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Lets Talk About Hillary's Record of Accomplishments and keep it going till 2008?

Posted on 04/18/2005 10:04:06 PM PDT by april15Bendovr

Just in case people have forgotten

Hillary was no stranger to having her own White House sleepovers to raise money for her NY Senate campaign just like her husband.

Her biggest influences while in college were Saul Alinsky, Carl Oglesby and Marian Wright Edelman. All in which are radical hard-core left wing activists.

Hillary and her husband both loathed the military and did assign them not to wear uniforms on the grounds of the White House.

Hillary’s Democratic delegates heckled and spit on the Albany Honor Guard of the Albany Police Department at a Democratic convention calling them Nazi’s of the third reich.

She walked out on a tip in a NY restaurant before her election and her entire family walked out again in England without even paying their entire bill in a pub.

She actively used the used the Secret Service to block questions from the press including average NY citizens during her campaign run working to her advantage.

She was was the head of her husbands legal defense team during the impeachment trial. Remember the trial included abuse of power with women including sexual misconduct, threats and obstruction of justice.

She had a rumored affair with Vince Foster which is convincing since they both had joint investments in Pharmaceutical stocks with the firm Stevens Investments. Hillary set this up right after her big health care scare failed.

Lets not also forget that the missing billing records from the Rose law firm that were in Vince Fosters office that had been subpoenaed suddenly ended up on Hillary’s night stand with her fingerprints all over the place?

Hillary had a photo op and numerous meetings with a DNC campaign fund raiser Jorge Cabrara who is a convicted drug ringleader.

Cattle-gate Where Hillary turned one thousand dollars into one hundred thousand dollars overnight in cattle futures, which still baffles the best minds working at Wall Street.

Travelgate Hillary was in charge of throwing out the employees of the travel office and hiring family friends and relatives inserting them in a coupd’etat fashion.

Filegate Hillary was also in charge of hiring White House staffers to sift through FBI files illegally obtained by the White House.


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Please feel free to add you own Hillary scandal becuase I know my list is only the tip of the iceberg.
1 posted on 04/18/2005 10:04:07 PM PDT by april15Bendovr
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To: april15Bendovr

She was in favor of letting children sue their parents.


2 posted on 04/18/2005 10:13:11 PM PDT by Finalapproach29er (America is gradually becoming the Godless,out-of-control golden-calf scene,in "The Ten Commandments")
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To: Finalapproach29er

I wonder if Chelsea knew that?


3 posted on 04/18/2005 10:17:25 PM PDT by april15Bendovr
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To: april15Bendovr

She learned from Marian Wright Edelman that you can advocate anything if you say it's "For the children."

Her loser brothers were much ridiculed for investing in Russian hazelnuts, but shortly thereafter a new medicine came out made from hazelnuts. Also, around the same time, hazelnuts were the buzz for a new alternative fuel.


4 posted on 04/18/2005 11:00:54 PM PDT by ntnychik
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To: april15Bendovr

Hillary didn't just throw out the people in the travel office. What she also did was falsly accuse the head of the travel office with malfeasance. It cost him not only his reputation, but his entire life savings to defend himself against the charges. He won the case (because there was no evidence to support the accusation) - but I don't think his life savings got restored to him.

Hillary didn't even have to do that. She could have handed them a pink slip and told them thank you - but no thank you. There was NO NEED FOR HER TO TRY TO PROVE CRIMINAL ACTIVITY IN ORDER TO FIRE THE EMPLOYEES. It was overkill to the max and it was totally uncalled for.


5 posted on 04/18/2005 11:11:24 PM PDT by CyberAnt (President Bush: "America is the greatest nation on the face of the earth")
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To: april15Bendovr

Just remember - when you're listing this stuff - you can't just insinuate - or tell stories - you NEED FACTS.


6 posted on 04/18/2005 11:12:26 PM PDT by CyberAnt (President Bush: "America is the greatest nation on the face of the earth")
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To: CyberAnt

Save your ammo. If you hammer these issues now they will be old news later and ineffective, unless we have empirical evidence of wrongdoing. Otherwise gather as mutch as you can and wait untill most people are paying attention.
Then bombs away!


7 posted on 04/18/2005 11:17:32 PM PDT by DugMac ((Regan Rules))
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To: april15Bendovr

Hillary...you remind me of lost episodes of the twilight zone....


