RUDY'S GOT NO HEARTLAND; BOTTOM OF PACK IN HAWKEYE STATE (RINO flops in conservative country)

NY POST ^ | December 31, 2007 | CARL CAMPANILE and GEOFF EARLE

[Liz]

WEST DES MOINES, Iowa - Giuliani's support here has plummeted into single digits....according to new surveys released yesterday. A Reuters poll shows the ex-mayor capturing just 8% of the vote - tied for fourth place with Thompson and Ron Paul. An MSNBC poll shows Giuliani tied with Paul for fifth place with a measly 5% of the vote - near the bottom of the pack. "Where has he been? He stopped showing up," said conservative activist Jamie Johnson, who runs a radio station. Giuliani did not air a single TV ad in Iowa, and his 15 trips here were far fewer than front-runners Romney and Huckabee.

[calcowgirl]

Carlos Slim and Giuliani were also hooked up in Worldcom in late 2002, both buying up distressed debt and trying to take control of the reorganization. Matlin wanted Rudy as Chairman.

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New York Post. Nov 19, 2002

Giuliani was brought into the huge bankruptcy by a $2.2 billion, bottom-fishing fund led by former Credit Suisse First Boston managing director David Matlin.

Matlin and his partners bought up at least $300 million of the distressed bonds of WorldCom for pennies in hopes of calling the shots on reorganizing the company.

Matlin’s distressed-company fund has teamed up with one of Giuliani’s funds to buy up to one-third of the distressed WorldCom debt.

If they get as much as one-third of the bonds, Matlin can ask the court to appoint Giuliani chairman of WorldCom board, letting him in turn name the other board members and take control of reorganization of the firm.

Several rich investors are said to be in the fund, including telecom billionaire Carlos Slim, Latin America’s wealthiest man, who bought about $200 million in WorldCom bonds through his Mexican brokerage, Grupo Financiero Inbursa SA.

[Liz]

“The Bernard Kerik Legal Defense Trust”-——designed to attract every suckup looking for political favors.

Looks like Kerik and Rudy are still thick as thieves.

Kerik is depending on Rudy to deliver the political favors to his contributors.

[calcowgirl]

Kerik.... Trust

Oxymoron. ;-)

[Calpernia]

I find it amazing that Rudy has been surrounded by organized crime his whole life and never seems to recognize it.

[calcowgirl]

"I find it amazing that Rudy has been surrounded by organized crime his whole life and never seems to recognize acknowledge it."

Fixed it. ;-)

[Liz]

I find it amazing that Rudy has been surrounded by organized crime his whole life and never seems to recognize it.

LOL---and he gets paid big bucks as a "security expert."

He also "claimed he did not know" about Kerik when he pushed him for Homeland/Secy---even though part of Rooty's security business is vetting people.

[Liz]

Great find-—thanks.

[calcowgirl]

I just realized that the Worldcom thing was reported one month before the $4.3 million Giuliani/Mexico City “consulting” contract.
Coincidence?

[Liz]

Bernard Kerik’s Unusual Philanthropic Management Practices

By Rick Cohen, Aug 23, 2006

EXCERPT Behind the ongoing professional disintegration of Bernard Kerik, is a tax exempt foundation that serves as the venue for the current investigations, earning Kerik, the former NYPD Commissioner unwanted headlines.

When Kerik was appointed by Rudy Giuliani as commissioner of the City’s Department of Correction and later as Police Commissioner, Kerik also ran the tax-exempt New York City Correction Foundation, serving as President. During Kerik’s watch, the sole authorized signatory for the Foundation, one Frederick Patrick, looted the foundation of $137,000 (the amount authroities were able to get him to cop to).

A rising star in the City’s law enforcement bureaucracy, Patrick was at one point also Commissioner for Juvenile Justice and the Police Department’s Deputy Commissioner for Community Affairs. According to prosecutors, the thieving Patrick used part of his rax-exempt swag for phone sex with Riker’s Island jail inmates.

Kerik was shocked, shocked! that such things would be happening to the Foundation during his watch.

Oops, but there was more, reports of another bit of money missing from the Foundation, maybe $800,000, perhaps as much as a cool million. One source of Foundation money was from rebates on overpriced cigarettes sold to jail inmates (the New York City Correction Foundation was not much focused on inmates’ health and longevity).

The mission seems to have been spent on something, but it isn’t clear exactly what. Foundation spokespersons (presumably no longer Patrick who went to jail in 2004 and got out in July of 2005) said it paid for holiday parties for inmates and “promotional videos”, though evidence, records, and receipts for the expenditures seem to be difficult if not impossible to locate. Promotional videos for the jails? Come again?

