Rudy’s bad news, good news kind of day: His top fundraiser, Anne Dunsmore has departed, but he’s in California to pick up the endorsement of Pete Wilson.

My first reaction to the Pete Wilson endorsement was that it reminds us how Giuliani isn’t running as the Pete Wilson candidate in this primary, – i.e., the pro-choice Republican who insists his party has to shift its views on that issue. (Or perhaps that’s the Christie Whitman candidate.)

Wilson’s other signature issue was Prop 187, which was one of the early efforts to stop California taxpayer dollars from being spent on illegal immigrants. Giuliani denounced that law then; I wonder what he would think of it now. He can credibly argue that the circumstances look different now, several million additional illegal immigrants later.

(I also think a lot of people forget that Prop 187 passed with more than 58 percent of the vote.)

The Washington Post quotes Frank Sharry, director of the pro-immigrant National Immigration Forum, as saying that Rudy “just wrote the Spanish language campaign ad that’s going to just kill him.” Because all Spanish-speakers demand taxpayers foot the bill for services for illegal immigrants?

On Dunsmore, the campaign is insisting it was an amicable departure, but you don’t usually see top campaign officials in charge of fundraising suddenly departing right before the quarterly deadline.