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Tuesday, April 18, 2006
Made for each other
Giuliani to star at Reed fundraiser
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
What do a former New York mayor who’d like the Republican presidential nomination and a former Christian Coalition director who’d like to be lieutenant governor see in each other?
Opportunity, is the feeling we get from a photo of a beaming Rudolph Giuliani, shaking hands with Ralph Reed. The photo goes with an invitation to a May 18 fundraiser at which Giuliani is the featured attraction.
For Giuliani, it’s an opportunity to get some cred with the sort of Republicans he didn’t have to worry about in any of the five buroughs. And for Reed, there’s that Rudy star power.
As the late Lee Atwater used to say, it’s a big tent. Giuliani’s a big draw all over the GOP these days. He did an event for embattled Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum Wednesday, and he has a big fundraiser in New York for California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger next week.
There’s a ton of check-writing power on the co-chair and host committee lists for the Reed event, too. This should be a big one: prices range from $100 for a single luncheon ticket to $5,000 for a platinum sponsor, which gets you five tickets to the VIP reception, a table for 10 at the luncheon, the chance to get your picture taken with the politicians, and a spot in the program.
Conservative strudel
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Politics by its nature – that is, the sort of politics we do, with elections and so forth – is an intramural sport. Every now and then parties of different countries do develop a relationship, however. There was the courtship of the Reagan Republicans and the Thatcher Tories, followed by the apprenticeship of the Blair Laborites to the Clinton Democrats.
So we were interested to see that as part of a Washington conference this week, the Young Republican National Federation is having a cocktail party at the German Embassy.
“We are excited to join the German Embassy in commemorating the election of Angela Merkel, Germany’s new chancellor from the socially conservative Christian Democratic Union,� federation chairman Nicolee Ambrose said in a release.
Wonder what Bush’s numbers are in Bavaria?
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You’ve read the review, now see the movie
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Here’s the 30-second TV ad from Georgians for Truth, attacking Gov. Sonny Perdue. This is what’s caused all the internal stir among Democrats. Let us know what you think.
