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Ron Paul is not absurd, at least when he's compared to Rudy:
What does all of the following mean? Ron Paul supporters have great lung power, some in Atlanta do not know that Ron is a republican. <h3>Either Rudy is just about done</h3> as a candidate...his successful push to get Bush to name Kerik as DHS chief should have been enough....notice that Georgian repubs don't care about Rudy's ties to criminals, his own corrupt activities, or even about his adultery....<h3>or Rudy will stay in the race....more evidence that the GOP is a party with no standards or scruples. Convicted bribe taker Bob Asher, was permitted to waltz out of his federal prison cell and back into his place as high ranking Penn. state GOP official, a place he holds to this day!</h3>
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http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/met...iani_1203.html
Giuliani nearly drowned out by rival's supporters
By STEVE VISSER
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Published on: 12/03/07
It was Rudy Giuliani campaigning for president on the Marietta Square on Sunday afternoon, but anyone listening may well have thought the candidate's name was Ron Paul.....
...."You're being very inconsiderate," an elderly woman, aghast at the lack of Southern manners, told three young female Paul acolytes.
"You're not helping your candidate with this," a middle-aged man told a 20-something man toting a blue-and-white Paul campaign sign.
"This is a Republican rally," a testy older man snapped, apparently forgetting that Paul, a physician and Libertarian by philosophy, is an elected Republican and running in the GOP primary for president.
His supporters simply answered, "RON PAUL! RON PAUL! RON PAUL!"
"We just came by to say, 'Hey,' " said Rob Miller, a 35-year-old Paul supporter with a mischievous grin, who with his cohorts said their candidate would trounce Giuliani in the New Hampshire primary.
A weary looking Giuliani, in metro Atlanta for a Buckhead fund-raiser, started his tour of Marietta at The Brumby Chair Co. on the west side of the historical square. The store is owned by Otis Brumby Jr., publisher of the Marietta Daily Journal.
Along with Brumby, U.S. Sen. Johnny Isakson (R-Ga.) and state House Speaker Glenn Richardson, who co-chairs Giuiani's campaign in Georgia, gave the candidate a less-boisterous welcome....
....Brumby predicted Giuliani would run the best nationally of the Republican field, but he wasn't sure how he would do in Georgia or Cobb County, where many party faithful have balked at the twice-divorced politician's past of supporting gun control and abortion rights.
Giuliani, the current Republican presidential front-runner, had about two dozen friendly people come to the square to see him — about the same number as those shouting for Paul, who is raising record number of dollars but still running in the back of the GOP pack.
Georgia England, a former New Yorker who now lives in Acworth, said she felt grateful toward Giuliani because of his legendary poise immediately after the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center.
Giuliani marched to the scene, she said; he didn't hide.
"That is the mettle of the man," she said. "I know everybody is talking about his social life, and there are things that I don't agree with, but he has courage."
But a Paul supporter, Craig Hatcher, a 33-year-old Navy veteran who lives in Powder Springs, said of Giuliani, "I wouldn't necessarily say he is a liberal. I'd say he is more of a statist who wants the government to run our lives."
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http://www.philly.com/inquirer/local...ilot_here.html
The circuit
The woman at Phillies shortstop Jimmy Rollins' side at his most-valuable-player events: girlfriend Johari Smith of Mount Airy. They met a few years ago when she was an intern with the Phillies; she's now athletic trainer at Springside School in Chestnut Hill. Smith brought J-Roll to Springside earlier this year to raise money for melanoma cancer research.
Rollins managed to brighten the day of presidential hopeful Rudy Giuliani. The Phillies' John Brazer, <h3>whose father-in-law is GOP rainmaker Bob Asher</h3>, asked J-Roll to sign a ball for the former New York mayor. At a Giuliani fund-raiser that night, Brazer handed it to him. Giuliani noted that when he was mayor, the Yankees won four World Series.
