Mrs. Clinton >>> visits <<< New York City
keyword: visits - she sure as hell doesn't live there..!!]
By VERENA DOBNIK Associated Press writer
August 10, 1999Web posted at: 9:39 a.m. EDT (1339 GMT)
NEW YORK (AP) Hillary Rodham Clinton is winding up her monthlong series of "listening tour"
[..listening: because every time she opens her big, B.S. mouth - she has to have her feet surgically removed..]
events, right on her likely rival's home turf.
The first lady, who said the tour would help her decide whether
[..the people of New York are stupid enough not to recognize that she's from actually Illinois/Arkansas..]
to run for the U.S. Senate from New York in 2000 probably against Mayor Rudolph Giuliani was meeting potential voters today at a union building in Queens to discuss balancing work and family. Then she's going on vacation with her family.
On Monday, she visited a Brooklyn church, where the discussion centered on crumbling, overcrowded and violent schools.
"Your candidacy is a great opportunity to re-vision education," said the Rev. Emma Jordan-Simpson of Concord Baptist. "We'd like to spend time creating after-school programs and not chasing money to fund those programs."
[..Well placed, pre-selected..]
Speakers welcomed Mrs. Clinton as "our senator" and "senator-to-be." She, in turn, brought greetings from Eleanor Roosevelt, who she said had also visited the Brooklyn neighborhood.
"As some of you know, I talk to her from time to time and she asked me to say hello," she joked, referring to [..all too true..] reports she had participated in seances with the former first lady.
On her first "listening tour" visit to the city, Mrs. Clinton started by doing the talking.
[..And you know what a Clintwit with moving lips means..]
She said a $792 billion Republican tax-cut plan would only further jeopardize education programs affecting New York's public schoolchildren.
[..by finally giving the kids' parents sufficient money to send their kids to a safe, effective private school..]
"The city alone could lose as many as 4,000 desperately needed teachers,"
[..who would quit to go work in the private schools..]
she said. In schools such as Brooklyn's Midwood High School, built for about 3,000 students but serving about 4,100, she said a tax cut of that size would be "an irresponsible, damaging plan."
The 90-minute discussion focused almost entirely on education problems, especially those linked to crime
[..like getting paid huge sums for being the Administrator of a failed and ineffective NY public school..]
and lack of funds
[..from Democratic give-a-way programs to foreign countries..]
to sustain after-school programs.
"When I look deep into the reservoir of your eyes, I feel
[..your pain, Slick is such a slimeball..]
you can make a difference," said Adelaide Sanford, an educator in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood, the latest stop in the first lady's summer-long "listening tour" of the state.
Engineer
[..read that as "Janitor"..]
Ernest Greene, a parent and lifelong resident of the area, said basic skills are often badly taught in crumbling schools with problems like malfunctioning heating, plumbing and "nonexistent air-conditioning systems."
Mrs. Clinton also criticized congressional Republicans
[..who are trying to give America back some of Americans' money..]
who recently defeated gun-control legislation that she said could help diminish violence among youth. She claimed 13 young people are killed by firearms in America every day.
[..Of course, it's the guns' fault - since the killers wouldn't use knives or chains, or bombs - if denied the opportunity to "..steal.." a gun..]
The Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood is heavily minority and Democratic, an area likely to support her likely candidacy against the city's Republican mayor, Giuliani. Neither Mrs. Clinton nor Giuliani have formally said they're running.
The first lady,
[..notice lack of capital letters there, someone's catching on..]
a likely
[..excuse for a..]
Democratic candidate in 2000 for the seat of retiring U.S. Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, started the invitation-only
[..easy way to avoid dissenting opinions and questions..]
"listening" events in July. |
