U.S. Sumpreme Court Justice Samuel Alito reacts as Republican U.S. presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani passes him a plate of cookies at a National Italian American Foundation gala dinner in Washington October 13, 2007. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst (UNITED STATES)
Perry isn’t supporting Gore this time around?
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He owes his advantage in part to his role as a name partner with a powerhouse, Houston-based law firm known for its impressive roster of energy-giant clients, Bracewell & Giuliani.
His partnership in the law firm has also brought Giuliani unwelcome criticism in connection with some of the firm’s more controverisal clients, including a Spanish contractor involved in planning part of a Texas superhighway toll road known as the Trans-Texas Corridor.
Texas farmers and other landowners are worried their property rights will be trampled to make way for the highway. Conspiracy theorists see Giuliani, because of his highway connections, as allied with a cabal of international monied interests plotting to supplant the United States with a North American Union that includes Mexico and Canada.
Black, Perry’s spokesman, said he doubts Perry even knows that Giuliani’s firm has represented the transportation companies in connection with the project.
“The governor does not concern himself with who Rudy Giuliani’s law firm may or may not represent,” Black said.
http://www.corridorwatch.org/ttc_2007/CWA0709210.htm
Giuliani fancies himself as an expert on homeland security issues and a law enforcer. And he has amassed quite the portfolio since 2002, earning $20 million in that year alone, by selling himself as such. He owns Giuliani Partners, Giuliani Safety & Security and Giuliani Capital Advisors. In March 2007 he sold Giuliani Capital Advisors, a former Ernst & Young finance company he purchased in 2002, to Macquerie Infrastructure Consortium. Not coincidentally, it is a partner of Cintra’s in its shared operations of toll roads in both Indiana and Chicago, IL.
Bracewell & Giuliani represents some of the biggest multi-national oil, utility infrastructure and financial corporations both in the U.S. and abroad. With that have come the connections that Giuliani has been able to tap into for campaign donors, essential for his presidential bid, not only in Texas but nationwide, as he has become the consummate globalist. But more troubling than potential conflicts of interest as a public servant is his lack of compunction to secure U.S. borders and then planting himself squarely in the middle of one of the most controversial and historic highway system projects since the 1956 National Federal-Aid Highway Act.
Particularly unnerving, given Giuliani’s personal experience on 9-11, is his defense of open borders at any cost while condoning the NAFTA Superhighway Corridor and by extension the North American Union, without the purview or consent of the U.S. Congress or the will of the American people.
We should have seen it coming when Giuliani enacted Special Order 40 in 1994, during his tenure as Mayor of New York City, in ordering law enforcement officers to no longer check the legal status of suspects caught violating the law. We should have seen it coming when Rudolph Giuliani single-handedly decided that illegal aliens were not lawbreakers and also quit upholding the law. And unfortunately we now do see it coming. But sadly, he may now actually be handed the opportunity to no longer defend and abide by the U.S. Constitution of the United States of America.
http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/grassi/070504
I’d say Perry is making a play for a cabinet position in a Guiliani administration.
I don’t care who endorses Rudy. If he’s the nominee, I’m taking my vote elsewhere. I cannot in good conscience hold my nose and vote for this steaming pile of leftism.
Of course he's actually angling for spot on Rudy's ticket.
No, that would be Duncan Hunter. Hunter was in the in the 173rd Airborne and 75th Army Rangers. He served in Vietnam. What branch of the military did Rudy serve in? He can't even claim, as Slick Willie did, that he's got experience commanding the National Guard.
Hunter also has been on the House Armed Services Committee for all of his time Congress, serving as it's Chair from 2003 to 2007. He's now the ranking minority member.
Both Giuliani and Hunter have law degrees. But Hunter was something else before he became a lawyer and politician.