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JANUARY 24, 2008

The first CAT fund TV ad

Picture_013Former Mayor Rudy Giuliani announced that starting Friday Floridians will see a TV commercial that talks about an issue dear to their hearts: property insurance.  Giuliani is going to tout on Florida airwaves how he's the only Republican candidate that wholeheartedly endorses a nationwide catastrophe fund that Florida leaders say would help cut Florida property insurance rates.

Here's Giuliani and Attorney General Bill McCollum during a press conference in Boca Raton, where Giuliani denied that he made a mistake by blowing off early primary states to focus on Florida.

"Given that it's still a wide open race, No, I don't think it was a mistake," Giuliani said.

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