Bloomberg didn’t, but Rudy did. Bloomberg’s girlfriend takes the bus (h/t TPM). Ms. Judy wouldn’t think of it.
Unlike her predecessor as mayoral girlfriend, Mike Bloomberg’s gal pal, investment banker Diana Taylor, has never had a separate police protection detail.
Taylor, 52, takes the bus every day to her midtown office and rides the subway to business appointments. In the six years Taylor and Bloomberg have lived together, she said she has never had reason to want or need personal NYPD security.
I was writing some notes while
on the phone waiting for customer service to deliver on something that still
isn’t happening, musing about Rudy’s week. Worst.
Week. Ever. That’s what I came up with, which is exactly what Steve Benen
blasted on TPM yesterday, with quite a run down of the week. It’s hard to pick a favorite, but
Rudy’s $400,000 prepayment
to AmEx is close.
The unusually large prepayment, as yet unreported, adds weight to the theory
that the Giuliani administration was using accounting gimmicks to obscure
his office’s travel expenditures.
But backtracking, it’s just the whip cream on top of a very revealing week.
Monday headline:
Giuliani Firm Fights for Washington Money He Vows to Eliminate
Tuesday headline:
Out of Spotlight, Giuliani Embraces Convicted Moneyman
Wednesday reality: Rudy tanking in Iowa
and in a dog fight in New
Hampshire, because Romney is kicking his butt, as Rudy is cratering
in South Carolina.
Then Politico
busted Rudy’s tryst fund frolicking, aka “Shag fund,” as TPM cristened
it.
Wayne Barrett of the Village Voice came next, blowing
Mr. 9/11′s cover to smithereens.
The contradictory and stunning reality is that Giuliani Partners, the consulting
company that has made Giuliani rich, feasts at the Qatar trough, doing business
with the ministry run by the very member of the royal family identified in
news and government reports as having concealed KSM—the terrorist mastermind
who wired funds from Qatar to his nephew Ramzi Yousef prior to the 1993 bombing
of the World Trade Center, and who also sold the idea of a plane attack on
the towers to Osama bin Laden—on his Qatar farm in the mid-1990s.
Not good when “America’s Mayor” is caught hanging out with terrorists
for cash.
To end the week, Rudy got blasted for bloviating on his
crime statistics that were anything but what he’d bragged about: Citing
Statistics, Giuliani Misses Time and Again. That’s an understatement.
All of these statements are incomplete, exaggerated or just plain wrong.
And while, to be sure, all candidates use misleading statistics from time
to time, Mr. Giuliani has made statistics a central part of his candidacy
as he campaigns on his record.
To finish
this list off see Giuliani’s Top 10 “Shag Fund” excuses —
and why they’re wrong. Rudy is a gift that keeps on giving to his opponents, on both sides of the aisle.
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