On the Prowl
ON THE PROWL Ain't Got No Home Despite criticism that her trips to New York are costing taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars, Hillary Rodham Clinton continues to flaunt her use of...
...Seems Hillary was determined to go house-hunting without the press corps tailing along...
...When reporters questioned how Clinton could have held so many meetings in less than half an hour, Lockhart was stumped...
...Reporters then informed Lockhart that Assad had already announced he would not be attending the funeral...
...Gephardt remained silent for the rest of the brief meeting and declined to shake Gore's hand as the group left the Capitol Hill meeting room...
...Of course, that didn't stop her highness from traveling up and down midtown Manhattan in a four-car motor?' Cade, in the company of six Secret Service agents and at .1...
...On the Washington-NewYork shuttle in early August he saw former Clinton White House lawyer Jane Sherburne and offered a friendly hello...
...The DNC had predicted his California trip would raise more than one million dollars for state races, but it netted S200,000 less than that...
...McDermott, Slade Gorton...
...David Minge (Minn...
...They felt it was the only way to get through to him...
...And thanks to some new poll numbers provided by the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, each of these four liberals is seriously considering a Senate run...
...But she just walked by and said nothing...
...About zo minutes later, while the group still waited for Hassan's casket to arrive, Lockhart emerged again with more news...
...Still smarting over the way Bob Woodward treated her comments to him, perhaps she now thinks it wiser to keep her lips sealed at all times...
...After a mid-July photo-op with House Minority Leader Dick Gephardt and a group of anti-gun nuts, Al Gore got an earful from the man who would be speaker and from Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle...
...For the good of the party Lazio may have to stick it out in the House...
...This time Lockhart announced that Clinton had held "bilateral" talks with Yassir Arafat and new Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak...
...Later he conceded that Clinton had only greeted these sundry world leaders, but added that Clinton was expecting to sit down for an in-depth talk with Syrian leader Hafez Assad...
...In a jovial if sober imitation of Boris Yeltsin, he stood and conducted a local band and choir in a rollicking rendition of "New York, New York...
...they should run for the Senate next year, they might have scoffed...
...Tenn...
...In its ongoing efforts to build up the veep, the White House informed reporters that they would shortly receive an important memo from the vice president's office...
...These Republicans were once considered relatively safe, especially Frist and Jeffords...
...She thinks she lost at least one co-op on the upper West Side because of the scene the press made outside the building," an assistant on the first lady's staff told the Prowler...
...Going for Broke If earlier this year anyone had told Democratic Reps...
...You're blowing it,' was the message," says a Daschle aide who was present...
...During a swing to California, Clinton stood in front of fat-cat Democrats after being introduced by Secretary of Labor Alexis Herman, and announced that over the course of his political career he's compiled ten or so rules he now calls "Clinton's Rules of Politics...
...and Independent Bernie Sanders (Vt...
...Already Clinton had held "meetings" with the president of France, the king of Jordan, as well as leaders from Senegal, Yemen, and Bangladesh, Lockhart said...
...They didn't mince words...
...In a meeting also attended by top aides, Gephardt and Daschle bluntly told Gore they both had high expectations for 2000, and they'd done everything they could to make Gore's load a bit lighter...
...Jim McDermott (Wash...
...In nonpartisan polling, moreover, neither man clearly wins against a Democrat...
...it was a pre-meditated, cold-hearted lecture...
...The president, Lockhart told the reporters, was making good use of his time...
...McDermott was thought to face a tough re-election next year, but his numbers have improved enough that Democrats believe another local party member could win his seat if he runs against Gorton...
...During Clinton's four-day poverty tour earlier this summer, he never spoke by phone with his wife...
...It's Bill Bradley's fault," says a DNC fundraiser...
...As a politico he shows no quit...
...But DSCC polls show that support for both men among Republicans remains weak in their home states...
...White House spokesman Joe Lockhart called it an impromptu moment, but the day before, according to one of Lock-hart's underlings, the White House had provided the Slovenian hand and choir with sheet music and lyrics of the purely American tune...
...Gore countered that he was doing for Eskew what Gephardt did for controversial DNC fundraiser Terry McAuliffe...
...With Forbes now a Democrat, Republicans are pleading with Lazio not to weaken the party further in the House by vying for New York's open Senate seat...
...About ten minutes into this holding pattern Clinton sent out spokesman Joe Lockhart to speak to the White House press pool...
...After all, their growing seniority aside, they all hold relatively safe seats that Democrats have to hold if they're to win back the House...
...Now, after they've given to Bradley, they don't want to hear from us...
...The same goes for Minge...
...At fundraisers and stump speeches around the country, Clinton has taken to quoting from what he's dubbed his rules of politics...
...No Comment Now that he's out, has former Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin lost his magic touch...
...Running on Empty Al Gore's faith in technology continues to pay dividends...
...Minge would challenge Rod Grams...
...Ford, Bill Frist...
...Rules to Rule By Their renewed "physical passion" notwithstanding, President Clinton and his wife continue to give each other the silent treatment...
...14 September 1999 The American Spectator Funeral Summitry Nothing like a state funeral to bring out the statesman in Bill Clinton...
...Harold Ford, Jr...
...Its contents were supposed to have touted Gore's release of a Commerce Department report on America's growing strength in computer technology...
...As it happens, with Clinton it is a money problem...
...About a half hour later, the much-touted memo arrived: three pages of empty paper except for the occasional stray character, apostrophe, and quotation mark...
...least six aides, in search of a senatorially suitable residence...
...Ljubljana, Ljubljana Ever faithful to his beloved since the discovery of abuse in his early life, President Clinton has remembered to put his wife's political future on center stage, even during his stopover in Ljubljana, Slovenia on June 21...
...Number two, he told the audience, is "Always be introduced by someone you've appointed to a high position...
...We can't afford to run two newcomers like that, not in moo when the stakes are so high," says a National Republican Congressional Committee staffer...
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...Instead, staff taped news stories about her comings and goings in New York, and also fed him press clips of her coverage...
...He's peeling off Democrats out there who we could normally tap four or five times for money...
...and Sanders, Jim Jeffords...
...But emboldened by Republican listlessness and political miscalculations, Democrats on Capitol Hill now believe that both the Senate and House are winnable...
...Surprise, surprise, they change with the wind...
...If we can hold those four House seats, and win at least two of those Senate seats, we believe that wins us both sides of the Capitol building," says a DSCC strategist...
...Stay Where You Are One Republican being lobbied heavily to stay in the House and not seek higher office is New York's Rick Lazio, whose Long Island district borders on Republican turncoat Michael Forbes's...
...He sent at least one memo to her with suggested comments for her "listening tour...
...Before walking the two or so miles in the funeral procession for Morocco's King Hassan II, Clinton was placed in a holding room with dozens of other world leaders, including former President George Bush, who traveled with Clinton...
...At another fundraiser that day, Clinton again described his ten rules: "Number two is when somebody stands up and tells you it's not a money problem, they're talking about another person's problem, not theirs...
...Why Can't We Get Along...
...In early July Clinton traveled with her husband to New York, ostensibly for a Manhattan fundraiser...
...But while the president hoarded a helicopter at JFK to travel into the city, Hillary stayed on Air Force One, hoping to give reporters the slip...
...Gephardt questioned Gore's seeming indifference to Democratic calls that he dump new campaign adviser Carter Eskew, who joined Gore 2000 after working for the tobacco industry...
...ON THE PROWL Ain't Got No Home Despite criticism that her trips to New York are costing taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars, Hillary Rodham Clinton continues to flaunt her use of government resources for her New York Senate campaign...
Vol. 32 • September 1999 • No. 9
