Posted on 10/07/2003 5:55:20 AM PDT by Hillary's Lovely Legs
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Late last night, just before Gray Davis conceded defeat in a gracious speech, I spoke at his event with Sen. Sheila Kuehl, the Santa Monica Democrat who hopes to replace John Burton next year as leader of the state Senate. Kuehl is a partisan liberal, head of the “Progressive PAC” that raises money for leftist Democrats running in legislative primaries. She is also usually level-headed, pleasant, intelligent and courteous. Last night, she was none of the above. Here is an excerpt from our interview:_______________________________DW: How are you feeling?
KUEHL: I am really sad. I’m more angry than anything. And I haven’t even started thinking about what the Senate will need to do in order to save the state.
DW: Save the state from what?
KUEHL: From ignorance. This guy has no idea how to run a state. One of two things will happen. He’ll have his own ideas and no way to carry them out. I mean he has already proposed three things that the governor cannot do. He wants to roll back the car tax on his own by fiat, which he can t do. He wants to tax the Indians, which he can’t do. He doesn’t know anything about running the state. So either he will propose a lot of stuff he can’t do and we’ll have to govern, or he’ll be pretty well manipulated by people who have an agenda, very much the way I think the president of the United States has been handled by people who are really telling him how to do these things. In which case we may have to counteract things that are worse than things he proposed on his own. His handlers will probably be more conservative than he is, or in the Republican Party line. Convince him he’ll bring businesses back to the state by cutting more benefits to workers, by unraveling anti-discrimination statutes which they call job killers.
DW: Will he be received civilly by the Democrats in the Legislature?
KUEHL: He will be received civilly. We have received everyone civilly. I don’t know if everybody is going to go to the State of the State (speech). Because frankly I don’t think there is going to be a lot of content that anyone’s interested in. What’s this guy got to say to us about the state of the state? Nothing.
Let's hope they keep their heads up their *&#*&*&es!
And now, for something completely different (and I mean different):
Behind his white collar, a Queens priest kept some dark secrets, cops said yesterday. The Rev. John Johnston, 64, was a pistol-packing padre who had a stash of Nazi memorabilia and gay porn in his Jackson Heights apartment, police said. But perhaps the most evil thing the longtime religion teacher is accused of is breaking the Seventh Commandment by stealing as much as $100,000 from a Long Island church's collection.
"Even for me, it was disturbing," said a police source, who toured Johnston's den of iniquity on 35th Ave. and 78th St. The Catholic priest's secret life was exposed when cops went to his apartment Tuesday night to bust him for allegedly making "offensive and nasty" calls to the principal of Bishop Laughlin High School in Brooklyn - ex-Mayor Rudy Giuliani's alma mater.
Johnston answered the door in a kimono - but what grabbed cops' interest was a huge wad of cash and a revolver sitting on a dresser, sources said. rest of story
As for her political future, the former head of the EPA says an ambassadorship might be in the cards: "The President asked me to stay loose." After these comments, that could be quite a while. source
Nitwit. And in other news (same source):
Chelsea Clinton and boyfriend Ian Klaus took Metro-North back from visiting Papa in Chappaqua. Arriving at Grand Central, Klaus walked down the platform a few steps behind her, shlepping all the luggage ...
Ex-Clintonite Sidney Blumenthal predicts, "No Democrat who voted for the Iraq war resolution will win the party's nomination." He was talking at the New Democratic Network breakfast in the Bear Sterns dining room ...
On the other side of the country, at the New York premiere party for the movie "Kill Bill," producer Lawrence Bender, William Morris chairman Jim Wyatt and Miramax honcho Harvey Weinstein were pulling long faces over the putsch in California. Wyatt predicted that further newspaper stories about women being groped would result in yet another recall election. And Weinstein lamented: "What's the world coming to?"
And this:
Yesterday, (Ali) Wentworth - wife of buttoned-down ABC News eminence George Stephanopoulos - "worked blue," in the parlance of comedy clubs, doing extended shtick on her fantasy of fringe candidate and billboard sex bomb Angelyne becoming governor of California. As she arched her back and thrust out her chest, she mouthed sexual quips - the most printable being, "I show you my big budget!"
Later, Wentworth, an alumnus of the Fox television show "In Living Color," lifted her blouse to breast-feed a baby doll. Dark Ali has also featured a Nazi-saluting sendup of Arnold Schwarzenegger and references to sex acts not suitable for a family gossip column. link
Nitwit (#2).
It is amazing that he got dumped. Just think if he had beaten the recall...all we would have heard was how Clinton, Streisand, et al saved him..Davis campaigned 24/7 and almost always with a Clintonite or Hollywood star at his side and still he got thrown out by a wide margin and with a great voter turnout.
Lodwick, one last picture of your candidate. She got just a shade under 10,000 votes. Gary Coleman got 15,000 and Arianna got 35,000.
Porn star and California gubernatorial candidate, Mary Carey displays her "I Voted" sticker to the press at a local polling station in North Hollywood, California(AFP/Rich Schmitt)
"Living History," Hillary Clinton's memoir, is the No. 10 nonfiction book on the most recent New York Times besteseller list, and it's been on the list for 16 weeks. But here's something odd. The Barnes & Noble Web site has its own list of "Year-to-Date Bestseller"--the "top 100 bestselling books for Barnes & Noble stores and Barnes & Noble.com, for January-September, 2003." Atop the list sits "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix," followed by "The Da Vinci Code" and "The South Beach Diet." The list does include political books, including Ann Coulter's "Treason" (No. 41) and Al Franken's "Lies" (No. 42).
But Hillary's book is nowhere to be found. The list only goes to No. 100, so there's no telling where she ranks, but it is below the No. 95 book, which is called--we kid you not--"Captain Underpants and the Big, Bad Battle of the Bionic Booger Boy, Part 1."
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