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Sen. Hillary Clinton and former president Bill Clinton pose for pictures while making a stop at a sausage tent at the New York State Fair in Syracuse, N.Y., Friday, Sept. 1, 2006. Clinton made her annual pilgrimage to the fair at the end of a three-day swing through New York farm country. The trip has served to boost Clinton's visibility in the state's Finger Lakes wine region and other rural parts of central New York, a predominantly Republican region where she would need to do well if she runs for president in 2008. (AP Photo/Kevin Rivoli)

Clintons take her campaign to the fair SYRACUSE, N.Y. Former President Bill Clinton says he's not pressuring his wife to run for president. The former president made comments at the State Fair yesterday, where Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton was capping a three-day swing through New York farm country. The trip has served to boost Clinton's visibility in the state's Finger Lakes wine region and other rural parts of central New York, a predominantly Republican region where she would need to do well if she runs for president in 2008. Former President Bill Clinton said he quote -- "didn't have a...

Senator Hillary Clinton reached out today to a core group of supporters _ women _ in her front-running bid for a second term, a race many see as a prelude to a run for president in two years. The former first lady planned campaign stops at the site of the new home for the National Women's Hall of Fame in Seneca Falls and a restaurant in Moravia to host lunch for a new group _ "Moms for Hillary." The events served as a reminder that Clinton, who was inducted into the women's hall in 2004, made history in 2000 by...

U.S. Senator Hillary Clinton Will spend much of the next several days in the Finger Lakes region. Clinton will be in Penn Yan Wednesday morning to announce the expansion of a small business initiative in Yates County. From there, she'll head to Canandaigua for a Farmer's Day celebration at the Wine and Culinary Center. Wednesday night, Senator Clinton will deliver the keynote address at a reception at the Ventosa Winery in Geneva with Democrats from Ontario, Seneca, Yates, and Wayne Counties. Thursday, Clinton will discuss enhancing economic development opportunities along the Erie Canal at a stop in Palmyra before heading...

In a private meeting at her Chappaqua, N.Y., home on Friday, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton offered to help Ned Lamont in his battle to unseat Senator Joseph I. Lieberman by sponsoring a fund-raiser, campaigning by his side and lending him one of her top political strategists. That strategist, Howard Wolfson, said Mrs. Clinton wanted to throw her considerable political weight behind Mr. Lamont because the national Republican Party “is clearly invested in Ned Lamont’s defeat.” “I think they are going to do what they can to see him defeated,” Mr. Wolfson said, adding that he was particularly concerned with “Bush-Cheney...

As Ned Lamont basks in his Democratic primary victory in Connecticut, another antiwar underdog is trying to assume the same role of political giant-killer in next month’s elections in New York, though against much bigger prey: Hillary Rodham Clinton. But while Mr. Lamont united liberals and used $4 million of his own money to win his primary, Jonathan Tasini is struggling on a shoestring campaign to rise above his 12 percent standing in the polls, even as he hawks a message of left-wing anger over Iraq to an electorate that is more liberal than Connecticut’s. Mr. Tasini has qualified for...

Tasini Says Hillary's "Above the Law" Character is NOT an Issue! RE: [Contact Jonathan] Hillary Clinton's Campaign Finance Frauds and Obstruction of Justice Re: Hillary Clinton's Campaign Finance Frauds and Obstruction of Justice Hi Peter, If you'd like to discuss give me a call here at the office. We are an issues-based campaign so we're not really addressing these sorts of questions, but I'd be happy to speak with you if you like. best, Stef (Stephanie Cannon, Tasini Campaign Official) Amazingly enough, the articulate adversary of Hillary Clinton's lock on the Democratic nomination for reelection to the Senate, doesnt believe...

With only a few weeks until New York’s Sept. 12 primary elections, many people are probably still unaware that Senator Hillary Clinton is facing a challenge for the Democratic nomination. Her opponent, Jonathan Tasini, is low on almost everything, from funds to name recognition. Mrs. Clinton has successfully ignored Mr. Tasini all summer, and now it seems clear that she has no intention of responding to his demands that she meet him in a debate. She should change her mind. In a year when New York has very few competitive elections, voters are going to get very little chance to...

NEW YORK -- Senator Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., took time out from an event commemorating 9/11 to take a swipe at a campaign commercial by John Spencer, her likely Republican opponent in November. In the commercial, slated to run in New York City and on suburban cable stations, Spencer, the former mayor of Yonkers, accuses Clinton of being soft on national security issues and as such, aiding al-Qaida strongman Osama bin Laden. It was Clinton who helped lead the Democratic attempt to filibuster the renewal of the Patriot Act, though she eventually voted for it. The controversial Spencer commercial proceeds to...

