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Clinton's man in California a pro at digging up dirt
SFGate.com ^ | 5/12/07 | Carla Marinucci

Posted on 05/12/2007 5:19:02 PM PDT by melt

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton has turned to Averell "Ace" Smith -- who earned his stripes as one of the nation's most feared political opposition researchers -- to steer her campaign in California.

Smith, 48, is genteel, soft-spoken and bespectacled -- but also is the epitome of a take-no-prisoners political operative who has built a reputation as a dogged researcher and, more recently, a winning California campaign manager, political allies and opponents agree.

"I've seen him walk into a room, and the opposition candidate will literally start mumbling," said former Democratic strategist Clint Reilly, who has run campaigns for U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein and former Democratic state Treasurer Kathleen Brown and has worked with Smith. "They're just totally terrified with his presence."

Smith, 48, surprised California political veterans by jumping from the role of top political researcher to the role of campaign manager during Antonio Villaraigosa's successful 2005 run for mayor of Los Angeles against then-incumbent James Hahn.

Villaraigosa credits Smith with making the "biggest difference" in the campaign's message in what became a landslide victory.

"He's single-minded in his focus, intensely disciplined and loyal," Villaraigosa said of Smith, who remains a trusted adviser. "He loves politics and thrives in the heat of battle ... (and) has an incredible intensity level. He comes to play the game, and he works from the first minute to the last."

(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...


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To: LibFreeOrDie

...People should also recall that Dick Morris, former chief Strategist for the Clintons came out with some interesting confessional statements about how his employers had been using private investigators to gather intelligence on and intimidate their enemies for a lot longer than anybody might have suppposed. (Cited here)

“There’s a kind of secret police going on here that goes back to the 1992 Democratic primary campaign that’s simply revolting. It is absolutely chilling.” Dick Morris, Houston Chronicle, April 15th 1998
AND

Hillary’s detectives engaged in “a systematic campaign to intimidate, frighten, threaten, discredit and punish innocent Americans whose only misdeed is their desire to tell the truth in public,” Dick Morris —New York Post of Oct. 1st, 1998.

Morris is speaking of course of the relationships that the Clintons have had with (among others) Terry Lenzner, Cody Shearer, Jack Palladino, Louis Stephens and then there are other news articles that discuss Hillary’s hiring of Hollywood Thug, Anthony J. Pellicano. These are just some of the people that the Clintons have used over the years to gather intelligence or intimidate those who they wish to intimidate. And these are just the ones we know about....

http://somenamedia.blogspot.com/search/label/Clinton


21 posted on 05/12/2007 6:13:33 PM PDT by OESY
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To: LibFreeOrDie

THE REAL HILLARY CLINTON: Episode #5 - Hillary, the Commies, and the Black Panthers
Insight Mag ^ | 12-26-02 | John Elvin

Posted on 12/26/2002 3:14:29 PM EST by doug from upland

NOTE: the survival of our Republic is threatened by two things — fundamentalist Islamic terrorists and Hillary Rodham Clinton. President Bush is leading the fight against the terrorists. It is up to those of us who know the real Hillary Clinton to lead the fight against her. We must shine the light of truth on this dangerous woman so that all Americans may know the real Hillary.

#5 in a continuing series

Hillary Hides Her Panther Fling
Hillary Rodham was a radical activist while a Yale Law School student supporting such Marxist groups as the Black Panthers, but the media gloss over her past.
By John Elvin
Insight
The Internet is such a jumble of truths, half-truths and lies that it is little wonder questions have arisen about the legitimacy of e-mail messages linking Hillary Rodham Clinton to the Black Panthers, a group of militant desperadoes who swaggered through the 1960s in leather jackets and Che Guevara berets, armed to the teeth and as willing to use arms against police officers they called “pigs” as against each other.
“Scream, America, When You’ve Had Enough,” reads the headline of one version of the Hillary/Panther message, which has so saturated cyberspace that it earned a spot on the highly regarded Urban Legends Website. Frequent media references call the site the leading authority on the truth or falsehood of the many rumors, scare stories and other sensational tidbits posted and shared on the Internet by true believers, the curious, pranksters and those of more sinister motives....

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/812576/posts


22 posted on 05/12/2007 6:17:02 PM PDT by OESY
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To: LibFreeOrDie

DOWNSIDE LEGACY AT TWO DEGREES OF PRESIDENT CLINTON
SECTION: SECRET POLICE
SUBSECTION: ALL
Revised 8/10/00

PRIVATE AND PUBLIC INVESTIGATIVE RESOURCES
SECRET POLICE
CLAIMS OF MALICIOUS PROSECUTION

PRIVATE AND PUBLIC INVESTIGATIVE RESOURCES

2300? FBI Files improperly acquired (White House) - Marceca testified about these
FBI used in White House claims in the firing of the White House Travel Office.
Terry Lenzer and firm (Private/White House)
Jack Palladino and firm (Private/Campaign)
FBI used to remove Chef Sean Haddon

New York Post Richard Johnson 8/1/98 “PRESIDENT Clinton has never met the private detective who has been shadowing his enemies, and after reading next month’s Vanity Fair, he may not want to. Terry Lenzner, whose Investigative Group International is disparagingly known as the White House Secret Police, is a Harvard Law School alumnus who, on Clinton’s behalf, has been digging up dirt on Monica Lewinsky and Paula Jones, and possibly on Kathleen Willey and Linda Tripp. According to Vanity Fair, IGI has been investigating opponents and potential opponents of Clinton since 1989, when it targeted Tommy Robinson, a Republican gubernatorial candidate in Arkansas. But it’s Lenzner’s other escapades that make for uneasy reading. Writer Judy Bachrach claims that among IGI’s former operatives is Hillary Rodham Clinton’s close friend Brooke Shearer, the wife of Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott. Shearer’s specialty during her time at IGI was divining information from people’s trash, an art known in the spook biz as “dumpster dipping.”.”

http://www.alamo-girl.com/02742.htm


23 posted on 05/12/2007 6:18:41 PM PDT by OESY
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To: melt

From Obama’s expression, it looks like Beelzeflubba is already probing..


