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Matthew Mahoney, $30,000-a-month executive director of the Senate Republican Campaign Commmittee and one-time head of Giuliani's presidential field operations was relieved of overall responsibility for the NY Senate's GOP campaign and told to concentrate on fund-raising and administrative chores....(rather than pushing the ex-mayor for governor). The demotion was also tied to Giuliani's failure to deliver on pledges to raise substantial amounts of cash for Republican efforts to hold the Senate. Giuliani was supposed to announce the creation of a fund-raising committee to collect cash for the Senate GOP, which some believe is designed to bolster the ex-mayor should he run...

ABC News’ Ed O’Keefe and Jennifer Duck report: One-time GOP rivals John McCain and Rudy Giuliani bonded over hot dogs and twizzlers in front row seats by the New York Yankees dugout Sunday, providing a snapshot of a possible Republican ticket. A reporter disguised as a fan shouted to McCain, "How about Rudy for vice president?" The presumptive Republican nominee, casually dressed in sunglasses, a collared shirt with rolled sleeves and his Navy baseball cap, just smiled and waved. Reporters then swarmed around Giuliani, asking if he would accept the role as vice president. "I'm not thinking about any of...

With Democrat Barack Obama on the other side of the planet, Republican presidential candidate John McCain stayed closer to home Sunday, visiting Yankee Stadium with former Mayor Rudy Giuliani. The two high-profile Republicans are longtime friends, despite having campaigned against each other in the 2008 GOP primaries in which McCain ultimately prevailed. When Giuliani bowed out of the race, he immediately endorsed McCain. Could Giuliani, who moonlights as the No. 1 Yankee fan, become the No. 2 on the Republican ticket? -snip-

One-time GOP rivals John McCain and Rudy Giuliani bonded over hot dogs and twizzlers in front row seats by the New York Yankees dugout Sunday, providing a snapshot of a possible Republican ticket. A reporter disguised as a fan shouted to McCain, "How about Rudy for vice president?" The presumptive Republican nominee, casually dressed in sunglasses, a collared shirt with rolled sleeves and his Navy baseball cap, just smiled and waved.

Rudy Giuliani is launching a new fund-raising committee to dole out cash to New York GOP candidates - a move that could help him collect political chits as he weighs a run for governor, The Post has learned. It's the first major political move by the former mayor since his run for president flamed out in January. The Giuliani camp is expected to announce the creation of the committee as early as Monday. The same day, he'll hold a small fund-raiser at the Grand Havana Room on Fifth Avenue for his existing federal political action committee, Solutions America. Sources close...

The top political lieutenant to Rudy Giuliani is being mentioned by some Republicans as a possible replacement for state GOP Chairman Joe Mondello, who's been the target of criticism over the party's dwindling fortunes in the past year. Anthony Carbonetti, who was senior strategist for Giuliani's failed presidential bid, has been suggested as a possible replacement, a move seen by some as a sign that Giuliani is making a play for the future - including a possible run for governor.The news comes at a time when Mayor Bloomberg - who has conducted polling on a possible gubernatorial run - and...

A papal visit, with its weeks of build-up and intense media coverage, often seems to end with an afterglow — but very little news — once the pope and his party fly back to the Eternal City. Not so with Pope Benedict’s recent U.S. visit where, more than a week after it ended, the volatile issue of public figures, the abortion & Communion issue is making headlines.While journalists reported that prominent Catholic politicians who support abortion rights stepped up to receive the Eucharist during Masses in Washington and New York (here’s our story and blog post), the development was...

Unquestionably, canon 915 is the most discussed canon in the Codex Iuris Canonici, or Code of Canon Law, in recent Church history.  Many in the media have reported on the January 8, 2004 canonical actions of Archbishop Raymond Burke, then bishop of the La Crosse, Wisconsin diocese.  Archbishop Burke’s discipline on legislators has rocked the Catholic Church worldwide.  Because of misinformation, speculation and outright resentment, confusion reigns regarding the Archbishop's promulgation of his 'canonical notification' based on canon 915, the official communication of what the Church's discipline is. I would like to make some important clarifications, with appropriate documentation, in...

"I had an understanding with Mr. Rudolph Giuliani, when I became Archbishop of New York and he was serving as Mayor of New York, that he was not to receive the Eucharist because of his well-known support of abortion."

