St. Rudy busted trying to further exploit 9/11...

[americanstranger]

They're running away from this idea as fast as they can - but don't you think the idea would have had to have been approved by somebody in the campaign?

The Giuliani campaign is being forced to distance itself from the decision of a supporter to throw a fundraising party where supporters of the Republican candidate for president have been asked to donate $9.11.

Abraham Sofaer, a State Department adviser under President Reagan, is holding the fundraiser at his Palo Alto, Calif. home on Wednesday, but he told the Associated Press that he was not involved in coming up with the “$9.11 for Rudy” theme.

Maria Comella, a spokeswoman for the campaign, said that it was “unfortunate.”

“These are two volunteers who acted independently of and without the knowledge of the campaign,” she said in a statement. “Their decision to ask individuals for that amount was an unfortunate choice.”

The invitation for the event, first reported by the Associated Press, described “$9.11 for Rudy” an “independent, non-denominational grass-roots campaign to raise $10,000 in small increments to show how many individual, everyday Americans support ‘America’s Mayor.’ ”

http://asia.news.yahoo.com/070925/ap/d8rs6hk00.html

There are two possibilities here - either 1) the campaign approved the idea and then disavowed it when the press started reporting on it, or 2) the campaign is so completely rudderless that they're letting 'some young people' run with really, really bad ideas.

Either way, that campaign looks pretty fucked up right now.

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[monktonman]

1. Reminds me of the flip-flops and the purple band-aids. n/t

[Old and In the Way]

2. Definitely 1)

Rudy would trademark '9/11' as his own personal marketing message if he could. But, just like a Republican caught in the media headlights, there is always someone else to blame. Yeah, "some young people" thought that up and forced them to use it. How pathetic. The real message is that they never accept responsibility for their actions.