Rudy Quit Iraq Study Group - Failed to Attend Meetings

[Scriptor Ignotus]

http://www.newsday.com/search/ny-usrudy195261753jun19,0,3346730.story

Giuliani quit Iraq panel after missed meetings - but he had time for fundraising

Giuliani failed to show up for a pair of two-day sessions that occurred during his tenure, the sources said - and both times, they conflicted with paid public appearances shown on his recent financial disclosure. Giuliani quit the group during his busiest stretch in 2006, when he gave 20 speeches in a single month that brought in $1.7 million.

On one day the panel gathered in Washington - May 18, 2006 - Giuliani delivered a $100,000 speech on leadership at an Atlanta business awards breakfast. Later that day, he attended a $100-a-ticket Atlanta political fundraiser for conservative ally Ralph Reed, whom Giuliani hoped would provide a major boost to his presidential campaign.

The month before, Giuliani skipped the session to give the April 12 keynote speech at an economic conference in South Korea for $200,000, his financial disclosure shows.

Giuliani's campaign said that the former New York mayor did participate in Iraq Study Group activities but refused Newsday's repeated requests to explain how.

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[Adelante]

1. I was just about to post this

So much for their national security candidate.

[Scriptor Ignotus]

6. ha ha!

you're slower than a Bush brain cell. Yee-ha!

[MediaPatrol]

2. Will the Media Pack Follow Up?

http://electioncentral.tpmcafe.com/blog/electioncentral/2007/jun/19/will_media_pick_up_scoop_about_rudy_blowing_off_iraq_study_group

[whistle]

3. He needed an escape outlet just in case the committee tried to find out the truth about 9/11

[Hart2008]

4. Rudy has no foreign policy experience....

Does kicking Arafat out of the Lincoln Center concert performed by the New York Philharmonic count as foreign policy?

http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=19980

[Scriptor Ignotus]

8. he has combat experience

-- he was in NYC during 9/11.

I think Chris Matthews said that...

[Double T]

5. Glad to see rudy has his priorities straight................

rudy says: "me, myself and I come first, everything else isn't THAT important."

[More Than A Feeling]

7. K+R

Can you say "death of a campaign?" I thought you could. Hardcore rightists now have their choice: they can hate him for his unique personal life, or they can hate him for his love of profit over figuring out Iraq.

[0007]

9. Ralph Reed is definitely more important than working on anything

that would improve life for all concerned.
The selfish little two-bit crook should be sharing a cell with Jack Abramoff. Next think ya know he'll be chumming with John Cornyn of Texas. Another Abramoff whore that wasn't caught.

Former Christian Coalition director Ralph Reed claimed in a 2001 e-mail to a lobbyist that he choreographed John Cornyn's efforts as Texas attorney general to shut down an East Texas Indian tribe's casino.

...In the Nov. 30, 2001, e-mail, Reed told Abramoff that 50 pastors led by Ed Young, of Second Baptist Church in Houston, would meet with Cornyn to urge him to shut down the Alabama-Coushatta tribe's casino near Livingston. He said Young would back up the request in writing.

"We have also choreographed Cornyn's response. The AG will state that the law is clear, talk about how much he wants to avoid repetition of El Paso (where the Tigua casino was) and pledge to take swift action to enforce the law," Reed wrote. "He will also personally hand Ed Young a letter that commits him to take action in Livingston."


Cornyn, now a Republican U.S. senator, had filed a lawsuit in 1999 to shut down the casino operated by the Tigua tribe in El Paso, saying it violated the state's limited gambling laws. In 2002, federal courts shuttered the Tiguas' casino and Cornyn used that ruling to shut down the Alabama-Coushattas' casino.

Cornyn, who has not been accused of any wrongdoing, has denied knowing Abramoff. He also has said he was unaware of Reed's work with Abramoff.

http://lonewacko.com/blog/archives/004284.html

[roody]

10. Did he collect pay for having served on the panel

while he was out moonlighting?