Rudy NY fundraiser flops

[jefferson_dem]

But first fundraiser in the city appears to fall short, while rival McCain announces finance committee

BY CRAIG GORDON
Newsday Washington Bureau

December 20, 2006

Rudolph Giuliani launched his presidential money hunt last night in Manhattan but struggled to defend his hometown turf from rival John McCain, who tried to upstage the ex-mayor by announcing his own big-bucks team of New Yorkers on the same day.

Giuliani's camp refused to say how much he hoped to raise at the $2,100-a-ticket cocktail party at the Marriott Marquis in Times Square, the first since Giuliani set up a committee to explore a run for president.

But supporters who attended the event said it appeared to fall short of the 500 or so tickets needed to break the $1 million mark, which several Republicans said should have been a realistic goal for a figure like Giuliani at a New York event, even one hindered by being so close to Christmas.

That wasn't the only problem for Giuliani, who earlier in the day saw McCain's campaign announce a 57-member New York finance committee that includes some of the biggest names in Republican fundraising in the region.

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[grytpype]

1. People are so sick of Rudy.

We want to put 9/11 behind us and move on, but 9/11 is all Rudy has to run on.

[wicket]

3. Before 9/11, NY was ready to run him out on the rail

Somehow, just being the mayor on that day made him a hero. It's all he's got!

[marmar]

4. Amen....

He was a punk who just happened to mayor of New York on 9/11 - he didn't do anything Dinkins or Koch wouldn't have done.
And he's still a punk.

[trumad]

2. .

[no_hypocrisy]

5. Maybe the big money remembers how Rudy had leaders of

Wall Street led out of their offices in handcuffs with the cameras rolling. Big money has a long memory.

[BlueManDude]

6. In the end he won't run