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Hillary Clinton is wasting no time turning Bush administration cuts in counterterrorism funding for New York City to her political advantage - invoking the budget slashing to her supporters as another reason they should contribute to her Senate reelection campaign. "When the Department of Homeland Security cut funding to New York's Homeland Security Grant program this week, they included a so-called 'explanation' that said the city had no national monuments and icons," Clinton explains, in an email sent to prospective contributors on Friday. Exhorting her backers to send the DHS postcards of New York icons like the Statue of Liberty...

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) is getting her bid for a second term under way with an emotional 18-minute video that features praise from her husband and a bevy of his interns. "I didn't vote for Hillary last time,” said a tearful former U.S. President Bill Clinton. “I was too busy with other affairs. But Hillary stood by me when I was attacked by the vast right wing conspiracy. I owe it to my soul-mate to try to show up for this next election whenever it is.” “She’s like kind of old and not that attractive, but Bill says she’s...

Senator Hillary Clinton is using a new campaign video to boast that she's delivered on her promise to bring economic development to upstate New York - even though the region has actually lost tens of thousands of jobs since she was elected. The new video features testimonials from an array of New York politicos, including New York City Public Advocate Betsy Gotbaum, who touts Mrs. Clinton's economic success. "She has not only promised that she would deliver economic development projects for upstate New York, she has actually, in fact, done it," Gotbaum claims. "She is someone who is a fighter...

HEMPSTEAD, N.Y., May 31 — Republicans set the stage Wednesday for what could be a bitter primary battle in the bid to challenge Hillary Rodham Clinton for the United States Senate, with delegates at the state party's convention giving two candidates enough support to qualify them for the Sept. 12 primary ballot. John Spencer, the former mayor of Yonkers, who has trumpeted his conservative credentials, secured more than 63 percent of the votes from delegates, making him the official designee of the state party. But Kathleen Troia McFarland, a former Reagan aide who is viewed as more moderate, surprised many...

Hillary Clinton failed to answer the question on everybody's lips. But the song she was jiving to said it all.Launching her Senate re-election campaign at a rally in Buffalo, New York, she refrained from revealing whether she intended to serve a full six-year term or might cut it short to run for the presidency in 2008. But it was no coincidence that when she was joined by her husband and former president Bill Clinton the chorus of the 1970s song they danced to was "We're going to get right back to where we started from", leaving her Democrat supporters in...

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) _ Former Yonkers Mayor John Spencer's bid for the Republican nomination to challenge Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton this year was endorsed Wednesday by state GOP Chairman Stephen Minarik. " I think he'll provide an excellent challenge to Hillary Clinton," Minarik told The Associated Press. While the endorsement had been expected, it still marked the biggest coup to date for the conservative former mayor. He earlier had picked up the support of the state Conservative Party's leadership and no Republican running statewide in New York has won without the two-party backing since 1974. Spencer is battling a newly...

The USA: Hillary Clinton launches its re-election campaign to the Senate New York - Hillary Clinton gave Wednesday the blow of sending of its countryside for a second mandate to the Senate. It openly did not post its intentions for the race at the White House in 2008, where it has the appearance of a potential candidate for the democratic party. The old first lady of the United States declared Wednesday that it felt “honoured” to accept the nomination of the democratic party for the senatorial election of November, in a made speech with Buffalo in the north of...

HILLARY GOES NUCLEARPROLIFERATION IN THE AGE OF CLINTON by Mia T, 5.30.06     For more than a half decade, the Clinton administration was shoveling atomic secrets out the door as fast as it could, literally by the ton. Millions of previously classified ideas and documents relating to nuclear arms were released to all comers, including China's bomb makers. William J. BroadSpying Isn't the Only Way to Learn About Nukes The New York Times May 30, 1999 Nuclear is now very much in the news as a potential power source because of its lack of contribution to global warming....

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Hillary Rodham Clinton, a possible presidential run waiting in the wings, was kicking off her bid for a second Senate term with what was certain to be a rousing send-off Wednesday from delegates to New York's Democratic state convention. The former first lady was to begin her convention coronation with a breakfast for supporters and delegates at Buffalo's downtown convention center. Her husband, the former president, will join her for the convention. For Democrats at the convention, it was a new era. "There is no question about it, she came in six years ago and she...

  Spencer nominated by Conservative Party of New York to face Sen. Clinton YONKERS – Republican John Spencer, the nominee of the Conservative Party to challenge Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, won the backing of four additional Republican county chairs today: Hamilton County Republican Committee Chairman William FarberColumbia County Republican Committee Chairman Angelo Valentino Fulton County Republican Committee Chairwoman Anne Jung  Essex County Republican Committee Chairwoman Joyce W. Morency “John Spencer is the right candidate to take on Senator Clinton. As the former mayor of Yonkers, he has a proven track record of delivering jobs, cutting taxes and improving the quality of...

