Posted on 12/03/2002 4:09:54 AM PST by BigWaveBetty
FAIR HAIR CARE? KERRY CUT COST HALF OF HILLARY'S; SENATOR CONFIRMS CRISTOPHE CLIP
**Update**
Senator John Kerry confirmed late Monday that he's been visiting Washington's famed Cristophe Salon for haircuts, where he has been paying $75 a visit -- half of what Senator Hillary Clinton was charged for a similar shampoo, cut, blow and go!
This report revealed on Monday how Kerry, a self-described "Man of The People", has been quietly visiting Cristophe's, getting cleaned and coifed by Isabelle Goetz, Hillary Clinton's hairstylist.
A well-placed source claimed Kerry had been charged Isabel's going rate of $150 for the trim; the WASHINGTONIAN also reported in August that Ms. Goetz charges $150 a visit at Cristophe Salon.
"Isabel charges Senator Clinton $150, but charges Senator Kerry $75?" challenged one Hill source. "I think Hillary needs to speak out for all women everywhere against the discrimination, if this is true!"
The District of Columbia's Human Rights Act prohibits gender-based pricing.
Hair designer Isabelle Goetz could not be reached for comment late Monday.
The Kerry $75 haircut versus Hillary's $150 one raises an important civil rights issue waged by the National Organization for Women, among others. Hair salons have long employed practices that charge women prices far greater than their male counterparts.
"There is a growing consensus that basing prices upon gender is wrong and illegal and that increasingly it will fall, either under existing sex-discrimination suits or new ones as they may be passed," says John Banzhaf, a law professor at The George Washington University Law School in Washington.
In 1995, the Republican governor of California Pete Wilson signed a law that did away with different prices based on different genders for haircutting.
The Gender Tax Repeal Act, also known as the Equal Pricing Act, made the state the first in the nation to specifically prohibit gender discrimination in pricing.
But what if Hillary requires more work than her senate counterpart?
While California does allow merchants to charge higher rates to one of the sexes if they can prove the costs are justified, the District of Columbia has ruled out the cost-basis defense in its law.
A gag alert from Cindy Adams' column:
THERE is nothing like two Dames - Judi Dench and Maggie Smith - to attract the titled. In London, catching "A Breath of Life" Thanksgiving weekend, were future President Hillary, forever President Clinton, previous first kid Chelsea, onetime U.N. Ambassador Albright. It was musical boxes at the Haymarket. Minutes before curtain, Albright plopped into a box. Alone.
Seconds before curtain she got hustled to a different box. The house went dark and in came Hillary. The curtain went up and in came Bill and Chel. Come intermission they got a standing ovation - the Clintons not the Dames - then the Box Trot began again. Chelsea and a girlfriend in one box, across the aisle Bill, Hill and Madeleine in another. Theatergoers were so busy watching America's royals they could barely watch Dames Judi and Maggie.
They really do believe they're royalty. Yeccch.
BAD news keeps on coming for the Democratic Party. Insiders say veteran State Sen. Olga Mendez will switch to the Republican side of the aisle, perhaps as early as today. Mendez, who won 95 percent of the vote in last month's election, has represented East Harlem and part of the South Bronx for 24 years. She endorsed George Pataki, Rudy Giuliani and Michael Bloomberg in recent elections. Sources say the impetus for her jump to the GOP was the Al Sharpton-led coup which replaced Marty Connor with David Paterson as Senate Minority Leader.
Sure we sniff at the New York version of republican but it still makes those NY dims crazy.
First Daughters Barbara and Jenna Bush had their 21st birthday hoedown last weekend at the family ranch in Crawford, Tex.
On Saturday, a chartered bus picked up a few dozen classmates from Jenna's sorority house at the University of Texas in Austin. The students, some of whom were toting musical instruments, had to show ID. A source says that all of them were told to leave cameras at home - so that the First Family could control photos at the bash, which celebrated the Margarita-loving twins' graduation to legal drinking age. As we forecast a while back, everybody dressed up as either a cowboy or Indian. Word is Jenna came as Annie Oakley. Aspiring fashion designer Barbara made the Pocahontas costume she wore.
"There were a lot of Billy the Kids," a spy tells us. "They had about two dozen friends. A lot of people brought sleeping bags and got into them at the end of the night." NY Daily News
Also in the Daily News, more on those adorable lovebirds, Ben and J-Ho.
The senator's communications director, David Wade, issued a position paper, which said in part: "John Kerry has never had his hair colored or highlighted although a lot of people tell him he should . . . [and] if it looks like his haircut costs $150, he must be getting an extraordinary deal, because it's not even in that ballpark. I wonder if this is a 'not so subtle hint' from some in the hair care industry that Kerry should start covering his grey, but don't expect him to star in a Just for Men commercial soon."
Meet the Press transcript Dec. 1, 2002:
MR. RUSSERT: You told Joe Klein, a New Yorker Profile, “there was plenty of times when I was disengaged, frivolous, four sheets to the wind on a weekend.” Now, I checked the dictionary and I found three sheets to the wind.
SEN. KERRY: Well, maybe I was truly in excess. I mean, those were—I think I was talking about my college days and post-college. And, you know, when we were having fun, we were young Navy officers in San Diego. We had a great time, Tim. We’d come in from our not overly arduous training and go surf [no doubt he was what true surfers call a kook] for three or four hours and then go out and have a great meal and enjoy our friendship. It was a special time. And, you know, I look back on it fondly. I learned a lot from all of that experience.
MR. RUSSERT: Senator John Kerry, we thank you for sharing your views with us and we will be covering your campaign with great interest.
SEN. KERRY: Good. Thanks, Tim. Link
Breezed right by that drinking thing. Perhaps the media is saving the good stuff for when or if he runs for prez.
No amount of money could tame this...
....it just gets reigned in for short periods of time.
I thought it was Bill Clinton who went in for the blow and go.
So9
How did we so quickly gloss over this?
I know, it was just too ridiculous and stomach-turning even to acknowledge.
No doubt, those currently calling President Bush a drunken frat boy now will include JFKII in that category (not!).
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