Will Bunch, Attywood, January 31, 2008
He made more money with a flop than with a hit: Did Rudy pull a Max Bialystock on us?
For the last year, Rudy Giuliani has had the best job in America. In fact, winning the White House — and having to deal with those pesky Iranians and the $7 gas we’ll probably have by 2011 — would have been a royal pain-in-the-butt for the former New York mayor, who’ll never get to be president but spent a glorious year living like a king.
Check this out from last October:
Giuliani’s spending was elevated at least in part because he traveled in style. He often stayed in luxury hotels, spending $2,010 at the Greenbrier Hotel in West Virginia, $4,034 at La Costa Resort and Spa in Carlsbad, Calif., and $5,370 at the Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco. He also spent more than $565,000 reimbursing various corporate supporters for private jet travel, and another $800,000 on charter jet travel.
Isolated incident? Whatever Giuliani did, he did it first-class, even when his rivals like John McCain, now the frontrunner, were criss-crossing the country in coach. Here’s Rudy in the lap of luxury again, in the Gulfstream IV belonging to casino billionaire Sheldon Adelson, while check out this swank fundraiser that earned candidate Giuliani a fabulous trip to London….yes, THAT London. In the end, Giuliani spent a whopping $30-million-plus on what proved to be a most bizarre and quixotic quest for the White House, earning a mere two delegates. He capped it by spending a whole month in the dead of winter in relatively balmy Florida, while the rest of his rivals were freezing to death in New Hampshire, which unfortunately is what a poor candidate needed to do if he wanted to become viable.
Every true New Yorker is quite familiar with the plotline of “The Producers,” in which fictional producer Max Bialystock and his young accountant Leo Bloom realize they can make more money bilking investors to finance a flop than doing the actual work of staging a hit. Hey, you don’t think…
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Did Rudy Pull a Max Bialystock On Us?
Will Bunch, Attywood, January 31, 2008
He made more money with a flop than with a hit: Did Rudy pull a Max Bialystock on us?
For the last year, Rudy Giuliani has had the best job in America. In fact, winning the White House — and having to deal with those pesky Iranians and the $7 gas we’ll probably have by 2011 — would have been a royal pain-in-the-butt for the former New York mayor, who’ll never get to be president but spent a glorious year living like a king.
Check this out from last October:
Giuliani’s spending was elevated at least in part because he traveled in style. He often stayed in luxury hotels, spending $2,010 at the Greenbrier Hotel in West Virginia, $4,034 at La Costa Resort and Spa in Carlsbad, Calif., and $5,370 at the Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco. He also spent more than $565,000 reimbursing various corporate supporters for private jet travel, and another $800,000 on charter jet travel.
Isolated incident? Whatever Giuliani did, he did it first-class, even when his rivals like John McCain, now the frontrunner, were criss-crossing the country in coach. Here’s Rudy in the lap of luxury again, in the Gulfstream IV belonging to casino billionaire Sheldon Adelson, while check out this swank fundraiser that earned candidate Giuliani a fabulous trip to London….yes, THAT London. In the end, Giuliani spent a whopping $30-million-plus on what proved to be a most bizarre and quixotic quest for the White House, earning a mere two delegates. He capped it by spending a whole month in the dead of winter in relatively balmy Florida, while the rest of his rivals were freezing to death in New Hampshire, which unfortunately is what a poor candidate needed to do if he wanted to become viable.
Every true New Yorker is quite familiar with the plotline of “The Producers,” in which fictional producer Max Bialystock and his young accountant Leo Bloom realize they can make more money bilking investors to finance a flop than doing the actual work of staging a hit. Hey, you don’t think…
Read More Here