Get ready for the belly-laughs---the Rudybots aret in early today.
Everything they mouth about their boy Rooty is sheer comic genius.
Posted on 05/15/2007 5:50:15 AM PDT by Liz
Energy companies, FBI agents, a media tycoon and even a candlemaker: Rudy Giuliani's firm has lobbied for them all and dozens more in Washington, opening the door to a wide range of potential conflicts of interest should he become president.
If Giuliani were elected, his administration would be on the receiving end of regulatory requests, contract bids and policy proposals by the same clients of his Houston firm, Bracewell & Giuliani, that have contributed toward his personal net worth of millions of dollars.
Although he has so far declined to identify all the companies with which Bracewell and his other firms have done business over the past five years, AP identified more than 175 as part of an expansive review of lobbying records, court filings and securities reports. Giuliani's law and lobbying clients have included Saudi Arabia, Rupert Murdoch's News Corp., and chewing tobacco maker UST Inc.
Traditional procedures for government officials to prevent ethical conflicts - expressly avoiding issues directly involving their former employer - would be unavailable for a commander in chief. It is unheard of for a president to promise to avoid a particular policy issue. Bracewell & Giuliani alone has thousands of clients but will name only a few dozen. Since Giuliani became a partner in spring 2005, it has reported lobbying on various issues the White House, the vice president's office, Congress and every Cabinet agency except the Department of Veterans Affairs, the AP review found........
Giuliani's corporate ties may dog him as Vice President Dick Cheney's past as chief executive of Halliburton Co., has followed him........Democrats accuse the Bush administration of playing favorites by awarding more than $19 billion in contracts to Halliburton's KBR unit for work in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Probably have tight confidentiality agreements.
So what else is new?
Rudy and/or his handlers must be totally stupid to think that people don’t keep records of such events. The days of “erased tapes” and “shredded documents” are over, thanks to backup servers.
Plus even when they think the news cycle ended----or that they got rid of documents from archives, and the like----the info turns up somewhere on the net.
“So what else is new?”
Well, noshing much.......
The lobbyist business I see as less of a big deal. On the other hand, I'd like to learn more about his representation of Saudi Arabia! We're to believe that one of Giuliani's WoT credentials is that he refused a Saudi Arabian sheik's check on behalf of 9/11 families...
...Yet he will accept the terrorist house of Saud's checks for himself? No wonder he's trying to keep that client list confidential.
Rooty'll do and say anything for money----Rooty'll do and say anything to get power.
Guy is so low he has to step up about six feet to step out.
You notice how he managed to get that Saudi sheik mentioned last night? LOL! What a bozo.
Get ready for the belly-laughs---the Rudybots aret in early today.
Everything they mouth about their boy Rooty is sheer comic genius.
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