Hillary get's lost, campaigns in the wrong state:
Wednesday July 26, 2000; 9:45 AM EDT
Radio Goof Has Hillary Campaigning in Pennsylvania
On her campaign stops she addresses New York voters using the word "we." But on Tuesday transplanted U.S. Senate candidate Hillary Clinton found herself mistakenly campaigning in the state of Pennsylvania.
The first lady turned up on radio station WLKK-AM in Erie, Penn., a tiny thousand-watter with a signal that reaches a mere 20 miles, after her staff mistook the Keystone state village for the New York county by the same name.
"They called my station last week," WLKK's Jeff Johns told WABC's Curtis & Kuby on Wednesday. Johns is the station's program director who also hosts the show on which Mrs. Clinton appeared. "Naturally I didn't dissuade them, knowing how hard it is to get her," he added.
"I was up there just last week," a confused Hillary told the radio talker over the phone. "She told us everything she was going to do, like bring jobs to our community," Johns said.
Worse still for the first lady, the conservative talker, who bills himself as a card-carrying member of the "vast right-wing conspiracy," began peppering her with scandal questions:
"I asked her how the letter from Paul Fray was so handy and the letters from Kathleen Willey were so handy - but all the other stuff, the e-mails, the billing records all went missing." Last week Fray accused the first lady of once calling him a "Jew bastard."
"Well, that's a really big, long question," Hillary replied.
Johns said that his engineer got a call from the Clinton campaign after word of the geographical goof got out.
"They were asking, 'Can we get a coverage map? You guys have got to reach New York from there. Can we get a coverage map?'"
"I think we have maybe six listeners up there in Ripley, New York," Johns said.
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