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Senior Giuliani Campaign Staffers Forego Paychecks
1010wins ^ | Friday, 11 January 2008 10:20AM

Posted on 01/11/2008 8:11:00 AM PST by Calpernia

About a dozen senior campaign staffers for Rudy Giuliani are foregoing their January paychecks, aides said Friday, a sign of possible money trouble for the Republican presidential candidate.

"We have enough money, but we could always use more money,'' contended Mike DuHaime, Giuliani's campaign manager and one of those who now is working for free. "We want to make sure we have enough to win.''

At the end of December, he said the campaign had $11.5 million cash on hand, $7 million of which can be used for the primary. He disputed the notion of a cash-strapped campaign, and said Giuliani continues to bring in cash; several fundraisers are scheduled this week in Florida.

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TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: autocrat; giuliani; giulianitruthfile; gungrabber; lightpollution; rinorudy; rudy; rudygiuliani; sickofrudy
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1 posted on 01/11/2008 8:11:00 AM PST by Calpernia
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To: davidosborne; airborne; Antoninus; GulfBreeze; processing please hold; RasterMaster; ...

ping


2 posted on 01/11/2008 8:11:31 AM PST by Calpernia (Hunters Rangers - Raising the Bar of Integrity http://www.barofintegrity.us)
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To: Calpernia

No matter whose campaign it is, it’s never an encouraging sign when campaign staffers start working for free.


3 posted on 01/11/2008 8:13:10 AM PST by MplsSteve
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To: Calpernia

“Its all about money. Rudy is the only candidate who can raise $100 million dollars. He is the only one who can get elected.” - often repeated quote from hundreds of Giuliani supporters last year


4 posted on 01/11/2008 8:17:41 AM PST by FreeInWV
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To: Calpernia

Follow the money.

Is there a new Mistress anywhereabouts?


5 posted on 01/11/2008 8:20:00 AM PST by azhenfud (The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.)
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To: Calpernia

Staffers working for free are saying they don’t have money troubles? They have mortgages and car payments. They aren’t doing this because the money situation is ok.


6 posted on 01/11/2008 8:20:05 AM PST by Greg F (Duncan Hunter is a good man.)
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To: FreeInWV

Heh. That picture of Rudy in drag killed him with potential online supporters for sure.


7 posted on 01/11/2008 8:20:52 AM PST by Greg F (Duncan Hunter is a good man.)
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To: Calpernia

Dear Stafffers : you are freaking STUPID.


8 posted on 01/11/2008 8:22:42 AM PST by Centurion2000 (It's only arrogance if you can't back it up.)
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To: Centurion2000

and I have a typo ... crap ... lol


9 posted on 01/11/2008 8:23:04 AM PST by Centurion2000 (It's only arrogance if you can't back it up.)
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To: Calpernia

Rudy’s probably got more money than all of the combined. If the campaign $ isn’t there, can’t he pay them himself? Not a rhetorical question; I really don’t know.


10 posted on 01/11/2008 8:24:21 AM PST by Joann37
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To: Calpernia
He disputed the notion of a cash-strapped campaign, and said Giuliani continues to bring in cash...

You bet he does...

11 posted on 01/11/2008 8:25:45 AM PST by Condor51 (I wouldn't vote for Rooty under any circumstance -- even if Waterboarded!)
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To: Calpernia

..maybe Rudy can raffle off some of his dresses on E-Bay...


12 posted on 01/11/2008 8:31:39 AM PST by WalterSkinner ( In Memory of My Father--WWII Vet and Patriot 1926-2007)
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To: Calpernia

But...but...julieann was the only one who could beat the hildabeast. lololololol


13 posted on 01/11/2008 8:32:27 AM PST by processing please hold (Duncan Hunter '08) (ROP and Open Borders-a terrorist marriage and hell's coming with them)
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To: MplsSteve

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No matter whose campaign it is, it’s never an encouraging sign when campaign staffers start working for free.
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I took some time and looked back in the 3rd quarter 2007 filings at the internals of the campaign finance filings.

Salary expenditures for Q3 as of Sept 30 showed McCain paying people 910K, though his previous report was much higher and showed he paid salaries for all of 2007 to date at that time about $4 million. That was the time period when he shut down everything after Comprehensive Immigration Reform, if you recall.

Romney paid salaries of $2 million in Q3. About the same amount for Guilliani. Hillary and Obama, about double that each.

So given that the estimate is 750 million dollars must be spent by the final two going all the way to November, and top end quarterly salaries of $2-4 million, it does not seem to make sense for people to take pay cuts other than for symbolism. $2 million per quarter is nothing as a percentage of the total. One wonders if the symbolism of sacrifice to the lower staff workers is undone by the appearance of fund raising problems.

The big expenses are media buys and to a lesser extent consultants (pollsters). Travel is also only $1-2 million per quarter for a top tier campaign.

The lower tiers, of course, can spend less because 1) they don’t compete everywhere and 2) they are lower tier.


14 posted on 01/11/2008 8:32:50 AM PST by Owen
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To: WalterSkinner
Which outfit would you bid on?


15 posted on 01/11/2008 8:35:27 AM PST by Calpernia (Hunters Rangers - Raising the Bar of Integrity http://www.barofintegrity.us)
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To: Calpernia

hehehehe


16 posted on 01/11/2008 8:38:00 AM PST by pissant (Duncan Hunter: Warrior, Statesman, Conservative)
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To: azhenfud

LOL, it doesn’t have to be a mistress, Judi is quite capable of running through all the money herself.


17 posted on 01/11/2008 8:38:38 AM PST by Andy'smom
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To: Calpernia
Senior staffers = people hoping to get jobs in the Giuliani administration and big lobbying jobs a couple of years later.

Excuse me while I don't shed any tears. This is just like an entrepreneur forgoing paychecks from his business in expectation of making many times that later.

18 posted on 01/11/2008 8:38:40 AM PST by KarlInOhio (Rattenschadenfreude: joy at a Democrat's pain, especially Hillary's pain caused by Obama.)
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To: Calpernia

To be fair, Rudy did have one real thing working for him. He was a hard nosed bastard who turned New York City around, from a cess pit that people were fearful to visit to a prosperous tourist mecca. He was never nice, but he was effective.

But he also has many things working against him, as we all know. And in the end they far outway his unpleasant but effective competence. I’m willing to give him his due, while saying that I still wouldn’t touch him with a ten foot pole because of his abominable positions on abortion, gay rights, illegal immigration, and gun control.

For all those reasons, there is no way on earth that he could win the election, and the money people who supported him were delusional to think he could.


19 posted on 01/11/2008 8:42:11 AM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: WalterSkinner
I guess Trump prefers the purple one.


20 posted on 01/11/2008 8:44:03 AM PST by Calpernia (Hunters Rangers - Raising the Bar of Integrity http://www.barofintegrity.us)
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