Here is an excerpt from a CNN report about Giuliani's travel requirements for his speaking engagements:
....Giuliani can command $100,000 for an event. That's how much the Student Speaker's Bureau at Oklahoma State University paid him last March. Plus, another $47,000 for a private jet.
In a contract obtained by CNN, Giuliani's travel requirements were quite specific. The private aircraft must be a Gulfstream IV or bigger. He didn't end up using them, but also requested in the contract were five hotel rooms, including one for Giuliani, that was to be a large two-bedroom nonsmoking suite with a king-size bed on an upper floor with a balcony and view if applicable........
....Years before Giuliani became a candidate, some of his speeches attracted attention, including one to the South Carolina Hospital Association in February 2005. After signing on, the event was changed to a fund-raiser for victims of the tsunami that hit Asia. Giuliani was reportedly paid $100,000 to speak and donated $20,000 of it to charity. A local Republican lawmaker protested.....
I almost forgot. Rudy's third wife, Judi, is a real piece of work. Vanity Fair had the details: ....Around the office of Giuliani Partners, it is said, Sunny Mindel, Giuliani's communications director, spoke of the need for providing an entire plane seat for Judith's "Baby Louis"—a reference to her Louis Vuitton handbag, which sits in solitary splendor on her travels....
Rudy and Judi sound like they deserve each other. Can you imagine those two in the White House???? Heaven forbid!!!!!!!
> Here is a little snippet on Fred Thompson from the New York Times:
...His critics, already pointing to what they call Mr. Thompson’s skimpy Senate record, might find even more ammunition in his campaign schedule. In his second week as an officially declared candidate for the Republican nomination, Mr. Thompson has made a languid three-day swing through Florida ending Saturday with the candidate watching a football game in Gainesville. The pace has kept him on a jumbo air-conditioned bus far more often than he is actually campaigning.
Since Thursday morning, when the tour began, Mr. Thompson has made no more than three campaign stops a day, with long stretches in between. In recent spins through Iowa, he kept a similarly relaxed schedule. Mitt Romney, by comparison, often does six town-hall-style forums a day when in Iowa.....
...Next week, his schedule has no public events at all, limiting his appearances to fund-raisers in Florida, Tennessee and Texas....
You can't really expect Thompson, who is 65, to put in a full workload! (Thompson doesn't look a day over 85!) My gosh, the guy must need plenty of rest to keep up with a young wife and young children.
Fred sounds like the kind of person we don't need for president: too old, too lazy, and afraid to work. We are already suffering with a president who works out twice per day, takes a nap, and is intellectually lazy. We don't need another one.
