Giuliani cleared $80,000 at tsunami benefit

[Cocoa]

my hero!

http://www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com/wp-print.php?p=3872

http://observer.com/pages/frontpage5.asp

The most vivid recent example occurred on Feb. 9 in Columbia, S.C. Mr. Giuliani had initially been booked by the South Carolina Hospital Association through the Washington Speakers Bureau to speak for his usual $100,000 fee. But then a massive tsunami devastated South Asia and “we just didn’t feel that a big old party was the right thing,” said Patti Smoake, the hospital association’s spokeswoman.

Instead, the South Carolinians held a fund-raiser called “From South Carolina to South Asia.”

Mr. Giuliani agreed to speak at the new event. He even wrote a $20,000 check to the Red Cross, the event’s beneficiary, according to figures cited by a South Carolina hospital official and obtained by The Observer. He batted away the inevitable political speculation that accompanied his visit to the crucial Republican primary state, telling a local reporter he was visiting “because I enjoy coming to South Carolina and because this is a worthy cause.”

Mr. Giuliani didn’t mention it at the time, but he also walked away from the tsunami benefit with $80,000 at a time when celebrities from Bill Clinton and the first President Bush to George Clooney were donating time to the relief effort. There was nothing illegal, or even particularly unusual, about his taking a fee from a charity event. But taking the money was not the move of a man whose political future depends on the good will of the voters of South Carolina, the decisive state in the 2000 Republican primary widely viewed as the immovable object between a socially liberal Republican like Mr. Giuliani and the nomination.

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[FreedomAngel82]

1. Good for him

I'm glad he's doing some good to help the tsunami relief. I don't hear anybody else still doing anything. :shrug:

[Maraya1969]

3. I think you missed the third paragraph n/t

[Beaverhausen]

4. yeah- you missed that he himself kept the money

hero indeed.

[Maraya1969]

2. I was trying to find a contact for the greedy man and came upon this:

http://www.ishipress.com/hitler.htm

It details how Giuliani cleaned up NY City. He refused heat for low income hosing unless the temperature got below 45 degrees. He made it impossible for a mother to remain on welfare unless she had another baby every 4 years, (this sounds STUPID to me, give them education instead. This sounds like it would only cause women to want to keep having babies).

I know he got rid of the homeless somehow but I'm not sure how he did it. There used to be a lot of homeless people in the Port Authority bus station and I think he just had the police keep kicking them out.


Anyway, I'd like to have a contact email for the man to tell him to give the money back!

[Hard Attack]

6. Guiliani had Homeless people sent to prison.

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that his how he got rid of the homeless.

Guiliani is a despicable man.

[UTUSN]

5. He's Raked in More from 9-11, 2nd Only to Shrub

A year or two ago he copped $6 million from Mexico City to "consult" on their crime/traffic problems. Uh, what exactly did Mexico City get for their American dollars, I wonder.