Giuliani: Cashing in on 9-11
Giuliani’s membership on the Iraq study panel ended last spring because he never showed up for a single meeting. This prompted the group’s chairman, Jim Baker, to say “If people can’t make the meetings, we’ve got to find people who can.”
On May 18, 2006, the panel gathered in Washington, but Giuliani was busy delivering a $100,000 speech on leadership at an Atlanta business awards breakfast. On April 12 he skipped the session to a keynote speech at an economic conference in South Korea for $200,000.
Giuliani responds? Yep, sending a letter to the Iraq study panel stating the he needed to quit the group because it was interfering with his “previous time commitments”, meaning his lucrative speaking engagements that included $11.4 million in 14 months.
Wow. What a ridiculous statement. Did Giuliani’s communications director take a sick day? At least it was honest I suppose.
According to an article in Rolling Stone, “Giuliani: Worse than Bush”, Giuliani pulls down $16 million a year, including a $2.7 million advance for a book about himself titled “Leadership”, riding the 9-11 wave. This guy is cashing in on 9-11 and is a leading candidate for the GOP nomination? It’s in plain view people; let’s open our eyes.
Giuliani is a classic, politically corrupt New York politician whose track record will certainly catch up with him. So for the GOP: Romney? Fred Thompson? Now Bloomberg is making noise as a possible independent candidate . . . all a better choice than Giuliani.