"Brilliant..... exactly as I would have done!"
(Barney Fwank)
Posted on 05/02/2007 6:44:27 AM PDT by areafiftyone
For a native New Yorker mounting a first bid for national office, Rudolph W. Giuliani has shown an impressive ability to raise money in Texas, where his Republican presidential campaign collected $2.2 million in the first quarter of the year, far more than any other candidate.
Mr. Giuliani has drawn support from Texans who were notable donors to President Bush, including a former Enron president, Richard D. Kinder, and business executives who direct many of the nation’s oil, gas and energy producers.
And a good part of this success, analysts say, stems from his affiliation with a well-established and politically connected law firm that is based in Houston and bears his name, Bracewell & Giuliani.
That affiliation adds to Mr. Giuliani’s personal wealth but also could pose political risks for him. The firm is perhaps the nation’s most aggressive lobbyist for coal-fired power plants, heavy emitters of air pollutants and carbon dioxide, a gas associated with global warming. Environmentalists say the firm played a significant role in persuading the Bush administration to roll back major provisions of the Clean Air Act.
Mr. Giuliani joined the 400-lawyer firm as a name partner two years ago, and though his legal work has been limited, his association with it has provided him entree into the wellspring of Texas money that meant so much to the Bush campaigns.
In addition to collecting $89,000 in contributions from Bracewell partners and employees, Mr. Giuliani has held a fund-raiser in Houston. The firm’s managing partner, Patrick C. Oxford, is a top-shelf Bush fund-raiser with a wealth of contacts within Republican money circles.
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Yeah. The NYT rapidly becoming the ally of every Rudy hater.
The NY Times hates Rudy - hated him when he was mayor and hates him still. They are the perfect news source for the Rudy haters. Rudy slapped their butts silly when he was mayor and he will do it again.
LOL! I think this is hilarious. They actually think this helps their candidate?
Yeah. It’s a bunch of BS. Never hear them talk about the Rose law firm, do you? Or about the ambulance chaser, John Edwards.
"Brilliant..... exactly as I would have done!"
(Barney Fwank)
The other thing, of course, is that the NYT absolutely dispises Texas and everything in it. If it had been a NY law firm, they would not have even brought up the subject.
Oh thanks alot I was eating my breakfast ya know! UGH!
Hmmmm... I wonder whether the New York Times regularly discloses to its readers that its Times Select columnist Paul Krugman is a former consultant to Enron...
Nope - it's the Wall Street Journal's James Taranto who regularly reminds the world of that fact. The New York Times must have forgotten about it somehow...
Rudy Giuliani could be out there raking in millions from the mafia, and the New Yorkers would think this is a good campaign strategy. LOL!
Couldn’t be. Tony Soprano is strapped for dough right now.
Btw, how's things with Ivan and Howlin over at Wideawakes these days? Do they allow you into their secret room? LMBO
I don’t like Rudy because he is an authoritarian and a liberal, however, this article and this attack on him is BS.
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