Giuliani party seeks $9.11 per person

[2952-0-0]

Oh geez, this takes the 9/11 theme to new lows. If Giuliani doesn't refuse this donation, he should just switch to run for the presidency of 9/11 instead.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070925/ap_po/giuliani_house_party

By LIBBY QUAID, Associated Press Writer Tue Sep 25, 7:37 AM ET

WASHINGTON - A spokeswoman for Rudy Giuliani says it is unfortunate that a supporter throwing a party that aims to raise $9.11 per person for the Republican's presidential campaign is asking for that amount.

Abraham Sofaer is having a fundraiser at his Palo Alto, Calif., home on Wednesday, when Giuliani backers across the country are participating in the campaign's national house party night.

But Sofaer said he had nothing to do with the "$9.11 for Rudy" theme.

"There are some young people who came up with it," Sofaer said when reached by telephone Monday evening. He referred other questions to Giuliani's campaign.

"I'm just providing support for him. He's an old friend of mine," Sofaer said of Giuliani.

Sofaer was a State Department adviser under President Reagan and is a fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution. Federal election data indicates Sofaer has given nearly $50,000 to Republican causes and candidates, including Giuliani, since 1995.

Giuliani spokeswoman Maria Comella said: "These are two volunteers who acted independently of and without the knowledge of the campaign. Their decision to ask individuals for that amount was an unfortunate choice."

According to the invitation, "$9.11 for Rudy" is an "independent, non-denominational grass-roots campaign to raise $10,000 in small increments to show how many individual, everyday Americans support 'America's Mayor.'"

Giuliani was mayor of New York during the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

[Eraserhead]

It makes perfect sense to me. His entire candidacy is based upon it so why not?

[Fmr President & Senator Polnut]

You're f**king kidding me?!

[gorkay]

Crassness, thy name is Giuliani.

[12th Doctor]

*Shrug*

I guess you have to want to be offended by this.

[Fmr President & Senator Polnut]

*Shrug*

I guess you have to want to be offended by this.

I'm not offended... it's just tacky... which is far far worse.

I guess you just not want to see anything wrong with it

[Gustaf]

Honestly, this is not the most offensive thing I've encountered in political history, to say the least. Also, given that it isn't an official campaign thing, who cares?

[Wakie]

I actually think he should request that folks donate $4.11 as you would have to be stoned to vote for him.

[Small Business Owner of Any Repute]

I actually think he should request that folks donate $4.11 as you would have to be stoned to vote for him.

Nine cents short, there, buddy.  411 is the number for information.

Honestly, this is not the most offensive thing I've encountered in political history, to say the least. Also, given that it isn't an official campaign thing, who cares?

Because it's so en vogue to hate Giuliani for things well beyond his control!

[Wakie]

I actually think he should request that folks donate $4.11 as you would have to be stoned to vote for him.

Nine cents short, there, buddy.  411 is the number for information.

Yeah, I know ... I was trying to be ironic (as in Rudy wouldn't know it is 420).  Oh well ....

[Undisguised Sockpuppet]

Why does the GOP keep trying to milk 9/11? It didn't work in '06(thankfully) and won't work in '08.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

DISGUSTING

[Undisguised Sockpuppet]

DISGUSTING

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Honestly, this is not the most offensive thing I've encountered in political history, to say the least. Also, given that it isn't an official campaign thing, who cares?

Because it's so en vogue to hate Giuliani for things well beyond his control!

He can refuse the money though, and if he doesn't he should be held accountable.

[Undisguised Sockpuppet]

The GOP needs to stop trying to milk 9/11.

[Alcon]

On what moral grounds should Giuliani refuse this money?  Because the dollar amount is tacky?

It's dumb, but I don't see why this is a story.

[NDN]

Why does the GOP keep trying to milk 9/11? It didn't work in '06(thankfully) and won't work in '08.

