The campaign of Rudy Giuliani has just issued a statement regarding the federal indictment of its South Carolina chairman, Thomas Ravenel. Political Director Mark Campbell made the following brief remark on behalf of Giuliani:
“Our campaign has no information about the accusations pending against Mr. Ravenel. Mr. Ravenel has stepped down from his volunteer responsibilities with the campaign.”
We’ll keep you updated.
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Good luck sweeping this under the rug Rudy
Hmmm, crack selling sentences are way higher than cocaine selling sentences. Is someone behind the scences
changing the charges to give someone a break? Who changed the charges?
Rudy didn’t know Bernie Kerik was a mobster either.
Smells like Rove is around.
Rudys people are B-A-D-A-S-S! First he gets a NY mob boss to work for him and now he’s got a guy slingin rocks in bumfack South Cack. Awesome.
There won’t be any crack-level sentence. The serious crack sentences only go to black people, not upstanding
white boy Republican campaign chairmen.
I read the guy had 500 grams of coke. That’s more than 1.1 lbs!
At MSNBC the fact that he was Guiliani’s state campaign chair is revealed in the last paragraph. I bet if it was a Democrat, or worse a black person, or worse yet, a black Democrat, it would be the top story.
Grown up - just becuase he is a yankee you have to sling smut. He tried to pick an Honest SC Politician. Someone should have told Rudy - there is NOT ONE Honest SC Politician
just becuase he is a yankee you have to sling smut… there is NOT ONE Honest SC Politician
Actually Joe, this episode shows that it’s a bit harder to be a corrupt official in South Carolina than, ahem, “other” states.
The rumors of Thomas Ravenel’s drug abusing, bi-sexual exploits have been well known (I guess at least in Charleston circles) for years and years. Is anyone truly surprised? As Bob Roberts once said, “Don’t do crack. It’s a ghetto drug.”
Joe that would leave Rudy G. being elected to office down here by acclaimation if it were true
[...] minutes of Ravenel endorsing Giuliani. The Giuliani camp late in the day finally responded – we really didn’t know the guy was a crack dealer or whatever. Oops. Bernard Kerik was bad enough - the fellow Bush [...]
Kerik, now Ravenel. Blown off ISG. The world is begining to see the real Giuliani that NYers know.
Should we judge politicians by their own actions or by the actions of their supporters?Why do you “political insiders” attack Giuliani and Demint when Ravenel was charged with a crime? Why bash the people that Ravenel supports rather than Ravenel? This is why most normal folks are completely turned off by politics. The person people should be talking about is Ravenel, not Giuliani or Demint. If I was running for office, I would let the Treasurer of SC indorse and campaign for me too, wouldn’t you? How could anyone know that nearly 2 years ago he may have bought some cocaine. Are Giuliani and Demint supposed to have an inside source with SC law enforcement? Anyway, what happened to innocent until proven guilty or does that only apply to democrats?
David O. good point, selecting people for highly important appointed positions has nothing to do with political duties of elected leaders and therefore who they choose and the judgment used when doing such should not be an issue involved judging a politician.
- Note I am acutually being very sarcastic.
Dear Uniformed,
Please inform me. Exactly what position did Giuliani or Demint appoint Ravenel? Is there some law that a politician must appoint his supporters to a government job? So, if I support, contribute to, or vote for a political candidate I can expect an appointment? This is the reason that every politician that Ravenel endorsed is being attacked for accepting his endorsement. Ravenel’s endorsement is a sure sign that you are going to give him the keys to the White House? I guess I am the one that is truly Uninformed.
David O.: You’re trying a little too hard here. I’m a liberal Dem and I’m happy to see anything bad that comes Rudy’s way. But I do agree that Rudy can’t be expected to know that someone in one of his state campaigns is breaking the law.
However, you’re trying so hard to excuse the guy that you’re making it sound like they busted a guy who happened to be wearing a Giuliani button. He was the state chairman for the campaign, and yes, you do get appointed to that job. It doesn’t just go to the first guy who claims it. He had an important position in the campaign, particularly in a crucial primary state like SC. He wasn’t just a “supporter.” It is reasonable to think that he would have gotten a job in a Giuliani administration. How do you think new administrations get staffed?