BOOTYGATE METASTASIZING: 400k Amex Prepay Slush Fund Used To Pay Cops To WALK NATHAN'S DOG!!!

[Beetwasher]

--snip--

The Shag Fund not only paid for the 11 tryst visits to Hamptons.

-- It paid for hotel and other expenses for mayoral aides -- in addition to the security detail -- who also went with the mayor to the Hamptons on the tryst weekends.

-- Nathan's NYPD-chauffeured trips (without Rudy) to visit her parents in Pennsylvania, 130 outside the city.

-- NYPD detectives and city-owned undercover Dodge to drive Nathan around the city.

-- NYPD security detail for Nathan, personally approved by Bernard Kerik.

-- NYPD cops to walk Nathan's dog.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/060009.php

[Richard Steele]

1. K&R

[johnfunk]

16. Rudy & Judi should withdraw from the race and do a new reality TV show...

Sex on the City!

[Cha]

34. The freaking tv moguls would

prolly go for it!

[caligirl]

54. Love on the city's dime!

[calimary]

61. Yeah, didn't Olbermann's captioning department call it "Sex On the City"?

Amazing. NYPD officers assigned to WALK Her Majesty's dog.

As Randi Rhodes would say "UNBELIEVABLE!"

I'd say that, too.

For the love of GOD, who can vote for this man????????????

[NewJeffCT]

71. Sex on the City sounds like it can stick

I hope it does.

[Horse with no Name]

76. a republican

they are amoral.

[Cha]

85. Unfreakin'believable!

We knew rudy was an arrogant fascist A$$hole who skimped on radios for the Firemen but it turns out the money went for walkin' judy's dog and carrying her a$$ around town and beYond.

[calimary]

86. Now THAT should be repeated and repeated and repeated and repeated

and repeated and repeated and repeated and repeated and repeated and repeated and repeated and repeated...

"Couldn't afford the radios for the fire fighters, but he had plenty of money to get the cops to walk his backstage girl's DOG. "Family Values," anyone????? Zat what you had in mind, robertson?

Hmmmmmmm???

[flyarm]

79. actually..the "people's dime!"...that mounted to bundles!..eom

[dmr]

62. He needs to be prosecuted for diverting & embezzeling public funds

and obstructing the duties of police officers.

Rudy misappropriated public funds. He diverted those funds entrusted in his care and then fraudulently used those funds as if it were his own property. He was even sneaky and organized enough to divert his misdeeds by utilizing little known City agencies; places that that were probably less sophisticated than the larger, better known ones, and maybe even in awe of the Mayor's office. Agencies less likely to question, either out of awe, fear or gain.

There's no two ways about it. When someone embezzles, they lie. In Rudy's case, his deception was hidden behind the word 'Security'. When you're on the up and up, there is no need to lie and scheme.

Rudy belongs in jail - and very soon! He now has his eye on our (currently looted) Treasury; I've no doubt he knows plenty of ways to wring more dollars out of that turnip.

He is not an honest man. He is a liar, a cheat, and a thief.

[EFerrari]

2. That must have been one great dog walker.

:)

[Beetwasher]

3. Super Duper Pooper Scooper?

:rofl:

Man, sometimes I just crack myself up!

[EFerrari]

5. I hope you'll be here all week.

lol

[boston bean]

11. I think you mean "Super Duper Pooper Scooper Trooper", right?

:hi: :rofl:

[boston bean]

12. or maybe the "Super Duper Poodle Pooper Scooper Trooper" nt

[judaspriestess]

talk about screwing the pooch

or is it cooch?

[Dems Will Win]

4. It's a POODLE!

[Joanne98]

8. I knew you'd have a picture! LOL

[Gregorian]

9. With a gold necklace.

Oh wait, let me guess. The necklace was paid for out of the poodle shag fund.

[FatDave]

40. Now they're shagging poodles?

Jeebus, Santorum was right!

[Gregorian]

45. Haha.

A poodle and a saint Bernard? Kerik, that is.