April 28, 2008 -- NEW YORK - New York Cardinal Edward Egan says Rudy Giuliani should not have received Holy Communion during the pope's visit because he supports abortion rights. Egan says he had "an understanding" with the former presidential candidate and New York mayor that he is not to receive the Eucharist. The Catholic Church teaches "that abortion is a grave offense against the will of God." The cardinal says Giuliani broke that understanding when he received the Eucharist during Pope Benedict XVI's visit. Egan says he will be seeking a meeting with Giuliani "to insist that he abide...

Twice-divorced former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani took Communion at a Mass celebrated by Pope Benedict on Saturday, breaching rules that bar those who remarry outside the Church from doing so. As he left New York's St. Patrick's Cathedral with his third wife, Judith, the failed presidential candidate confirmed to Reuters that he took Communion from a priest. Asked if he was uncomfortable with having broken the Church ban on the divorced and remarried taking Communion, Giuliani said, "No." The Church does not recognize divorce and teaches that divorced Catholics are still married to their earlier partner unless the...

Cambridge University has been given £8 million by a Saudi Arabian prince to establish an Islamic studies centre. Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal, ranked in the top 20 richest men in the world, with a fortune of about £10 billion, has donated the cash to the university to fund a centre in his name for the study of the role of Islam in the Middle East and globally. The gift has been recommended by the university's general board and is expected to be announced in June. advertisement The grandson of King Ibn Saud and nephew of King Abudllah, the prince counts...

I've been busy reading books like crazy, and during my neglect of The Judge Report a number of interesting things have happened relating to New York State politics, or what's left of it, with some national implications. Now that the self-flagellation has stopped from interim Governor David Paterson, we are suddenly confronted with the news that former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani might be interested in being the Republican candidate for governor if there should be a special election in November. Huh? Following quickly on that revelation is a Newsweek article theorizing that after she loses the Pennsylvania primary...

GIULIANI WEIGHING 'SPECIAL' RUN FOR GOVBy MAGGIE HABERMAN March 28, 2008 -- In the latest twist in New York politics, Rudy Giuliani is eyeing a run for governor in a special election this fall should Gov. Paterson be forced to resign, sources say. A top adviser to the former mayor, who pulled the plug on his presidential bid in January, yesterday dangled the possibility of Giuliani's running in a special election. It would happen in a year in which presidential nominee John McCain would be at the top of the GOP ticket. The Post reported this week that state lawmakers...

I am not on the inside of any presidential campaign, but I consider myself to be a good student of politics. And as a writer, I have the luxury of going against the grain on campaigns and issues. I am also not a Republican—so I don´t expect the leaders of the Grand Old Party to take my advice. But as a political writer, I have an obligation to inform, and hopefully entertain my readers. And plenty of readers will find the idea of a McCain-Giuliani ticket entertaining, if nothing else. It´s no news that John McCain has locked up the...

John McCain is the GOP candidate for president. But who will run for Veep? One of the smartest decisions George W. Bush made was choosing Dick Cheney. Contrary to the Cheney image peddled by the hysterical Left, a sort of a projected Darth Vader on the screen of their childish nightmares, in reality Dick Cheney is wise, experienced, thoughtful, calm, humorous, and ready to step up to be president. Cheney is not a hot electoral commodity; he excels at governance. So does Rudy Giuliani. McCain has his pick of running mates, but Rudy stands out. He is younger than McCain,...

A brush with death braced the mayor to manage a disaster Rudy Giuliani was a pretty busy fellow before Sept. 11. While supervising a New York City renaissance, Mr. Giuliani entered and then left a Senate race against a sitting first lady. He had a highly publicized divorce and a highly publicized affair. He developed prostate cancer. By the time September of 2001 rolled around, the man whom enemies had dubbed "Mussolini on the Hudson" seemed a spent force, preparing a post-mayoral career that included a book project.Now that tome, the newly published Leadership, is headed toward the bestseller list...

Giuliani Partners, Rudy's consulting firm, has laid off staffers as the business is reshaped after his failed presidential campaign........layoffs involved at least five administrative staffers.

