Giuliani to Be Partner in Texas Law Firm

[Newsjock]

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/30/nyregion/30rudy.html?

By PATRICK D. HEALY
Published: March 30, 2005

ALBANY, March 29 - Rudolph W. Giuliani's empire is expanding with a high-profile new venture: Mr. Giuliani, the former mayor of New York, is becoming a partner in a politically connected Texas law firm and will open its Manhattan office in May.

The Houston law firm, Bracewell & Patterson, employs several prominent Republicans and former members of the Bush administration and has a roster of oil, gas and banking clients that once included Enron. It will be renamed Bracewell & Giuliani this week and open a 25,000-square-foot Midtown office in May with an initial complement of 20 lawyers, said the firm's managing partner, Patrick C. Oxford. The Midtown site has not been chosen, he said.

... In recent years the firm has expanded its Washington presence, increasing its lobbying portfolio and also moving into homeland security issues. Mr. Oxford said Mr. Giuliani would work on finance and business issues, though, and would not lobby.

The firm has added several other prominent Republicans and former Bush administration officials, including Marc Racicot, who was chairman of President Bush's re-election campaign in 2004 and a Republican National Committee chairman, and Lisa Jaeger, a former top adviser and acting general counsel of the federal Environmental Protection Agency.

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[autorank]

1. What a schmuck! Some New Yorker he is.

[lovuian]

2. Getting in position to be Governor of Texas!!!

I can see a NY in charge of Texas HA HA HA!!!

[LosinIt]

3. What'd they do 'suicide' Mr. Patterson??

drop him off a tall building?

[UL_Approved]

4. Damn, this is a find.

What else will we see from the patronage policy of Bush?

This explains nearly all of the behavior out of this guy.

BTW: For those who don't know, Mr. Marc Racicot, RNC chair, former Montana governor, Republican dirtball.

He was tied directly to Enron, and put our state at 48/50 in terms of economic activity.

We also had our own version of Enron, it was called Montana Power.

And, as luck would have it, phony holdings for this company were put in EZ-Bake oven known as Arthur Anderson...

[sandnsea]

8. Does Racicot shock you?

I never voted for him, but I thought he was a fairly moral human being. I left MT during his first term and didn't experience the full joy of deregulation and all the rest. But I still just want to smack Marc Racicot and say "What the hell kind of Montanan ARE YOU???" Don't you? Conrad Burns is stupid and snakey, but he doesn't even seem as big a whore as Racicot.

[UL_Approved]

11. Oh, I don't know about that

Remember the Qwest dealings from 1998-2001? Remember how he got to have a stake in the company and how it didn't pan out. Qwest just barely avoided bankruptcy and still hangs in there precariously. But a news article I saw really puts it home about ol' Transplant Burns:

http://www.dailychronicle.com/articles/2005/03/29/news/02money.txt

[sandnsea]

12. That's Tom Delay stuff

We need to hook Burns in and bury him with that. And what Qwest dealings? I was in Oregon by 1998. I'm full aware of Qwest economics, but who had dealings with them?

[UL_Approved]

14. Are you referring to the link above?

The link I supplied should be in the Bozeman Daily Chronicle, and involves the bribe incident. I know that Burns had some pretty direct involvement in the Qwest antics.

As for Enron dealings, I really don't have an article to post now. I need to dig on the Racicot involvement in Enron. And tying into Montana Power wouldn't be a bad step either.

[babzilla]

5. I guess Patterson got demoted

"The Houston law firm, Bracewell & Patterson, employs several prominent Republicans and former members of the Bush administration and has a roster of oil, gas and banking clients that once included Enron. It will be renamed Bracewell & Giuliani this week and open a 25,000-square-foot Midtown office in May with an initial complement of 20 lawyers, said the firm's managing partner, Patrick C. Oxford. The Midtown site has not been chosen, he said."


Tough luck Patterson.

[Clark2008]

6. The way to Saudi Arabia, the new owners of the American Empire, is

through Houston.
Duh!

[NYC]

7. It seems to be.

[leftofthedial]

9. the holding tank for the next BFEE coup

[Benson]

10. Presidential Politics 2008. Hillary did the same thing.

Establish residency in a state with a lot of electoral votes.
Texas is about as safe a GOP state as there is.
First step to carrying the south...become a native son.

The estimed Mr Dean said never give up on states or voters...I think we should use his NYC roots against him. Like the comercial where a cowboy looks at a jar of salsa, and says in disbelief, "New York City?!"

[truthisfreedom]

13. the esteemed Dr. Dean.