The GUILD 11-4-2002 GET OUT THE VOTE!!!

[Hillary's Lovely Legs]

Alex, I will take Stud Muffins for $500...

[mountaineer]

He's way hotter than Clinton

Hell's bells, the 80-year-old little man with the pot belly who lives across the street from us is hotter than Clinton.

[mountaineer]

The personal organiser
By Alex de Silva
7 October 2002

Tonges have been wagging over the correct job title of Chelsea Clinton's new "personal assistant" at Oxford University, the person she has hired to help organise her schedule as the daughter of a former American president. Judging by the number of parties in London that she and Ian Klause, her Rhodes Scholar boyfriend have been turning up to, it has been suggested that "social secretary" would be a better description.

Only very few VIP grandees in Britain today, such as the media tycoon Lord Black and his wife, or William Farish, the American ambassador to London, continue to employ a bona fide social secretary. The breed has been threatened with extinction thanks to the rise of the more inferior personal assistant, currently the most fashionable ego-enhancement accessory for anybody on the London scene who doesn't work in an office and is either too rich, too lazy or simply too self-important to return their own phone calls, organise their own weekend packing or return their videos.

Those who never have to reply to their own party invitations or queue to buy a tax disc include Jemima Khan, the socialite Taki, Michael Winner, Matthew and Tamara Mellon of Jimmy Choo fame and inevitables such as Claudia Schiffer and Elizabeth Hurley. Even Prince William has recently acquired his own PA - a pretty, young female scion of the Asprey family.

It's no longer just celebrities and wealthy socialites who rely on personal assistants, they have even become de rigueur with the trendy young artist set - Sam Taylor Wood and Damien Hirst have both employed one. Of course, many of these more street-cred celebs-about-town are loath to admit to having a PA, thinking it sounds pretentious and pathetic. "I've been told not to tell anybody that I am their PA," says one well-known artist's assistant. "I'm to say I'm just 'helping out', when, in fact, I work for them full time."

Rest of article at: http://www.thisislondon.com/lifeandstyle/articles/1492272

[lodwick]

You may be getting a bop on the head for that from Laura.

We're thinking our very best thoughts and prayers for ya!

[Iowa Granny]

Where is everybody?

[BigWaveBetty]

I fell asleep before I could get my son off the computer.

So sorry I was wrong HLL. But 3,196 votes - 6 percent ain't bad for a new comer!! Congrats!

So Is it true? So we now control the Senate as well as the House??!

Praise the Lord! And a big thank you to all who worked so hard to make it happen!!

I'll bet we made our president very happy today. :-)

[Hillary's Lovely Legs]

I know it doesn't sound like much, but I didn't expect more than 2%. I did get more votes than my base and my absentee's haven't been counted yet. I had the lowest GOP base of any candidate in Michigan, so even though 6% may sound miniscule, it's actually pretty large. I beat out all the other Republicans who had bases a little larger than mine. I don't have any complaints.

My votes ended up costing me about 2 cents a piece. When you consider I had about $600 for my campaign and my opponent had $140,000, it's not too bad.

[BigWaveBetty]

You done good kid!!!

We won back the House and Senate!! Wooooo Hooooooo.

I met up with a neighbor who was having a morning walk and we danced in the street together!! We did grumble about class size amendement passing though. How in the heck are we going to pay for that?!

[mountaineer]

Good morning. What a night! I am rejoicing greatly at the results on the national level and in so many of the gubernatorial races, especially Jim Talent's victory in Missouri, my former home.

Congratulations for a race well run, C.

I spent the evening at the courthouse waiting for vote tallies. Some observations: I'm so disappointed in my fellow West Virginians. They were even more unthinking than usual, voting straight Democrat, voting for a worthless buffoon like John D. Rockefeller IV (instead of Jay Wolfe), even though he supports partial birth abortion (most West Virginians are pro-life), huge taxes and gun-grabbing. In 2000, this state chose Bush by five or six percentage points over Gore. Two years later, it's back to mindless support of Dems.

We had a 32.33% turnout here. How unfortunate that 2/3 of the registered voters in my county don't give a damn. My county is 70% Democrat, 22% Republican, 8% independent. Should I even bother thinking about running in 2004 with odds like that?

[Mrs.Liberty]

HLL...I don't post much on FR often anymore, but I wanted to come on and say..Good Job on your campaign. Yours was the first race I looked up when I woke up this morning.

Go get em, next time!

[MadelineZapeezda]

Jay Wolfe was the only Republican on the ballot and the only lever , besides a local levy, that I pulled. Pretty sad day in WV that ALL the 'Rats ran unnopposed.

