December 19, 2007 (LPAC)--The tide is running out on Rudy Giuliani's Presidential bid carrying him out of the picture with each new expose of the mollusks in his closet. Today's Washington Post uses pictures of Rudy with his indicted former police commissioner Bernard Kerik on one side and their mutual former "friend," Lawrence Ray--a convicted felon--on the other, to reveal yet more legal troubles for the former New York mayor Giuliani. Ray, according to the Post account, solicited via a lawyer, help from Giuliani on his current divorce and custody disputes, or he'd reveal "damaging" information on what he knows from his dealings with Kerik while he was in Giuliani's administration, to help prosecutors.
E-mails have now surfaced, presumably released by Ray, showing that "former deputy mayor and longtime Giuliani ally Ninfa Segarra" suggested a lawyer to help Ray, an "implied quid pro quo" according to go-between Sidney Baumgarten. But Ray didn't act on the referral; he instead reported it to the FBI, the Post reports.
So the undertow of sleaze continues to pull Rudy further and further from Presidential politics, just as Lyndon LaRouche forecast that Republican establishment gameplan in his Nov. 10 bulletin, "Giuliani was Set Up!" LaRouche laid out there that Republican king-makers were using the Kerik case to bring down "Mafia creation Giuliani" to make way for New York City mayor and billionaire Michael Bloomberg.
Right on cue, in a CNBC contrived interview with Bloomberg today, the current New York mayor demurs vaguely, as he's basically begged to declare his Presidential bid: "I've got 753 days left to go in my term, but who's counting," implying he won't quit as mayor. Goaded a bit more to enter the Presidential race, noting he's an "unaffiliated" candidate which "the public, now fed up with parties" will consider a plus, Bloomberg says, Well, yes, "issues rather than party loyalty" are what's important and "the public is waking up" to this. Moreover, the mayor, discretely tooting his horn, added the next President needs to be somebody "that can take people from both sides of the aisle, get the best and brightest, pull them together..."