[BornagainDUer]

28. I hate to burst bubbles...

but it looks like a cocker spaniel to me. :hi:

[rocktivity]

59. BornagainDUer said "cock"

Huh huh huh huh huh huh huh huh huh huh huh huh huh



:headbang:
rocknation

[kineneb]

63. yup, cocker spaniel

got to be one of the dumbest breeds of dogs around...far too inbred these days... brains bred out to make them look pretty, ugh.

[Inkyfuzzbottom]

84. I agree

As the mother of two wonderful standard poodles, that's no poodle. Looks like a cocker spaniel to me. If that's a poodle, it the most ill bred, ugly ass poodle I've ever seen.

[Kingofalldems]

6. Will Giuliani have to drop out

before the primaries even start?

[burythehatchet]

26. hope not

[Joanne98]

7. You know Rudy's ex wife is got to be laughing her ass off!

I hope she reads DU!

[boston bean]

13. Oh this is rich and she must be laughing her ass off! nt

[depakid]

22. You know she is!

What a campaign add all this would make!

[acmavm]

24. I've been wondering if she's been giving a little info to the media. I mean,

who would have a better right than the wife who had to demand that her 'husband' move his current concubine out of the home she and their children were living in? (Which is one of the nuttiest things I've ever heard of. Does Rudy think he's a Saudi sheik???)

[malaise]

33. I'm taking bets that she's

open for interviews. I'm betting her lawyers have the goods.

[JTFrog]

69. He thinks he's Tony Soprano. n/t

[Cha]

35. I was just thinking

about Donna Hanover who had the luck to get rid of roody ghouliani..she didn't embarass rudy 1/2 as much as the baggage queen.

[shadowknows69]

10. Oh, hell no!

Isn't there any way to impeach a candidate? Upstate New York can't get a fucking dime of state money but Guli pulls this shit. I want him in prison.

[senseandsensibility]

14. Jonathan Alter mentioned talking points memo on Keith

last night. He did so in a kind of infuriating, dismissive way, and didn't address the accuracy of the claims on TPM, but at least he mentioned it. As usual, the "mainstream media", even the ones who claim to be liberal or critical of * are still WAAY behind the curve. But again, at least he got it out there. I think this one might have legs.

[Dems Will Win]

21. LEGS!! You said the MAGIC WORD!!!

[senseandsensibility]

46. omg

Is that picture real? I was going out to eat, but I've suddenly lost my appetite.

[MADem]

64. That picture IS real (He likes women's clothes) and Rudy is

[DWilliamsamh]

75. I think I see the Virgin Mary in that Toast.....make a shrine! (N/T)

[tridim]

15. I can't imagine what Rudy would do with unlimited access to the federal treasury.

But I'm guessing on his first night in the WH Rudy would get naked and roll around in a big pile of hundreds. He'd probably order a dozen hookers the next night.

He is THE poster child for government corruption. Corrupt all the way to his soul.

[caligirl]

57. Judi move over, a new Eva Brown for Hitler on the Hudson! Love on the Potomac!

[Stephanie]

17. THAT'S IT - HE'S DONE

Gimme the fork, I want to stick it him myself.

[BearSquirrel2]

48. Too late ...

Rudy stuck the fork in himself when he decided to run as a pro-choice Republican.

I do think Romney still has legs as a pro-flip flopping on abortion Republican. If Huckabee gets money though, he will be the nominee.

[Spazito]

18. I am SO enjoying this!

It is even more fun that this is dribbling out bit by bit, it is like an ongoing episode of "As The Shit Hits the Fan" soap opera, lol.

[Octafish]

19. What did you expect? BFEE backs Willard.

Jebthro is looking to be "Veep."

Jeb Bush steers advisers toward Romney

Jeb Bush lends Romney a hand

Hope Willard carries excellent health and life insurance.

If they do run and "win," it's "Guten Abend, Amerika!"

[mcg]

58. Willard the rat?

this Willard?

or this rat?

[KoKo]

20. "BootyGate"....that's a good one! n/t

[Pastiche423]

42. RudyJudiBootyGate

is more precise.

[Blackhatjack]

23. Rudy's No Comment and Rough Handling of Press Means THERE'S MORE TO COME...

.... and Rudy is asking himself, "they love me, I know they love me, so why are the trying to bring me down with all this truth telling?"

