She does more than smile for him - Rudy Giuliani paid Judith Nathan $125,000 a year for speechwriting.
Posted on 05/19/2007 1:55:35 AM PDT by Liz
She does more than smile for him - Rudy Giuliani paid Judith Nathan $125,000 a year for speechwriting.
Being Mrs. Rudy Giuliani can't be easy, but at least it pays well - about $10,000 a month. A day after the former mayor disclosed in federal filings that he considers his third wife, Judith, a salaried employee, sources said he has paid her about $125,000 a year for speechwriting help - since before they were married. The tidy sums, which the couple have always reported as income on their joint tax returns, was for speech-writing help and the many days Judith spent traveling with her husband to paid engagements around the globe. "Mrs. Giuliani made a professional contribution and the mayor recognizes and respects her efforts," one aide said. "He is merely acknowledging both her time commitment and her professional value."
Rudy Giuliani's haul for the 126 speeches he gave from January 2006 to March 2007 was $11.4 million, records filed this week show, which means he kicked back something less than 2% to his wife over that period. But with Giuliani running hard for the Republican presidential nomination, he has stopped accepting money for his talks - and Judith is no longer getting a paycheck, aides said. They added, however, that Judith had been getting paid for her time and expertise since shortly before the couple wed in 2003, when Giuliani hit the lecture circuit in earnest. "It's an arrangement that started before they were married," said one insider. "And he pays taxes on it."
That Judith has long been a member of her husband's traveling entourage is no secret. She can often be seen glued to his side, and the former mayor's standard contract with the Washington Speakers Bureau stated explicitly that Judith "must be seated directly next to" her husband if she is present. Aides said that was so Judith - a former sales executive at Bristol-Myers Squibb and former managing director at Changing Our World Inc., a for-profit consulting firm - could give her husband pointers. There is no suggestion of any illegality in the arrangement, but the idea of a husband paying his wife for services that many political spouses would take for granted is sure to raise some eyebrows.
"It just looks odd," said Republican strategist Nelson Warfield, a regular Giuliani critic. "Most spouses view supporting their significant others as part of the package, not part of the compensation package." "Some people will joke and ask, 'Is it a straight salary or is there a performance bonus?'" added Warfield.
Beyond that, it is likely to feed perceptions that Giuliani's private life - as his own mayoral campaign called it in an internal 1993 memo - contains a certain "weirdness factor." That now includes a first marriage to his second cousin, a very public split with his second wife, and two children ages 17 and 21 who are said to be estranged from him. "Maybe this will help this marriage last, since he's made it a job as well as a position in life," said University of Virginia political scientist Larry Sabato. "Maybe he's found a new approach."
Has there ever been a more well-rounded candidate's wife than Judy Giuliani? Judy's credentials include speech-writer, pharmaceutical employee, biological and chemical expert for the WOT, germ-warfare adviser, anthrax, smallpox, chemical agents expert, puppy stapler, adulteress, mistress, with 3 husbands, (includes the one she forgot), one abandoned daughter (to settle her divorce to be with then-married Rudy).Golly, no wonder Rudy told 20/20's Barbara Walters he wants Judy in his Cabinet.
Can Bill Clinton top that? No way----well, except that Bill's and Judy's sexual credentials seem about equal. The ability to give/get sexual nirvana is considered a political credential....now that we've "moved past" Happy Days and Father Knows Best. /sarc
BACKSTORY 'CHEMICAL JUDI' A BOOST TO RUDY
By SUSAN EDELMAN, NY POST
April 29, 2007 -- Rudy Giuliani consulted his wife Judith on bioterrorism after 9/11, and considered her "an expert we rely on" at his high-powered consulting firm, he has revealed. Referring to his Manhattan-based business, Giuliani Partners, the ex-mayor spoke about her role in a 2003 interview, with his bride at his side: "She gives us a lot of advice and a lot of help in areas where she's got a lot of expertise - biological and chemical," the ex-mayor said in a taping never aired in the United States. "And since we do security work, that's an area of great concern - you know, another anthrax attack, a smallpox attack, chemical agents. She knows all of that." Giuliani made the comments to worldwide syndicated interviewer Daphne Barak in footage seen by The Post. Last week, Giuliani, the GOP presidential front-runner, touted himself as the candidate most likely to protect the country against terrorism. The Democrats, he argued, would make the nation more vulnerable to attack. Giuliani said his wife "worked in the pharmaceutical industry for years. So, she's an expert that we rely on," he said. http://www.nypost.com/seven/04292007/news/nationalnews/chemical_judi_a_boost_to_rudy_nationalnews_susan_edelman.htm
Judith Nathan gets $125,000 a year for "speechwriting".......and to give Rudy "pointers."