What is it with these New Yorkers running for president? First, Rudy Giuliani pins his entire presidential bid on a late-voting, big-state strategy and flames out in Florida before the first flicker of fire. Now, Hillary Rodham Clinton might as well be stealing pages from Giuliani's laughingstock playbook - and she looks headed for the same demise.

Giuliani, Clinton share more than New York TRIBUNE-REVIEW By Salena Zito Rudy Giuliani was the Republican front-runner for president last fall. He had an unconventional strategy to turn his status into the nomination: Skip the early conservative primary states and focus instead on delegate-rich Florida on Jan. 29 and the "Super Duper Tuesday" states on Feb.5. Giuliani believed he would appeal to the moderate Republicans in those states. We know how that turned out. Now Clinton

Republican presidential candidate Alan Keyes commented last week on the exit of Mitt Romney from the race for president, and weighed in on leading contenders John McCain and Mike Huckabee. Keyes' assessment? He wouldn't support any of them at the ballot box. When asked by Seattle radio host Thor Tolo if he could have publicly supported the departed Romney, the former Reagan administration diplomat said, "Well, no. I've made it very clear with respect to Rudy Giuliani, with respect to Mitt Romney, and others, that I'm not buying into this whole phony business that's been going on. I think that...

On the eve of the Super Tuesday primaries that would confirm him as the front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination, John McCain joined two heretical members of a party that has made itself synonymous with orthodox conservatism--California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, both supporters of abortion rights, gay rights and reasonably functional government--at a solar technology plant in Los Angeles. They talked about their shared commitment to address global warming. And they reminded everyone that the Republican Party of John McCain is not the Republican Party of George W. Bush or Rush Limbaugh. While Democrat...

Short List of possible VP Candidates: Romney, Huckabee, Coburn, Hunter, Thompson, DeMint, Sessions, Lynn Cheney, Ingraham, Rush, Mark Levin, Lieberman, Giuliani, Condy Rice, Colin Powell, Rumsfeld, JOhn Bolton, Pawlenty, Sanford, Stallone, Chuck Norris, J. C. Watts, Jeb Bush, Michael Steele Any others? Have at it.

Charles Hill talked to the Yale Daily News about the disappointing finish he experienced as a member of Rudy Giuliani's team, Hill, one of the policy stars Rudy attracted for his advisory boards in the presidential primary campaign, agrees with the conventional wisdom that the Florida strategy was a mistake. However, he argues convincingly that it was a secondary strategic error: The candidate’s focus on Florida — at the expense of campaigning in the early primaries — was a mistake, Hill said in an interview with the News on Friday. But it was also part of a larger failure on...

Theodore Olson has been a hard-core supporter of Rudolph Giuliani -- but last week he wasted little time. Just 36 hours after Giuliani announced he was dropping out of the race, Olson, the chairman of Giuliani's justice advisory committee, had already jumped to John McCain. "I am disappointed that Rudy's campaign was not more successful, but I am proud to join him in endorsing, in the strongest possible way, the McCain candidacy," Olson says. Giuliani's campaign lined up the top players in GOP legal circles. Despite his relatively liberal New York credentials, Giuliani was feted by the Federalist Society and...

Gay Republicans are in a state of mourning over Mayor Giuliani's exit from the presidential race, but they are moving swiftly into Senator McCain's fold despite concerns that he has not always been faithful to their agenda. "Giuliani was my man," a political organizer in San Francisco's gay community, Christopher Bowman, said. "I'm heartbroken he will not be the nominee of the party." A organization that is effectively the party's gay caucus, the Log Cabin Republicans, posted a message at the top of the group's main Web page Wednesday saluting Mr. Giuliani for his bid and his "service to our...

The pundits are absolutely stunned. The man they months ago decided would be the Republican nominee is, um, not. Now they are writing columns and editorials and articles about how the man who had it locked up could so quickly give it up. They are shocked. Well, I am not so shocked. Even when the pundits, the polls and the political markets showed Rudy Giuliani on top, it was obvious that he would not get elected – either in the primary or in the general. The few of us who saw Giuliani going nowhere were not geniuses or psychics, we...

Voters in New Jersey who cast absentee ballots for a candidate who has dropped out of the presidential race can vote again, a judge has ruled. The decision, which was issued on Thursday by Judge Vincent J. Grasso of Superior Court in Ocean County, dealt specifically with the county clerk there but has bearing statewide, according to the attorney general’s office. The ballot for Tuesday’s presidential primary was printed about a month ago, before six of the candidates dropped out of their respective races. Four Democrats — Senator Joseph R. Biden Jr. of Delaware, former Senator John Edwards of North...