24 posted on 05/12/2007 6:30:15 PM PDT by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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To: hope

Her official title is “Her Heinous, The Bride of Beelzeflubba”!


25 posted on 05/12/2007 6:31:15 PM PDT by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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To: hope
When she was in the White House I called her “that cunning little runt.” Now that she’s pursuing the presidency I call her something else.
26 posted on 05/12/2007 6:35:39 PM PDT by Grizzled Bear ("Does not play well with others.")
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To: Thebaddog

Remember the way a different Al Gore appeared in all of the three debates with Bush? He tried one persona, then another, then another-—basically multiple personalities to see which one would work. Well, none of them did. Say what you will about Bush, but the fact that he came across as the SAME PERSON in every debate was a nearly subliminal thing that helped him win. Hillary veers between folksy-with-a-smile-and-a-laugh in her voice, and some kind of automaton who can’t help talking down to her audience of “would-be voters” she’s not sure she’s convinced yet, and finally, a down-home homegirl with an affected country accent as she did so embarrassinly a few weeks ago to the black audience, who apparently ate it up.
Either way, she doesn’t come across as an integrated personality. That will do her in.


27 posted on 05/12/2007 6:39:25 PM PDT by supremedoctrine
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To: hope

She is extremely polarizing. Unfortunately that’s not gonna stop her.

&&
I am frightened of the Clintons’ extremely successful voter fraud experience.


28 posted on 05/12/2007 6:55:25 PM PDT by Bigg Red (Duncan Hunter in 2008!)
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To: supremedoctrine

I’d love to see Fred Thompson and Hillary debate or Fred and Obama- what great entertainment that would be.


29 posted on 05/12/2007 6:55:55 PM PDT by dandiegirl
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To: melt

Looks like “Puff” is in for some Clintonista nastiness.


30 posted on 05/12/2007 7:03:28 PM PDT by Mad_Tom_Rackham (Elections have consequences.)
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To: potlatch
WOW!


I didn't think she could look any creepier!
You've managed to capture something I've not seen before. ;o)

31 posted on 05/12/2007 7:41:05 PM PDT by dixiechick2000 (There ought to be one day-- just one-- when there is open season on senators. ~~ Will Rogers)
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To: melt

To everyone who is fearing a Hilliarly presidency:

Stop worrying. I’m serious, don’t worry about it.

First, be assured of one thing, God has a wry sense of humor.

Second, just think about what happened to the last junior Senator from New York to run for the Presidency.

You see, lightning CAN strike twice in the same place, and sometimes it will wait patiently for 40 years or so.

I’m just sayin’.


32 posted on 05/12/2007 7:42:17 PM PDT by mkjessup (Jan 20, 2009 - "We Don't Know. Where Rudy Went. Just Glad He's Not. The President. Burma Shave.")
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To: dixiechick2000

Lol!


33 posted on 05/12/2007 7:47:15 PM PDT by potlatch (Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it. M.Twain)
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To: sheik yerbouty

She’s the machine behind clintbilly.


34 posted on 05/12/2007 8:01:52 PM PDT by hope
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To: Bigg Red

That’s not a tinfoil hat issue. Don’t discount it for a minute.


35 posted on 05/12/2007 8:02:46 PM PDT by hope
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To: LibFreeOrDie

You would be correct!!!


36 posted on 05/12/2007 9:39:43 PM PDT by CyberAnt ("... first time in history the U.S. House has attempted to surrender via C-SPAN TV ...")
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To: melt
Re: Averell Smith.

This pos along with Paul Begalla, James Carville, Rahm Emanuel, and Anne Lewis wrote the book on throwing people under the political "bus."

B.H.O. better watch his back or he'll end up in some smelly trash pile never to be relevant again.

37 posted on 05/12/2007 10:05:28 PM PDT by Trajan88 (www.bullittclub.com)
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To: hope

That’s not a tinfoil hat issue. Don’t discount it for a minute.

&&&
Believe me, I don’t, especially since I live in Maryland. The Rats have been in power here for so long that their tentacles are firmly wrapped around almost every single precinct. Their voter fraud techniques are most likely taught at Rat seminars throughout the country.


38 posted on 05/13/2007 5:51:26 AM PDT by Bigg Red (Duncan Hunter in 2008!)
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To: melt

Dirtbag’s probably buzzing the warhorse, too...


39 posted on 05/13/2007 5:54:00 AM PDT by mewzilla (Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist. John Adams)
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To: mewzilla

BTTT.


40 posted on 05/13/2007 12:50:56 PM PDT by mewzilla (Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist. John Adams)
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