Rudy Giuliani has taken another step forward towards his Presidential run, assembling a team of fundraisers drawn in part from George W. Bush's fundraising circles, the Associated Press reports. He's enlisted billionaire Texas oil mogul T. Boon Pickens, a longtime Bush and GOP contributor who's given $3 million to the Swift Boat Vets, Dallas billionaire Tom Hicks, and Anne Dickerson, a longtime Bush fundraiser who will be Giuliani's national fundraising director. According to the AP, Giuliani held a meeting with his new committee of fundraisers in New York on Wednesday. Somehow we don't think it's a coincidence that Giuliani's camp leaked word of his new financial team late yesterday -- that is, when John McCain was giving two speeches that the national press is billing as the opening shot of McCain's Presidential bid.