[mountaineer]

Terry McAuliffe's predictions (made Sunday):

• Minnesota senator: " Walter Mondale is going to win the race. Norm Coleman was the Clinton-Gore reelection chairman in Minnesota, so you know we're going to win."

• South Dakota senator: " Tim Johnson."

• Missouri senator: "[ Jean] Carnahan is up in the poll. Carnahan's going to win."

• Florida hovernor: "I'm very excited about what's going on in Florida. . . . We are going to win Florida -- which is going to set up, Tim, very nicely for 2004."

From WashPost. Thank goodness he was right only on one (SD, apparently). I love seeing Clinton and his minions getting a good smack in the face.

[mountaineer]

The Pubbies won in Ohio County (White and Wakim), and several ran for Legislature downstate (I don't know how they did), but the Northern Panhandle is just a disaster for common sense, if those Brooke County Democrat yahoos I stood next to in the clerk's office last night are any indication.

[Iowa Granny]

Good Morning. What a GRAND "Wash Job" that President of ours did. Unfortunately, his majic didn't work in Iowa, but we were able to maintain the majority in both State Houses, and hold on to the 4 Congressional seats we already had, so we will be able to stand strong against the Democrat Governor who won re election handily.

Senator Chuck Grassley will return as the Senate Budget Chair, and Little Tommy Harkin can say good bye to the perks he received as House Ag Committee Chair.

Thank You America! Iowan's didn't have the courage to toss Harkin out, but at least he can sit and have a pity party for himself over leadership lost.

[mountaineer]

And now, back to the other news:

Presidential niece Lauren Bush is doing her part for Middle East relations. The fashion-model daughter of Neil and Sharon Bush is dating a hunky Palestinian-American. Nineteen-year-old Tammer Qaddumi and the 18-year-old Bush both grew up in Houston. Qaddumi was president of the student body at Memorial High School, co-valedictorian and a member of the varsity basketball team.

This fall, he started at Dubya's alma mater, Yale. Lauren, meanwhile, is down at Princeton. But the two were together Monday night at the March of Dimes Gourmet Gala at the Palace Hotel. Though they shied away from photographers, our spies say they couldn't keep their hands off each other. "She was stroking his cheek," says one guest. "He was kissing her shoulders."

"She's a wonderful girl," says Tammer's father, Maher Qaddumi, an architectural engineer who grew up in the West Bank and is active in Houston's Arab community. "We love her. She and Tammer are birds of a feather. They're both very motivated." ...

Lauren's parents, for their part, are still trying to hold their marriage together. Neil, who filed for divorce last summer, continues to run his business in Austin. But a friend says that, when he's in Houston, he lives in the family's house there. NY Daily News

Also from the Daily News, Thanksgiving advice from Moby (isn't he that nitwit who bashed Bush for being a warmonger or some such thing?):

Moby wants you to put down that drumstick this Thanksgiving. The techno wizard is taking aim at the turkey sellers at Butterball by urging fans to clog the company's toll-free phone line. "Let them know there is no proper way to kill and prepare these beautiful birds," he says in a statement.

Well, of course he's wrong. There are many proper ways to kill and prepare these beautiful birds. I like to slather them with butter, stick a cut-up orange and a mess of herbs in the cavity, and put herbs under the skin. Mmmmm.

[lodwick]

Sunrise in the heartland

[pubmom]

The results here are a mixed bag, say hello to the new govenor of my state, Ed Rendell! (GAG!) I was happy to see Mike Fisher did win my county, however. I hope Ed is his charming, regular, weasely self and shows the residents of Pennsylvania what he is really like. Is that evil?

Shuster kept his seat in the house, and I have a new pubbie rep to the state house, Dave Reed! This is a cause for celebration, now I have a pubbie Rep. and Senator!

Dave's opponent made some whiny remarks on the radio this morning about the mean Republicans coming against her every two years. My goodness, what did she expect? (This lady was in for Waaay too long)Perhaps her remarks a few weeks ago about not stepping aside until she thought there was someone who could do a better job cost her?

Good run on the campaign trail, HLL. I'm sure you have a great many memories from your experience. You'll have to give us your keen insights on running for office.

Do you think you'll try again?

[pubmom]

Mmmmmm, turkey. I came upon some of Moby's video work on late night TV. The boy's not right, IMO he's weirder than Peter Gabriel.

He made a claim that W was stalking him, think he's looney?

Lauren is dating a hyphenated american, is this cause for controversy?