Giuliani’s “sketchy” activities.
From the New Republic’s latest cover story:
[A]ccording to Kerik’s former girlfriend, the book publisher Judith Regan, this friendship could come back to haunt Giuliani’s campaign. She told one of my tnr colleagues that Kerik and Giuliani would frequently discuss “sketchy” activities in her presence “as if I weren’t there.” Regan told my colleague that she would reveal the contents of the conversations in the event that Giuliani’s presidential campaign took off. (Of course, Regan has her own scandal-ridden past. But she also has enough p.r. acumen and notoriety to win an audience for her accusations.)
Bernie Kerik, Giuliani’s close longtime business and political partner, is likely to soon face charges for “several felonies, including tax evasion and conspiracy to commit wiretapping.”
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Great! Let the bidding begin! What do I hear for the latest juicy details? Who’s the highest bidder, the corporate infotainment, or opposition research for Mitt Romney?
May 19th, 2007 at 5:07 pmRIP
Here lies the Republican Party.
May 19th, 2007 at 5:09 pmCause of Death : Hubris
Heh.
What will Rudy do?
1. Withdraw from the race to spend more time with his family?
OR
2. Plow ahead and take his chances with the lovely Ms Regan?
I’m hoping for #2, but I’m kind of sick that way. :-D
May 19th, 2007 at 5:16 pmAhh, the Keric scandal rears it’s head again.
May 19th, 2007 at 5:17 pmThat’s ok, Rudy will just have to put on his red dress for the next Republican debates and the Republican voters will forget all about Keric.
lol
Perhaps ABC will buy and bury the story, like they did the DC madam’s phone directory…meanwhile, this is muck ado about nothing.
May 19th, 2007 at 5:27 pmIsn’t Regan the one who was going to bring the world OJ’s confession?
May 19th, 2007 at 5:35 pmGiuliani doesn’t have a snowball’s chance in hell of winning. That some Republicans think he could shows just how deep in denial they are.
May 19th, 2007 at 5:45 pmBOOOYYY, let me tell you!!
Do I know some shit about Obama and Clinton!
For real though!
… only thing is,
I promised I wouldn’t tell unless their campaigns took off.
Shucks. What are you gonna do?
May 19th, 2007 at 5:48 pmSo what does “sketchy” mean? I don’t think I have a lot of respect for someone who is going to hold on to conversations about “sketchy” activities until it suits her own purposes. If there’s been actual wrongdoing, which is implied here, isn’t it just as wrong to hang on to it until it’s worth the bigger bucks? Pathetic woman.
May 19th, 2007 at 5:50 pm#7 I agree….No matter how much lipstick you put on this pig he won’t make it past the primaries…Blessings
May 19th, 2007 at 5:50 pmI can’t find a thing to wear!
And my stockings have a run!
Oh, dear!
May 19th, 2007 at 5:50 pmNo matter how much lipstick you put on this pig he won’t make it past the primaries…Blessings
Comment by Sharon — May 19, 2007 @ 5:50 pm
For those who are visual learners:
http://politicalhumor.about.com/ od/ election2008/ ig/ Election-Funny-Pictures/ Giuliani-In-Drag.htm
May 19th, 2007 at 5:57 pm#12 - Briseadh na Faire
Barf….
May 19th, 2007 at 6:14 pmbrilliant. hahahahaha.
just last night on hardball, tweety was opining and definitely establishing the meme (mark halperin and ab stoddard were two of the segment chattermonkeys) that rudy’s past transgressions are irrelevant to the discussion because of the dire times and he wants a big strong daddy to protect him.
re regan — man, if these flaccid middle-aged whitemen are trembling now at the thought of president hillary, i can’t wait till judith regan comes on the scene. she will gut them with her well-manicured pinky.
fuck, this just gets more and more entertaining… seriously, this, the hospital room scene and monica’s testimony will all end up as episodes on law and order. mark my words…..
May 19th, 2007 at 6:22 pmIn 2000, I was pretty happy, because I knew for sure that there was no way on earth Beavis Bush could get elected president. Never underestimate the sheer credulity of the American voter. The media thoroughly implanted the “hero” stamp on Rudy and for a lot of people, nothing else will actually sink in about him. “Yeah, he wears a dress, but he stood up to them Ay-rabs!”
May 19th, 2007 at 6:25 pmRudi first had to admit to this photo and the video, which is a riot. LOL!!
Now he’s had to admit to playing dress-up two other times.
Will it play in Peoria?
May 19th, 2007 at 6:31 pmI have a hard time believing a grown MAN…
…likes to play dress upin women’s clothes for laughs even ONCE!
…but SEVERAL times?
