“While others were calling for taxes and calling them fees, and others were opposing state income tax cuts in their own states, I was a part of tax cuts in ‘96, ‘97, 2001, and 2002, and also ‘99…” he says to Club for Growth. Listen to the audio here.

Giuliani spokeswoman Katie Levinson’s reply: “In the real New York City — not the one on TV — Rudy Giuliani cut taxes 23 times. But, why let the facts get in the way of a good script?”

(While in Iowa, Giuliani himself stays above the fray, per usual, attacking the Democrats. Read it here, and listen to it here.)