Posted on 11/28/2001 3:48:43 AM PST by kattracks
New York Senator Hillary Clinton has reportedly refused to attend a single funeral or memorial service for any of the victims of the World Trade Center disaster unless it was a major media event.
"We sent both Sen. Clinton and Sen. Chuck Schumer letters asking them which services they attended and which families they visited," Fox News Channel's Bill O'Reilly reported late Tuesday.
Sen. Clinton's office ignored FNC's letter and repeated phone calls, "most likely," said O'Reilly, "because the only events we know she attended were three highly publicized memorial services."
In marked contrast to Clinton's stonewalling, Sen. Schumer's office said they had attended 10 services and promised to provide a list of each one. New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani and Gov. George Pataki have attended hundreds of funerals for WTC victims.
Anthony Gardener, who lost his brother Harvey in the World Trade Center and has become an advocate for the victims of the disaster, told FNC that he contacted Clinton's New York office twice but got no response.
"I invited her to come and be on our board of advisers to help us with the nonprofit support group that we created, WTC United Family Group," Gardener told O'Reilly. "I never had any feedback from her office, not even an assistant to an assistant or anyone."
Gardener said that he knew getting Mrs. Clinton to help would be "a far-fetched thing. [But] I just thought she might be eager to help."
Associated Press reporter Beth Harpaz, author of the Hillary 2000 campaign chronicle "The Girls on the Van," said that Mrs. Clinton snubbed WTC victims because they didn't vote for her.
"Her core supporters and the main victim groups of 9/11 are pretty much two distinct groups," Harpaz told O'Reilly. "You know, we have a lot of male-dominated professions here, firefighters, cops, Wall Street, a lot of suburbanites, a lot of political conservatives."
Harpaz also suggested that Mrs. Clinton couldn't attend many funerals because "she's been busy in Washington" and she also feared being booed again, as she was at an Oct. 20 concert for WTC victims.
Visibly angered, the Fox host shot back:
"If I were the senator of New York, I would have tried to attend as many of those funerals and memorial services as I could. And if they booed me, they booed me. I'd get down on my knees and say a prayer for that dead person and then I would go and leave."
Three high-profile events Mrs. Clinton attended were a memorial service at Yankee Stadium a week after the attacks, a similar event at Ground Zero in early October, and the funeral for New York City Fire Department Chaplain Father Mychal Judge, where she delivered the eulogy. All three services were televised.
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Here's an interesting fact: exclude the counties containing the 10 largest cities in the state, and Hillary won only 6 out of 50 counties.
The victims all died in New York and she is a NY senator.
My mantra now, to those both NOW disgusted with hiLIARy and NOW impressed with President Bush is
I TOLD YOU SO!
If Hillary had any fear that this would happen she would have been out there. No, she knows that five years from now, all of this can be spun. By and large her core constituency really doesn't care either.
This is true, yet HC won by a much narrower margin. A lot of libs already hated her. Given the way she's p*ssed off a lot of people who voted for her since she's been elected (and especially since 911), a RINO with name recognition could beat her easily.
I know you don't like RINOs, but isn't that much better than HC?
SHE IS NOT FROM ARKANSAS!!! We're ONLY responsible for BUBBA and the Chels. Hillary is from ILLINOIS! They are responsible for HER! Besides, she HATES Arkansas almost as much as MOST of us hate her. (ALMOST!) If you'll notice she hasn't been to Arkansas since she became "little Evita". I hope she keeps it that way. It's hard enough to put up with Bubba and Chels pretending to be celebs when they 'honor' us with their presence.
If Arkansas is lucky we'll have a huge rain and wash the Bubba LIEbrary down the river. Little Rock could replace it with a great NEW zoo.
Key to map: The four lower blue blobs are the four major cities; the northern blue blob is greenie land. The reason the blue blob second from left is so long is that it has to drop down to include the socialist republic of Ithaca, home of Cornell U.
Urban voters will always vote dem. Nothing can change that, it's just their nature. Too bad for us that their numbers are so large.
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