Polis Under Construction

Salon.com’s War Room has a write up of Giuliani’s appearance on Meet the Press Sunday. Nothing really big there, but he does make an odd set of statements regarding the release of his financial information. I don’t remember any recent financial issues for Giuliani, aside from the $9.11 for Rudy disaster and rumours that the California ballot initiative was a “front” for Giuliani’s campaign. Still, there’s this..

Giuliani on financial disclosures he’s willing to make: “We do all the financial disclosures. I did a very complete financial disclosure, I think it was in May. I’ll do some more complete financial disclosures. But I’m, I’m not going to do more than what is absolutely required, and we’ll go further than that.”

Shall we parse that?

• We do all the disclosures
• In May, we did a “very complete” disclosure
• We will do more of those complete disclosures
  • Less charitable interpretation, we’ll do a more complete version of the very complete version we already did
• But, we’re not going to do a bit more than legally necessary
• However, we’ll go beyond what’s legally necessary

Naturally, he then goes on to avoid the question of whether he’ll release his tax returns, saying that while his standards are “pretty darned high,” he’ll have to wait and see what everyone else does.