8 posted on 04/19/2005 1:00:12 AM PDT by Route101
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To: april15Bendovr
***Hillary and her husband both loathed the military and did assign them not to wear uniforms on the grounds of the White House.***

Uh, not quite. You're 1 for 2
If you'll read "Dereliction of Duty" by Col "Buzz" Patterson, USAF, you'll see more than a few photos in the book of all those in charge of the 'nuclear football' from the various branches of the military in uniform while in the WH. And naturally if they're traveling they would be in 'civies'.

That being said the 'co presidents' did use them as glorified Valets and Baggage Handlers (per the book).

Ergo as already advised in a post, be accurate in your accusations, or it becomes meaningless 'right-wing' drivel.

9 posted on 04/19/2005 6:20:50 AM PDT by Condor51 (Leftists are moral and intellectual parasites - Standing Wolf)
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To: april15Bendovr

Just after 9/11 Hilliary ordered the driver of the van she was traveling in to run a security checkpoint at the Westchester County Airport in New York.

An officer received injuries that sent him to the hospital when he threw his body at the van in an attempt to get in through the window to get the van to stop.

Hilliary was dumbfounded as to why "she" had to stop for the checkpoint, afterall "she" was in a hurry.


10 posted on 04/19/2005 7:12:55 AM PDT by clyde260 (Public Enemy #1: Network News!)
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http://www.uhuh.com/clinton/hrc-hits.htm

A FEW OF

HILLARY CLINTON'S

GREATEST HITS

 

In the late 1970s, the Clintons and McDougals buy land in the Ozarks with mostly borrowed funds. The Clintons get 50% interest with no cash down. The plot, known as Whitewater, is fifty miles from the nearest grocery store. The Washington Post will report later that some purchasers of lots, many of them retirees, "put up houses or cabins, others slept in vans or tents, hoping to be able to live off the land." HRC writes Jim McDougal, "If Reagonomics works at all,Whitewater could become the Western Hemisphere's Mecca." More than half of the purchasers will lose their plots thanks to the sleazy form of financing used.

The McDougals will be among a number of close HRC's friends and business associates who will end up in jail. Others include her law partner Webster Hubbell and financial middle man David Hale.

 Two months after commencing the Whitewater scam, Hillary Clinton invests $1,000 in cattle futures. Within a few days she has a $5,000 profit. Before bailing out she earns nearly $100,000 on her investment. Many years later, several economists will calculate that the chances of earning such returns legally were one in 250 million.

Hillary Clinton makes a $44,000 profit on a $2,000 investment in a cellular phone franchise deal that involves taking advantage of the FCC's preference for locals, minorities and women. The franchise is almost immediately flipped to the cellular giant, McCaw.

Jim McDougal tries to prevent state agencies from shutting down his S&L, which has been providing cash for the Whitewater operation. According to the Washington Times, Ms. Clinton is put on a $2000 a month retainer by the S&L. Ms. Clinton will later claim not to have received any retainer nor to have been deeply involved with Madison.

During the 1992 campaign, Hillary Clinton defends her role in the Madison Guarantee S&L scandal by saying, "I suppose I could have stayed home and baked cookies and had teas. But what I decided to do was pursue my profession, which I entered before my husband was in public life." Forgotten, however, is what inspired this homily: accusations that Ms. Clinton had represented Whitewater business partner Jim McDougal's S&L before her husband's government.Here's what the New York Times reported on March 17, 1992: "Hillary Clinton said today that she did not earn 'a penny' from state business conducted by her Little Rock law firm and that she never intervened with state regulators on behalf of a failed Arkansas savings and loan association. . . "

Records will show that she did, in fact, represent Madison before the state securities department. After the revelation, she says, "For goodness sakes, you can't be a lawyer if you don't represent banks."

Susan McDougal recalls Ms. Clinton coming in and drumming up the business. Ms. McDougal tells the Washington Post: "The problem was finances, her finances." The Washington Times quotes an unnamed Clinton business associate who claims the governor used to "jog over to McDougal's office about once a month to pick up the [retainer] check for his wife." Jim McDougal's version of the story, according to the LA Times, is that Clinton asked him to throw some legal work his wife's way to help the Clintons out of a financial crunch: "I hired Hillary because Bill came in whimpering that they needed help."

Hillary Clinton writes Jim McDougal enclosing a power of attorney for him to sign "authorizing me to act on your behalf with respect to matters concerning Whitewater Development Corporation." Another power of attorney is enclosed for Susan McDougal. The power of attorney includes the right to endorse, sign and execute "checks, notes, deeds, agreements, certificates, receipts or any other instruments in writing of all matters related to Whitewater Development Corporation." This letter, uncovered in 1993 by Jerry Seper of the Washington Times, directly contradicts the claim of the Clintons that they were "passive shareholders" in Whitewater.