[BornagainDUer]

30. You think this could lead back to the WTC#7 "love shack"?

[FatDave]

41. Bet you're onto something there (nt)

[MelissaB]

25. I think that's the best title of an article I've seen.

[scarface2004]

27. drip drip drip!!!

he also had the city take care of her abortions, and her newspaper subscription, using a phony metro transit fund!!

[Pastiche423]

43. Abortions?

Judi told her ex-husband, Bruce Nathan she couldn't have children. That's supposedly why they adopted Whitney.

[BornagainDUer]

29. Ohhhh, yeaaaaaa! Kick and rec this one. I am

just so.... :rofl: :applause: :rofl: :applause: :woohoo: :rofl: :applause: :rofl: :applause: :woohoo: :rofl: :applause: :rofl: :applause: :woohoo: :rofl: :applause: :rofl: :applause: :woohoo:

[Solar_Power]

31. NYPD security detail for Nathan, personally approved by Bernard Kerik.

No way. Kerik is such an ethical person, he would never approve such a thing

/sarcasm

[malaise]

32. I'm lovin this

:popcorn: Stick a fork in Rudy.

[malaise]

36. More bootygate

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003679459
<snip>
He noted that Giuliani and his senior aides Thursday "blamed anonymous bookkeepers for his administration's practice of billing the travel expenses for his personal security detail to obscure city agencies.

"But a top aide was unable to say why Giuliani’s administration and his successor's rebuffed questions from the city's top fiscal watchdog in 2001 and 2002. City Comptroller William Thompson said Thursday his auditors were 'stonewalled' by the Giuliani administration when they inquired about the unusual billing procedures, which he called 'disturbing.'

"Instead, Giuliani and his aides focused their attention on the issue of whether the unlikely divisions of the mayor's office had been reimbursed — not why the expenses were billed to out-of-the-way agencies such as the New York City Loft Board in the first place."

[opihimoimoi]

37. Its ALL OVER but the Shoutin...he is TOAST....She is TOAST...Both are Crumbs by now

[MADem]

65. Yep.....

[opihimoimoi]

66. LOL...burnt toast ...I love it.....

[malaise]

67. But but but

he's going to blame 9/11 :rofl:

[JBoy]

38. What's so great about this story is it's simplicity

No complicated nuance here for the average Joe to understand, and to know that it's wrong and makes both Rudy and Judi look like shit:

"Rudy used the city's money to pay NYPD cops to walk his mistress' dog".

[Cha]

39. Will the dog

owners give him a pass? Or will they think that maybe rudy ghouli should have forked over his own bucks for judy's dog walks? Stay tuned. The sage continues..starring the fascist and the beelzebub.

[caligirl]

60. Judi runs Rudy, A Whipped Man like no other, he HAS to take HER calls at the podium

[robbedvoter]

44. Shag Fund - please, oh, please everyone - let's keep this name - and make it stick!

It's too delicious to be lost!
Let's all promise - no posts on this without using "Shag Fund"
:rofl:

[NastyRiffraff]

47. I like Shag Fund too

I believe Josh Marshall originated it. It's a good one...instantly sums up the whole mess in two short words.

[BearSquirrel2]

50. Lets not forget ...

Lets not forget. Unlike Bill's "happy ending" in the Oval office, Giuliani's billing the city for upkeeping his mistress is actually fraud. It's a crime.

If the Democrats weren't salivating at the prospect of Giuliani being the nominee, the New York Attorney General would be all over this.

[robbedvoter]

52. The salivating is insane ! Look who's in the White House now! It's not like

we actually have elections anymore!

[AnnieBW]

56. Tryst Fund Is good, too

And KO came up with it.

[calimary]

81. There's also "Tryst Fund" - which Olbermann was using.

But "Shag Fund" is also good. As is "Bootygate." God, "Bootygate" gets more Booty-ful every time I think of it!

ALL of these are good. ALL of them. And they get better every time they're used!

:headbang: :woohoo: :party: :toast: :popcorn:

[eppur_se_muova]

49. He's looking more presidential all the time!

But someone needs to talk to him about timing.