I wonder how many pointers Rudy's gotten from Judy in the last few years?
Judy is a nurse = Judy is a ‘biological/chemical warfare expert’
Kid delivering papers = ‘Expert’ on news, publication, and distribution.
Wonder how much that boob job cost?
Just sayin’...
Hard to say, since the boob was payin’ for it.
I talked with the mayor of Tampa about the potential use of mosquito spraying trucks to distribute biological agents.
I never got $125,000. Didn’t get squat! But then again, I wasn’t sleeping with him.
Good morning...FYI..it’s also financially VERY stupid..see..Rudy’s already maxed out on his FICA base level..so by paying Judy the $125 k...then SHE has to pay about $7k in FICA, as does the employer..the matching part..ergo..about $15 k pissed out the window..
He apparently doesn’t care. If he did, he’d be pushing the FairTax in the debates.
By the way, that version of the Lord’s Prayer on your FR page is positively brilliant. Thanks for that. ;)
She needs to take a cue from Jackie-O and wear sunglasses. Those eyes are scaring me.
You’re welcome! :)
“I wonder how many pointers Judy has given Rudy in last couple years?”
I’m guessing with Rudy’s cross-dressing behavior the following pointers would apply:
1. Makeup application
2. Hair extentions
3. Boob-job
4. Oral Sex techniques
I would think most folks in any candidate’s entourage are getting paid for their time and support, what ever their area of expertise is. From the person who books hotels to the general go-fers who gets sandwiches and the ones do security and the traveling office staffers. When a professional woman (or a man) joins their spouse on the campaign trail, putting their own career and business life on hold, why shouldn’t they be compensated?
He says she is actively doing research and assisting him. This on top of the window dressing role that any political spouse plays.
I see nothing unusual or “off” about a political spouse drawing a salary if they are fulfilling a role in the campaign.
I’ll bet most are drawing some sort of stipend, whether they are declaring it on their taxes or not. Think cell phones, wardrobe, personal grooming (hair styling, makeup, child care, etc).
Many political spouses are savvy, astute, educated, well-spoken and important to their spouse’s campaign. Many were professionals and can certainly fill in for staff. Don’t you think many candidate spouses and older children are on the campaign payroll?
Why the attack directed at this candidate’s wife.
This tabloid stuff is very amusing. I assume you ignore the relevant campaign issues because you’re a Romney supporter—Mr. Bain consultant/special interests, with his focus group campaigning, media ass-kissing, record of tax increases, and incompetence on immigration. Gingrich was 100% right, with these plastic candidates like Romney.
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“We have shrunk our political process to this pathetic dance in which people spend an entire year raising money in order to offer non-answers, so they can memorize what their consultants and focus groups said would work,” Gingrich said in a speech to the Raleigh-based John Locke Foundation, a conservative think tank.
“This idea of demeaning the presidency by reducing it to being a game show contest ... is wrong for America, and I would never participate in it,” he said.
“There’s a tremendous vacuum of leadership willing to stand up and talk to the country in clear ways about what we have to get done to create a generation of opportunity and what we have to do to avoid a generation for bureaucracy and problems,” Gingrich said.
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Uhh, you aren't talking about the present mayor of Tampa, Florida are you?
Thanks for bringsome logic and reason to this post.
Everyone has paid staff and paid advisor's.
I'm sure Bill Clinton paid his bimbos, too.
"Here's two ways I gor a married Mayor to dump his wife and kids for me."
She is an expert on torturing puppies and being a paid mistress( whore), I can see how Rooty would value that.
Just like his excellent judgment in hiring Bernie Kerik, this proves his executive experience is “unusual” in the field of candidates.
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