From a 1996 Chicago Tribune editorial: "The legal issues will sort themselves out in time. But one thing has become all too clear. Bill and Hillary Clinton and their aides have made a concerted effort to deceive official investigators and the American public with half truths and outright lies . . . It's not clear what the Clintons want to conceal, but it's clear that they have made extraordinary efforts to do so."

The American Spectator reports in 1996 that on her Asian tour, Hillary Clinton told New Zealand television that she had been named after Sir Edmund Hillary. Sir Edmund, however, was an unknown beekeeper the year of Mrs. Clinton's birth.

The Spectator also reports that HRC served on the board of a corporation about which serious questions have been raised concerning its role in the pre-Gulf War arms pipeline to Iraq.

A drug dealer donates $20,000 to the DNC, attends a Christmas reception hosted by Hillary Clinton, has his photo taken with the Clintons and Al Gore and then -- three weeks later -- is arrested for smuggling 6,000 pounds of cocaine into the United States. It should have come as no surprise to anyone involved. After all, Jorge Cabrera had already served two prison sentences -- one for trying to bribe a grand jury witness and the other for filing a false income tax return. Later he will be back in the news when a businessman pleads guilty to laundering $3.5 million for Cabrera between 1986 and 1996.

 "I see the White House is like a subway -- you have to put in coins to open the gates." -- Clinton contributor Johnny Chung talking about the $50,000 he gave Hillary Clinton's top aide while seeking VIP treatment at the White House.

Spilling some of the beans on her "close friend" Ron Brown, Nolanda Hill tells Prime Time Live that Brown used drugs while Commerce Secretary and considered taking a big payoff from Vietnam to get trade restrictions lifted but dropped the idea when he got a tip that FBI was on the case. Hill also says that Brown thought it was Hillary who placed John Huang in a Commerce Department job. Huang left the Lippo Group -- with a golden parachute of around $800,000 -- to work for Commerce. Brown orders a top secret clearance for Huang. While at Commerce, Huang visits the White House about 70 times, is briefed 37 times by the CIA, views about 500 intelligence reports, and makes 281 calls to Lippo banks.

A federal judge issues a fine for a quarter million dollars because, "The Executive Branch of the government, working in tandem, was dishonest with this court." At issue is the composition of Hillary Clinton's health task force, a body stacked with those from the medical industry who would gain most from its faux reforms.

Number of times Hillary Clinton says "I don't recall" or its equivalent in a statement to a House investigating committee: 50. Number of paragraphs in this statement: 42

Starr decides not to pursue the FBI file matter after an investigation that included a nine-minute interview with HRC over tea and coffee. FBI Director Louis Freeh calls the handling of the FBI tapes an "egregious violation of privacy . . . without justification."

"Mr. Starr also botched the investigation into the White House's illicit use of confidential FBI files on 900 Republican opponents. He used FBI agents to probe misconduct involving the FBI itself. Needless to say, they came up empty handed. A civil suit on behalf of the victims has since uncovered evidence that the purloined files were part of a campaign of political espionage ordered by Hillary Clinton herself. The dirt in the files, including raw data on congressional leaders, was fed into computers.

Presumably it was later used for blackmail, or fed to media surrogates for the systematic smearing of Republicans." -- Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, London Telegraph.

After quitting the Justice Department and before going to jail, Hubbell is a busy man. He meets with Hillary Clinton, and follows up by getting together with major scandal figures John Huang, James Riady, and Ng Lapseng. Riady and Huang go to the White House every day from June 21 to June 25, 1994 according to White House records. Hubbell has breakfast and lunch with Riady on June 23. Four days later -- and one week after Hubbell's meeting with Hillary -- the Hong Kong Chinese Bank, jointly owned by Lippo and the Chinese intelligence services, send $100,000 to Hubbell.

