December 19, 2006
The Daily Troika: Rudy Batters Up
Ex-NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani will announce at the beginning of the new year that he has secured staffs in both Iowa and New Hampshire and planned trips to both states (Hotline sources, 12/19). Also, his fundraiser Roy Bailey said Giuliani "is considering creating a variation of the fundraising network set up by Bush, with more tiers of donors and a baseball theme."
Also in NH, Dem activists say they're getting postcards from Sen. Barack Obama. On one side there's a photo with a similing Obama among the crowd with a return addres for Obama 2010 campaign in Chicago on the other side. Here's what the postcard said:
Dear Friend,
What a day last Sunday was! Thanks so much for joining me in Manchester to celebrate the wonderful success of New Hampshire Democrats in last month’s election. The energy and enthusiasm I encountered gave me great hope that the movement for change that started in the Granite State has the power to sweep across the nation.This election represented the beginning of a movement to create a different kind of politics in this country – a politics that stops dwelling on what divides us and starts focusing on what unites us so that that we can tackle the great challenges of our time, whether it’s the war in Iraq, access to quality health care for everyone, educating our children or an energy policy that reduces our dependence on foreign oil.
Americans are ready to turn the page. This is our moment to write our own chapter in the history books, and this is our time to lead. It all started in New Hampshire, but we still have a long way to go, so please visit BarackObama.com to see how you can join me in this effort in the days and months to come.
Sincerely,
Barack Obama
U.S. Senator
(Hotline sources).
Gov. Mitt Romney spoke to the Boston press corps for the first time since Thanksgiving on Bay Windows-gate and said he's for an national employment verification system for employers to vet employees.
South Carolina social conservatives are concerned about Romney's 1994 comments not on "rights," but rather his words on "Reagan." National Review reports Romney tried to distance himself from Regan during the 1994 Senate debates, and the comments are circulating among social conservatives in South Carolina without much media attention.
Primary Source reports, and Romney's camp confirmed to us, that he's will be in NH tomorrow with some events that might be open to the press. Primary Source writes Romney will meet with smaller groups of NH GOP activists because there's concern he might be "overexposed," and therefore is opting for more intimate gatherings.
Sen. Sam Brownback meets with conservative activists in Dubuque and Davenport today. Then he'll head to Florida tomorrow to speak at the U.S.-Cuba Democracy PAC luncheon and meet with Miami Republicans. On Thursday, 12/21, Brownback travels to the Greenville, SC, area. He also removed his block on a Michigan Judge who attended a friend's same-sex commitment ceremony because he said he didn't realize his suggestion that the judge recuse herself from same-sex union cases raised constitutional questions.
Per a noon release from his exploratory committee, Sen. John McCain announced that he's brought on MI-03 GOP Chair Dave Dishaw as his grassroots chair for the state. Dishaw was the MI Chair for Bush-Cheney '04 grassroots operations and recently was finance chair for Secretary of State Terri Lynn Land's re-election campaign.
NM Gov. Bill Richardson was in NH yesterday, and he's considering a request from the Save Dafur Coalition to go to Africa to persude the Sudanese government to accept a peacekeeping force [SHIRA TOEPLITZ].
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