On the Prowl
ON THE PROWL Hoarsing Around At public appearances in West Palm Beach and Jupiter, Florida, on October 31, the president introduced himself and then spoke for just a couple of minutes. Citing...
...And Lanny Davis has been getting most of the TV time anyway...
...But since she openly accused the committee leadership of mismanagement, they want nothing to do with her...
...Morris says people think Ann is shrewish and condescending," the staffer says...
...Wherever they go, they'll have to buy a house—the only residence they own is the president's mother's cabin...
...The Clintons aren't the only ones who have given up on her...
...Too Late, He Said Does anybody remember "Family First I...
...Jim McDermott, M.D...
...The thinking seems to be, if Ron and Nancy got away with it, why shouldn't they...
...And that, of course, means money...
...Clinton's next stop...
...A Republican Congressional Campaign Committee staffer says that both the Baldwin and Kehoe races are "winnable"— but acknowledges that "we aren't sure we can give Bilbray the support he needs...
...The trio recently attended a campaign training seminar given by Emily's List, and all three are running as Democrats for seats the Republicans consider "up for grabs...
...But you could tell Hillary was steaming...
...That evening he did the same at still another Democratic Party fundraiser, in Boca Raton...
...But a White House staffer admits that Dick Morris has advised the president that Lewis actually damages the Clinton image because viewers—men and women alike—find her so distasteful...
...The biggest difference between Roemer and Gephardt, though, is that Roemer has the backing of the White House...
...Citing hoarsenesss and his chronic sore throat, Clinton turned the delivery of his official remarks over to Commerce Secretary William Daley—who droned through the speeches (written by Clinton speechwriter Lowell Weiss) with nary an ad-lib...
...We've got to go where the money is," Hillary said, "but we don't want to live in Washington...
...When we asked what was wrong, the principal said the kids were upset because they thought the president didn't want to 9 speak to them...
...Well known since her very public fight against the Army after being discharged for her sexual preference—Glenn Close played her in the TV movie—she's running in a district that the Republican incumbent won by fewer than 2,000 votes in the last election...
...In the old days her consulting firm was contracted almost exclusively to the Democratic National Committee...
...They'll be happy to take Rahm Emanuel back, though...
...Later that day, however, at a fundraiser in Palm Beach, Clinton 6 1 spoke to donors for more than zo minutes and lingered with guests for more than an hour...
...Boehner has asked the House ethics committee to decide whether or not he can use campaign funds to wage the legal battle...
...Bill Clinton already has a favorite in Venezuela's 1998 presidential race—mayor Irene Saez, the 1981 Miss Universe and a close friend of babe magnet Donald Trump...
...If it gives him the green light, he is telling friends, Boehner will file a civil lawsuit in the District of Columbia...
...Overboard After the first of the year, the Prowler understands, a number of longtime Clinton aides are going to be moving on—including presidential assistants Ann Lewis and Rahm Emanuel, and political director Doug Sosnik...
...One White House source says that the president wants to fix a location by the summer of 1998, and that Clinton chum Mack McLarty is already scouting out potential sites...
...They're presenting the schools with a plan to build a facility modeled after Jimmy Carter's...
...If it doesn't, he just might forget the whole thing...
...leaked an illegally recorded cell-phone conversation from Rep...
...All 41 members of the New Democrat Coalition voted for Clinton's fast track bill, and all intend to call in their chits during next year's elections—when many moderates are concerned about holding on to their House seats...
...John Boehner about the ethics charges then facing Newt Gingrich...
...The always-hopeful Clinton told Saez he'd be glad to offer advice, if she ever wanted to, you know, give him a call some time...
...As well as being closer to Chelsea at Stanford, and the opportunity for year-round golf, California offers an abundance of high-end corporate law practices that will pay to have his name on the door...
...Margarethe Cammermeyer in Washington, Wisconsin state representative Tammy Baldwin, and San Diego councilwoman Christine Kehoe...
