Posted on 04/02/2007 12:01:50 AM PDT by FairOpinion
Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who is leading in national polls of the Republican presidential field, is picking up support in North Carolina. Giuliani will be the guest at a fundraiser on April 25 in Greensboro at the home of Dr. Aldona Wos, the former U.S. ambassador to Estonia, and her husband, Louis DeJoy.
Jim Culbertson, a Winston-Salem businessman who headed the two state campaigns for George W. Bush, will chair Giuliani's North Carolina campaign. DeJoy will be a co-chairman.
"We were pretty much blown away by him," Culbertson said.
Culbertson said Giuliani could help Republicans win in Democratic-leaning areas.
"All we need is New Jersey and Pennsylvania and we have the next election," Culbertson said.
"He is basically conservative, outside the social issues."
Two days after his Greensboro fundraiser, Giuliani will be back in North Carolina to kick off the Conservative Leadership Conference, which will be April 27-28 at the Sheraton Raleigh Capital Center.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsobserver.com ...
New York City's budget fortunes keep getting better. Barely a month after Mayor Rudolph Giuliani announced that the city would end this year with a $1.2 billion surplus, it now looks as if the number could rise to $1.5 billion or higher...The city's problem of how to deal with the surplus is certainly a welcome development.
-- Cashing In the City's Surplus, March 3, 1998, The New York Times
That’s from 1998. He had nearly 4 years left after that point. And I already posted how his reign ended.
Looks like his big spending ways took over when he smelled the money coming in.
Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani today outlined his Financial Plan for Fiscal Years (FY) 2000-2004. The Plan reflects the Administration's continued fiscal priorities of cutting taxes to stimulate continued record job growth and economic development; increasing spending in targeted areas, reducing City funded spending year-to-year by 1%, while maintaining overall City spending to less than the rate of inflation; and reducing the out-year gaps.
The Plan reflects the Administration's success in reducing taxes by $2.3 billion since 1994 -- more than any administration in the history of the City. Combined with the more than $2 billion in proposed tax cuts, this Plan will bring the total value of the Mayor's tax reduction program to $4.5 billion annually by 2004. The Plan projects a surplus for FY2000 of $2.2 billion, the largest surplus in the City's history. This is the fourth year in a row that the New York City four-year Financial Plan contains a surplus of more than $1 billion.
http://www.nyc.gov/html/om/html/2000a/pr008-00.html
And algore had a plan to reduce government waste.
Plans are one thing. Results are another.
Do you want to actually want to dispute what I posted about the way he left new york’s financial situation?
Who are you, Moses with the tablets? Of course it should be disputed, because it isn't true.
Historian Vincent J. Cannato concluded in September 2006, "With time, Giuliani's legacy will be based on more than just 9/11. He left a city immeasurably better off safer, more prosperous, more confident than the one he had inherited eight years earlier, even with the smoldering ruins of the World Trade Center at its heart. Debates about his accomplishments will continue, but the significance of his mayoralty is hard to deny."
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Rudy Giuliani: An American Hero
By John Perazzo
FrontPageMagazine.com | January 3, 2002
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=1380
so “Giuliani left his successor a projected operating deficit of $4.5 billion and New York’s citizens with the highest tax burden in any major municipality in America.” is not true?
See post 67.
Yes it is. And so is supporting the person who is the best man for the job.
Gun control is not a social issue.
These people are your typical GOP hacks. I doubt that they're really grassroots conservatives.
Not in this context, Maggie.
The fact is, is that Republicans historically receive donations from individuals
Now they're getting their dollars from elitists, just like the Dims.
But of course. But who always delivers the most money when it boils down to it (Hint: It ain't the tight-butt chaps politely conversating about politics while an illegal brings them ice tea)
Yes.
Culbertson said Giuliani could help Republicans win in Democratic-leaning areas.
“All we need is New Jersey and Pennsylvania and we have the next election,” Culbertson said.
Don’t think Pelosi isn’t worried about coattails, especially in places like NC, Kentucky, Indiana, MT etc.
But at the end of his term, they did have a large operating deficit.
Giuliani handed Bloomberg a surplus of $1 billion. Even in New York, that's real money.
More of your "diarrheac" dishonesty, this time in the form of a red herring. I never said anything about a SURPLUS, "frigging" or otherwise. I pointed out Rudy's wild spending increases; you ignored the facts and continued spewed.
Your pretense that wild increases in spending are fiscally conservative is intellectually and ethically bankrupt. Rather like Rudy's politics.
Pesky old facts.
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