Giuliani Changes His Story SEVEN TIMES! Joliet Jake: I ran out of gas. I, I had a flat tire (etc.)

[Dems Will Win]

Jake: No I didn't. Honest... I ran out of gas. I, I had a flat tire. I didn't have enough money for cab fare. My tux didn't come back from the cleaners. An old friend came in from out of town. Someone stole my car. There was an earthquake. A terrible flood. Locusts. IT WASN'T MY FAULT, I SWEAR TO GOD.

From the DNC:

NEWEST: IT WAS THE COPS! "I HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH THE HANDLING OF THEIR RECORDS. Giuliani was asked: "They say the report says you took trips to the Hampton's, expensed the cost of your police detail to obscure city offices. One, that is true? If so, is it appropriate? Referring to his security detail, he said "They put in their records. They handled them in the way they handled them. I had nothing to do with the handling of their records. They were handled as far as I know perfectly appropriately."

REALITY: Giuliani's Office Refused Auditors Document Requests. But in 2002, writing to newly elected Mayor Michael Bloomberg, the City's Comptroller wrote that "The Mayor's Office refused to provide my auditors with supporting documentation for the payments" under investigation. <1/24/02 letter>

REALITY: Team Giuliani Keeps Changing Their Answers.

EARLIER THEY TRIED THESE ANSWERS

TRY THIS: "SECURITY." In 2001 and 2002, when city auditors questioned the expenses, the mayor's office refused to provide the documents, citing "security."

TRY THIS: "ACCOUNTING." Speaking with the Politico, which broke the story, "A Giuliani aide...denied that the unorthodox billing practices were aimed at hiding the expenses, citing 'accounting.'"

TRY THIS: "COMMON PRACTICE." Denying charges to the CBS Evening News, the Giuliani campaign said "this is common practice."

TRY THIS "HE DID EVERYTHING APPROPRIATE." Campaign surrogate Congressman Peter King told ABC: "The mayor did absolutely nothing improper, he did everything appropriate, the NYPD did everything appropriate. And even if you read the story carefully it does not say the mayor billed anyone for anything. But again, Mayor Giuliani and his staff, city hall will give a definitive answer. But I can assure you now that everything was done properly and there is absolutely nothing to it." <"Political Radar," ABCNews.com, 11/28/07>

TRY THIS: "LEGITIMATE EXPENSES," "FACT OF LIFE" The evening the story broke, top Giuliani aide Tony Carbonetti told the Associated Press that "these were all legitimate expenses incurred in protecting the mayor, and his police detail covered him wherever he went, 24/7." He continued to say "You just do what you do and the police go with you. That's just a fact of life when you're the mayor of New York."

TRY THIS: WE'LL INVESTIGATE. Carbonetti then told reporters in the same time period "that he has ordered an investigation, and "he does not know why the charges were accounted for" in this way. He continued to say "I first learned the fact of this today," and while he had "heard about something like this a few days ago" he "was told it was being handled." <"The Trail," WashingtonPost.com, 11/28/07>

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/11/28/234619/84

Please recommend for Day Two of the Spin Cycle!

[havocmom]

1. K&R

It's not the philandering. It's the philandering on the tax payers' dime.

Keep it out there. Make it common subject at water coolers across the country.

Rudy boinked mistress and funds for the most vulnerable were used to hide the security costs.

[Dems Will Win]

2. What really gets me is the $400,000 embezzled from the Advocates for the indigent!

And of course the $10,000 stolen from the Aid for the Disabled.

Republican Values!

[havocmom]

4. Yep, stealing from $ budgeted for the most vulnerable so they can hide his philandering

There is sex in prison, isn't there? If he likes fucking on the taxpayer dime....

[lpbk2713]

3. Here ya go, Rudy.

Enjoy.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

5. K&R! nt

[robinlynne]

6. I like it. Bye Bye Mr. 9/11.

[Dems Will Win]

7. Buh-bye!

[Dems Will Win]

8. This is a lot like the Kerik scandal

[Dems Will Win]

9. kick