Rudy catches a buss from wife Judi in Florida Tuesday night. She brought enough political baggage to fill a Louis Vuitton trunk. Indeed, part of Rudy Giuliani's presidential flameout can be traced back to his Judi - the woman he fell for in a cigar bar in 1999 while he was the married mayor with a wife and two young children at home. "She was a major part of the reason for Giuliani's collapse," said Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia's Center for Politics. "Rudy wanted to head up the 'family values' party, and Judi didn't fit...

Leno was interviewing McCain, Giuliani just showed up like he just happened to be in the neighborhood. This may get interesting!

A Play in One Act* "Just promise me one thing John, you will always take my calls?" "Are you kidding? Anytime Rudy!" "And Tony Carbonetti's too?" "Err, ok.." "And can Judi please have something, a beautification commission maybe?" "Uh, I did sort of tell Cindy she could have that..." "Well, forget beautification. Judi would be great for any kind of health thing. You know she's a nurth! You could put her on your health insurance commission, not as chairman obviously, but vice chair I think would be perfect." "Rudy, here's my hand on it. I don't know what the...

LOS ANGELES - California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger endorsed Sen. John McCain in the Republican presidential race on Thursday, praising him as an "extraordinary leader" who can reach across the political aisle to get things done. At a news conference, Schwarzenegger said McCain has the national security credentials to do the job, and is a "crusader against wasteful spending." Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani also attended the event, one day after he dropped out of the race and threw his support behind his longtime friend. McCain is counting on both men — Schwarzenegger in California and Giuliani in New York...

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GOP Debate: Rudy Endorsed the Wrong Man by Ross Kaminsky The four remaining Republican candidates for president took part in their last debate before Super Tuesday, in the Reagan Library in Simi Valley, California. As someone who has been supporting Rudy Giuliani, I did begin watching the debate with a strong bias between McCain and Romney, but over the course of the evening I came to believe that Rudy endorsed the wrong man. After a boring first few minutes, Mitt Romney was asked whether John McCain was a mainstream conservative. Romney’s answer was a laundry list of the many issues...

SIMI VALLEY, Calif. - Rudy Giuliani dropped out of the Republican presidential campaign on Wednesday and endorsed Sen. John McCain for the nomination. Giuliani made the announcement at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library a day after suffering a debilitating defeat in Tuesday's Florida primary. With McCain at his side, Giuliani said the nation needed "someone who can be trusted in times of crisis." "Obviously I thought I was that person," the former New York mayor said. "The voters made another choice." He noted that he and McCain had managed to compete without running negative ads against each other and said,...

Giuliani's run for the White House ended in Florida.......He had bet the rent n the Sunshine State - and lost...he's expected to withdraw - and endorse McCain. Experts will be analyzing the Giuliani campaign in hopes of figuring out just why Rudy - who entered the race enjoying a wide lead over Republican and Democratic challengers - nose-dived so quickly. Many will second-guess his strategy of skipping early contests. Giuliani failed to contest Iowa, NH, Michigan and SC - and, by yesterday, the parade had passed him by. It's also not clear why he stayed stuck on the 9/11 theme........by...

The collapse of Rudy Giuliani’s presidential bid is surely one of the most striking developments of the 2008 campaign. Strategic mistake? I don’t think so. Rudy lost because he dissed social conservatives. In fact, the reason Giuliani missed those early primaries is because he dissed social conservatives. Giuliani’s attempt to take apart and reconstitute Ronald Reagan’s winning political coalition was his original sin. And Rudy’s primal transgression continues to shape the dynamics of 2008’s Republican presidential race. With Reagan’s erstwhile coalition now cast out of the garden of amity, only recognizing and understanding Rudy’s fault will allow us to find...

Giuliani to bring one (1 !) delegate to McCain and the "kiss of Death" .... Run John, RUN away !... ------------------- Despite an awful Waste of many Millions of dollars in useless TV ads, added to a preposterous Publicity by some ridiculous Mass Media obviously cut off from the People, American Citizens clearly decided, again and again, to send Mr. Giuliani out. But, after failing everywhere, in all primaries, now, he wants to bring his ...one (1 !) and only "Delegate" (a poor guy lost somewhere up in Nevada's wilderness..) to front-runner McCain, and give him his "Death Kiss", full...

