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Team Giulani is on the defensive offensive after the Daily News revealed what was written in a presidential planning binder left behind by a Giuliani aide. Giuliani spokeswoman Sunny Mindel calls it a "dirty trick" that someone has played. From the Daily News:
"This is clearly a dirty trick," said Giuliani spokeswoman Sunny Mindel. "The voters are sick and tired of this kind of thing."Well, duh - you always carry on your important documents! Or at least use a special code and require all your staffers to have a decoder ring! The private plane in question was used by Giuliani during a November trip help then-Florida gubernatorial candidate Charles Crist, who also got help from Senator John McCain during his campaign. While speculation is now on who Mindel is implying may be behind the alleged heist (McCain...Mitt Romney...), let's face it: The Giuliani enemies list is very long.Mindel said that while working on the 2006 campaign trail, a Giuliani aide lost a piece of luggage containing the paper.
"During one leg of his campaign travel, all luggage was removed from a private plane and later put back on," she said in a statement. "However, one staffer's bag was not returned.
"After repeated requests over the course of a few days, the bag was finally returned with the document inside. Because our staffer had custody of this document at all times except for this one occasion, it is clear that the document was removed from the luggage and photocopied."
Of course, Mindel has said that binder was "very outdated" and it's true - no one is that surprised that someone inside Giuliani's team would think he has a lot of "insurmountable" baggage. But having the little details of how Rudy could "categorize and honor his donors with terms from baseball" is pretty embarrassing to have out in the open. And the fact the binder/dossier/Trapper Keeper may have been one belonging to chief fundraiser Anne Dickerson? The Daily News has an article to counter Mindel's claims: "It's bad news no matter how you spin it."
The flap has given Giuliani's rivals opportunity to snark. McCain's chief political strategist John Weaver said, "I though [Giuliani Partners] was a security company" and called the dirty tricks claims "ridiculous" : “If I were them, I would search in the grassy knoll.” And fundraiser Georgette Mosbacher who has been working with McCain told the Observer, "It shows that, potentially, he does not have a first-class team. You are running for President; you don’t leave things like that around. That doesn’t happen.
And Ben Smith, the reporter who made the scoop, will be leaving the Daily News; he will focus on 2008 campaign coverage for The Politico. He makes two good points today: This is not the first time Giuliani's people have looked at his vulnerabilities and apparently "Christmas elves" gave him the notebook (take that, O'Reilly and your War on Christmas!). Luckily, Smith will be checking in about NYC politics at Room Eight.
Top photograph of Giuliani speaking at a conference last November by Virginia Mayo/AP; bottom photograph of Giuliani during an Inner Circle Charity Show from City Archives
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Maybe he uses Jeanine Pirro's staff?
One of the greatest 'dirty tricks' ever. I salute the trickster. Well done!
It's Giuliani time! Or maybe not.
remember when Giuliani was cool and coldhearted? He was a pretty good mayor and looked stern and authoritative. Now, he looks like a sleazeball greasy politician with that cheshire grin he always has. It creeps me out.
Guiliani should take his drag act to Vegas and call it quits
It amazes me that the 9/11 Whore really thinks that politics would get cleaner on the national level. Maybe he's not a bright as we all thought... then again, did we ever think he was that bright?
I love how now it's a conspiracy theory. Rudy, you hired a boob and it bit you. Deal with it. It's not a case of the whole world is against you because you and only you have all the answers to the problems of the world, and only a total idiot would not blindly follow you.
Or apparently, work for you.
Tim N. Would you explain what makes him a whore? What makes him any different from every other politician that goes out an exploits his/her contacts to make some money after years of public service? Or is it just that you don't like his politics?
The cover of the binder said:
TO SERVE MAN
No one has extracted every last fucking drop of victim's blood out of Ground Zero like Rudy Giuliani, the 9/11 Whore. He was a tired, failed mayor who had outlived his usefullness and whose own city had turned its collective back on him until the attacks, and in the five years since he has milked those horrendous attacks dry. He tried to use the attacks to rewrite the city charter so he could stay in office until he decided he was damn good and ready to leave, he has shamelessly promoted his own role in the aftermath of the attacks over the heroic efforts of others, and he has refused to accept any blame for the atmosphere of non-cooperation that existed between the FDNY and NYPD prior to the eleventh, which may have resulted in God-knows how many deaths. The city was attacked for one day and he compares himself to Churchill, whose city, and nation, was attacked relentlessy for OVER A YEAR. And when anyone tries to point out what a complete and utter phony he is, they risk being labeled a traitor, a felon, or a fool. He has no shame, no morals, no decency; only a blind, perverse, insatiable, twisted ambition that sees only enemies under every bed.
Sorry to go nuclear on you, hmmmm?, but I guess you could say it's a thing with me. I actually have the same positions as the Whore on gay rights, choice, and gun control, and one cannot deny the drop in crime that took place during his first term, though Bill Bratton and Jack Maple really deserve the credit for that. IMHO, no one in America has done less to deserve their accolades the Rudy Giuliani, and I include our bumbler-in-chief in that company as well.
I'm not sure why his head is superimposed over John Travolta's body....but I love it.
"You should be dancin....yeah!"
He should stop lyin' and start dancin.'
Tim N., one small note, perhaps improvement, on your view. Neither Roody nor Bratton nor Maple really deserves the credit they'd each like to take for the drop in crime. The drop occurred nationally where they had nothing whatsoever to do with it and there was no federal effort either. The country's take on crime had shifted as they were coming into power. Today we have Kelly and Bloomberg riding the same coattails.
Thanks for your comments.