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Four more yyyeeeech...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Hettinga)
Thu Sep 2 00:41:49 1999
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This was filed last night at NewsMax by Carl Limbacher:
http://www.newsmax.com/showinsidecover.shtml?a=1999/8/31/165013
Tuesday August 31, 6:00 PM
Federal Election Commission Lists Hillary as Presidential Candidate
Some Clintonologists like Dick Morris have doubted whether Hillary
Rodham
Clinton will actually run for the Senate. After all, being just a
senator
would be
a step down after serving as co-president for eight years.
Newsweek had reported some years ago that White House operatives openly
talked of 12 years for Clinton -- eight for Bill and four for Hillary.
Such an idea would have been preposterous after Hillary's health care
debacle.
Since then, Hillary has had a metamorphosis of sorts. Polls even show
she
could run and win in New York state against a popular New York mayor,
Rudy Giuliani.
Just maybe, Hillary and friends are thinking once again: why not the
presidency?
So Inside Cover was not surprised when we clicked on the Federal
Election
Commission's Web site at http://www.fec.gov and typed the name
"Clinton" in
the
search box for reports made by candidates or by committees. Both listed
Hillary
Clinton as a Senate candidate in New York. Both searches also indicated
Hillary
as a candidate for the presidency in the year 2000. Check it yourself if
you
don't
believe us.
We called the FEC and said, "What gives?"
Yes, the FEC spokesperson told us, a committee was formed independently
of Hillary, by a group called "People for American Leadership." One FEC
form
identifies the committee's treasurer as Thomas B. McMullen. The form
states
the group has a bank account at Crestar Bank in Washington.
The FEC spokesperson said the group recently made an application to
terminate the committee.
Still, the listing raises some intriguing scenarios.
Hillary is now a Senate candidate with plans to raise between $20
million
and $30 million. She is also going through the trouble of building a
campaign
staff. Under federal election law, it's perfectly legal for a candidate
for
one
federal office to change their mind and run for another federal office.
Hillary
could decide tomorrow to run for president, shifting her campaign war
chest
and putting her staff into high gear for New Hampshire.
Of course, there is one little problem: Al Gore. Already Hillary and
Bill
have
trampled on Gore's fundraising network, and she has been sapping his
campaign of P.R. with her own forays into New York. Why not throw him
overboard altogether?
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