…and you’ve got issues…
May 19th, 2007 at 6:48 pmI do not have issues, young man.
Now, be a gentleman and buy a lady a drink.
May 19th, 2007 at 6:57 pm“New Rule: Candidates don’t need to know the price of milk. This week, a reporter asked Rudy Giuliani what the price of milk is, and he didn’t know. Please, just because Rudy likes to wear a dress doesn’t make him a housewife. He’s been married three times. When he says he’s going out for a carton of milk, he doesn’t come back.” — Bill Maher
Another cut by Bill at Republicans in general:
“The Republican Party, besides Rudy Giuliani, Bush likes to dress up. He likes to be a cowboy, or Iceman from “Top Gun.†And they have something very gay, excuse me, going on with Ronald Reagan. I mean, they love Ronald Reagan in a way that’s just gay. I’m sorry. But, I think they want to put him on a stamp so that they can lick his backside.” — Bill Maher
May 19th, 2007 at 7:10 pmDressing up in womens clothes can be a lot of fun. You get a sense of freedom and your testicles will tickle. You should try it sometime.
May 19th, 2007 at 7:13 pmA year ago I was convinced that McCain was a shoe-in for the GOP nomination and I still wouldn’t count him out despite his recent travails. They’re all traitorous cowards for supporting this disastrous administration but unfortunately we can say the same about some of the “presidential” dems. I’m leaning toward Edwards unless Gore throws his hat in the ring.
As for Rudy, I had significant respect for him in the aftermath of 9-11 (although that was driven by what was known at the time) but he’s lost his mind by being on-board with the Bushies. If you had to say something positive about any of the GOP’ers, I’d say Rudy deserves some credit for his steadfast position on abortion.
May 19th, 2007 at 7:17 pmMr Coulter also likes dressing up as a woman.
May 19th, 2007 at 7:19 pm19 -
Real men wear kilts!
May 19th, 2007 at 7:19 pmi wonder if guiliani has a world-class temper like mccain.
May 19th, 2007 at 7:22 pmPeople in the New York metropolitian area have always known that Kerik must have something “serious” on Giuliani, to go from driver to police commisioner.
We all wonder what did he see or what does he know, that Giuliani cannot afford to get out!
May 19th, 2007 at 7:34 pm#22 — You ain’t kiddin’, babes.
May 19th, 2007 at 7:48 pmIs this the same Regan who tried to publish O.J. Simpson’s book
“If I Did It”?
She can do one on Ghouliani entitled: “Did I ‘F’ It?”
May 19th, 2007 at 9:35 pmOh my, a man in a kilt and playing the pipes and I swoon…sigh!
Off topic, sorry..Oped new’s for friday has a lot of good articles, one in particular is about our voting right’s and only 2 week’s to get some action done.Written by Paul Lehto..Lengthy but a good read..Check it out and do something about it..Please
Busy day, planted lot’s of trees out in the resort from pot’s in my yard, even heavy wind coulden’t keep me inside..
Met another new Navy man and his lovely wife, more on that tomorrow…..,Blessings all
May 19th, 2007 at 9:35 pmBut if Rudy did get elected, would we address him/her as Mr. President or Madam President? Perhaps this is just a ploy by the Righties to throw Hillary’s campaign off-course. W/ Rudy, they can claim they’re running both a man and a woman at the same time.
May 19th, 2007 at 9:39 pmHOODLUMS I SAY
POLITICAL -
SWINDLERS
BRIBIES
TERMINTES
LEECHES
SCUMBAGS
IN A CESSPOOL OF COMPLETE POLITICAL CORRUPTION
OH YEAH RIGHT
BECAUSE OF THEIR HARD WORK AND ROCK SOLID INTEGRITY,
GOD APPOINTED THESE HOODLUMS TO SERVE US
AFTER ALL THEY ALL KNOW WHAT’S BETTER FOR YOU THAN YOU DO
THUS GOD APPOINTED THEM TO RULE YOU
ENOUGH
TO MAKE
EVERYONE
AINT SAYING IT DUDE, JIMBO DUDE IS JUST CHILLIN MAN, I MEAN DUDE :)
May 19th, 2007 at 10:12 pm+ DUDETTES TOO :)
Help the republicans pull their head out a little…
http://www.ronpaul2008.typepad.com/
May 19th, 2007 at 10:18 pmHey, either way, Ghouliani wins. If he doesn’t succeed in stealing the presidency, he can always (ala Bob Dole with the Viagra ads) land some lucrative endorsements for ladies lingerie and if “La Cage Aux Folles” resurfaces on Broadway, he’d be a shoo-in to play Zaza.
