Posted on 11/30/2005 4:20:15 PM PST by wagglebee
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, facing a 2006 re-election race and a possible presidential bid two years later, is kicking off a two-week, six-state pre-Christmas tour to boost her already hefty campaign bank account and earn political chits along the way.
Clinton campaign guru Ann Lewis said while the holiday period between Thanksgiving and Christmas is traditionally a tough time to raise money, it can be done.
"It's a festive time and if you do your parties right, if you can do it as a festive occasion, I think it works better," Lewis said Wednesday.
While any money left over from Democrat Clinton's Senate campaign can be used for a presidential race, Lewis refused to talk about that possibility.
"The goal is getting re-elected to the Senate," the Clinton adviser said. "This is a Clinton campaign. The rule in the Clinton campaign is you take one election at a time and you do it really, really well."
But according to New York's GOP chairman, Stephen Minarik, it is all part of "Hillary Clinton's deceitful drive for the White House."
The former first lady's tour begins Thursday with a visit to Michigan to help raise funds for a fellow Democratic senator up for re-election in 2006, Debbie Stabenow. On Friday, Clinton hits Louisville for an event Kentucky Democrats hope will raise more than $250,000 for the state party.
Those events, said Lewis, demonstrate Clinton "is also trying to meet her responsibilities as somebody who can help elect other Democrats."
The New York senator is in Chicago the following day for "Saturday Night Live with Senator Hillary Clinton," an event to benefit her own campaign committee. The committee, as of the end of September, already had almost $14 million on hand, having raised more than $5 million in the previous three months.
Those same end-of-September filings showed Clinton's best-known potential GOP challenger, Westchester County District Attorney Jeanine Pirro, had raised less than $440,000 since entering the race Aug. 8.
The senator's husband, meanwhile, takes over fundraising chores on Tuesday in New York City with "An Evening with President William Jefferson Clinton" to benefit his wife's campaign committee. She will not attend.
On Dec. 12, the former first lady will hold a fundraiser for herself in New Jersey before she joins her husband the next day for a major event in New York City for the Friends of Hillary committee. Two days later, she will be in Denver for the latest in a series of frequent events staged at private homes and not publicized by her campaign.
Lewis said because of the holidays, fundraising has to be concentrated in the first two weeks of December. The goal is to put up impressive numbers for the next campaign financial report that covers the three-month period ending Dec. 31.
While Lewis, like Clinton, won't talk about a possible 2008 campaign for the White House, New York's GOP has shown no such reticence.
"It's obvious that Hillary Clinton wants to be president (again)," Minarik wrote in a new letter to potential donors. "That's why she is raising millions and millions of dollars. And, that's why we must defeat her at all costs.
"Stopping Hillary next year will not only give New Yorkers the Republican senator we need, but it will end Hillary Clinton's deceitful drive for the White House," Minarik wrote.
Independent polls have shown Clinton far ahead of Pirro and her other potential GOP challengers.
She is holding a fundraiser for herself? LOL!!! Most people have a host for fundraisers but Ms. Clinton doesn't have a host sponsoring the event? Guess they got tired of having to guarantee her money for her fundraising events.
Why I think we should go back to letting the state legislatures going back to choosing the Senators.. The way it should be..
Going by the party breakdowns in the state legislatures before the 2004 elections, the Republicans would have had the say in 26 states and the Democrats in 23 (Nebraska has a nonpartisan legislature.) The margins in some states were narrow so a few may change hands with each election, but that would suggest a party breakdown in the Senate pretty close to what we have now. Of course it might mean that some particular senators wouldn't have been elected.
The senator's husband, meanwhile, takes over fundraising chores on Tuesday in New York City with "An Evening with President William Jefferson Clinton" to benefit his wife's campaign committee. She will not attend.
Offering Abortion, Rebirth (Abortion... this article says it all.... without knowing it.)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1530690/posts?page=18
November 30, 2005
Hillary's Doctor Offers 'Born Again' Abortions
http://www.covenantnews.com/newswire/archives/016550.html
Editor's note: According to William F Harrison's book review of My Life by Bill Clinton at Amazon -- This guy was Hillary's doctor and a friend of Bill and Hillary since the 70's.
"I am almost 69 years old, and have been a student of all of the presidents of my lifetime, starting with FDR and going to GWB. I have known Bill and Hillary Clinton personally since they both moved to Fayetteville to teach at the University of Arkansas Law School in the early 70s. I met Hillary first as her physician and she soon introduced me to her then boyfriend, Bill.". William F Harrison
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-abortion29nov29,0,20033
22, excerpt...
Offering Abortion, Rebirth
Yes, an Arkansas doctor says, he destroys life. But he believes the
thousands of women who have relied on him have been 'born again.'
By Stephanie Simon
Times Staff Writer
November 29, 2005 LA Times
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. - Dr. William F. Harrison has forgotten how many children the woman had. He remembers she was poor and, most vividly, he remembers her response when a physician diagnosed her distended stomach as pregnancy.
"Oh, God, doctor," the woman said. "I was hoping it was cancer."
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