:
Add this one to the list of Flip-Flops, Lies and Oddities:
- Massachusetts Superior Court Judge Kathe M. Tuttman appointment
- Flip on Abortion
- Campaign finance reform
- Flip on Gay Marriage
- Lied about hunting
- Scientology book one of his favorites
- Poor Mitt’s Dog
- Jay Garrity Trooper Flap
- The Robert Lichfield FLAP
- None of Mitt’s five adult sons had served in the military
- Health Care 2.0 Flip Flop
- PhoneyFred.org Flap
- Tax FLIP
- Log Cabin Ad Flip
- Lawyer’s Test for National Security
- Imaginary Florida Advisers
- NRA Endorsement Lie
Remember:
Mitt Romney will say and do anything to be elected President. Flap will NEVER vote for Romney and would lead the GOP into a 40 plus state loss in November 2008.Look at how the Democrats are already pointing to Romney’s truthfulness and veracity:
Who will be the first candidate “ON AIR” (after Christmas for sure) with Romney’s Lies, Flips and Inconsistencies? When they do he will SINK like a stone.Stay tuned…..
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Rudy Giuliani Watch: Burying Giuliani-Nathan Tryst Security Costs – Unlikely Says New York Times
The New York Times debunks the Politico story that hit the day of the You tube Debates. Rudy Giuliani’s slide in the Presidential polls began this day as the internets were full of the story that Rudy used public funds to hide his affair with his then girlfriend, Judith Nathan.
Now, Byron York moans: Why Isn’t Anyone Paying Attention to This?
This was not exactly bannered across the front page of the New York Times yesterday. As a matter of fact, I don’t think I saw it in my paper at all. But on the Times’ website, dated December 20, there is this headline: “Giuliani’s Office Shifted Money Around? Yes. To Hide Hamptons Trips? Unlikely.”
If a look around the blogs is correct, it appears that no one has paid any attention to this story, which seems odd, given the frenzy over the issue a while back. It’s in the Times’ “Multimedia” box in the Politics section and difficult (for me at least) to cut and paste, or to link to directly, but here it is, in its entirety:
Of course, the New York Times buries the piece but Flap will reprint it here:
The headlines have dogged Rudolph W. Giuliani’s presidential campaign for weeks. “Security costs for trysts draw attention,” said one. The articles questioned whether, as mayor, Mr. Giuliani tried to hide his visits to Judith Nathan in the Hamptons by burying the associated security costs in the budgets of obscure mayoral agencies like the Loft Board.
The answer is not likely, according to a review of the city records originally cited as the basis for the assertion.
All eight of Mr. Giuliani’s trips to the Hamptons in 1999 and 2000, including the period when his relationship was a secret, were charged to his own mayoral expense account, according to the records.After his affair became public, the mayor’s office in 2001 did charge several trips to the Hamptons to the Assigned Counsel Plan, which was designed to coordinate legal efforts for the poor.
But the total cost of those trips, $2,474, represents less than 1 percent of the $281,338 in travel expenses that was charged to the obscure agencies.
And those expenses were not incurred until two years after Mr. Giuliani’s office first began to shift some mayoral travel expenses to lesser-known units.
It’s still not clear why Mr. Giuliani’s office did that, or why it began prepaying his American express bills, both practices that other administrations frowned upon. Former Giuliani administration officials say the shifting of expenses was a temporary, and appropriate maneuver until the Police Department reimbursed the mayor’s office for the security expenses.
The Bloomberg administration is still looking for the backup records for $40,000 of the $632,119 in travel costs that Mr. Giuliani’s office incurred between May 1999 and December 2001, when Mr. Giuliani left office.
But the records reviewed so far, which account for 93 percent of the mayor travel expenses for that period, suggest that Mr. Giuliani’s efforts to see Ms. Nathan, who is now his wife, had nothing to do with any accounting legerdemain.
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But, the damage has been done:
- By distracting the Mayor at the You Tube debates where he involved himself in an illegal alien pissing match with Mitt Romney and lost some of his likeability.
- Reminding voters daily for a few weeks through the New York tabloids pickled up by Drudge and the internets that Giuliani had a sordid personal life six years ago and that he has been married three times. Mitt Romney, “Mr. Mormon Holier than Thou” would showcase his “perfect” family to the press – twisting the knife in the Mayor’s back.
- Putting the Mayor on defense, allowing a virtual unknown Southern Baptist pastor to “become a moral story.”
Will Rudy be able to recover?
Probably not in small early states which will be dominated by the Mitt Romney (Mormon) vs Mike Huckabee (Southern Baptist) moral, religious political war. The winner will be the most righteous but more likely the least electable in the general election.
Will the moderates of the GOP, migrate to John McCain who also has marriage difficulties and infidelity in his background?
Time will tell.
But, the Mayor was “HIT” in classic GOP style by the Politico. However, Flap would NOT count him out.
Stay tuned……..
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From Powerline: The Scandal that Wasn’t
Remember the frenzy over suggestions that, as mayor, Rudy Giuliani tried to hide his visits to Judith Nathan in the Hamptons by burying the associated security costs in the budgets of obscure mayoral agencies? Well, the New York Times has looked deeply into the matter and concluded, based on the relevant city records, that “all eight of Mr. Giuliani’s trips to the Hamptons in 1999 and 2000, including the period when his relationship was a secret, were charged to his own mayoral expense account, according to the records.” The Times adds: “the records reviewed so far, which account for 93 percent of the mayor travel expenses for that period, suggest that Mr. Giuliani’s efforts to see Ms. Nathan, who is now his wife, had nothing to do with any accounting legerdemain.”
Unfortunately, readers must work their back to page A-21 in order to learn this. Where do you suppose the Times would have placed the story if the evidence had pointed the other way?
Captain Ed: The Buried, Unquotable Exoneration
The New York Times exonerates Rudy Giuliani from charges that he moved travel expenses around through subsidiary agencies in order to hide his affair with his now-wife, Judith. People looking for that exoneration on their feedreaders will find themselves frustrated. Not only did the Times bury the story on one of its blogs, it put it in a graphic format that doesn’t allow for copy-and-paste.
In fact, the amount of money transferred through those agencies represent an insignificant percentage of the total cost of those travel expenses. Furthermore, the Times found that Giuliani had started spreading the costs of travel through subsidiary agencies two years before his affair with Judith, which makes it rather obvious that the motive was not to hide his infidelity. Russ Buettner ends by concluding that Giuliani’s accounting had nothing to do with his relationship to Judith.
One might believe that these conclusions might make a few headlines, given all of the attention paid to these allegations. Anderson Cooper asked Giuliani about this pseudoscandal during the nationally-televised CNN/YouTube debate, after all, and Giuliani’s record as mayor might be of particular interest to a New York City newspaper. Instead, the Times seemed to go out of its way to hide this report and its exoneration of Giuliani on accusations of manipulating public records for his own personal motivations.
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Cynthia McKinney For President?
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Cynthia McKinney Announces Run for President
What a choice…….
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Day By Day by Chris Muir December 21, 2007
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