Giuliani plans "taking homeless children away from their
Tom Boland (wgcp@earthlink.net)
Fri, 12 Nov 1999 21:43:24 -0800 (PST)
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The tag line of Giuliani's 30-second spot is: ``The compassion
that leads to freedom. New York's Rudy Giuliani.''
``Rudy Giuliani is trying to break up families by taking
homeless children away from their parents and has denied health
care and food stamps to the working poor,'' Howard Wolfson,
spokesman for Mrs. Clinton's political committee, said. ``If that's
Rudy Giuliani's definition of compassion, I'd hate to see him on a
bad day.'' -- from article below
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GIULIANI ATTACKS MRS CLINTON'S AD FUNDING, UNVEILS ``COMPASSION''
By MARC HUMBERT
AP Political Writer
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) _ Stepping up the attack on his likely
opponent in next year's Senate race, Rudolph Giuliani says federal
election officials should look into the financing of TV ads
boosting Hillary Rodham Clinton in New York.
``The use of soft money has been made into an art form by
Clinton campaigns,'' the Republican New York City mayor said
Thursday.
The blast came as aides to the mayor unveiled their own new TV
ad, this one titled ``compassion.''
The Giuliani aides said the ad wasn't an attempt to soften the
mayor's public image _ tough-guy, crime-fighter _ but designed to
tell people about the city's welfare-to-work program.
The tag line of Giuliani's 30-second spot is: ``The compassion
that leads to freedom. New York's Rudy Giuliani.''
It was reminiscent of Texas Gov. George W. Bush's use of the
term ``compassionate conservatism'' in his bid for the White House
and drew a rebuke from the Clinton camp.
``Rudy Giuliani is trying to break up families by taking
homeless children away from their parents and has denied health
care and food stamps to the working poor,'' Howard Wolfson,
spokesman for Mrs. Clinton's political committee, said. ``If that's
Rudy Giuliani's definition of compassion, I'd hate to see him on a
bad day.''
It was the second TV ad from the Giuliani camp in less than a
week and, like the first, is running all across upstate New York,
but not in New York City. Giuliani aides said the new ad, which
began airing Thursday, would run for at least a week. They refused
to say how much money was being spent on airing it.
The second spot comes just three days after state Democratic
Chairwoman Judith Hope unveiled the pro-Hillary Clinton ad financed
almost entirely by the national Democratic Senatorial Campaign
Committee.
On Thursday, The New York Times editorialized against the
financing of the ad.
``The ads recall one of the worst fund-raising abuses practiced
by President Clinton in his own 1996 re-election campaign,'' the
Times said. ``Mrs. Clinton should withdraw them or pay for them
entirely with money raised under the federal election law ceilings,
as Mayor Rudolph Giuliani has done with his first ads.''
Giuliani added his opinion as he participated in Veterans' Day
celebrations in New York City.
``Very often, the finger is pointed at Republicans, but there's
nothing like what was done in the last Clinton presidential
campaign _ money from China, money from elsewhere, money raised on
telephones in the White House,'' the mayor said.
In fact, the unveiling of the second Giuliani ad allowed the
mayor's campaign spokesman, Bruce Teitelbaum, to tell reporters at
an Albany news conference that the mayor's second ad, like the
first, was being paid for by the Friends of Giuliani campaign
committee.
Nonetheless, Teitelbaum refused to rule out the use of similar
ads paid for by the Republican's federal Senate campaign committee.
In fact, Republicans appeared to be backing away from claims
earlier in the week that they would file a complaint with the
Federal Election Commission over the production of the pro-Hillary
Clinton ad.
But Giuliani said he hoped the FEC would look at the issue.
``I'm willing to abide by the same standards for both sides. I'm
not willing to deal with a campaign in which there's one rule for
the Clintons and another rule for others,'' the mayor said.
Wolfson, noting that Giuliani's mayoral campaign committee had
been fined more than $240,000 by New York City's Campaign Finance
Board in 1997 for campaign finance violations, said ``Rudy Giuliani
is better at preaching than practicing. He should learn how to
follow the law himself before lecturing others about it.''
Recent statewide polls have shown Giuliani leading Mrs. Clinton
in New York, although the lead is small. Neither has officially
declared their candidacies, but both have been raising money and
campaigning across the state for months.
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