May 19th, 2007 at 10:19 pmDUDE THIS GUY RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT
IS
SUPPOSE
TO BE ROCK SOLID INTEGRITY………………….
AND HIS PRIMARY PURPOSE IS A FLAWLESS RECORD, NOT A BUNCH OF
FAST TALKING SMOOTH TALKING SHISTERS AIMING FOR THE ELF’S POT
ALONG WITH ALL HIS BUDDIES WHO AREN’T EVEN QUALIFIED (LIKE MICHAEL BROWN)
NO WONDERFUL LITERALLY IT’S ONE CONVICTED FELON LEAVING AND THE NEXT TOTALLY CORRUPT HOODLUM/SWINDER (LIKE FRIST/BOEHNER/ETC
COMING IN….. WONDER IF EVEN ONE SINGLE PROMISE WILL BE KEPT OR
AS USUAL, ROCK SOLID INTEGRITY FORGETS AND BECOMES ANOTHER PARASITES IN THE CULTURE OF POLITICAL HOODLUMS/SWINDLERS
JIMBO DUDE ALWAYS SPEAKS THE TRUTH DUDE :)
ACTUALLY A LOT OF WHAT I’M POSTING KIND OF BEING HUMOROUS, HOWEVER WHAT REALLY COUNTS IN POLITICS IS SERVING US BY ROCK
SOLID INTEGRITY, HONESTY AND MOST IMPORTANTI IMPECCIBLE SERVICE TO THE PEOPLE, WHICH MOST OF THESE SERVANTS CAN BARELY SCRAP
UP A 30% APPROVAL
IF JIMBO DUDE IS ELECTED DUDE, I WOULD BE THE MOST HEAVENLY AWESOME SERVANT WITH ROCK SOLID INTEGRITY, HARD WORK AND
May 19th, 2007 at 10:22 pmHONESTY DUDE/DUDETTES……. JUST LETTING YOU KNOW, LIKE DIG MAN :)
Sketchy is such an interesting word.
May 19th, 2007 at 10:38 pmCould mean just about anything from nefarious to absurd.
Hmm, sounds like it might be right up JulieAnnies lane.
“Bernie Kerik, Giuliani’s close longtime business and political partner, is likely to soon face charges for “several felonies, including tax evasion and conspiracy to commit wiretapping.â€
And, formerly nearly our Nation’s Top Spy Cop (Dept. O’ Hogland Security nominee)
Kerik is also going to hell for helping spread that instrument of tyranny, the TASER.
May 19th, 2007 at 11:26 pmI think I will stay off the Ron Paul screw the poor bandwagon.
May 19th, 2007 at 11:49 pmRudy is a dead-dog anyways, because most Americans will NOT vote for a guy who cross dresses as a female with huge phony boobs.
May 20th, 2007 at 1:22 amIncoming British Prime Minister Gordon Brown will remove all British troops from Iraq within two years (before the next election) as a way of gaining back the trust of Labour voters, according to The Scotsman.
Since petroleum supply trucks come up from Kuwait and Basra to Baghdad and points north for the US troops, it is desirable that some Multinational Forces remain in Basra as long as large numbers of US soldiers and Marines are in the country. Tanks don’t do you much good if they are out of gas. Basra would be an unfamiliar and dangerous environment for US troops, and where to get and extra 10,000 soldiers? Without them, the US mission in Iraq could collapse unexpectedly from the south. (See yesterday’s posting for what a mess Basra is with regard to security.)
Brown will be abandoning the policies of Tony Blair, and the leak comes only a day after Blair promised the contrary in Baghdad (with mortar shells landing just before he arrived in the Green Zone). Blair’s muscular foreign policy and perceived subservience to Bush are widely viewed as disasters among his own party’s rank and file.
May 20th, 2007 at 4:07 amWASHINGTON - It’s gloomy out there. Men and women, whites and minorities — all are feeling a war-weary pessimism about the country seldom shared by so many people.
Only 25 percent of those surveyed say things in the U.S. are going in the right direction, according to an AP-Ipsos poll this month. That is about the lowest level of satisfaction detected since the survey started in December 2003.
Rarely have longer-running polls found such a rate since the even gloomier days of 1992 ahead of the first President Bush’s re-election loss to Democrat Bill Clinton.
The current glumness is widely blamed on public discontent with the war in Iraq and with President Bush. It is striking for how widespread the mood is among different groups of people.
May 20th, 2007 at 5:37 amAmericans Of All Parties In All States Demanding Our Congress And Our Senate Uphold Our American Constitution
May 20th, 2007 at 7:04 amOnce the NY firefighters and cops who are getting sick and dying prematurely from exposure to toxic smoke at Ground Zero following 9/11 start running their anti-Rudy ads, it’s all over for Giuliani. Rudy ignored the advice of his own NY public health department regarding the toxic levels at the WTC site.
