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Paying creditors "ten cents on the dollar"? What ever happened to balanced budgets and other supposed niceties of fiscal conservatism? For Rudy Giuliani, a balanced budget will only be part of the Administration That Never Will Be.
Labels: deficit campaign spending, Fiscal conservatives, Rudy Giuliani
I think that Romney and McCain and Huckabee have all of the ammunition that they need to sink the Battleship Giuliani.
As New York mayor, Rudy Giuliani billed obscure city agencies for tens of thousands of dollars in security expenses amassed during the time when he was beginning an extramarital relationship with future wife Judith Nathan in the Hamptons, according to previously undisclosed government records.
The documents, obtained by Politico under New York's Freedom of Information Law, show that the mayoral costs had nothing to do with the functions of the little-known city offices that defrayed his tabs, including agencies responsible for regulating loft apartments, aiding the disabled and providing lawyers for indigent defendants.
At the time, the mayor’s office refused to explain the accounting to city auditors, citing "security."
Hoe is a leader supposed to act? Let us take a look at the Giuliani Partners web site.
Giuliani Partners' professional guidance to leaders is based on six fundamental principles:
- Integrity
- Preparedness
- Optimism
- Communication
- Courage
- Accountability
I think that we have to give Giuliani credit for Preparedness and Optimism, but no marks for Integrity, Communication, Courage, or Accountability.
Labels: Rudy Giuliani, Stupid Republican tricks
Why Rudy Giuliani thought that Bernie Kerik's various shenanigans would not somehow hurt his presidential chances is a matter for the pop psychologists out there. All I can fathom is that he simply thought that Americans would forget that Giuliani Security and Safety was originally Giuliani-Kerik LLC.
[Kerik's resignation] severs a lucrative professional relationship with his mentor, Mr. Giuliani, who made him first correction commissioner and then police commissioner and who helped make Mr. Kerik a wealthy man in the law enforcement consulting field. Mr. Kerik became a national figure after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, writing a best-selling book and earning the admiration of President Bush, who sent him to Iraq in 2003 as interim minister of the interior to rebuild that nation's police force....
Mr. Kerik, who served as police commissioner from Aug. 19, 2000, until Dec. 31, 2002, said he had decided to resign immediately from his positions as senior vice president of Giuliani Partners L.L.C. and chief executive of Giuliani-Kerik L.L.C., an affiliate. He said the furor that followed the Dec. 10 withdrawal of his nomination - when he said he discovered he had not paid taxes for a nanny and did not know her immigration status - was beginning to affect the firm.
That Bernie Kerik was involved in the "rebuilding" of the Iraqi police force, a force so robust and powerful that tens of thousands of American troops are somehow still needed to keep the peace, should not surprise anyone.
Labels: Bernie Kerik, blast from the past, Iraqi "government", Rudy Giuliani
When one hears about how great Rudy Giuliani somehow was as mayor of New York, one does not hear much about his myriad and obvious faults—supporting the incompetent and corrupt Bernie Kerik, carrying on an open and notorious affair, and even suggesting that he somehow should remain mayor even after his second term was to expire.
But what is almost always left unsaid by Giuliani's supporters, who so ofter hail from outside New York, is that on the fateful day of 11 September 2001, he was hardly heroic and in the months and years leading up, his missteps made the horrible event all the worse.
Labels: 9/11, Rudy Giuliani, Saint Rudy, stupid pundit tricks
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