HILL AIDE IN FURY OVER $$ (Kennedy in-law testifies re flopola Hollyweirdo fund-raiser)

NY POST ^ | May 20, 2005 | KENNETH LOVETT Post Correspondent

[Liz]

HILLARY CLINTON Hollywood event a flop in '00.

One of Hillary Clinton's top aides threw a hissy fit over the high costs of an extravagant Hollywood fund-raiser ..........

Ray Reggie, the brother-in-law of Sen. Ted Kennedy, testified..... that Clinton aide Kelly Craighead was upset days before the August 2000 soiree.

Craighead and Rosen argued "pretty hard" about the lavish fund-raiser, said Reggie, who got involved in raising cash for the campaign at the behest of then-President Bill Clinton.

"Kelly was concerned about how much money was going to be made at the event," Reggie testified.......

Rosen, who is charged with grossly understating the gala's costs, told her, "I'm the fund-raiser; I've got it under control," recalled Reggie.

Reggie, who is facing unrelated corruption charges, secretly recorded Rosen talking about the fund-raiser ........But the recording was not put into evidence at the trial.

Not only did the event cost far more than what was reported to the FEC, prosecutors charge, but it also raised peanuts for Clinton's Senate run. The campaign reported the event cost about $400,000, but some estimates have suggested the real cost was $1 million to $2 million.

.....a campaign worker, testified that the Hollywood event netted just $91,000 in so-called "hard money," of which $57,820 went to Clinton's campaign.

Reggie said yesterday that Rosen told him that "the last-minute costs crushed him," specifically travel expenses for the gala's star performers.

Meanwhile, a new poll suggests that Hillary Clinton may be hitting a glass ceiling — she beats anyone for Senate re-election next year, but she'd have trouble in the 2008 presidential race against both Rudy Giuliani and Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.)

Giuliani was seen as more "likable" than Clinton, by a margin of 46-39 percent, in the Fox News poll of registered New York voters.

[neb52]

"Don't you know about Clinton's "devastating" charm? (/sarc)"

I keep hearing that, but these people must be scum or horribly deluded about the public shiny face of the Clintons. Gaining power and wealth is not worth selling ones soul IMHO. As a mentor once toward me 'Greed and Fear will always get you in the end'.

[Liz]

Heheh........love it......another priceless Beth pic post.

[lionheart 247365]

Hillary,
Buying friends ain't cheat !!!

[Liz]

Maybe BillyBoy did his "act" at the fund-raiser?

Clinton in La La Land.

[patriot_wes]

Folks - Please check out the Hillary picture before eating your breakfast! God..there should have been some kind of warning here.

[Maceman]

I mean, does a USSenator automatically become a Justice of the Peace?

In many (if not all states), there is a provision whereby one can get a temporary one-day appointment to perform a wedding ceremony.

Six or seven years ago in my wife got one in order to perform the marriage ceremony for two friends of ours. We live in Massachusetts.

[Liz]

Great advice....thanks.

[keysguy]

reggies who is facing unrelated corruption charges secretly taped conversations...but they will not be placed in evidence.
Unless I am mistaken this is the whole ballgame here. Without Reggie's testimony as part of the evidence the wench will probably skate again.

[jaydubya2]

Not a flattering picture. Looks like pure evil!

[sgtbono2002]

I am simply amaxed that although many of Hillary's staff saw this fund raiser and its expenses coming not one of them informed Hillary of the problem. The queen herself never had any notion of what was going on , she was clueless. And of course innocent because the judge already said so.

[Northern Yankee]

In fact, when Craighead married political consultant Erick Mullen in 2001, it was Hillary Clinton who performed the ceremony.

Did they take showers after the ceremony? Uggghhhhh....

[Gritty]

... we all sit here waiting, and there is still no news in the MSM about this trial.

[NautiNurse]

NYT reporting the prosecution is expected to rest its case today.

[jwin]

If any judge would say that it is raining, I would go outside to check. I do not trust any of them.

[Liz]

(Sniffle) Hillary's a Dumbocrat.....ergo, she is a "victim" (sob).

Victimization is a Dim's basic belief by which they blame and find others responsible for their own personal failures, then expect taxpayers, deep-pocketed individuals, or the courts to bail them out.

Try to remember, that for a Dim, it feels good to be in the throes of "victimization" and either A) causing victims, B) concocting victims, C) playing victim, D) commiserating over victims, or E) creating another class of victims to bleed over.

Sniffle.

[Liz]

She looks more, ah, "electable" here.

[jaydubya2]

Ha,ha

[texasbluebell]

Giuliani was seen as more "likable" than Clinton...

Not to mention, he looks better in heels.

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Reggie, who is facing unrelated corruption charges...

What is this? Another associate of Bill and Hillary facing criminal prosecution? Now that's something we don't see every day (sort of, if you don't count most Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Fridays).

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... we all sit here waiting, and there is still no news in the MSM about this trial.

That's because two years ago some Afghani POWs died and the final Star Wars just opened. Oh yeah, and these are democrats and the MSM doesn't do hit pieces on democrats. Don't you have a sense of priorities?