Also, Giuliani’s sudden ‘rags to riches’ tale, partly due to his relationship to Kerik, will take the shine off of his ‘hero’ status. As Taegan Goddard notes:
“Rudy Giuliani, ‘who just six years ago told a divorce court he had only $7,000 in assets under his control, has amassed a net worth of more than $30 million, much of it from paid speeches,’ the New York Times reports. ‘Giuliani’s $30 million fortune is the most unexpected information to emerge from the disclosure forms so far.’”
– Taegan Goddard’s Political Wire, “Giuliani’s Wealth Biggest Surprise from Disclosures,” May 17, 2007.
Giuliani is a one-trick pony and that one-trick is that he was a ‘hero’ on 9/11 for doing the same thing any big city mayor would have done in a similar crisis. (Suffice to say that if he had been mayor of St. Louis or Kansas City, the NY-based Big Media wouldn’t have anointed him ‘America’s Mayor.’)
In the early GOP debates, his desperate and transparent attempts to bring everything back to 9/11 were annoying, even to some Republicans. This one-trick pony just doesn’t wear well.
Throw in the fact that he knows less about foreign policy than President Winky Dink (if that’s possible) and you have a candidate who’ll be fading fast in the early primaries as the GOP Base get as sick of him as everyone else.
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May 20th, 2007 at 8:02 amalso bear in mind Giuliani supports torture live on the GOP debates
May 20th, 2007 at 8:17 amHillary Clinton was on the Board of Directors of Wal Mart, the NYT reports today. She also took big campaign money from a person on the FBI’s Most Wanted Fugitive List, Ray Jinnah.
May 20th, 2007 at 9:24 amIt is realy to early to tell for sure but I don’t believe Rudy has a snow ball’s chance in hell of getting the nomination for the reich….No foreign policy back ground 3 wives, only one day of major service in N.Y. attached to crime member’s, agrees with torture and way to much visable baggage for the extreme fundamentalists christian’s to support..Middle of the road supporters are not going to support him just because he back’s abortion and younger supporters definately won’t because he isn’t pretty enough…LOL
Now if you all want something to worry about look to Romney, this guy’s got more buck’s than our own treasury and endless posabalaties to raise more through the rich mormon’s..He’s pretty, spout’s the family values stuff and the radical reich may give him a pass just to try and keep the reich wingers in…I personelly don’t care for him but would bet thousands of followers do…..I think the entire bunch of runners for the reich are tainted good’s and they need to start over with their pick’s but that just my opinion…Blessings
May 20th, 2007 at 9:55 amPillow talk will sink Giuliani. Judith Regan will use every groaned tidbit from Kerik to unravel the Giuliani “strong man myth”. How many feather boas can you hide in plain sight?
May 20th, 2007 at 10:40 am“Kerik’s former girlfriend, the book publisher Judith Regan, ”
Ewww…. Judith Regan is Bernie Kerik’s former girlfriend. That woman gives the term sleaze new meaning.
May 20th, 2007 at 10:40 amHillary Clinton took big campaign money from Ray Jinnah of the FBI’s Most Wanted Fugitive List. She was also on the Board of Walmart, the NYT reports today.
May 20th, 2007 at 10:43 am#40 - Tobey, Giuliani supports torture live on the GOP debates
I too would support torturing the GOP debaters live on TV. We’d see what they’re made of, or watch them give up all their dirty little secrets.
May 20th, 2007 at 10:49 amSketchy activities…!! Giuliani from $7000 dollars assets to over 30 millions in few years..he hit the jackpot big time..the ‘big cashing on story’ of course is 9/11.
May 20th, 2007 at 11:02 amIf it wasn’t for that…he will be selling used cars at one of New York car lots…but with Kerik and 9/11 he is now trying to buy the presidency. Now he is preaching ‘Family Values’, tough on Iran schemes…
Giuliani now touring the country looking for big payers to his campaign…but he missed the little payers..the firefighters…the farmers..when he didn’t show up as he was supposed to.
Since there’s no open thread this AM, howza bout this from DKos:
Re: Former South Dakota State Rep. Ted Klaudt
Like so many tightly wound repressed and mentally ill Republicans, Klaudt was preaching the moral superiority of the far right while he was abusing molesting children– his own foster daughters and 2 state legislative pages! He “faces a long list of charges: eight counts of rape, two counts of sexual exploitation of a minor, two counts of witness tampering, sexual contact with a person under 16, and stalking.”