"Through discovery in its civil lawsuit against the Clinton Commerce Department, Judicial Watch also has found evidence that President Clinton condoned and participated in a scheme, conceived by First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton and approved by the President, to sell seats on U.S. Department of Commerce trade missions in exchange for political contributions. ~~~ In addition to the illegal sale of taxpayer financed services, such as seats on trade missions, for political contributions, the President and Mrs. Clinton have illegally solicited and received monies directly from private citizens and others. The creation and use of legal defense funds is not only prohibited under federal law, but they have proved to be a means whereby lobbyists, influence peddlers and foreign powers have tried to influence the Administration, contrary to U.S. national security interests. In sum, Judicial Watch has uncovered a pattern of conduct by this President and his agents that indicates he has run, in effect, a criminal enterprise from the White House to obtain and maintain hold on the Office of the President of the United States. Indeed, he is likely in violation of the Racketeering Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO). " -- Judicial Watch

"Communist Party cadres should study the speeches of Hillary Clinton because she offers a very good example of the skills of propaganda. Her sentences are short and stimulating. That's why she gets a lot of applause. But Chinese people have a habit of giving long speeches in which the sentences are long and tedious." -- Yu Quanyu, director of the Chinese Academy of Social Studies, in Ideological and Political Work Studies.

Former White House FBI agent Gary Aldrich reports that Hillary Clinton told the Secret Service agents in public to "stay the fuck back, stay the fuck away from me! Don't come within ten yards of me or else!" When her guards have argued with her, she had said, "Just fucking do as I say, okay?"

Hillary Clinton and David Watkins move to oust the White House travel office in favor of World Wide Travel, Clinton's source of $1 million in fly-now- pay-later campaign trips. The White House fires seven long-term employees for alleged mismanagement and kickbacks. The director, Billy Dale, charged with embezzlement in the HRC-organized frame-up, will be acquitted in less than two hours by the jury.

White House-assigned FBI agent Gary Aldrich agrees to help trim the Christmas tree in the Blue Room. Aldrich is surprised to find a small clay ornament of 12-lords-aleaping. Among the things that were aleaping on the 12 lords are their erections. Also provided by Hillary Clinton and her staff: ornaments made of drug paraphernalia such as syringes and roach clips, three French hens in a menage á trois, two turtle doves fornicating, five golden rings attached to a gingerbread man's ear, nipple, belly button, nose, and penis.

Hillary Clinton's attempts to conceal the fact that she had $120,000 of editorial help in preparing a book-like substance.

Billing records documenting HRC's work on the Castle Grande development scam are discovered in the family quarters of the White House. HRC says she has no idea how they got there.

Judicial Watch sues Hillary Clinton in a $90 million lawsuit on behalf of the 900 persons whose FBI files were taken by the White House. She is also a defendant in a shareholder suit filed against Loral and others over the sale of slots on public trade missions. The FBI files case is expected to reach trial next year.


11 posted on 04/19/2005 9:15:24 AM PDT by april15Bendovr
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To: CyberAnt

http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=14393


The re-emergence of Hillary Rodham Clinton




© 1997 WorldNetDaily.com


We haven't heard much from the first lady, lately. She's been keeping a relatively low profile. Rumors of an imminent indictment in the Whitewater case may be one reason. Her political failure in pushing through a health-care revolution in the first term may be another.


But she's coming back as the leading proponent of President Clinton's latest federal initiative -- a new government power grab in the name of "child care."


So let's get reacquainted with Hillary, shall we? What motivates her? What makes her tick?


At Wellesley, Hillary did her senior thesis on professional revolutionary Saul Alinsky. She met the leftist legend the summer before, and, as soon as she graduated, Alinksy offered her a job. She chose to attend Yale Law School instead.


Another big influence in her formative years was Marxist-Maoist theoretician Carl Oglesby, then president of the radical Students for a Democratic Society and editor of Motive, a left-wing magazine for young Methodists.


Motive was hardly a traditional church publication. During those years, it featured articles on commune life, the similarity between hallucinogenic drug trips and religious experiences, the realities of lesbianism and witch power. How influential was this publication on Hillary? Recently she told the Washington Post she still has a collection of all the back issues of Motive.


Her years at Yale were marked by her hard-core left-wing activism under the tutelage of Marian Wright Edelman. She also took a position with Robert Borosage, later a founder of the Institute for Policy Studies.


When Black Panther leader Bobby Seale was on trial in New Haven for murdering a fellow Panther, Hillary and her friends were in the courtroom every day where she assisted his far-left lawyer, Charles Garry. Through Garry, Hillary met Communist Party activists Jessica Mitford and her husband, Robert Truehaft, for many years the Communist Party USA's attorney. In the summer of 1971, Hillary interned at Truehaft's Berkeley law office. Truehaft, by the way, was once described by the House Committee on Un-America Activities as one of the most "dangerously subversive" attorneys in the country.


