COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.—Former New York mayor and Republican presidential hopeful Rudy Giuliani is scheduled to make a stop here next week.
Giuliani’s visit Aug. 10 at a $250 a person lunch reception at The Broadmoor is part of an effort to bring all the Republican front-runners to town, said County Clerk and Recorder Bob Balink, a member of the event host committee. Giuliani will also attend a private round-table for $1,000 donors at the home of Sinton Dairy executive Joel Midkiff.
“I’d love to think many presidential wannabes want to come through here so we can be more informed rather than just seeing them on TV,” Balink said
Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney spoke July 18 at the county GOP’s Lincoln Day Dinner.
Giuliani’s visit is scheduled nearly three months after Colorado Springs-based Focus on the Family founder James Dobson slammed the ex-mayor in an online column and said he would not vote for Giuliani should he win the Republican nomination.
Speaking as a private citizen, Dobson called Giuliani an “unapologetic supporter of abortion on demand” and criticized him for signing a bill in 1997 creating domestic-partnership benefits in New York City. He said there were other “moral concerns” with Giuliani, including that he’s on his third marriage.
Giuliani has urged Republican voters to look beyond the differences they have with him on social issues and said it was important to respect those with whom one disagrees.