It sort of perplexes me that they try to portray the Dems as so weak on terrorism, when in reality 9/11 happened under a Republican President (who ignored a memo "Bin Laden determined to strike" no less), in a State with a Republican Governor, in a city with a Republican Mayor (who didn't install proper radios and put the command center at the WTC). It's totally ridiculous and phony. What's even worse is they continually repeat the lie that Clinton didn't do anything, when pretty much every time Clinton brought the subject of Terrorism up they obstructed him.

[Undisguised Sockpuppet]

The GOP is grasping at straws to try to get more voters. They've already maxed out the percentages of people they can grab in their demographics(white christians).

[NDN]

The GOP is grasping at straws to try to get more voters. They've already maxed out the percentages of people they can grab in their demographics(white christians).

Pretty much, the GOP basically have based all their strategy on the assumption that white conservative protestants are always going to be around in large numbers. But common sense tells us that's not so. In the long term, Demographics plus a change in public attitudes on all multiple wedge issues they've hackishly used to win (e.g. Gay Rights) is going to destroy them.

Of course the current coalition of "Christian" Conservatives, Neo-Cons, Fiscal Conservatives, Libertarians, etc. never really made much sense to begin with.

[Eraserhead]

There wouldn't be this kind of uproar if Barack Obama was charging $6.66.

Yes we know. Obama is a black devil.

[Small Business Owner of Any Repute]

Honestly, this is not the most offensive thing I've encountered in political history, to say the least. Also, given that it isn't an official campaign thing, who cares?

Because it's so en vogue to hate Giuliani for things well beyond his control!

He can refuse the money though, and if he doesn't he should be held accountable.

Agreed, it's very important for him to symbolically reject the, uh... seriously, we're talking about nine dollars and eleven cents here.  What will the sum total be?  $100, if that?

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Honestly, this is not the most offensive thing I've encountered in political history, to say the least. Also, given that it isn't an official campaign thing, who cares?

Because it's so en vogue to hate Giuliani for things well beyond his control!

He can refuse the money though, and if he doesn't he should be held accountable.

Agreed, it's very important for him to symbolically reject the, uh... seriously, we're talking about nine dollars and eleven cents here.  What will the sum total be?  $100, if that?

Exactly. The bad press he'd get wouldn't be worth if the couple hundred bucks it'd raise. There's no reason for him to not refuse the money.

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Honestly, this is not the most offensive thing I've encountered in political history, to say the least. Also, given that it isn't an official campaign thing, who cares?

Because it's so en vogue to hate Giuliani for things well beyond his control!

He can refuse the money though, and if he doesn't he should be held accountable.

Agreed, it's very important for him to symbolically reject the, uh... seriously, we're talking about nine dollars and eleven cents here.  What will the sum total be?  $100, if that?

Exactly. The bad press he'd get wouldn't be worth if the couple hundred bucks it'd raise. There's no reason for him to not refuse the money.

But Giuliani is a cheapskate. He got the conservative ad rate in the NY Times, paying less than half of what MoveOn paid for the same exact type of ad.

[HardRCafé]

Yeah, I know ... I was trying to be ironic (as in Rudy wouldn't know it is 420).

That worked out well for you.

[Small Business Owner of Any Repute]

Honestly, this is not the most offensive thing I've encountered in political history, to say the least. Also, given that it isn't an official campaign thing, who cares?

Because it's so en vogue to hate Giuliani for things well beyond his control!

He can refuse the money though, and if he doesn't he should be held accountable.

Agreed, it's very important for him to symbolically reject the, uh... seriously, we're talking about nine dollars and eleven cents here.  What will the sum total be?  $100, if that?

Exactly. The bad press he'd get wouldn't be worth if the couple hundred bucks it'd raise. There's no reason for him to not refuse the money.

But Giuliani is a cheapskate. He got the conservative ad rate in the NY Times, paying less than half of what MoveOn paid for the same exact type of ad.

Uh oh, bad news!  I don't want a President who is a cheapskate!  I want one that spends like a drunken sailor!