...At Jupiter's Lighthouse Elementary School Clinton even canceled a promised Q&A session with schoolchildren...
...No—but that's not stopping House minority leader Dick Gephardt from unveiling his "Family First II" initiative, a 1998 legislative package of pension protection, education reforms, and amorphous tax ideas...
...Upon arrival at La Carlota Air Base in Caracas on October 12, Clinton whizzed past seven or eight other dignitaries in the receiving line to get to the statuesque beauty queen, who is currently the favorite to win next year's election...
...I wouldn't say he ogled her," says a State Department attaché who was on hand...
...Cammermeyer is in the best position to win...
...History on the Make It's assumed that the Clinton presidential library will be built in Little Rock—but the Clintons' nose for dough may yet deny his home state the honor...
...California Dreamin' En route to the former Soviet Union in November, first lady Hillary Clinton told staffers on her plane that husband Bill is favoring a move to California after he leaves the White House...
...Boehner is now finally on the verge of pressing charges against McDermott—but only if he doesn't have to pay to prosecute the case...
...Gephardt compares the bill to the Republicans' Contract for America, but one Democrat who isn't impressed is rising star Tim Roemer, Representative from Indiana...
...Meanwhile the bloom is off Doug Sosnik's rose since the failure of the fast track trade authorization bill...
...The RCCC has already committed big bucks to winning the House seat vacated by California Democrat Vic Fazio, as well as that of Texan Henry Gonzalez, who was expected to announce his retirement in December...
...Sosnik put the president in the debt of Democrats who supported the fast track campaign by doling out hundreds of millions of dollars in pork projects and committing him to hundreds of hours of fundraising appearances—all of it for naught...
...Besides hiring a full-time curator and staff, the first couple is looking for an "administrator's salary" in excess of $loo,000 for Hillary to oversee the library's operations...
...Brian Bilbray...
...Republicans are most concerned about Kehoe, who is running against Rep...
...We could see several students crying," a White House aide tells the Prowler...
...Saez Who...
...14 January 1998 • The American Spectator Girl Power The ultra-liberal fundraising group Emily's List and the pro-gay Human Rights Campaign have reportedly committed a total of $3 million to help elect three lesbians to Congress—retired Army Col...
...04 The American Spectator • January 1998 15...
...The Prowler hears that Clinton pals in both Hollywood and Santa Barbara have offered to help finance a new home for the loving couple...
...Profile in Courage It's been almost a year since Democratic Rep...
...McLarty has met with administrators and fundraisers at both Georgetown University and Yale to gauge those schools' interest in part or all of Clinton's papers and other historical materials," the source tells the Prowler...
...Richard Lugar in z000— intends to press for charter schools and "fiscally responsible" tax cuts...
...Hillary would organize and run the many policy and political events held annually at the library...
...So why keep her on the payroll...
...Roemer—who not coincidentally is considering a run against Sen...
...Early GOP polls give the other two 6o-4o chances of winning their primary contests...
...The New York Daily News said it was "the most sensitive moment of the welcoming ceremony...
...he was a fundraiser there before coming to the White House in 1995, and is likely to be returning...
...A donors' weekend on Amelia's Island—where the price tag was $50,000 per couple...
...Kehoe earned her place on the San Diego council with a whopping 8o percent of the vote, while Bilbray—a moderate with a reputation for not making waves—holds a seat that had been Democratic for years before his 1994 win...
...Co-chairman of the moderate New Democrat Coalition, Roemer believes the legislation pushes the party too far to the left, and is telling colleagues he plans to battle with Gephardt over the direction of the House Democratic Party "before it's too late for us...
...Wherever the libraryends up being built," the source says, "someone is going to be paying out money annually to the Clintons...
...Lewis was brought to the White House primarily to defend the Clintons on television, in the wake of their numerous scandals...
Vol. 31 • January 1998 • No. 1
