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Squeeze Play
BY Josh Israel | January 11, 2008
Several senior aides to Republican candidate Rudy Giuliani are forgoing paychecks this month, but his campaign denies that it is tight on cash, the Associated Press reports. Giuliani did not finish in the GOP’s top three in either the Iowa caucus or the New Hampshire primary.
Midcourse Correction
BY Caitlin Ginley | December 17, 2007
Republican Rudy Giuliani has cut his spending on advertising for the New Hampshire primary nearly in half, The Nashua Telegraph reports. An aide to Giuliani tells the Washington-based Politico that the campaign plans to channel more resources into Florida and focus on the February 5 primaries.
Opportunity Knocks
BY Josh Israel | December 13, 2007
Republican Rudy Giuliani’s consulting firm, Giuliani Partners, raked in more than $30 million in a single year for its door-opening efforts on behalf of Seisint, Inc., a data-mining firm in Boca Raton, Florida, Time magazine reports. “Nobody knew us; everybody knew him,” it quotes a major shareholder as saying. “It was an unbelievable fit.”
A Loaded Lot
BY Josh Israel | December 10, 2007
The seven front-runners in the 2008 presidential race — Democrats Hillary Clinton, John Edwards, and Barack Obama, and Republicans Rudy Giuliani, John McCain, Mitt Romney, and Fred Thompson — “all have assets that would place them in the nation’s top 10 percent of households, and most of them in the top 0.5 percent,” Money magazine reports. Romney leads the pack with assets of $92.3 million to $276.2 million, plus three homes valued at $18.7 million.
Giuliani: The Bare Necessities
BY Josh Israel | December 09, 2007
Republican Rudy Giuliani tells NBC’s Tim Russert on Meet the Press that he will not sever his ties with Giuliani Partners, his lobbying firm, or identify the firm’s clients. With regard to personal financial disclosure, he says, “I’m not doing more than what is absolutely required.”



