{"id":9453,"date":"2006-12-27T14:50:34","date_gmt":"2006-12-27T19:50:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/9453.html"},"modified":"2006-12-27T14:50:34","modified_gmt":"2006-12-27T19:50:34","slug":"walking-pretty-close-to-the-exploitation-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/walking-pretty-close-to-the-exploitation-line\/","title":{"rendered":"Walking pretty close to the ‘exploitation’ line"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rudy Giuliani is going to have be awfully careful with stuff like this<\/a>. (via Eric Kleefeld<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Supporters of former Mayor Rudy Giuliani have started discussions with relatives of 9\/11 victims about backing him if he runs for president in 2008, some family members told The Post.<\/p>\n

The conversations have taken place in recent weeks, according to some victims’ families, who described the talks as “casual.”<\/p>\n

Marian Fontana, who lost her firefighter husband on 9\/11, said she got an invitation to go to a Giuliani exploratory committee dinner last week from a former firefighter working with Giuliani’s committee.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I certainly understand the political strategy here, but it’s fraught with complications. For one thing, as the New York Post noted<\/a>, there are plenty of families who lost loved ones on 9\/11 who have been “deeply critical” of Giuliani’s handling of the crisis, including holding him responsible for communications failures, placing the emergency response center in a known terrorist target, and not doing enough to protect rescue and recovery workers from polluted air at Ground Zero. The more Giuliani uses 9\/11 families in a campaign context, the more questions he’ll hear about these issues.<\/p>\n

And then, of course, it’s worth noting there’s a fine line between outreach and exploitation, and it’s pretty easy to imagine Giuliani crossing it.<\/p>\n

Stay tuned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rudy Giuliani is going to have be awfully careful with stuff like this. (via Eric Kleefeld) Supporters of former Mayor Rudy Giuliani have started discussions with relatives of 9\/11 victims about backing him if he runs for president in 2008, some family members told The Post. The conversations have taken place in recent weeks, according […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9453\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}