WASHINGTON - John McCain won Florida. Rudy Giuliani headed for the exits. And Mike Huckabee stayed put. None of those things are good for Mitt Romney, McCain's chief rival, who spent a small fortune of his own money to get this close to the White House. Tuesday's election means: • McCain now has the momentum heading into next week's 21-state delegate chase. • The Arizona senator picks up Giuliani's endorsement and, presumably, the moderate and independent voters who had backed the former New York mayor, especially in the delegate-rich Northeast. • Huckabee continues to siphon conservative voters from Romney —...

It isn't much of one, but he'll take what he can get tonight. It comes from Tom Bevan at the RCP blog: Giuliani dropping out helps McCain, right? Well, not so fast. According to the exit polls, 49% of those who voted for Rudy today picked Mitt Romney as their 2nd choice while 44% picked McCain. And, interestingly, those who voted for Huckabee overwhelmingly picked McCain as their top 2nd choice over Mitt Romney, 54% to 32%. If that pattern holds outside Florida, having Rudy out and Huck still in could actually give Romney an unexpected boost going into February...

Debate among the GOP presidential contenders. Live at 9:00pm EST/8:00 CST

(CNN) — Rudy Giuliani will endorse John McCain Wednesday, two GOP sources familiar with the discussions told CNN Tuesday. McCain's campaign manager, Rick Davis, had been in "ongoing discussions" with Rudy Giuliani's campaign about the former New York mayor ending his run and endorsing McCain's candidacy, according to a GOP official familiar with talks. CNN projected that Arizona Sen. McCain would win the Florida GOP primary Tuesday night, beating former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, with Giuliani in a tight race for third with former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee.

Or better yet, a "McCain Betrayal File"?

Now that the Sunshine has set, two old friends come to an understanding. McCain topper Rick Davis quietly negotiated the agreement. HALPERIN’S TAKE: 10 things Giuliani could have done differently. Giuliani, in Florida concession speech, talked about his effort in the past tense, but said nothing explicit about dropping out — or The Deal.

Now that the Sunshine has set, two old friends come to an understanding. DEveloping......

DELRAY BEACH, Fla. -- Giuliani was mobbed by a couple dozen senior citizens as he disembarked from his campaign bus to go inside Lox Around the Clock bagel shop Tuesday. The New York accents were thick and it was a bit of a homecoming for Giuliani, who originally had rested his Floridian hopes on transplanted Northeasterners, and who he courted heavily on primary day. The Giuliani sighting was the second of two exciting moments for the crowd. Jon Voight -- who has been traveling with Giuliani for several days and tossed a football with staffers at the previous event --...

While the rest of punditry dumps on Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani for his Florida strategy - which, to put it mildly, does not seem to be working - I have to wonder if Giuliani's biggest mistake was not touting himself as the only supporter of abortion rights in the Republican primary. I think he'd be faring better today if he had run as a security hawk and a fiscal hawk, but social moderate. After all, GOP presidential hopefuls John McCain and Mike Huckabee oppose abortion rights. Ditto Republican candidate Mitt Romney - even if he promised in 2002 that,...

Rudy Giuliani gambled the entire campaign on the idea that he could wait out the early states and focus on the first major winner-take-all primary in Florida. That gamble plays out today, and most of the polling shows that Rudy won't come close to a victory, meaning he will head into Super Tuesday with almost no delegates at all. He remains confident of victory, but ...: Also campaigning in Florida was Giuliani, who led throughout 2007 but rapidly lost ground once voting began this month. Despite the polls, Giuliani insisted he can come from behind: "This is a place where...

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MIAMI — Early Tuesday, Rudy Giuliani began what very well could be the last day of campaigning of as a presidential candidate. The latest polls have Giuliani running third in today's GOP presidential primary in Florida, the state where he has invested the most time and money. He has refused to say what he will do after today if he does not do well. "Call me Wednesday morning," he said in an interview with The Palm Beach Post. On Monday Giuliani's national campaign chairman raised the possibility that if the polls are correct, the former New York mayor might quit...