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Scrapbook “THE FACT IS, I’VE ALWAYS BEEN A YANKEES FAN” So Hillary, it turns out, is Clintonian, too, and not just by marriage. In her first major event as candidate for the Senate in New York,...
...This couldn’t have anything to do with which party controls the White House now, could it, Bob...
...By having the guts to take on the city’s bureaucracy and labor unions...
...We do know that she’s a fan of her hometown Chicago Cubs (see inset photo above...
...Explaining that apparent contradiction is what a law degree is for: “I am [also] a Cubs fan...
...But the truly Clintonian aspect of the event was the whopper she told about her lifelong attachment to the Yankees...
...But I needed an American League team, because when you’re from Chicago, you cannot root for both the Cubs and the Sox...
...Her victory gives Riordan’s reform contingent a working majority on the seven-member board—a welcome sign to the beleaguered parents of the 700,000 students who attend Los Angeles public schools...
...Having already reduced crime and overseen an economic rebirth in the city, Riordan scored his biggest victory yet last week—60 percent of voters approved his plan for a new city charter over the fierce opposition of the corrupt city council and organized labor...
...The mask of the triumphant suburbanite is the face of the 90’s, and poverty is no longer discussed in polite company...
...The essence of a Clintonian whopper is a) that you have no compunction about telling it, even when the stakes are low and the political benefit is trivial...
...Slobodan Milosevic, June 10, 1999...
...One of the “conservative proposals” she may end up signing to lure voters for her reelection would add some required reading to the public school curriculum...
...He also ended the teachers’ unions’ stranglehold on the school board in a city where only 53 percent of high school freshman end up graduating...
...He also had the courage to defy conventional wisdom, which said that passage of the new charter would depend on high turnout in the mostly white San Fernando Valley...
...THE CLINTON UTOPIA “The homeless got a lot of air time in the 80’s, but that’s over,” complained Bob Herbert in his New York Times column last week...
...How did Riordan do it...
...This is another great achievement of our defense...
...Gee, and what could that be...
...Now it happens that millions of words have been written on the subject of Hillary Rodham Clinton, and to the best of THE SCRAPBOOK’s knowledge, there has never been a hint of a longtime allegiance to the Yankees...
...I mean, there’s a dividing line that you can’t cross there...
...In fact, predominately Latino districts also approved the charter by unexpectedly wide margins...
...As Riordan’s success reminds us, a little spine goes a long way...
...In her first major event as candidate for the Senate in New York, the first lady had the Yankees over to the White House last week to celebrate their 1998 World Series victory, eight months after the fact...
...So as a young girl, I became very interested and enamored of the Yankees...
...As the Times reporter explained the “controversial” proposal: “The excerpt in question includes the phrase ‘that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.’ Some Democratic critics contend that the measure is really a subtle attempt to further the anti-abortion argument: They note that among the unalienable rights is ‘life,’ and opponents of abortion describe themselves as ‘pro-life.’” INSTANT REVISIONISM “We have defended the only multiethnic society left over as a remnant of former Yugoslavia...
...Genethia Hayes, his handpicked candidate for the board, won a runoff election last week despite opposition from the unions and local demagogues like Rep...
...and b) that once you decide to tell it, you make it as convoluted and preposterous as possible, like a squid spreading ink in its wake...
...RIORDAN’S TRIUMPH Overshadowed by the accounts of Rudy Giuliani’s successes in New York have been the achievements of the other big-city Republican mayor, Richard Riordan of Los Angeles...
...It replaces the 1925 charter, a phone-book-size product of the Progressive era that created a weak mayor’s office beholden to the city council’s whims...
...Thus Hillary to the Today show’s Katie Couric: “The fact is [a nice rhetorical touch, meaning that what follows isn’t factual], I’ve always been a Yankees fan...
...Riordan’s triumph did not end there...
...William F. Buckley Jr.’s new novel...
...This was obviously a war between multicultural Serbs and a NATO intent on ethnic purity, as high school textbooks (ca 2025) will doubtless explain...
...Well, better late than never...
...The Bible...
...No, it’s the Declaration of Independence, which apparently in liberal New Jersey precincts now passes for a founding document of the vast right-wing conspiracy...
...Maxine Waters...
...Perhaps it depends on what the meaning of “enamored” is THAT OLD RIGHT-WING DECLARATION The New York Times reported last week that one of its favorite Republicans, the famously moderate New Jersey governor Christine Todd Whitman, “May Have to Move to Right,” as the headline forebodingly put it...
Vol. 4 • June 1999 • No. 38