Can Tasini Pull a Lamont?Underdog Hillary challenger thinks so, even if nobody else does; in basement HQ, he wonders why voters don’t see the parallels with Lieberman. By Geoffrey Gray Jonathan Tasini is walking the wrong way down Fifth Avenue. It’s just past noon the day after antiwar insurgent Ned Lamont beat stubbornly pro-war Joe Lieberman in Connecticut, and it ought to be the biggest day of Tasini’s campaign yet, since he’s been sounding the same themes against Hillary Clinton. He’d put this trip to the New York Public Library on his schedule, but the media didn’t seem to care...

Sen. Clinton arrives ready to raise funds in East End; curtails questions about debate before primary U.S. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton kicked off her Long Island fundraising tour Friday with an announcement about federal funding to save the shorelines and sidestepped whether she'd debate primary challenger Jonathan Tasini. (snip) "Well, we'll just have to see how the campaign develops," Clinton said at Overlook Beach in Babylon town. (snip) "I am lucky enough to have a lot of friends and supporters who are trying to help me by raising money so that I can wage a vigorous campaign and hopefully win...

Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton embarked on her first major day of campaigning in her re-election bid yesterday, but wound up facing a flurry of questions about Senator Joseph I. Lieberman’s defeat by an antiwar candidate in the Connecticut Democratic primary. In turn, Mrs. Clinton, a potential 2008 presidential candidate who has come under attack herself because of her refusal to apologize for voting to authorize the use of military force in Iraq, sought to distance herself from Mr. Lieberman. “I think there is a great deal of difference,’’ Mrs. Clinton told reporters during a stop at a center for the...

2001-2006 Total Receipts: $44,915,155 2001-2006 Total Spent: $23,196,563 Cash on Hand: $22,000,937 Debts: $0 Date of last report: June 30, 2006 First elected: 2000 Next election: 2006

SEN. Hillary Clinton is barnstorming the Hamptons this weekend to fill her campaign coffers with the help of her hubby, Bill. Last night, Michael Recanati co-hosted a dinner in East Hampton with Ira Statfeld at $4,200 per head, the max under federal law. Today's brunch thrown by Lisa Perry in Sag Harbor costs $2,000. Tonight, the ex-president joins Hillary at the East Hampton home of Michele and Bill Nuti, where Jon Bon Jovi will perform. Tickets are $300, but $1,000 will get you a backstage pass.

If Hollywood has a "DaVinci Code," Democratic Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton has cracked it. Top stars such as Tom Hanks, Jennifer Lopez and Owen Wilson donated to the New York senator in recent months, generating the kind of cash usually associated with a major box office opening - or a potential presidential bid in 2008. Clinton, who doesn't face much of a challenge in her re-election, received $4,200 from "The DaVinci Code" star Hanks, the Academy Award-winning actor, and his wife, Rita Wilson. The itemized donations were made public Wednesday, with the paperwork for April through June more than 4,000...

op stars donated to Sen. Hillary Clinton By DEVLIN BARRETT, Associated Press Writer 32 minutes ago If Hollywood has a "DaVinci Code," Democratic Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton has cracked it. Top stars such as Tom Hanks, Jennifer Lopez and Owen Wilson donated to the New York senator in recent months, generating the kind of cash usually associated with a major box office opening — or a potential presidential bid in 2008. Clinton, who doesn't face much of a challenge in her re-election, received $4,200 from "The DaVinci Code" star Hanks, the Academy Award-winning actor, and his wife, Rita Wilson. The...

Spencer said Clinton's presidential aspirations have distracted her from her duties in New York and sharply described her stances on many issues as "dead wrong."

From Murdoch Fund-Raiser to Zuckerman Huddle, Senator Clinton Has a Massive Money Apparatus, Ritzy Staff, Dispenses Lucre—Apparently Aimed at ’08: ‘Bill’s Re-election Was 9, This is 10’ As a pack of New York officials sweated through their shirts at an outdoor rally on Monday, Hillary Clinton stood onstage and chatted amiably with Mort Zuckerman, the media mogul who owns the Daily News. A few hours earlier, behind closed doors, she held an audience with Mr. Zuckerman’s tabloid nemesis on the third floor of News Corp. headquarters, where New York Post owner Rupert Murdoch was hosting a fund-raiser for her Senate...

Michelle V. Agins/The New York TimesSenator Hillary Rodham Clinton and supporters marched at the Avenue of the Americas and Greenwich Avenue. In the wake of spandex-clad drag queens, a slew of feather headdresses and a float themed "Carnival in Rio," Jo-Ann Shain and Mary Jo Kennedy did not stand out among the gay and proud parading yesterday afternoon down Fifth Avenue. In contrast to the sequins and go-go boots donned by some marchers at the annual gay pride parade, they wore cotton T-shirts, gray slacks and walking shoes. But along with 45 other couples, Ms. Shain and Ms. Kennedy,...

In preparation for the 2006 Senate election and the 2008 presidential election, the pro-abortion senator, Hillary Clinton (D-NY), is shifting the debate on abortion.. read on..check the link