Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani’s top finance official is out in a staff shakeup just days before the fundraising deadline for the White House hopefuls.
Anne Dunsmore, deputy campaign manager for finance, has left the operation. Giuliani aides said the departure was unrelated to fundraising. The third-quarter deadline for all campaigns, Republican and Democrat, is Sunday.
Republican fundraiser Jim Lee replaces her.
Ad price adjustment, Part II
On Sunday, The New York Times said it erred in giving a $77,508 price break on a full-page ad attacking Gen. David Petraeus, the commander of U.S. forces in Iraq.
Now the Minneapolis Star Tribune is refunding about $12,000 to Al Franken, a Minnesota Democratic Senate candidate, after undercharging Sen. Norm Coleman for a full-page ad.
The Star Tribune said it charged Coleman, R-Minn., about $20,000 for Tuesday’s ad, which criticized Franken. Two months ago, it said, it charged Franken about $32,000 for a full-page ad in the paper criticizing Coleman’s record on the Iraq war.