Some Manhattan Democratic clubs are launching a backlash against Sen. Hillary Clinton amid some of her recent shifts toward the right. Once a liberal favorite, Clinton is being shunned in her reelection bid by four local Democratic groups furious over her vote in favor of the Iraq war and her newly cozy relationship with conservative media mogul Rupert Murdoch. "She is not in Arkansas anymore," said Yayoi Tsuchitani, campaign chairwoman of the Village Independent Democrats, which voted this month to back Jonathan Tasini, Clinton's little-known Democratic challenger for her Senate seat. "This is New York we are dealing with, and...

Hillary Clinton wishes to lead the fight against protecting marriage in the upcoming debate on the matter in the United States Senate. Oh sure when my New York listeners call her office her spokespeople say that she supports marriage - she just doesn't wish to see the federal government over reach. Right... Ms. Universal Healthcare wants government not to intrude! This last week however, a little clue was uncovered that indicates Hillary is not neutral on the issue at all. Instead she is strategizing on how to promote the message of the radical homosexual activists while debating the Marriage Protection...

ALBANY, N.Y. -- Democratic Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton is getting her bid for a second term under way with a sometimes emotional 18-minute video that features praise from her husband and even some New Yorkers who opposed her candidacy six years ago. "I didn't vote for her. I think I will this next election," says Tim Damon, owner of Damon Rods in Potsdam, N.Y., whose company's Web site shows former President Bush with a Damon fishing rod. The video, previewed for The Associated Press, will be shown Wednesday at the state Democratic convention in Buffalo as the former first lady...

Clinton gets re-election bid under way By MARC HUMBERT, Associated Press Writer 31 minutes ago Democratic Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton is getting her bid for a second term under way with a sometimes emotional 18-minute video that features praise from her husband and even some New Yorkers who opposed her candidacy six years ago. "I didn't vote for her. I think I will this next election," says Tim Damon, owner of Damon Rods in Potsdam, N.Y., whose company's Web site shows former President Bush with a Damon fishing rod. The video, previewed for The Associated Press, will be shown Wednesday...

YONKERS -- The New York Post calls K.T. McFarland ‘kooky.’ How kooky? Well, maybe instead of running for Senator, she’s really auditioning for a Get Smart remake. In March, K.T. accused Senator Clinton of spying on her. The New York Post reported “Republican Senate candidate Kathleen “KT” McFarland (left) is bizarrely claiming that Sen. Hillary Clinton (right) has been spying in her bedroom window and flying helicopters over her house in the Hamptons.” (3/25/06) Then the facts came out; K.T. had hired private detectives – from the same firm the Clinton’s hired to spy on conservatives and Republicans -- to...

'Hillary for president' rally draws 20 instead of hoped-for 200 Tom Kovach of Mt. Juliet tries to persuade Greg Jones, left, and Ollie O'Hanlon, 16, right, to oppose Hillary Clinton as he protests near a Hillarynow.com rally in the Germantown neighborhood. DIPTI VAIDYA / THE TENNESSEAN By BONNA de la CRUZ Staff Writer Published: Wednesday, 05/24/06 A Hillary Clinton rally drew critics of President Bush, nonpartisan voters looking for a strong leader, and people who want to elect a female president. About 20 people attended the Tuesday event, the national kickoff for Hillarynow.com, a grass-roots group pushing to draft the...

CLIFTON PARK - A retiree angered by what he sees as Sen. Hillary Clinton's move to the right has decided to do something about it: He's challenging her for the U.S. Senate this fall. Jeff Russell received the Libertarian Party nomination for the Senate race at the party's statewide convention April 29 in Albany. Russell was selected to run against Clinton, while William Weld sought and received the party's endorsement for governor. Sitting in his airy Clifton Park home with his dog, Shadow, the 55-year-old state retiree doesn't look like a man eager to take on a well-funded political machine....

Actress Susan Sarandon, a longtime liberal political activist and outspoken opponent of the Iraq war, endorsed an anti-war Democrat challenging Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's re-election bid Tuesday. Sarandon is backing Jonathan Tasini, a labor advocate and former president of the National Writers' Union, who has based his longshot campaign on Clinton's vote in 2002 authorizing military intervention in Iraq. Clinton, who is widely considered the front-runner for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination if she chooses to run, has sharply criticized the Bush Administration's handling of the war. But she has also refused to call for American troops to be removed...

For Immediate Release May 15, 2006 Contact: Kevin Collins (201) 665-2834 9/11 Families for a Secure America board members endorse Spencer for Senate YONKERS – Bruce De Cell, Joan Molinaro, and Peter Gadiel, members of the board of directors of 9/11 Families for a Secure America, today endorsed John Spencer for United States Senate. 9/11 Families for a Secure America is an organization of family members who lost loved ones on 9/11/01 committed to securing America’s borders. “John Spencer has our support because he is a steadfast supporter of border security and legal immigration,” said Bruce De Cell. “He...

News Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch, owner of Fox News and the New York Post, said today that he his standing by his decision to host a political fundraiser for Sen. Hillary Clinton later this year. During a conference call about his company’s robust earnings report, I asked Murdoch what conservatives are to make of his willingness to support the liberal New York senator. “It will be pretty modest support,” Murdoch said. “It’s giving the opportunity to people in our office who want to join us at a breakfast. “We think that she’s been effective on state issues and local issues...