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Robert "Budd" Dwyer (November 21, 1939 – January 22, 1987) was a former Pennsylvania politician who, on the morning of January 22, 1987, committed suicide by shooting himself in the mouth with a revolver during a televised press conference. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budd_Dwyer
<h3>Convicted along with GOP Penn. Party Leader and now ex-con and Rudy fundraiser, Bob Asher. republican Penn. state treasurer Dwyer "ate his gun" in front of five TV cameras. Although convicted of bribe taking, Penn. law did not require Dwyer to resign as state treasurer, and some speculated that his suicide was planned to allow his family to collect his $1.28 million in state benefits.</h3>
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<h3>..."I'm just one of the people here," he told ABC News.</h3>
Asher is one of the heirs to popular Asher's Chocolates and now serves as co-chairman of the company. <h3>After he left prison, Asher became the Pennsylvania committeeman for the Republican National Committee, a position he holds today.....</h3>
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<h3>Should this guy have been a state director of Bush/Cheney 2004 in PA and GOP state committeeman from PA?</h3>:
www.bobasherexposed.com/criminal-record
The Facts about Bob Asher's Criminal Record
Submitted by bobguzzardi on Sat, 2006-09-23 15:33. Info
On December 18, 1986, a 12-member jury in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania convisted Robert Asher on conspiracy, five counts of mail fraud, four counts of interstate transportation in aid of racketeering, and one count of perjury. The convinctions came at the end of the three-week trial of Asher and then State Treasurer R. Budd Dwyer. The two men were charged in connection with a scheme to elicit bribes in return for helping a California company obtain a no-bid service contract that would have needlessly cost Pennsylvania taxpayers millions of dollars. Dwyer, too, was convicted of all charges in the trial.
On January 27, 1987, Judge Malcom Muir sentenced Asher to one year and a day in prison and fined him $205,000.<h3> Dywer committed suicide before his sentencing.</h3>
Immediately following his sentencing, Asher told reporters on the courthouse steps, "As I said all along, I felt I never did anything improper. I still feel the same way today." To this day, Asher continues to make this assertion in the face of the record of this conviction.
The unmistakable conclusion from Asher's statement is that the actions detailed at his trial represented "business as usual" in Bob Asher's world....
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http://www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com...ves/13733.html
November 27, 2007
Giuliani cozies up to convicted moneyman
Posted November 27th, 2007 at 4:35 pm
Way back in June, Time’s David Von Drehle <a href="http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2007/11/out-of-spotligh.html">asked</a> an interesting question: “How many alleged criminals can a law-and-order candidate be associated with before it starts to hurt?” The question, of course, was in reference to Rudy Giuliani, after Thomas Ravenel, the chairman of Giuliani’s presidential campaign in South Carolina, was indicted on cocaine distribution charges, which, of course, came on the heels of revelations about Giuliani’s connections with Bernard Kerik.
But Von Drehle posed the question far too early — the number of alleged criminals with close ties to Giuliani has gone up considerably since then. ABC News has <a href="http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2007/11/out-of-spotligh.html">the latest</a>.
A Pennsylvania man convicted in a notorious corruption case played host to former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani at a fundraiser last night, despite the Giuliani campaign’s public efforts to distance itself from the man.
Bob Asher, a major Pennsylvania Republican player as a national party committeeman, was one of four hosts for the $2,300-a-person event. Asher was convicted in 1986 on charges stemming from a bribery scheme intended to win a $300,000 state government contract. The case gained national attention when his co-defendant in the case, Pennsylvania state treasurer R. Budd Dwyer, committed suicide at a televised news conference. Asher was sentenced to serve one year in prison.
At that time, Giuliani was a federal prosecutor in New York, building a reputation by locking up criminals for similar corruption-related misdeeds.
Giuliani came and went from last night’s fundraiser without comment, ducking down in his car as ABC News cameras attempted to photograph him arriving.
Given recent events, does it not occur to Giuliani to perhaps put some distance between himself and convicted felons?
For that matter, for all the attention the Norman Hsu controversy received, Hillary Clinton didn’t even know the guy. <h3>In contrast, Giuliani and Asher carpooled to the fundraiser together.
Regular readers know what this means: it’s time to update the big board of Giuliani’s dubious associates.</h3>
* Giuliani inexplicably backed Bernie Kerik, and made him the city’s police commissioner, after he’d been briefed on Kerik’s organized crime connections.
* Alan Placa was accused by a grand jury report of sexually abusing children, as well as helping cover up the sexual abuse of children by other priests. Giuliani then put Placa, his life-long friend, on the payroll of Giuliani Partners. (Adds Anne Barrett Doyle, co-director of BishopAccountability.org, which tracks suspected priest abuse, “I think Rudy Giuliani has to account for his friendship with a credibly accused child molester.”)
* Kenneth Caruso, a close Giuliani friend and business partner, has been accused of conspiring to steal $10 million invested through a Caribbean bank.
* Thomas Ravenel, the chairman of Giuliani’s presidential campaign in South Carolina, was indicted on cocaine distribution charges.
* Arthur Ravenel, the replacement chairman of Giuliani’s presidential campaign in South Carolina, has characterized the NAACP as the “National Association for Retarded People,” and has an unusual fondness for the Confederate battle flag.
* Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), the family-values conservative caught up in a prostitution scandal, was not only Giuliani’s top Senate backer, he was also the regional chairman of Giuliani’s campaign.
* Giuliani hired Russell Harding to run NYC’s Housing Development Corp, despite the fact that Harding had no college degree or background in housing and finance. (He was, however, the son of a prominent political backer whose support Giuliani sought to reward.) Harding later pled guilty to fraud and conspiracy charges, admitting to stealing more than $400,000 from the housing agency he once headed. (He was also caught possessing a disc filled with pornographic images of children.)
* And now, we can add Bob Asher, a convicted felon involved in a bribery scheme to win a state government contract.
Two weeks ago, former Solicitor General Ted Olson praised Giuliani as a man who has shown “the wisdom and humility to surround himself with talented, dedicated and energetic people.”
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ABC News: The Blotter
Giuliani's Mistress Used N.Y. Police as Taxi Service
November 29, 2007 3:18 PM
Richard Esposito Reports:
Well before it was publicly known he was seeing her, then-married New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani provided a police driver and city car for his mistress Judith Nathan, former senior city officials tell the Blotter on ABCNews.com.
"She used the PD as her personal taxi service," said one former city official who worked for Giuliani.
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New York papers reported in 2000 that the city had provided a security detail for Nathan, who became Giuliani's third wife after his divorce from Donna Hanover, who also had her own police security detail at the same time.
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The former city officials said Giuliani expanded the budget for his security detail at the time. Politico.com reported yesterday that many of the security expenses were initially billed to obscure city agencies, effectively hiding them from oversight.
The former officials told ABCNews.com the extra costs involved overtime and per diem costs for officers traveling with Giuliani to secret weekend rendezvous with Nathan in the fashionable Hamptons resort area on Long Island.
When the New York City comptroller began to question the accounting, Mayor Giuliani's office declined to provide details to city security, officials told ABCNews.com today.
"The Comptroller's Office made repeated requests for the information in 2001 and 2002 but was informed that due to security concerns the information could not be provided," a spokesperson for the comptroller's office said.
Appearing in public for the first time today, Giuliani told ABC News the accusations he assigned a police security detail to his mistress and helped to hide the expenses in the mammoth New York City budget "a pre-debate hit job."
"I'm sorry, but I still don't understand why they filed these expenses the way they did," he said.
Former officials close to Giuliani say he had "zero" to do with how the police security expenses for Judith Nathan, who he since married, were accounted in the city budget.
The Giuliani campaign said it would also provide a former deputy mayor, Randy Mastro, to respond to the allegations later today.
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TRYST FUND 'SICKENS' EX-OFFICIAL
By BRENDAN SCOTTlinkStory Bottom
December 2, 2007 -- A former Giuliani administration official says he's "sick" over reports that his little-known agency was used to hide taxpayer money that funded police escorts during the ex-mayor's romantic rendezvous in the Hamptons.
"The cover-up of this and the explanations for it have been so disingenuous," said Brendan Sexton, who chaired the Procurement Policy Board in 2000. The panel was charged $29,757 for travel bills racked up by then-Mayor Rudy Giuliani's security detail as he hung out with then-girlfriend Judith Nathan on Long Island.
"He didn't want anybody to know what he was doing. That's the truth. I don't care about his personal life - it's not shocking to me that he wanted to visit his girlfriend," added Sexton, a Democrat who served as sanitation commissioner under Ed Koch. ....
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2007..._taylor-1.html
Mayor Bloomberg's girlfriend Diana Taylor says no need for police escort
BY HEIDI EVANS
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Saturday, December 1st 2007, 4:00 AM
Unlike her predecessor as mayoral girlfriend, Mike Bloomberg's gal pal, investment banker Diana Taylor, has never had a separate police protection detail.
Taylor, 52, takes the bus every day to her midtown office and rides the subway to business appointments. In the six years Taylor and Bloomberg have lived together, she said she has never had reason to want or need personal NYPD security.
"I don't have security in Bogota or Nairobi or Moscow when I travel there on business, why would I need security in the safest city in the world?" Taylor told the Daily News yesterday.
Since the couple has been together, Taylor has acted as the city's unofficial First Lady, frequently marching with Bloomberg in parades, hosting Gracie Mansion social functions and campaigning with him.
The nearly 6-foot tall Taylor is often recognized on the streets and subway by New Yorkers, who shout out advice for her to pass along to the mayor.
"The only time I have security is when I am with the mayor at an event," Taylor said. "If I leave and go somewhere, like the ladies' room or to make a call, no one comes with me. I just tell them where I'm going so I won't be left behind," she laughed.
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