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Rudy Rallies the Sunshine State

BY | Friday, January 25 2008

What an exciting time this is! All over the Sunshine State, crowds in the hundreds and thousands are packing Rudy events. It’s obvious that Rudy's bold vision for the future is catching fire and inspiring Republicans across the country.

To check out Rudy’s Florida momentum, please click here and visit Rudy's Florida page. There's video from Rudy's bus race around the track at Daytona, testimonials, Jon Voight and much more. 

Right now, Democrats in Congress are using an economic downturn to play on fears of recession and score cheap political points. Instead of offering real solutions, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton use class warfare to divide the country. 

Rudy Giuliani has a plan that will get all of America growing again. On his first day in office, Rudy will send Congress the largest tax cut in American history. Americans across all income brackets will benefit because Rudy understands what Democrats don’t; you make better decisions with your money than Washington does. 

Instead of laying out a clear vision for the future, Democrats, and their army of Washington bureaucrats, are trying to take us back in time. Back to a time of higher taxes. Back to a time of higher unemployment and excess regulation. With ideas like these, it’s obvious that the only change Democrats want is the change from your pockets. 

While Democrats pine for yesterday, Rudy is ready with an optimistic vision for tomorrow. Since the beginning of the year, we have had over 17,600 new supporters sign up to help Rudy to victory. Please forward this email on to your friends and neighbors and get them involved in Rudy’s Drive2Five. 

With little more than four days left until Floridians go to the polls, we need your help now more than ever and I wanted to take some time and ask you to get 5 of your friends to support the next great President of the United States, Rudy Giuliani. 

Rudy will keep us on offense in the Terrorists' War on Us. He is committed to Victory in Iraq and Afghanistan. Rudy will end illegal immigration and secure our borders. He will jumpstart the economy and create new jobs by cutting taxes and bureaucratic red tape. Rudy will make health care more affordable for all Americans using free-market solutions and he will appoint strict constructionist judges.

Rudy is the only Republican candidate to turn ever around an economy in crisis. He took over a city with the 17th largest economy in the world that was mired in red ink and saddled with double digit unemployment. He cut taxes and cut spending, the exact opposite of what Democrats recommend, and the city's economy boomed. Unemployment was slashed in half; businesses and jobs came back; welfare rolls shrank; and people had more money in their pockets. 

Only Rudy has this Republican record. The other Republicans have the rhetoric but don't have the record to back it up. 

America is history’s greatest defender of liberty, but Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are playing politics as usual using a “blame America first” strategy to divide the American people and narrowly win the White House.

If that wasn't enough, Democrats and their liberal allies at The New York Times attacked Rudy in their editorial announcing their endorsements for the primary election. Last night at the debate, Rudy said he understood The Times was just lashing out the way he achieved real results. Rudy cut crime, helped people off welfare and slashed unemployment by more than half. And he did it by using the conservative Republican principles that exercisce fiscal discipline and show true compassion and love to better the lives of real people. Rudy's success was a repudiation of the failed liberal policies espoused by the New York Times that caused this great city to stagnate and kept real people in a failed cycle of dependency. To watch Rudy on why he wasn't endorsed by The New York Times, please click here. To watch Rudy on why he wasn't endorsed by The New York Times, please click here.

In these times the American people demand more than politics as usual, they demand proven leadership. Rudy is the only candidate who's been Tested by crisis and is Ready to lead Now. 

On To Victory, 


Michael DuHaime
Campaign Manager
Rudy Giuliani Presidential Committee, Inc. 

P.S. Since the beginning of the year, we have had over 17,600 new supporters sign up to help Rudy to victory. Please forward this email on to your friends and neighbors and get them involved in Rudy’s Drive2Five. 

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