It was through her networking with this older generation of fifth column lawyers that Hillary got her position on the House Watergate Committee and later on the boards of directors of the Children's Defense Fund and the Legal Services Corporation.


David Brock writes in "The Seduction of Hillary Clinton" that under her control, the LSC "quickly swung back to the 1960s approach of aggressively using the courts to expand the welfare system and increase governmental control over private property, and to conduct ideologically generated and driven litigation." Hillary linked the LSC with various Marxist front groups, including the National Lawyers Guild.


Rep. James Sensenbrenner recalls her tenure at the helm of the LSC: "What Hillary was doing as chairman of the board was solidifying control by the government and the bureaucracy. And they were spending taxpayer money to do it. She tried the same with health care. Back then I reached the conclusion that she is a control freak. She wants to utilize the power of the federal government to make sure she, her people, and her philosophy have control."


When President Reagan was elected and took on the LSC's use of taxpayer dollars to back left-wing political activism, Hillary led the opposition. She authorized a blatantly illegal nationwide lobbying campaign to ensure survival of the agency.


When she left the LSC in 1982, she joined the board of the New World Foundation, a leftist philanthropy that funds, among other causes, Communist insurgency movements in Latin America, Africa and the Middle East.


Those who know her said Hillary was a true revolutionary who disguised her militancy through her commitment to subvert the system from within. There is absolutely no reason to believe she has changed her stripes.


It is with this background that Americans should evaluate her next grand proposal -- a federal initiative on child care. Does she really care about your kids? Don't believe it. The children's liberation movement from which Hillary springs believes in using kids to gain power over their parents and society. They use children to destroy our most basic and fundamental rights.


This is the prism through which we should view her proposals. They may sound good. They may look good. But they are guaranteed to empower government and the extremist friends and philosophy Hillary has been promoting without interruption for nearly 30 years.


12 posted on 04/19/2005 9:29:26 AM PDT by april15Bendovr
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http://www.newsmax.com/hottopics/Sen._Hillary_Clinton.shtml

http://www.newsmax.com/hottopics/more/Sen._Hillary_Clinton-cont.shtml


13 posted on 04/19/2005 9:39:45 AM PDT by april15Bendovr
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It does appear that Newsmax got it wrong on their story about Hillary and The Gold Star Mothers but there are plenty of facts on everything else.
14 posted on 04/19/2005 9:48:03 AM PDT by april15Bendovr
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To: april15Bendovr; Alamo-Girl
One stop shopping
15 posted on 04/19/2005 9:51:22 AM PDT by bmwcyle (Washington DC RINO Hunting Guide)
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NEW YORK — A senior New York Democratic leader appears to be brokering a deal in which Hillary Rodham Clinton would call for the release of convicted spy Jonathan Pollard in return for an endorsement by a key politician in an Orthodox section of Brooklyn.

Then there is the FALN, pardoned by Clinton for Puerican votes for HRC.

Hillary words: "We do not believe that violence against women is ‘simply cultural’ – we believe it is simply criminal! …I am proud that my husband has stood up as President to confront the violence and to protect American women.”
- Hillary Rodham Clinton - October 20, 1997

(Ng Lap Seng etc.) "My gray hairs tell me that if someone brings in a half a million in a manila envelope, be careful," Cardozo said he recalls telling Hillary Rodham Clinton and White House aide Harold Ickes at a meeting in April of 1996, where Cardozo learned the Clintons knew Trie from the Chinese restaurant he ran in Little Rock, Ark.

16 posted on 04/19/2005 9:53:31 AM PDT by yoe
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To: Condor51

I have the book and I have seen the photo past page #120


17 posted on 04/19/2005 10:00:38 AM PDT by april15Bendovr
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To: april15Bendovr

Don't forget the Health Care Task Force, who's records were destroyed on her orders in direct violation of a court order. The fine imposed by the court was paid by the taxpayers.


18 posted on 04/19/2005 10:01:48 AM PDT by tacticalogic ("Oh, bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
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http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3923fdd07554.htm

Hillary's delegates spit on and taunt Police Honor Guard at her Convention

Politics/Elections News Keywords: HILLARY'S RADICAL SUPPORTERS
Source: Albany Times Union
Posted on 05/18/2000 07:27:28 PDT by 1Old Pro

By BRENDAN LYONS , Staff writer
First published: Thursday, May 18, 2000


Honor guard harassed at Arena

Albany -- Police unit was spit at and called names as they carried flags at Democratic convention

Members of the Albany Police Department Honor Guard were harassed and spit on by a few people as they carried flags into Tuesday's Democratic state convention at Pepsi Arena, officials said.

