RUDY'S FIRM IN DECLINE; LOSING JOBS, CLIENTS (all downhill after failed prez bid)

NY POST ^ | 4/4/09 | MAGGIE HABERMAN and DAVID SE

[Liz]

......... as the ex-mayor tells Republicans he's mulling a run for NY governor...... his company Giuliani Partners is under discussion in political circles......his business dealings was fodder for opposition research during his failed 2008 run. Giuliani's once-thriving consulting firm is on the ropes, heavily pared down after his aborted campaign........client list has thinned...partners have left, staffers let go. Giuliani is there infrequently, working the speaker's circuit and making international trips...spending much of his time at Bracewell and Giuliani law firm. Giuliani Partners claims it has fewer but higher-priced clients----in India, Japan and Qatar----and that the security and safety division has grown. They declined to name clients.....Giuliani built a major international brand post-911....but his costly presidential run flamed out and the firm is down to about 30 employees from 60 two years ago.............

[Liz]

Meet Global Rudy. Here's The Rudester's global connections (that we know of):

(1) Giuliani Capital Advisors, LLC (AKA Giuliani Partners LLC),

(2) Giuliani Group,

(3) Giuliani-Kerik (re-named Giuliani Security and Safety, after the departure of the tainted ex-Police Commissioner),

(4) Giuliani-Van Essen,

(5) Bracewell & Giuliani LLP law firm (based in Texas with global interests),

(6) Bracewell & Giuliani has two offices in Kazakhstan (a former Soviet state in Central Asia), and,

(7) Giuliani Security & Safety, Asia

Bracewell & Giuliani's Almaty, Kazakhstan (in Central Asia) January closings totalled $1.625 Billion---they have two offices there).

Bracewell & Giuliani's Cintra Concesiones de Infraestructuras de Transporte, S.A., a Spanish transportation company (lobbied for Privatization of Toll Road in Texas)

Bracewell & Giuliani's Banco Santander Central Hispano, S.A. (SAN.MC, STD.N) (a bank that traded with a blacklisted Iranian Bank)

Bracewell & Giuliani's company tied to Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chávez, who has called President Bush "the devil." Bracewell & Giuliani lobbies on behalf of Texas-based Citgo Petroleum, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Venezuelan oil company controlled by Chávez.

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Bracewell & Giuliani Firm Advises Cintra in First Privatization of Toll Road in Texas

DALLAS (March 1, 2007) Bracewell & Giuliani LLP (Texas-based law firm with global connections) advised Cintra Concesiones de Infraestructuras de Transporte, S.A., a Spanish transportation company, in its successful bid to develop State Highway 121 into a toll road through Collin and Denton counties.

The award to Cintra, approved by the Texas Transportation Commission, is the first privatization of a Texas toll road. Bracewell is acting as project counsel to Cintra with respect to the 50-year concession from the Texas Department of Transportation. Cintra will pay a $2.1 billion upfront and annual lease payments totaling $700 million. "Cintra was awarded this project because of its proven expertise and competitive proposal," said Thomas O. Moore, partner with Bracewell & Giuliani. "This is the largest transportation deal of 2007. This is one of only five deals in the country." SOURCE http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1803916/posts

TEXAS GOV PERRY COLLABORATED WITH GIULIANI TO UNDERMINE US NATIONAL SECURITY

Here's Giuliani and Perry's idea of "border security."
Perry collaborated with Giuliani used eminent domain to take US properties from taxpayers and gave them to foreign entities.

NASCO TEXAS-CANADA-MEXICO TRADE CORRIDOR BROKERED BY Bracewell & Giuliani

DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY MAP----TERRORIST ENTRY POINTS

GIULIANI BANDWAGON BRANCHES OUT TO ISRAEL
By MAGGIE HABERMAN, NY Post, April 21, 2007

EXCERPT A group of Israelis has launched a grass-roots effort to get people living in the Jewish state who are eligible to vote in the United States to line up behind Rudy Giuliani, it was reported yesterday.

The group, Giuliani Supporters in Israel, was launched by Mordechai Twersky, a onetime candidate for state Assembly in The Bronx in the early 1990s, according the Jerusalem Post. Twersky has established a Web site, giulianisupportersinisrael.org, with background information including Giuliani's famed eviction of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat from a Lincoln Center concert in 1995. "I did this as a private personal initiative, as a proud American and Israeli citizen, and I am confident that it will catch on," Twersky told the paper.

