Posted on 01/16/2008 3:40:02 PM PST by NormsRevenge
Former President Bill Clinton got positively riled -- as in steely-eyed -- today when pressed by a local TV reporter on the issue of lawsuits filed by Sen. Hillary Clinton's Nevada supporters to challenge the Jan. 19 Democratic "at large'' caucus locations that will serve workers on the Las Vegas strip. Many of those workers are members of the 60,000-strong Culinary Workers Union -- which has endorsed Sen. Barack Obama.
Clinton was in Oakland to talk up the home mortgage crisis on behalf of his wife's presidential campaign. ...
But it got fiery indeed when San Francisco's ABC 7 News bulldog politics reporter Mark Matthews grabbed him afterwards and pressed him on the Nevada lawsuits.
Matthews asked politely why the ''at-large'' caucus locations have been challenged by members of the teachers union -- many of them Hillary supporters. (The critics say the Strip location caucuses will give culinary union members an unfair advantage, one other workers don't have, to participate in the Nevada caucuses during their work hours.)
Matthews asked Clinton about the perception that the challenges were filed only after the culinary union's recent Obama endorsement.
Clinton, just inches from his face, fired back.
''There were teachers who filed the lawsuit. You have asked the question in an accusatory way, so I will ask you back,'' the former president said. ''Do you really believe that all the Democrats understood that they had agreed to give people who worked in the casino a vote worth five times as much as people who voted in their own precinct?''
''Did you know that? Their votes will be counted five times more powerfully, in terms of delegates to the state convention, compared to delegates to the antional convention.''
Matthews noted the state party approved the set up.
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
stirring it up on the Strip, Good ol’ Bubba...
I wonder if he jabbed at the reporter with his finger.
I’ll leave the strip jokes to others.
“Matthews noted the state party approved the set up.”
The Clintonistas don’t follow rules, they make the rules.
The headline is sooo much more interesting than the article! And I thought the First Laddy was getting excited about voting in a strip club!
I counted “5 times” about 10 times. Looks like Uncle Bill got his talking points A.O.K.
I guess Obama really did do his SPADEWORK, Hillary!!!
Thats Slick Willie’s way of signaling one of his liberal appointed judges to step in.
Nevermind that it was the Clinton machine who set these rules in place.
You didn’t hear of the Clinton machine complaining about this before Obama got the endorsement a week ago. Only when Hillary didn’t get the endorsement.
ooohhhh the First Laddy got maddy!!! Maybe because he really did think there would be STRIPPING at the Coc....Caucuses.
THE MEDIA
- Number of journalists covering Whitewater who have been fired, transferred off the beat, resigned or otherwise gotten into trouble because of their work on the scandals (Doug Frantz, Jim Wooten, Richard Behar, Christopher Ruddy, Michael Isikoff, David Eisenstadt, Yinh Chan, Jonathan Broder, James R. Norman, Zoh Hieronimus): 10
A vote on the strip worth 5 times what any other vote worth. I wonder would he matter it the Culinary was in Hilda back pocket.
Sounds likes he admitting the democratics like to vote early and often.
why did the reported not bust the idiot w/ “what do you mean 5 x greater”?
These headlines just write themselves...
He’s just disappointed that they are caucuses on the strip and not caucuses in a strip club.
Of COURSE he’s fired up over the STRIPPER caucuses! ;-P
Wow, Billy Jeff sounded torqued, I’d love to see a video of that!
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