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To: pompsander who wrote (4143)	4/30/2007 12:29:08 PM
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People object to Giuliani's backers list By PHILIP ELLIOTT, Associated Press Writer CONCORD, N.H. - Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani released his latest slate of New Hampshire supporters last week. One problem: Not all of them back the former New York City mayor. Alongside a former state GOP chairman, a congressman and an executive councilor who do support Giuliani, a handful of people made the list of 125 supporters despite their objections. Some are openly criticizing their mistaken inclusion. Others, who did not want to be quoted or to embarrass the Giuliani campaign, have since decided to join it. Wendy Stanley Jones, named a state co-chair for Women for Giuliani, said she was considering Giuliani, but also was weighing staying out of the race because of a busy personal schedule. In New Hampshire, "we take our endorsements very seriously," she said. "I wasn't ready to endorse. I'm not sure I will be endorsing. I'd like to think this is because of a little sloppiness." Mike Galante said a friend told him he had been named as the Carroll County small business chairman, although he never agreed to the post. "I'd been traveling and there were messages on my machine. I hadn't returned them," Galante said. He said he is likely to support Giuliani, but wanted a chance to check out other candidates before deciding. To make things worse, his name was misspelled on the list released Thursday, the day after rival Sen. John McCain (news, bio, voting record) formally entered the race in New Hampshire. "We have county chairmen in each of the counties," campaign political director Mark Campbell told New Hampshire reporters on a conference call announcing the roster. "We have great leadership in each of the counties." Not exactly. The Giuliani campaign said on Monday the list's errors were simple confusion. "This is a regrettable oversight on our part," said campaign spokeswoman Maria Comella. "We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused." ___ ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — While she is known to millions simply as "Hillary," New York's junior senator is having something of an identity crisis in her official life. When it comes to running for president, she is " Hillary Clinton," according to her campaign Web site. But when it comes to her official Senate releases, she is still " Hillary Rodham Clinton." The Clinton camp appeared to be at a loss to come up with an explanation when the Albany Times Union newspaper asked about it. "I haven't, I haven't," Clinton said with laugh when asked about her apparent name change. A strategic decision? Clinton campaign spokesman Howard Wolfson told The Associated Press on Monday: "The campaign hasn't given any thought to this issue." "When we started writing press releases on the presidential campaign, we started using Hillary Clinton," Wolfson said. Why? "Why not," he said. The Clinton aide said there had been "zero" discussion about the matter and that given her celebrity, "I don't think anybody's going to be confused." The name game has been going on for some time in Clinton's world. When Hillary Rodham married Bill Clinton in 1975, she kept using her maiden name as he pursued his political career in Arkansas and she built her reputation as a lawyer in Little Rock. But, in the wake of his loss in a re-election race for governor, she began using "Hillary Clinton." He won back the governorship. "Hillary Rodham Clinton" became the standard in 1993 as the Clintons moved into the White House. She continued to use that when she ran for Senate from New York in 2000.