Posted on 05/20/2007 7:07:25 AM PDT by DBCJR
Hillary Rodham Clinton ... slipped away without responding to reporters questioning her ties to a Louisiana sheriff.
Jefferson Parish Sheriff Harry Lee, who served on the host committee of a Clinton fundraiser Friday in New Orleans, had been accused of racial bias for barring New Orleans residents from crossing a bridge into Jefferson while fleeing from Hurricane Katrina.
In another incident, in the 1980s, Lee said his deputies would stop "young blacks in rinky-dink cars" following a spate of robberies in white neighborhoods outside New Orleans.
Clinton spokeswoman Jennifer Hanley said that Lee has been "a longtime friend" of Clinton and her husband. She declined to comment further.
Questions about Clinton's ties to Lee came during a New Orleans campaign swing designed to strengthen her already warm relationship with the city's black community.
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New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin, who also attended the Dillard commencement, said Lee's support for Clinton could irk some voters. "He's got some controversy in his background," Nagin said. "She might pick up some, but she might lose some."
... Clinton's potentially embarrassing ties with Lee show how old associations can bring new problems for someone as connected as the former first lady.
On Saturday, The New York Times reported on her six-year tenure on the board of directors of Wal-Mart, which has been criticized by Democrats for anti-union policies. Although Clinton left the board in 1992, her continuing ties with executives of the Arkansas-based company are likely to disappoint her supporters in the labor movement.
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Hillary’s PEOPLE will never let an unscripted unplanned unrehearsed question be asked of their star candidate.
Never.
There is no end to the Clinton trail of crime and sleaze. This is why she has to be so protected in front of the public...it is just too easy to expose her past and who and what she is.
She is so easy to beat in this race - just expose her past, God how easy can it be???
But of course..
It's a good thing that the President never needs to deal with any unscripted unplanned unrehearsed events, isn't it?
Oh, wait...
Hey, I like Harry Lee. He says what needs to be said. Not PC, and right.....
One thing the DimRats will never acknowledge is that their current demigods, the Clintons, gained their political capital by being an integral part of what liberals used to consider the greatest evil: the Good Ol' Boy networks of the segregationist South.
I posted a similar comment but the mods deleted it.
Who will do the exposing? MSM?
Yea, why he would associate with these two is beyond me, unless he’s “undercover.” To me, this association sullies Lee not the Clintons.
Funny also how they didn’t mention that he’s of Chinese descent and very popular with his constituents for his efforts to protect them.
I wonder when Lee is scheduled to disappear?
If you know what I mean.
If you go to the Clintons with a check , you will NOT be turned away.
Controversial ally aids Clinton's bid Louisiana sheriff has tense relations with black leaders
Lee's a longtime FOB apparently....
I love how the media avoids any confrontation with Hillary about any suspected relationship with a shady character.
We all know the media would have already made the connection, if the person were a republican instead of a democrat, and forcefully tainted the candidate - deserved or not.
We all know about her fbi records theft then used gov’t time, personnel and money to set up her data list. I have an idea that just about everyone in the media is on that list with everything they’ve ever done and ole broadbeam and her “staff” will use any “uncomfortable” data should a media member ask her a “difficult” question. She MUST always be shown as a brilliant, perfect specimen of humanoid.
Personally, I don’t blame Sheriff Lee for not wanting to deal with New Orleans’ anarchy during Katrina, I don’t care what color the people were that he turned back.
Well .. she might be using intimidation on some people .. but the MEDIA HAS THE SAME AGENDA SHE DOES - THEY’RE NOT FIGHTING HER .. THEY’RE SOFTBALLING ALL THE QUESTIONS TO MAKE HER LOOK GOOD.
The media is already in her corner .. she doesn’t have to DO anything to them to get them to cooperate with her.
I don’t know what the problem is with this witch answering questions, we’ve been told she is the smartest women in the world.
Have we been lied to about this claim????
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