He said the campaign hadn't set up his group, but that he's been in contact with Team Giuliani since he got started. Giuliani has historically been popular with Jewish voters, and took a hard pro-Israel line when he was in office. Giuliani's campaign didn't return The Post's calls for comment. In some past elections, planeloads of Israelis with American citizenship have flown to the United States to vote.

http://www.nypost.com/seven/04212007/news/nationalnews/giuliani_bandwagon_branches_out_to_israel_nationalnews_maggie_haberman.htm

[PetroniusMaximus]

Well, he can always go back to Drag.

[EnquiringMind]

Rudy in drag would have been a hell of a lot better than what we got now........

[Vaquero]

I would never vote for him in a presidential primary, but if this man were president today....

.....it would be a much better America. We have now the worst possible president since the begining of the Republic.

[Jim Noble]

Liz, your contempt for my boy Rudy is certainly something to behold.

With all due respect, we would be much, much better off if he had been the candidate and beaten Obama, and I bet even you know it.

[StatenIsland]

You’re right. Rudy would have beaten Obama, or at least given him a much better run.

I hope he does run for Governor - I’d work for him. This state needs a tough guy like him (save your drag jokes for someone who cares) and he would lead a resurgence of the Republican Party here.

[nomoremods]

I haven’t read the article, but Rudy will be fine. He’ll run for Gov. of N.Y. and beat Paterson hands down. In fact, I’m sure that’s why this article is coming out now; to begin the smears in fear that he’s gearing up to run for Governor.

[GVnana]

You really think Rudy can beat Patterson? I hope so.

[nomoremods]

I saw a poll over at The Hedgehog Report this week and it showed Rudy leading by a comfortable margin. Paterson is in serious trouble, regardless of his opponent.

[Liz]

Well, he can always go back to Drag........

Auditioning for Dancing With The Stars is also an option.

Giuliani at Gracie Mansion in 1997 with his friend Howard Koeppel, one of the
openly gay couple Giuliani lived with during the unraveling of his second marriage.

Giuliani was seen as more "likable" than Clinton...and looked better in heels.
But those calves of his could use some lipo for the latin numbers.

[Liz]

Amazing that reporting truth is construed as “contempt.”

It’s too bad you are still in the dark about the purpose of posting news stories and comments on this site........

[TheFourthMagi]

Giuliani is a social liberal. He is bad for the Republican Party and never merited being the nominee for the Presidency.

[TheFourthMagi]

Giuliani could not have won the Presidency.

His positions are extremely unpopular.

[rbg81]

Rudy is a great speaker, but he ran one of the worst primary campaigns I’ve ever seen. Someone talked him into a national strategy when he should have focused on the early states. If he had somehow gotten the nomination, I think he would have made a much better national candidate.

I think almost anyone would have made a better opponent for Obama than McCain. The MSM manuevered the GOP into picking McCain like a matador manipulating a bull. They knew he would never win and they were all too right. The only one worse than McCain would have been Fred Thompson—a tired old man who wanted the nomination handed to him by decree. Sorry all you Thompson lovers, but he clearly had no fire in the belly for a campaign.

[Jim Noble]

Giuliani is a social liberal

What's Obama?

[TheFourthMagi]

Giuliani and Obama are birds of a feather.

And thus both unworthy of the Presidency.

[Mr. Jeeves]

Giuliani and Obama are birds of a feather.

I don't know how long it's going to take for FReepers to stop splitting hairs about the nuances in the positions of Bush, McCain, Romney, Giuliani, Clinton, Obama, and other senior politicians and start realizing they all belong to the same loose coalition of statists - the Federal Government Party. The Founding Fathers would have clearly identified the whole lot of them as Tory sympathizers, men devoid of the animating spirit of liberty.

But people enjoy the "Republican vs. Democrat" puppet show too much to give it up.

[restornu]

I agree Rudy should not be president because of certain views he has on abortion and gays etc.

But he is a great talent and was a great Mayor!

I think he would make a excellent Governor!

Before Rudy NYC was street filthy and full of panhandlers, and drugs sales and drive by shootings.

I would come home at night having to walk through a parade of drug pushers even in front of my apt build which was a lovely building

When Rudy became Mayor it was a delight to walk down the street and to go to public places for it was very clean and the panhandlers were gone and so much more that he had inproved!

[calcowgirl]

Giuliani Partners claims it has fewer but higher-priced clients----in India, Japan and Qatar...

... with vast financial operations in Anguilla, Bermuda, the British Virgin Islands, the Cayman
Islands, Gibraltar, Montserrat, Turks and Caicos, Isle of Man, Jersey, and Guernsey.
;-) Just kidding, but you get the idea.

[Liz]

Heh-—he sure knows how to pick them banking havens.