October 30, 2007 (LPAC)--Rudy Giuliani announced today that Joe Allbaugh is joining his campaign as a senior adviser on general strategy and homeland security. Allbaugh was formerly one-third of the "Iron Triangle," with Karl Rove and Karen Hughes, who were the powers-that-be in Bush's original Austin-based Presidential campaign. Allbaugh began to work for Bush in 1994 during his gubernatorial campaign, then, after the governor's campaign, served as Governor Bush's Chief of Staff, as National Campaign Manager in charge of finances for the Bush-Cheney 2000 Presidential campaign, and as Bush's Director of FEMA, before resigning in March 2003. Since then he has been the President and CEO of the Allbaugh Company, LLC and serves on the board of the National Rifle Association. The move is seen as giving Giuliani access to the Bush-Cheney organization.