Apparently, according to Newsday’s Ellis Henican, one foundation board member quit when the treasurer, the aforementioned Patrick, refused to produce financial reports.

Not Kerik, who blissfully floated abve the scandal in his foundation.

When challenged about his protege Patrick’s dipping into the foundation kitty, Kerik reportedly claimed this defense: Why should the president of a charitable foundation know what’s going on in the place?

In his autobiography, Kerik compared himself to his rigorously ethical Police Commissioner predecessor, Teddy Roosevelt. Pardon us, but without even standing Roosevelt up next to Kerik’s other personal and professional peccadillos, there’s no way that TR would have countenanced the lackadaisical, slipshod purported philanthropic operations of Kerik’s New York City Correction Foundation.

As the press plumbs the nooks and crannies of Kerik’s NYPD track record, other items related to charity and philanthropy have emerged:

reports of using $3,000 in Police Foundation funds to manufacture 30 busts of the then NYPD commissioner to be handed out as mementos;

reports of a questionable law enforcement support group, the Federal Law Enforcement Foundation, headed by a Milstein Properties bigwig, providing top floor Battery Park City apartments for Kerik and his chief of staff;

reports of his being extra nice to publisher Judith Regan in return for her nearly $500,000 contribution to the New York Police and Fire Widows and Orphans Fund.

[Liz]

.....the Worldcom thing was reported one month before the $4.3 million Giuliani/Mexico City “consulting” contract. Coincidence?.........

Rudy "did not know." Just another one of those "coincidences." LOL.

[Liz]

Giuliani Pays Respects, Talks Business Friday, September 10, 2004. Page 5.

Former New York mayor Rudolph Giuliani arrived in Moscow this week to foster business ties between Russia and the United States and express his sympathy for a country reeling from a deadly series of terrorist attacks, a businessman traveling with him said Thursday. "We came here for a few reasons," said Irvin Katsof, founder of Global Strategic Ventures, a U.S.-Russian investment group promoting business ties between the two countries. "To show our support at this difficult time for Russia, this being the week of 9/11. And we wanted to explore business relations -- one of the things that can break through all barriers."

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December 14, 1999

FBI Tracked Alleged Russian Mob Ties of Giuliani Campaign Supporter

By Knut Royce, The Center for Public Integrity

WASHINGTON, December 14, 1999 — The Center for Public Integrity is investigating how billions of dollars of allegedly corrupted money from the former Soviet Union have found a haven in the United States, despite strict anti-laundering laws. Last month, the Center reported how a small San Francisco bank became a conduit for questionable funds as it, like many other banks around the country, aggressively pursued the cash from the former Soviet Bloc.

Today the Center reports on how political campaigns, also aggressively chasing after cash, end up with equally questionable contributions as suspected Russian organized crime figures seek to move into the U.S. political mainstream In future articles, the Center will show how the failure to sift the good money from bad is being replayed all over America.

A prominent commodities trader who acknowledges a business history with a reputed Soviet Bloc crime figure and a notorious arms dealer has been one of (then) New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani's top campaign supporters. Giuliani is expected to be the Republican candidate next year for a U.S. Senate seat from New York.

Commodities trader Semyon (Sam) Kislin and his family also lavished thousands of dollars in contributions to Democratic Sen. Charles Schumer, to the Clinton-Gore re-election campaign, to former Republican Sen. Alfonse D'Amato and to a number of state and city politicians. Kislin sits on the New York City Economic Development Board.

Denies Laundering Funds. Kislin denied that his firm had ever laundered funds. "Never, never," he said. New York FBI spokesman Joseph Valiquette, told that the Center was preparing an article about Kislin based in part on FBI documents, declined to comment. What the FBI and other law enforcement organizations knew or suspected was never shared with the public.

To his neighbors and friends, the 64-year-old Kislin, who immigrated from Odessa, Ukraine, in 1974, is an enormously successful businessman who generously shares his wealth with charitable causes. And to Giuliani, Kislin is one of his staunchest supporters. Kislin and his wife, Ludmila, gave Giuliani a total of $14,250 in direct contributions between 1994 and 1997. In addition, when Giuliani's campaign chest approached the maximum he could spend for re-election in 1997, $9.7 million, Kislin was one of several top backers of the mayor who supported the Liberal Party, which had endorsed the mayor and helped finance his campaign, according to The Village Voice. One of Kislin's companies gave $30,000 to the Liberals.

