Rudy's Big Win In N.H. – A Dinner Raffle!
LITCHFIELD, N.H. -- Rudy Giuliani was surprised at a house party in Litchfield when presented with a raffle prize he apparently had won months before.
Rockingham County GOP Chairman Greg Carson made a small announcement as he gave Giuliani the prize, a framed lock of Abraham Lincoln's hair, who graciously accepted the historical artifact.
"At the Rockingham County Lincoln Day dinner a few months ago, we had a raffle, and Mayor Giuliani was nice enough to buy some raffle tickets," said Carson, holding up mounted frame with Lincoln's photo. "His name was pulled..."
Laughter from the crowd – and the mayor -- immediately drowned out Carson's remarks.
It turns out, when Giuliani New Hampshire Chairman Wayne Semprini was first told about the mayor's ticket being drawn in the raffle, he told Carson to check if there was anything suspicious and to make sure it hadn't been fixed.
"I told him the ticket was drawn by a girl who was the president of the New Hampshire Children of the American Revolution," said Carson.
Semprini had not been convinced.
"Wayne, she did it in front of everybody at the dinner," pressed Carson.
Semprini was still doubtful.
"Wayne, it was my daughter."
But Carson said it was one extra piece of information that assured Semprini the raffle had not been rigged. "He said it was okay…"
"Because my daughter is a full time intern for Mitt Romney."
Giuliani laughed and applauded himself at the story, and said he would hang the prize in the Oval Office, if he's elected.
And who knows? In 200 hundred years, it could be his haircut clippings that are raffled off at a New Hampshire political fund-raiser.