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Some of Rudy Giuliani's execrable young supporters are using the September 11th attacks to fundraise for the former New York mayor:
A supporter of Rudy Giuliani's is throwing a party that aims to raise $9.11 per person for the Republican's presidential campaign.Abraham Sofaer is having a fundraiser at his Palo Alto, Calif., home on Wednesday, when Giuliani backers across the country are participating in the campaign's national house party night.But Sofaer said he had nothing to do with the "$9.11 for Rudy" theme."There are some young people who came up with it," Sofaer said when reached by telephone Monday evening. He referred other questions to Giuliani's campaign....Giuliani's campaign had no immediate comment.According to the invitation, "$9.11 for Rudy" is an "independent, non-denominational grass-roots campaign to raise $10,000 in small increments to show how many individual, everyday Americans support `America's Mayor.'"They're running ads condemning MoveOn but have no comment on this?
UPDATE: A later version of the A.P. story has Giuliani spokeswoman Maria Comella's response: "These are two volunteers who acted independently of and without the knowledge of the campaign. Their decision to ask individuals for that amount was an unfortunate choice."
--Garance Franke-Ruta