Kislin also kicked in $7,700 to Jules Polenetsky, who was running with Giuliani for the city's office of public advocate and could share political advertisement costs with the mayor. Giuliani's campaign manager had asked the mayor's major contributors to help finance Polenetsky's campaign.

Giuliani Fund-Raiser. In 1996, Kislin hosted a fund-raiser for Giuliani, a former hard-charging federal prosecutor, at the Lido Restaurant in Brooklyn. And last May 25, Kislin also was a co-chair for a Giuliani fund-raiser at the Sheraton New York Hotel and Towers. The bash raised $2.1 million for his probable run for the Senate next year.

"I did a lot of fund raising for Giuliani," Kislin acknowledged. "He's a good man, doing a good job for the city of New York." Bruce Teitelbaum, the spokesman for Giuliani's Senate campaign exploratory committee, refused through an aide to comment on Semyon Kislin's support of Giuliani. Teitelbaum refused to return calls himself. The mayor's press secretary, Sunny Mindel, said "I don't know anything about the mayor's contributors," and referred the question to Teitelbaum. The campaign did return a $2,000 check last August that it had received at the Sheraton Hotel fund-raiser from Philip Castellano, son of the late racketeer Paul Castellano, even though the younger Castellano has never been accused of a crime. Arik Kislin, Semyon's nephew, contributed $1,000 to the mayor in 1995.

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Here is a partial list of prominent politicians who have received campaign donations from Kislin and other people mentioned in police reports. Records were checked from 1994 to the most recent available.

LONG READ/GO HERE FOR LIST:

http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:hEltFDTB_aYJ:www.publicintegrity.org/report.aspx%3Faid%3D323

[Calpernia]

Now that I think of it, that was about the same time WorldCom was getting the EZPass contracts.

[upchuck]

You’re welcome Liz.

[Grunthor]

Well I may not get my Fred, but at least I’ll not be saddled with that cross dressing baby killer.

[Liz]

.....may not get my Fred but at least I’ll not be saddled with that cross dressing baby killer.....

Let's pray the baby-killing puke fades into the bgrnd never to be seen or heard from again. Now any candidate who does not put Fred in his Cabinet is missing out.

[Kevmo]

Here’s a snapshot from Intrade today. There is evidence that Hunter is gaining ground in Iowa.

For the Iowa caucus, Thompson is at the bottom of the pack, Romney has regained the lead from Huckabee. Ron Paul and Hunter are both embedded together, so there’s no way of knowing if he’s gaining ground, but on the basis of the president.field contract moving, I’d say he’s probably at ~0.3 and Ron Paul is at ~4.8, which puts Hunter ahead of Thompson.

Caucus
REP.IOWA.HUCKABEE
Mike Huckabee to Win M 45.0 46.0 45.0 1690 +5.0
REP.IOWA.ROMNEY
Mitt Romney to Win M 40.2 54.9 50.0 1960 0
REP.IOWA.THOMPSON(F)
Fred Thompson to Win M 0.1 1.4 0.1 642 -1.4
REP.IOWA.MCCAIN
John McCain to Win M 0.6 4.4 0.2 860 -2.8
REP.IOWA.GIULIANI
Rudy Giuliani to Win M - 0.1 0.1 701 0

REP.IOWA.FIELD
Field (any other individual) to Win M 4.7 5.9 4.8 1384 +1.0

2008.PRES.FIELD
Field (any other candidate) to win 2008 US Presidential Election M 0.2 0.3 0.2 14910 +0.1

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According to Intrade, the winner of the December 12th GOP debate was... Duncan Hunter.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1938773/posts

Why the smart money is on Duncan Hunter
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1926032/posts

In this poll Hunter is up 3% and even with Paul and Thompson.
http://www.wxyz.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=3481ef60-8195-46a9-af04-b87b907bcfdd

[big'ol_freeper]

I hope all the RINOs flop in Iowa...Romney, Huckabee, McCain and Rudy.




U.S. Army Retired

[Sunnyflorida]

I’m not a fan of Rudy per se. but I do not see this as analysis at all. If you look at the delegate count he looks to still be leading by a wide margin if he wins most super Tuesday states. Iowa is irrelevant. Ditto SC and NH.

The strategy seems sound to me.

[Sunnyflorida]

there is a big difference between being a fan (or hater) and an analyst. If you go state by state who do you think gathers sufficient delegates to win the nomination? what are your picks state-by-state and the grand total?

[tear gas]

Rudy is a pervert. That may not seem like a very elegant argument to a Rudy lover, but it is the reason that he is falling in the polls and the reason he will never be the Commander in Chief of this country.