"This was probably a very small minority in a sea of legitimate Democratic Party members,'' said Albany Police Chief John C. Nielsen. "It's probably going to send the wrong message about what was in fact an overwhelmingly peaceful, law-abiding and respectful group.''

President Bill Clinton attended the ceremony as state Democrats unanimously nominated Hillary Rodham Clinton as their U.S. Senate candidate.

The five-member honor guard, which is made up of Albany police officers, told authorities that some people in the crowd of 11,500 Democratic supporters called them "Nazis'' and "members of (New York City Mayor Rudolph) Giuliani's 'Third Reich.' ''

The harassment took place as the officers entered the arena around 5:45 p.m. in front of the Albany Police Department Pipes & Bags band.

The honor guard were in full-dress uniform and carrying the American flag, said Detective Thomas McGraw, president of the Albany Police Officers Union.

"We are very upset,'' McGraw said. "The honor guard were asked to act as ambassadors to the city of Albany. They were invited guests and they were volunteering their time.''

The incidents allegedly took place on the floor of the arena, where only delegates carrying passes were allowed access, officials said.

Mayor Jerry Jennings blasted those responsible.

"I'd love to identify these individuals,'' Jennings said. "It's unfortunate there are people who don't know how to act. It's behavior I find reprehensible.''


19 posted on 04/19/2005 11:22:31 AM PDT by april15Bendovr
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It's all the buzz in Albion: Hillary stiffs a single mom -- The Washington Times

February 11, 2000
It's all the buzz in Albion: Hillary stiffs a single mom
By Barbara J. Saffir
THE WASHINGTON TIMES


ALBION, N.Y. Maybe it's no big deal elsewhere, but it's all
the buzz in Albion.
Hillary Rodham Clinton dropped into the Village House, a
favorite diner in this upstate farming town, and ordered two orders
of scrambled eggs, home fries and rye toast. So far, so good. The
locals appreciate a hearty appetite.
Her breakfast was on the house, and when she left the waitress,
a single mom, found not a penny at her plate.
The locals have been talking about little else since Tuesday,
when she stopped for breakfast after making a speech about how New
York's farmers "are really hurting these days."
Says Linda Ellis, a regular who voted for President Clinton and
says she might vote for the first lady: "It's the little things you
have to look at in a political campaign.
"She is the first lady, but it doesn't feed her son," she said.
The waitress, who makes less than the minimum wage and pays for her
own health insurance, deserved a tip, she said.
Mrs. Clinton, who once declared a 15-cent income-tax deduction
for a pair of her husband's undershorts that she had donated to
charity, had dropped into the diner, halfway between Buffalo and
Rochester, along with a dozen reporters in her motorcade.
It was her first public event since beginning her "official"
candidacy Sunday at Purchase, N.Y., near her new $1.7 million
Westchester County home. Mrs. Clinton, the beneficiary of extensive
contributions from unions, is pushing to raise the minimum wage and
make health insurance affordable.
"She had two servings of eggs," said restaurant owner Alex
Mitrousis. At first, she just ordered oatmeal to go but then she
ordered scrambled eggs, home fries and rye toast. After she ate
that, she ordered "two scrambled eggs with cheese," he said. "We're
going to call it the first lady's special," he said.
One order of "two large fresh eggs" with toast and ham, bacon
or sausage costs $2.75.
Mr. Mitrousis, who emigrated to the United States from Greece
decades ago, says the first lady's failure to leave a tip does not
bother him and that it was "an honor" to have the first lady stop
there.
He also noted that he enjoyed the publicity because many
customers now ask for the table where Mrs. Clinton sat. He said he
lost money during her visit, however, because regular patrons could
not get in to the packed parking lot near the intersection of routes
31 and 98.
Mr. Mitrousis said he did not charge Mrs. Clinton for the food
she ordered herself during her visit with more than a dozen
reporters and photographers in tow.
Clinton campaign spokesman Howard Wolfson had no comment.
The restaurant stop came a day after Mrs. Clinton told a group
of high-tech workers and politicians that "a lot of our farms and
farmers are really hurting these days."
"That's why I support efforts to strengthen the farm safety net
including efforts to subsidize the cost of crop insurance and to
target supplemental income assistance to farmers who are facing
falling prices," she said.





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