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The revelation that Rudy Giuliani made $16 million over 16 months - has created a few ripples. FDNY Deputy Fire Chief Jim Riches told WCBS 2, "[Giuliani's] making all this money on the backs of my dead son and all the other dead victims that day." And the Village Voice's Wayne Barrett, who co-wrote the book Grand Illusion:The Untold Story of Rudy Giuliani and 9/11, said, "He's recycled his 9/11 talk for up to $200,000, you know, (based on) what happened that morning and then he has the six principals of leadership, and the seventh should be milk a tragedy for millions."
And now, according to the Daily News, it turns out that Judith Giuliani is paid about $125,000 her for speechwriting help: "since before they were married." An aide explained, "Mrs. Giuliani made a professional contribution and the mayor recognizes and respects her efforts. He is merely acknowledging both her time commitment and her professional value." No wonder Giuliani "joked" about having her at cabinet meetings. But the speech Judi gave at a fund-raiser wasn't that great. Since she's a nurse, is she going to tackle health care? Giuliani critic and Republican strategist Nelson Warfield told the News, "It just looks odd. Most spouses view supporting their significant others as part of the package, not part of the compensation package. Some people will joke and ask, 'Is it a straight salary or is there a performance bonus?'"
Giuliani makes about $100,000 per hour when he gives speeches - and that doesn't include travel allowances - so that's about one year of Judi's salary. And the Sun has details from a Giuilani-blogger conference call.
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Come on! John Kerry married his money and half the country wanted him as President. Mayor Bloomberg makes Giuliani look like the civil servant piker he relatively is. Jon Corzine is as rich as he is injured. It's the 19th 21st Century people! Stop hating on the plutocrats!
What?! I can't believe this! Rudy and his wife made money? In America?!
If only he'd taken a hedge fund job "to learn more about poverty" like John Edwards. Man, that Edwards never made worrying about the poor look so...well, lucrative.
Where can we find out how much the other speech writers are paid by Rudy?
He's "Hustling" that's all . There's nothing wrong with it, I mean yes he's using the deaths of all those people who died on [9/11] for profit and all . See this is why so many people hate Giuliani, OR as I like to call him "Fooliani" ! It's just sad that those outside of the New York/New Jersey area have limited clue as to the length this jack-ass is willing to go . He knows he has no chance of winning the White house so it's on to something else .
are you implying that judi is a hooker?
The issue isn't his money, it's how he made his money.
You would be hard-pressed to find anyone running for President (or any high-profile office) who isn't at least a millionaire. It's a fact of life.
What's the issue here is his whoring of the eleventh, and how that became his primary source of income.
Those out of the NYC media sphere do not know of all of the goings on of Giuliani time in the city, but just the last few months of his administration.
Did he clean up the city and make it safer?
Yes.
However those in Peoria don't know all the crap that went on to get it that way.
Do the other speechwriters make the same salary and do they also have to sleep with him?
I'll admit to admiring Giuliani after 9/11, because the guy did provide a certain level of assurance that the situation--in a completely unprecedented time--was being handled with competence, or at least certitude. Contrast that attitude with politicians in New Orleans when the city was literally underwater. That was not a confidence-inspiring performance and I think it added to the level of civic despair and disorder that followed.
Before 9/11, however, I detested Giuliani. He's thin-skinned and prone to petulant abuses of power. Both Bill Clinton and George W. Bush have their numerous faults, but both seemed to either be happy to let abundant criticism either glide off their backs with indifference or benign neglect. Rudy's kind of a sorehead, and seems more Nixonian in temperment. I admire him and don't begrudge his achievements, but he strikes me, like McCain, as a wildcard and that should make people nervous.
If someone wanted any of us to speak for an hour for $100,000, I doubt we would turn them down.
What will you do about crime?
Nineeeeeeee.........eleven.
hey, she's right, let's vote for her.
In all seriousness, I think the only good thing ghooliani did was eliminate the sales tax on clothes.
And, the only thing he did on 9/11 was make sure a reporter didn't step on a pile of asbestos or human remains. Guess that's why the press in NYC are grateful.