Rudy Backer Asks For $9.11 At Fundraiser
Campaign Calls Amount Requested At California House Party "Unfortunate"
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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.
Democratic presidential candidate Chris Dodd's campaign said on Tuesday the fundraiser exploits the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks for political purposes.
Dodd called on Giuliani to refuse the money raised at the event, saying the theme "is absolutely unconscionable, shameless and sickening." A Giuliani spokeswoman said the $9.11 idea was selected without the campaign's knowledge.
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- CRUCIFIXION! American version
BARABBAS -- Mass murdering US President with his HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF DEAD BODIES IN IRAQ!
JESUS -- Talkative & Insane Islamic Iranian Preacher with his hundreds of MERE WORDS!
And the violence-loving Jews AGAIN yelled, "Crucify him!"
"Crucify him!"
"Crucify JESUS/amadenijad, the WORDSMITH!"
"And give us BARABBAS/bush, the warmongering MASS MURDERER!"
Some things never seem to change with the Jews. LOL
Message?
Americans, save yourselves from the wicked & wanton slaughter!
Extricate yourselves from the Middle East madness of endless vengeance and violence, which has been going on among Middle East war lovers for thousands of years now! - Reply to this comment
- CRUCIFIXION! American version
BARABBAS -- Mass murdering US President with his HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF DEAD BODIES IN IRAQ!
JESUS -- Talkative Iran Preeacher with his hundreds of MERE WORDS!
And the violence-loving Jews AGAIN yelled, "Crucify him!"
"Crucify him!"
"Crucify amadenijad, the WORDSMITH!"
"And give us bush, the MASS MURDERER!"
Some things never seem to change with the Jews. LOL
Message?
Americans, save yourselves from the wicked & wanton slaughter!
Extricate yourselves from the Middle East madness of endless vengeance and violence, which has been going on among Middle East war lovers for thousands of years now! - Reply to this comment
- Why does Dodd''s campaign care? I''m stick to death of all these politicians and their righteous indignation -- they are all such hypocrites.
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- Hillary Is Corrupt Like Her Husband They Just Cover up Good! With their corrupt corporate friends. This is why they are doing a media Blackout On Ron Paul because He Is For The People!
The censored GQ report must see the light of day. Hopefully, the author will let a copy slip into the hands of some talk radio star or even Huffington, since she despises Hillary. Clearly, it is imperitive that talk radio and alternate media, along with Fox, publicize full details of the Clintons'''' sexual crimes, along with details of Hillary''''s stolen FBI files, the 100k commodity bribe, campaign finance and other corruptions involving Hillary, since polls show that corruption is at the top of voters'''' concerns when voting.
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- to toldyouso21. I agreed with you right up to the second sentence in paragraph two. this tragedy is both sacred and special. 9/11 isn''t just a date or just a number. we are a country and people long known for remembering, and making special, dates when large and small tragedies or triumphs happen. that''s why we remember July 4th, December 7th, June 6th, April 19th, July 20th, January 15th, and on and on. your trivializing the date is just as tacky as the Giuliani campaign''s use of it for fund raising.
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- Ron Paul has it all.
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Ron Paul has it all.
He has NEVER voted:
* to raise taxes
* for an unbalanced budget
* to raise congressional pay
* for a federal restriction on gun ownership
* to increase the power of the executive branch
He HAS voted:
* against the Iraq war
* against the inappropriately named USA PATRIOT act
* against regulating the internet
* against the Military Commissions Act
He will eliminate the IRS, Wasteful Government Spending & Stop The Iraq War Immediately!
Most importantly, he voted NO on anything in Congress that is not allowed by the Constitution.
He is the only candidate not a member of the CFR!
Shouldn''''t ALL members of Congress uphold the Constitution? Aren''''t they SWORN to uphold it? You can bet Paul won''''t call the Constitution "just a G**D***ed piece of paper" like George Bush is reported to have.
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- Any candidate who doesn''t denounce Ann Coulter shouldn''t run for office.
She isn''t funny. She''s like the offspring of an unholy alliance between Eva Braun and Don Rickles--a neocon pin-up girl who uses comedy as a cover for her slanderous vilification of anyone who doesn''t share her narrow political viewpoint. - Reply to this comment
- Rudy:
1. Claimed he was at ground zero ''as much as rescue workers'' -- he spent more time at yankee games. He lied about site safety and denied health care to firefighters -- that''s why they hate him so much (though he will baldly lie otherwise).
2. He has zero foreign policy experience. His style would be a disaster. Think the Europeans hate us now?
3. Bernie Kerick (convicted criminal, liar, possible mobster), Judi (puppy-killing, husband-hiding, tiara-wearing phoney), and Confer Black -- from Blackwater is his security advisor.
4. His ex-wives hate him, his kids hate him, he cheated blatent on his second wife, announced his dicorce at a news conference, and did everything he could to spite and hurt her.
5. He is in Khazakstan doing fundraising for his campaign there. His law firm represented Chavez, who he claims to hate.
6. He will lose NY to any of the dems, he will never be elected to any office again, and he is just milking this campaign for publicity to pump his corrupt businesses. - Reply to this comment
- The NY Daily News reports that Rudy Giuliani is attending a 9/11 event tonight in New York City, with right-wing provocateur Ann Coulter. As Greg Sargent over at TPM Cafi points out Coulter has a history of attacking the families of the 9/11 victims.
Last June she attacked the 9/11 families by saying,"Do I have to kill my mother so I can be a victim, too?"
She claimed that 9/11 families would not give up their %u201Ccelebrity and notoriety%u201D to %u201Chave their husbands back.%u201D
In her book and on television, she%u2019s attacked the widows of 9/11 families by saying, "I''ve never seen people enjoying their husbands'' deaths."
http://mediamatters.org/items/200606080002
http://mediamatters.org/items/200606060006 - Reply to this comment
- Finally, some people talking sense! According to a recent accounting, 1.2 million Iraqi citizens have died in the current Iraqi conflict. Every family has been affected.
Americans should be listening to Roosevelt..."We have nothing to fear but fear itself," instead of the current Washington ideologues who are exploiting 9-11 and the threat of Islamic terrorists to expand their powers and to undermine our Constitutional rights. - Reply to this comment

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