Lloyd Grove, NY Daily News, reports:
I hear that some of Sen. Hillary Clinton's backers are "apoplectic" over her husband's stinging personal attack on gay Republican strategist Arthur Finkelstein.
The reason?
Hillary loyalists from the Glover Park Group Democratic consulting firm were embarrassed by Bill Clinton's remarks, because they're working closely with Finkelstein - and they're all getting paid handsomely by Cablevision - to thwart plans for a taxpayer-funded stadium on the West Side.
During a Harlem news conference on Monday, former President Clinton lashed out at Finkelstein - an openly gay GOP operative who recently married his boyfriend in Massachusetts - for launching his anti-Hillary campaign, "Stop Her Now."
"He went to Massachusetts and married his longtime male partner, and then he comes back here and announces this," Clinton complained about Finkelstein, who has worked for some of the GOP's most culturally conservative candidates.
"I thought one of two things," Clinton continued. "Either this guy believes his party is not serious, and is totally Machiavellian in his position, or there's some sort of self-loathing there. I was more sad for him."
Yesterday, I heard that Bill was taking heat from advisers who chided him for going off-message and raising the issue of Finkelstein's sexual orientation. Ironically, Clinton loyalists such as Glover Park consultants Gigi Georges and Howard Wolfson - longtime aides to the senator - are on the same side as Finkelstein in the stadium fight, and Georges, for one, has become fast friends with him.
The former President's press secretary, Jim Kennedy, E-mailed me: "I won't have any comment on this."
A Cablevision spokesman played down the awkward situation.
"We have a big tent, with Republicans, Democrats, independents, women, minorities and many others who are united in opposing spending 1 billion taxpayer dollars on a football stadium."
Well gals, tomorrow is my 'prom'. Actually it is a dinner dance for a legal society that I belong to but all my friends are calling it my Prom.
Lucky me, I will be taking the most handsomest man in Michigan as my date and hopefully I will have at least one decent photo to post for you.
My date will be wearing a white dinner jacket. This is all cleverly planned because I am the only single woman attending and the wives at these events never talk to me. But we all remember the board game when we kids, Mystery Date. Most of us wanted to get the door with the guy in the white dinner jacket and I hope that the women will talk to my friend while I give out my business cards to the men in the room. He's my flypaper.
