‘08 Watch: Rudy Leaves Campaign Plans in Hotel
by Pamela LeaveyNot so swift, Rudy Guiliani is reported to have left a 140 page dossier containing printed text, handwriten notes and spreadsheets outlining his top-secret plans for his bid for the White House.
The New York Daily News reports that Guiliani’s “remarkably detailed dossier sets out the budgets, schedules and fund-raising plans that will underpin the former New York mayor’s presidential campaign – as well as his aides’ worries that personal and political baggage could scuttle his run.”
At the center of his efforts: a massive fund-raising push to bring in at least $100 million this year, with a scramble for at least $25 million in the next three months alone.
The loss of the battle plan is a remarkable breach in the high-stakes game of presidential politics and a potentially disastrous blunder for Giuliani in the early stages of his campaign.
The document was obtained by the Daily News from a source sympathetic to one of Giuliani’s rivals for the White House. The source said it was left behind in one of the cities Giuliani visited as he campaigned for dozens of Republican candidates in the weeks leading up to the November 2006 elections.
AP News reports further that “one page in the battle plan reveals aides’ concerns that “insurmountable” factors could scuttle Giuliani’s run, notably issues surrounding his private business interests, disgraced former aides and one of his ex-wives.”
Way to go Rudy, now that your entire campaign plan has been revealed, whatcha gonna do now?
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Wow…it sounds like an episode from the last season of West Wing, where Jimmy Smits’ campaign finds a briefcase containing Alan Alda’s campaign plans in a hotel and frets over how to turn it over to him.
While I find this to be funny as hell, I still have to wonder if this was a mistake or a mislead. Given the GOP’s urge to mislead and misinform, one has to keep up their guard. If it is in fact the right one, then that is funny as the person that put the Bush travel plans to Florida in the garbage that time.
What a bumbling idiot. It is only Jan 2 and they are starting already.
As a NYer, couldn’t happen to a nicer guy. Not. Quite the thug before 9/11 makeover.
Many 9/11 widows blame him for his errors and lack of leadership. Despite his being called America’s Mayor.
I really can’t believe this guy can make it through the GOPer primaries anyway; this just reinforces that thought…
I happened to tune in to Wolf Blitzer while eating lunch and watched Paul Begalla “debate” with a repub. who represented the very conservative wing of the repub party. I sincerely believe that this faction of the repub. party is responsible for the “leak”, or mistake, or whatever it is being called. I really didn’t understand how much the ultra conservatives hate Rudy’s “liberal” attitudes on some issues. I guess they do eat their own. It just happens to benefit us when they eliminate any of their frontrunners early on. Yippee!
Giuliani and McCain are both on the outs in GOPer world. I really don’t see these guys as making through the right wing gauntlet during the primaries. (Don’t believe the TV pundits)
The GOP primaries feature the true believer voters. I’m thinking that Sam Brownback is more their cup of tea; maybe even Mitt Romney.
I agree with Donnie this may be a mislead instead of a mistake. Time will tell over the next few days, as to which one it will be.
I think the awful way he treated his second wife Donna with letting the press pratically serve her with divorce papers could hurt him more. Not to mention his arrogant and from what I saw his insidious treatment of minorities in NYC.
Pen, outright insensitive and race-baiting. The worst thug for a city embracing its diversity.
I have loads of relatives in NYC (mostly in Queens) and go there often. So I can speak with some authority on this matter. Rudy did help clean up NYC crime-wise as crime fell dramatically in the latter 1990s (I can’t say the same for Baltimore or DC at the time). Guliani can’t take all the credit for the crime drop, but deserves some.
That said, there were a number of areas-most notably education- where Rudy came up short. More important, does anybody really think that a party as southernized as the GOP will nominate the mayor of New Yawk for president? I doubt it. There’s a cultural gap betweeen Rudy and the national GOP, not just on social issues per se, but also on an almost DNA level.
Similarly, whatever his views on economic issues Rudy had to deal with unions, well-organized social workers, and other progressive groups if he wanted to get anything done in NYC. Needless to say, the same is not true for many of the GOP base living in low-tax, low-wage, right-to-work states.