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High-Flying Rudy

By Jeralyn, Section Elections 2008
Posted on Tue Oct 16, 2007 at 01:36:00 AM EST
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Rudy Giuliani is taking his (or Judy's) expensive tastes to the campaign trail.

Whether it was $2,010 at the Greenbrier Hotel in West Virginia, $4,034 at La Costa Resort and Spa in Carlsbad, Calif., or $5,370 at the Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco, the former mayor found himself top-notch lodging.

He also doesn't like to fly commercial. In addition to $800,000 for charter jets,

He also spent more than $565,000 reimbursing various corporate supporters for private jet travel.

Check out whose jets he's using:

The biggest chunk of those flights came via Elliott Asset Management, a New York hedge fund known by some as a "vulture fund," so-named because they buy debt cheaply from cash-starved countries, and then sue them for the full repayment. The head of the firm, Paul Singer, is in charge of Northeastern fundraising for Giuliani.

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    Paul Singer is the same guy (5.00 / 1) (#3)
    by bob fertik on Tue Oct 16, 2007 at 09:23:50 AM EST
    who paid for the failed referendum campaign to allocate California's 55 Electors by Congressional District, which would have stolen 20 Electors for the Republican (namely Giuliani).

    http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/09/29/MNSESGGJB.DTL

    Singer is Rudy's equivalent to Bob Perry, the rich Houston homebuilder who funded Bush's 2000 "environmental" attack on McCain and then funded the Swift Boats in 2004.

    It takes a lot of gelt (5.00 / 1) (#5)
    by scribe on Tue Oct 16, 2007 at 10:42:29 AM EST
    to keep a prince(ss) happy.

    And then there's Judi... Remember the Vanity Fair piece on her, how she needs a seat just for her bag, on the planes?  

    Good catch on the Vulture Fund Singer issue.  

    At least Rudy (1.00 / 1) (#2)
    by Deconstructionist on Tue Oct 16, 2007 at 09:02:21 AM EST
    isn't lecturing us on the need to decrease our use of carbon fuels while sucking them down like iced tea in July.

    You've opened my eyes, Decon (5.00 / 1) (#8)
    by jondee on Tue Oct 16, 2007 at 12:19:54 PM EST
    Gores hypocrisy proves that Co2 trapping heat in the atmosphere is a hoax.

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    and your being stupid enough to put that in public (none / 0) (#10)
    by cpinva on Tue Oct 16, 2007 at 04:58:57 PM EST
    shows what a complete idiot you are. apparently, you're smarter than all the climatologists in the world.

    i sit in awe of your non-fact based statement.

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    Let's not forget about the electric bill!! (none / 0) (#4)
    by scarshapedstar on Tue Oct 16, 2007 at 10:15:36 AM EST
    He lives all alone in a giant house!! No staff or anything!! And his bill was high!! But let's ignore the price per kw/h because that would make too much sense!! The man BREATHES CO2 for christ's sake!!

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    I think (none / 0) (#6)
    by Wile ECoyote on Tue Oct 16, 2007 at 11:20:49 AM EST
    you mean exhales CO2.  If you can talk Gore out of his Gulfstream, maybe he could verify.  

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    ummmmmmmmmm, so what? (none / 0) (#1)
    by cpinva on Tue Oct 16, 2007 at 08:56:33 AM EST
    this ranks right up there with john edward's "$400 haircut", and hillary clinton's "cleavage", as a non-story. unless, of course, it has some bearing on his policy positions.

    this is the kind of utter nonsense, from the MSM, that gave us george bush to begin with.

    Al (none / 0) (#7)
    by Abdul Abulbul Amir on Tue Oct 16, 2007 at 12:13:31 PM EST
    "Rudy Giuliani is taking his (or Judy's) expensive tastes to the campaign trail."

    Are they up to Sharpton's level yet?

    You're inviting a visit from Ivan Skivinsky Skivar (none / 0) (#9)
    by Repack Rider on Tue Oct 16, 2007 at 01:12:27 PM EST
    Who will certainly tread on your toe.

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    With any luck (none / 0) (#11)
    by Repack Rider on Tue Oct 16, 2007 at 05:27:13 PM EST
    Giuliani will blow the entire campaign budget on traveling in style, and never bother us on TV.

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