Giuliani protestor is up on the news

By Brian C. Mooney, Globe Staff

WINDHAM, N.H. -- There was a little guerrilla theater awaiting Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani at a late afternoon campaign stop.

Waving to passing motorists outside the Castleton Banquet & Conference Center was a man wearing a grinning Giuliani mask, a New York Yankees cap, and a sign that said: "Hold on ... My wife is calling."

He held a blue cellphone to his ear. When asked by a reporter who he was or whether he was with a rival campaign, the man pointed to the phone, walked away, and resumed waving to cars on Route 111.

Giuliani, of course, interrupted his speech last month to the National Rifle Association by taking a call on his cellphone from his wife, Judith, and it wasn't the first time. The unusual episode set political tongues-a-wagging. (Watch it here.)

The former mayor of New York City didn't need a phone to be in contact with his wife today; she accompanied him at the event.