Rudy, get in there and defend this predator.
May 20th, 2007 at 11:09 amI think I will stay off the Ron Paul screw the poor bandwagon.
Comment by JPark
No such bandwagon exists… I know I sure wouldnt jump on one that did believe in screwing the poor. If America ended its empire stance in the world and stuck to funding a DEFENSIVE military that concentrates on developing high tech and defense only we could afford to abolish the IRS and income taxes. The Fed gets only 1/3 of its money from our pay checks. Stream line the federal governments systems to reduce costs and you have saved even more money. Start a flat tax and the poor is taken care of… there is no IRS… no more attacking other countries for our own profit…. and maybe… just maybe we can get our Constitution and Bill of Rights back.
May 20th, 2007 at 12:56 pmComment by Slats Rona Hona — May 20, 2007 @ 9:24 am
But this thread isn’t about Hillary Clinton, is it?
May 20th, 2007 at 1:56 pmIf anyone needs to have their face rubbed in it, it’s that arrogant prick Giuliani.
May 20th, 2007 at 2:17 pmI can’t wait to read about his shady deals.
Giuliani’s judgement on the Kerik issue is just one area of concern. He asks to be judged on more than just the Kerik matter, so here are a few other areas where he has some explaining to do:
Giuliani fired Ray Kelly, someone who under Mayor Bloomberg has proven himself to be one of the best Police Commissioner’s in the country.
Giuliani also fired William Bratton, someone who proved as NYC’s Police Commissioner and now as Los Angeles’ Police Commissioner that he too is one of the best Police Commissioner’s in the country.
After the bombing of the World Trade Center in 1993, Giuliani never took action to repair the problem with radio communications in the towers. This failure resulted in catastrophic events on Sept 11, 2001.
During the Giuliani administration, emergency response and preparedness was a major initiative, yet after being advised of the need to designate a command agency at the scene of emergencies, Giuliani never did so. Michael Bloomberg finally rectified this situation after becoming mayor.
Giuliani also has to address the criminality in his administration, several high ranking officials other than Kerik have had legal problems:
Russell Harding (Harding was the son of the Chairman of NY’s Liberal party who was reward with a high ranking job in the Giuliani administration - he became involved in a scandal where major spending improprieties took place)
Fred Patrick (Patrick was a high ranking official in law enforcement under Giuliani and was caught in a scandal involving the Correction Foundation which was headed by Kerik - over 1 million dollars was mis-appropriated from a NYC Correction Department account and placed into the private Correction Foundation account. Patrick was imprisoned for improperly spending about 135 thousand dollars of this money. Although NYC’s Department of Investigation concluded that over 1 million dollars had been mis-appropriated, no one was charged with this crime.)
Anthony Serra (Serra was a high ranking official in law enforcement under Giuliani who was also a Republican party operative who ran political operations from his city office. Serra had been repeatedly and unjustifiably promoted, more than doubling his salary during the Giuliani years. He was imprisoned for his criminal activities.)
John Picciano (Picciano was a Correction Captain who worked for Bernard Kerik. He was named in two incidents - one a tax scandal where over 1 hundred employees were terminated for participating in it and the other a domestic violence incident as reported to the NYPD on a police complaint report, yet he was never disciplined or held responsible for these actions. In fact, records show that although he didn’t pass the promotional exam, he was promoted outside the uniformed ranks to a newly created position of Chief of Staff to the Commissioner, first in Correction and then in the NYPD. This promotion approximately doubled his Captain’s salary. Picciano was also involved in spending improprieties. He later left city service and went to work with Giuliani along with Kerik.
The Kerik case is complicated but news reports have made it clear that Giuliani knew of or should have known of Kerik’s massive list of mis-deeds. The failure of the Giuliani administration to properly vet Kerik for the position of Police Commissioner and then to ensure he received clearance at the federal level to be briefed regarding national security issues - both before and after 9/11 is damning. The fact that Giuliani later testifed in the Bronx that he had been briefed regarding Kerik’s file and that records show much of the negative information concerning Kerik was in the file is also damning. How could Giuliani have allowed this. Worse yet, knowing this, how could he have recommended Kerik for the position of Homeland Security Director.
May 20th, 2007 at 2:50 pmJudith Regan…the chick who was going to publish O.J.’s “If I Did It?”
May 20th, 2007 at 5:57 pmYeah, she’s real credible. LOL! What a bunch of jerkoffs! *Judith Regan* is gonna put a glove on Giuliani???????
By the way, Hillary Clinton took money from one of the most notorious fugitives on the FBI’s Most Wanted List, Ray Jinnah.
May 20th, 2007 at 5:58 pm