NYPost: Suite Life for Rudy: Hits Swanky Hotels Along Campaign Trail

[flpoljunkie]

SUITE LIFE FOR RUDY
HITS SWANKY HOTELS ALONG CAMPAIGN TRAIL

by Maggie Haberman

April 23, 2007 -- He's running for president, but some of Rudy Giuliani's campaign-trail hotels have been fit for a king. Giuliani, whose campaign boasts of having spent the least cash of all the Republican White House candidates, rented rooms at a string of high-end hotels as he stumped around the country over the last three months, his campaign filings show.

They included the swank Fairmont San Francisco, the Arizona Biltmore hotel in Phoenix and the Hotel Andalucia in Santa Barbara, where the campaign paid $2,457 at the end of last month.

Some $4,600 went to the Conrad Hotel in Indianapolis, a city where the candidate held a fund-raiser last month co-hosted by former Mayor Stephen Goldsmith, a policy adviser to Giuliani.

Despite light campaign travel in January and February, Giuliani's three-month tab on out-of-town hotels was $48,500.

While Democratic front-runner Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton had posh hotel stays of her own - including the Renaissance Hollywood Hotel - Republican Giuliani's campaign topped the $35,082 her team spent on hotels.

http://www.nypost.com/seven/04232007/news/nationalnews/suite_life_for_rudy_nationalnews_maggie_haberman.htm

[hobbit709]

1. When you're one of the elite

you don't stay at the Motel 6 like us plebes.

[panader0]

2. His three month tab just for hotels is twice what I make a year

to support myself and three teens. I just can't see rudy as a viable candidate. He's not intelligent, a bumbler, no foriegn affairs experience. Wait! That's what we have now.

[hobbit709]

3. That's why these clowns

have absolutely no clue when it comes to what the average working American goes through.

[TomInTib]

4. At the risk of sounding snobbish, those aren't such great hotels.

Come on, Fairmont, Biltmore or Clinton's stay at the Renaissance...

I would expect that they would be staying at better hotels than those listed.

[lapfog_1]

5. Before everyone jumps on the candidates for every expense

like haircuts and hotels...

it crosses my mind to ask "How many rooms did that cover, how many staffers and security and so on?"

and also... was there a fund raiser or speech given at the hotel where they were staying? If so, what would the cost be to stay somewhere else and yet have to travel to/from the event.

Last time I was there, the SF Fairmont was no great shakes. Living on it's reputation and Nob Hill location, but there are many hotels in SF that are nicer and more expensive.

Let's slam them for their politics and their political deeds (Bernard Kerik comes to mind) rather than how much money was spent on this or that.

[rinsd]

6. This is excellent. They are starting to hit Rudy on fluff (nt)