HIV/AIDS Advocate Joines Rudy Giuliani Campaign

The Rudy Guiliani campaign announced on Friday that openly gay Republican Party activist Carl Schmid has joined the Guiliani campaign as a co-chair of the campaign's DC leadership team.

Carl Schmid stated “As Mayor of New York, Rudy Giuliani cut taxes, cut crime, and got hundreds of thousands of people off the welfare rolls and back to work all while working with a heavily Democratic City Council. That’s the kind of strong leadership we need in the White House.”

Schmid currently serves as the Director of Federal Affairs for the AIDS Institute, a conservative-leaning national HIV/AIDS advocacy organization.

Schmid, a 2004 delegate to the Republican National Convention, has played an active role in the DC Republican Party.