Posted on 01/02/2007 7:22:40 AM PST by Lunatic Fringe
It's clearly laid out in 140 pages of printed text, handwriting and spreadsheets: The top-secret plan for Rudy Giuliani's bid for the White House.
The remarkably detailed dossier sets out the budgets, schedules and fund-raising plans that will underpin the former New York mayor's presidential campaign - as well as his aides' worries that personal and political baggage could scuttle his run.
At the center of his efforts: a massive fund-raising push to bring in at least $100 million this year, with a scramble for at least $25 million in the next three months alone.
The loss of the battle plan is a remarkable breach in the high-stakes game of presidential politics and a potentially disastrous blunder for Giuliani in the early stages of his campaign.
The document was obtained by the Daily News from a source sympathetic to one of Giuliani's rivals for the White House. The source said it was left behind in one of the cities Giuliani visited as he campaigned for dozens of Republican candidates in the weeks leading up to the November 2006 elections.
Giuliani spokeswoman Sunny Mindel suggested there were political dirty tricks behind the loss of the documents and called the timing suspicious.
"I wonder why such suspicious activity is occurring and can only guess it is because of Rudy's poll numbers in New Hampshire and Iowa," Mindel said.
(Excerpt) Read more at nydailynews.com ...
Anyone think the article in today's New York Post about Giuliani Partners is coincidental?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1761219/posts
If a Democrat had left campign plan was left in the room and made public, the MSM would be calling it a Watergate breakin type affair, but since it was a Republican, it was okay for the worker to disclose it to the Press and no complaint from the media for that.
((( Ping )))
FYI..heads up
If Rudy loses the primaries, I'll send FR an additional $50 dollar donation.
:>)
(McCain will also get $50.)
Doesn't seem to contain any real surprises. Might have been a leak by Giuliani to get the discussion around his negatives over with early.
sabotage from within
Doesn't being made a Knight of the British Empire make Giuliani incapable of holding any office of trust or profit?
13th Amendment:
"If any citizen of the United States shall accept, claim, receive, or retain any title of nobility or honour, or shall without the consent of Congress, accept and retain any present, pension, office, or emolument of any kind whatever, from any emperor, king, prince, or foreign power, such person shall cease to be a citizen of the United States, and shall be incapable of holding any office of trust or profit under them, or either of them."
Hell if Clinton can get elected with his baggage, Rudy should have no problems.
aha.."maskirova".....
His knighthood was honorary.
Should have said, "If McCain loses FR also will get $50.)
:>)
I doubt that the "secret" report will tell Giuliani's opponents anything they couldn't have figured out on their own.
Yes it was. That is cover in post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1761275/posts?page=10#10
Except that Republican voters are more discerning than Dumbocrats who don't care how sullied their politicos are.
Tom Tancredo '08
Same reason that rich recipients of Bush's income tax reductions, corporate welfare, corporate welfare, and no-bid contracts support the Republican Party. Welfare received by the Republicans actually far exceeds welfare for poor Americans both on a totally dollar basis and on a per capita basis.
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