Giuliani boosts campaign staff
Giuliani boosts campaign staffBY CRAIG GORDONNewsday Washington Bureau
January 18, 2007, 10:33 PM EST WASHINGTON -- Rudolph Giuliani is bolstering his presidential campaign team in hopes of silencing one nagging question hanging over his bid: Will he really run?
Giuliani is adding key staff in early primary states and about a half-dozen regional finance directors amid skepticism among top Republicans about whether he's serious about running -- so much so that they're reluctant to sign on with him, one source said.It gives people pause, it gives people hesitation -- people say, is he really running?" said the source with knowledge of the Giuliani plan. "If people take that as proof he's running, all the more power to it, because he is."
Another Giuliani source described the moves as obvious next steps toward carrying out the kind of national campaign needed to win the nomination. "There is a rapid ramping up going on, because that's what's necessary. It's very serious."
Giuliani's campaign has been positively low-key so far compared with that of Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), who appears to be trying to lend an air of inevitability to his nomination bid -- and to make it so hard for Giuliani to raise money that he simply quits.
Even former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney has been courting GOP activists, leading to talk in Washington political circles that Giuliani's campaign has been slow off the mark. Now Giuliani's camp says it will have national fundraising and communications teams in place in the next month, with a heavy emphasis on raising money in the first quarter.
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January 18, 2007, 10:33 PM EST WASHINGTON -- Rudolph Giuliani is bolstering his presidential campaign team in hopes of silencing one nagging question hanging over his bid: Will he really run?
Giuliani is adding key staff in early primary states and about a half-dozen regional finance directors amid skepticism among top Republicans about whether he's serious about running -- so much so that they're reluctant to sign on with him, one source said.It gives people pause, it gives people hesitation -- people say, is he really running?" said the source with knowledge of the Giuliani plan. "If people take that as proof he's running, all the more power to it, because he is."
Another Giuliani source described the moves as obvious next steps toward carrying out the kind of national campaign needed to win the nomination. "There is a rapid ramping up going on, because that's what's necessary. It's very serious."
Giuliani's campaign has been positively low-key so far compared with that of Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), who appears to be trying to lend an air of inevitability to his nomination bid -- and to make it so hard for Giuliani to raise money that he simply quits.
Even former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney has been courting GOP activists, leading to talk in Washington political circles that Giuliani's campaign has been slow off the mark. Now Giuliani's camp says it will have national fundraising and communications teams in place in the next month, with a heavy emphasis on raising money in the first quarter.
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