Giuliani is having his first big-money event on December 19 in New York, Ben Smith reports . The host is Ken Langone, the co-founder of Home Depot (and, for fans of intra-New York politics, sworn enemy of Eliot Spitzer). You can be sure we will hear on December 20 that the event raised some ungodly amount of money. If there’s one thing we can be sure of, it’s that Rudy’s ability to generate Wall Street dollars very quickly and with little difficulty will put pressure on other Republican candidates to match his war chest at the end of the first quarter of next year.