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Pickens's New Commodity: Giuliani
Wall Street Journal ^ | April 18, 2007 | LAURIE P. COHEN

Posted on 04/17/2007 9:05:10 PM PDT by FairOpinion

The News: Texas billionaire T. Boone Pickens Jr. emerges as a leading fund raiser for Republican presidential hopeful Rudy Giuliani.

The Upshot: Mr. Giuliani so far has raised more money in this key state than all Democratic and Republican presidential candidates.

T. Boone Pickens Jr. has made most of his estimated $2.5 billion fortune in the oil market over the past eight years. Now, the Texan is betting big money on a bull market in another commodity: the presidential candidacy of Rudy Giuliani.

The 78-year-old hedge-fund manager and former corporate raider says he has raised more than $500,000 for Mr. Giuliani's campaign.

Mr. Pickens says he first met Mr. Giuliani at the taping of a television show in 1987. But he didn't see him again until 2001, when, as New York City's mayor, Mr. Giuliani welcomed him to his office after Mr. Pickens made a $1 million personal donation to the Twin Towers Fund that helped families of firefighters and police officers killed in the Sept. 11, 2001, World Trade Center attack.

Impressed by Mr. Giuliani's handling of the attack, Mr. Pickens says he got to know Mr. Giuliani better over dinner at the home of Mr. Bailey in April 2005. Mr. Pickens says he asked Mr. Giuliani then whether he would consider a presidential run. "He said his business was going well and he wasn't sure," Mr. Pickens recalls.

Mr. Pickens backed President Bush in the 2004 election. ... he did contribute $3 million to the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth and its controversial advertising campaign attacking the Vietnam War record of Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry, the Democratic nominee.

"Stylistically, Texans like the Giuliani swagger," says Republican political consultant Roger Stone. "He's a tough guy, and Texans like tough guys."

(Excerpt) Read more at online.wsj.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Extended News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: electionpresident; giuliani; pickens; rudy; tboonepickens; tboonpickens; texas
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To: neverhillorat

And they suck.....


61 posted on 04/17/2007 10:52:18 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker ( Hunter/Thompson/Thompson/Hunter in 08! Or Rudy/Hillary if you want to murder conservatism)
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To: narses

I hear he’s going to let us keep our guns if we promise to use them only for abortions.


62 posted on 04/17/2007 10:52:46 PM PDT by conserv8ive1
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To: neverhillorat

Doing what we have been doing hasn’t done a whole lot either.
I’ll vote my conscience, and it won’t be for Rudy.


63 posted on 04/17/2007 10:54:14 PM PDT by conserv8ive1
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To: conserv8ive1

Of course.


64 posted on 04/17/2007 10:55:24 PM PDT by narses ("Freedom is about authority." - Rudolph Giuliani)
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To: narses
Unless you told us in your post when it was done, most would not check the link or the link and would think that Rudy was referring to the Virginia Tech shooting and YOU wanted that! That trick has been all over Free Republic since the shooting by the way.
65 posted on 04/17/2007 10:57:26 PM PDT by neverhillorat (HILLORAT WINS, WE ALL LOSE)
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To: stephenjohnbanker

WHO ?


66 posted on 04/17/2007 10:58:31 PM PDT by neverhillorat (HILLORAT WINS, WE ALL LOSE)
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To: conserv8ive1; narses
Well, come Nov `08, are you going to put Hillorat in charge of our troops, our economy, our taxes, and our values or vote for Rudy? Won`t be easy, but, that just might be the choice.
67 posted on 04/17/2007 11:03:56 PM PDT by neverhillorat (HILLORAT WINS, WE ALL LOSE)
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To: neverhillorat

Forbes, and T Bone(rape your pension fund)


68 posted on 04/17/2007 11:04:21 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker ( Hunter/Thompson/Thompson/Hunter in 08! Or Rudy/Hillary if you want to murder conservatism)
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To: neverhillorat

I will NOT vote for Rudy PERIOD.

Right now the Republican Slogan ought to be “Vote for us, we don’t suck quite as bad”.

It’s not my fault we have RINOS all over the Party, it’s the idiots who put them there.


69 posted on 04/17/2007 11:08:35 PM PDT by conserv8ive1
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To: neverhillorat

As a PS, I would rather be inclined to vote FOR something not against something.

A vote for Rudy would just be a vote against Hillary for me...and a vote against my convictions.

Lots of R’s have weak spines and haven’t fought the good fight. They put up moderates/centrists because they were afraid the almighty Party would lose. We got ‘Rat Lite.
I used to feel the same way, I really did. After watching 10 years of a weak R majority and then total control (allegedly) I won’t do it again.

The Party can run Conservatives or they can enjoy another 40 years in the Desert.


70 posted on 04/17/2007 11:16:24 PM PDT by conserv8ive1
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To: conserv8ive1

So, bottom line, if it`s Rudy vs Hillorat in Nov `08, Rudy isn`t getting your vote. And you think that there would be no price FOR THE COUNTRY to have to pay? Taxes, judges, a strong foreign policy, tough laws on crime, doesn`t matter to you. More gun control, repeal of the Hyde amendment, reinstatement of the death tax, huge cuts in the military, and the end of the War on terrorists, who cares, you are interested in teaching lessons. Did I get all of that right? Cause that`s what is going to happen if we lose. What I can`t understand is that you seem to want that.


71 posted on 04/17/2007 11:36:11 PM PDT by neverhillorat (HILLORAT WINS, WE ALL LOSE)
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To: FairOpinion
you can be very proud of chasing everyone away from FR

Sounds like a good idea. With all due respect, you go first.
72 posted on 04/17/2007 11:37:25 PM PDT by gpapa
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To: stephenjohnbanker

Which pension funds did they rape?


73 posted on 04/17/2007 11:37:42 PM PDT by neverhillorat (HILLORAT WINS, WE ALL LOSE)
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To: FairOpinion
That was just wrong, and you know it. Why didn't you ping the one who wrote it? I thought so.

:O)

P
76 posted on 04/17/2007 11:56:53 PM PDT by papasmurf (Name me one nation that taxed itself into prosperity. Run, FRED, run!)
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To: narses
FO says I am “chasing everyone away from FR"

BULLSCHNIT!

You did good! I thank you and real Conservatives thank you.

:O)

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78 posted on 04/17/2007 11:59:59 PM PDT by papasmurf (Name me one nation that taxed itself into prosperity. Run, FRED, run!)
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To: narses

How do we know it’s not him who’s chasing away traffic from FR? Him who smelt it, dealt it.


79 posted on 04/18/2007 12:05:55 AM PDT by Kitten Festival
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To: conserv8ive1
As a PS, I would rather be inclined to vote FOR something not against something.

I've done that before, and it leaves a bad taste in your mouth for years and years.

:O)

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80 posted on 04/18/2007 12:06:40 AM PDT by papasmurf (Name me one nation that taxed itself into prosperity. Run, FRED, run!)
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