[robbedvoter]

51. Gail Collins on this latest turn in Shag Fund:

"The city was at one point paying for police guards to protect and transport not only Rudy, his children and his elderly mother, but also both his wife and his mistress. Really, they were this close to assigning a detail to the family retriever and a springer spaniel he was courting down the block."
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/01/opinion/01collins.html?_r=3&hp&oref=slogin&oref=slogin&oref=slogin

[NJCher]

82. that's the one thing I can't figure out with the Ghoul

"The city was at one point paying for police guards to protect and transport not only Rudy, his children and his elderly mother, but also both his wife and his mistress."

Why is he nutzo over all this police protection? If I were he and if I were having extramarital affairs while in a gov't position, I would want to have the least number of people around. People talk.

Furthermore, why does he think all of these obscure people (like his elderly mother) also need police protection?

Maybe he really believes his own public persona (his Tough Guy image) and has everyone around him scared? Ego trip? What? I really don't get it.

The last person I would want around me is a police officer. Their attitudes make me nervous, not secure.



Cher

[caligirl]

53. Rudy owed Kerik one heck of huge favor for this too! - DHS head

"NYPD security detail for Nathan, personally approved by Bernard Kerik."





So what was Kerik's cut of the slush find?

quid pro quo for DHS sec via Rudy's pushing the WH.

[MADem]

68. You gotta wonder if the source of this isn't KERIK himself? Or Judith REGAN?

A lotta Judith's out there getting in trouble lately, ya notice? Miller, Regan, Nathan?? Judy is the new Monica, it seems...But I digress.

Kerik was "hurt" that Rudy turned his back on the guy when the heat was on him. Revenge is a dish served cold, is all I'm saying....

[AnnieBW]

55. And the Wingnuts will STILL Bash Hillary

and say that she's a power-mad psychobitch. :puke:

[mwb970]

70. God, I hope they nominate him.

Romney's an empty suit, an Giuliguano is wearing a ton of dirty laundry. I thought Republicans knew how to dress!

[deacon]

72. What will Pat Roberston do? He backs giuliani? hmmmmm n/t

[Olney Blue]

73. Future headline? Rudy bills obscure federal agency EPA for tryst with mistress

[calimary]

83. Actually, I might start worrying if I were Her Ladyship.

After all, rudy now has a pattern, does he not, of throwing over one wife for a backstage girl. The backstage girl better watch her back. After all, what's to stop him from throwing HER over, eventually, for some younger, cuter little courtesan? And if he had the power and weight of the federal government at his disposal to hush things up and move money around to pay for secret little love shacks, just imagine how easy it could be to cheat on her then?

And something else just struck me as I wrote that. I suspect that ANY "other woman" who stole her man from his now ex-wife would be looking over her shoulder CONSTANTLY, suspicious about ANY signs or signals that it's about to happen to HER, too. Could it be that this explains why she's always calling him on his (undoubtedly) private cell number at random times - to check up on him, where he is, what he's up to, who he's with? I tell ya, MY head wouldn't rest easy if I were her. Especially as he advances in power and prominence. Power is, according to some, the ultimate aphrodesiac. Imagine how appetizing he must increasingly appear, to other scheming opportunistic bimbettes with delusions of greater riches, pampering, and glory? Her Ladyship isn't unique, by ANY stretch of the imagination. ESPECIALLY if he becomes the nominee, or heaven forbid, president. I'd be nervous as hell underneath my designer "sample size" duds these days if I were her.

[Olney Blue]

87. Interesting musing, calimary. Indeed, this might be the reason she "calls"

him all the time- checking up on whether he in a "power" lunch with a "mover and shaker".

[Speed8098]

74. It's only the beginning

Get a load of Rudy calling the bus drivers morons.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=zT-ouQPgMmI

Here he is lying on the Letterman
http://youtube.com/watch?v=2ZfBl_CI7gI&feature=related

And of course the repub answer to everything
http://youtube.com/watch?v=vSk4SUpWVuY&feature=related

(edited to add more links)

[d_b]

77. Using cops to walk the dog

That's like something you see in a bad movie.

[Enrique]

78. maybe this was justified

was the dog getting death threats? :shrug:

[robbedvoter]

80. I think someone walked to the dog, called it by its name - and said things...

It certainly worked to get Judy an escort...I'm still waiting for mine! :rofl: