Rudy Giuliani doesn’t care about poor people

By Contributor Archive

Filed Under Race for White House 2008 on May 12 

The Huffington Post is reporting that a Giuliani staffer apparently snubbed an Iowa couple that had offered to host a campaign event after learning that their net worth didn’t broach one million dollars. From the original article:

On Tuesday Deb received a call from Giuliani’s Des Monies office and was asked to call New York.

“They wanted to know our assets,” she revealed, and added that she and Jerry have a modest 80 acre farm and raise cattle.

Later she received a call from Tony Delgado at the Des Monies location.

“Tony said, ‘I’m sorry, you aren’t worth a million dollars and he is campaigning on the Death Tax right now.’ then he said they weren’t going to be able to come,” Deb continued.

The Death Tax is a federal version of the Iowa Inheritance Tax.

The VonSpreckens then called Delgado back and told him how upset they were that the event had been cancelled, how much work they had done and that they had been expecting 75-100 people at their farm.

“I invited him into my home,” Deb said of Giuliani, fighting back tears.

I suppose it makes sense to address the issue of estate taxation with the people that are most affected by it, but what difference would giving the speech at a non-millionaire couple’s home make if it’s only bait for sound-bytes? Retracting an offer to visit someone’s home in the 25th hour is a pretty heartless move. But, to Giuliani’s Death Tax demographic, time is money.

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