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Politics : Bill Clinton Scandal - SANITY CHECK -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Bill who wrote (55846)	7/12/1999 1:21:00 PM
From: rvgent	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 67261

Just keep weaseling out. I've seen Asa on those shows but not much sign of Tim. You sure you got the right Hutch? yes.. I had categorised Asa as the political asshole and Tim as the moral asshole... Asa was the more in-your-face and partisan of the two..

To: Bill who wrote (55846)	7/12/1999 1:37:00 PM
From: Neocon	Respond to of 67261

I could not find the Arkansas Review alluded to, but I did find the Morning News. Here is an article and two editorials: nwamorningnews.com nwamorningnews.com nwamorningnews.com

To: Bill who wrote (55846)	7/12/1999 1:53:00 PM
From: Neocon	Respond to of 67261

Excerpts from the Morning News: Sen. Tim Hutchinson, R-Ark., on Tuesday filed for a divorce from his wife of 28 years and issued a statement saying the couple had sought extensive counseling before taking the step. Hutchinson, a Baptist minister and outspoken supporter of family values, said in a statement issued by his office in Washington that his wife Donna “has been a valued partner in many joint efforts over the years and has been an important political counselor and supporter.”... Sam Sellers, a former Hutchinson campaign manager and aide to Hutchinson when he was in the U.S. House of Representatives, said in a column to be published today in the third issue of Arkansas Review magazine, that Hutchinson has a “growing relationship” with a former legislative director, Randi Fredholm.... Greg Kirksey, president of the Arkansas Baptist State Convention, said it is up to individual churches to deal with divorces by their membership. “All churches have people who have been divorced, who have had a failed marriage,” Kirksey said. “Divorce is not God's ideal, but it's a reality. God doesn't trash people because they've failed in a marriage. I would hope his church wouldn't trash him or his wife but would help them work through that.” Divorce could be damaging but not fatal if Hutchinson runs for re-election in 2002, said Cal Ledbetter, political-science professor emeritus at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. “I'm not sure that there will be much lasting effect on his career,” Ledbetter said. “I just don't think it's that serious. Divorce is reasonably well-accepted, even among the religious right.” (from the news story) But Sellers' column intimated a possible source of the strain in the marriage, linking Hutchinson with a former female staff member with whom Sellers says Hutchinson “would have to admit that there is a growing relationship.” Sellers, who is himself a former aide to Hutchinson and a family friend, expressed sorrow that the Hutchinsons “weren't able to resolve their disagreements privately” and regret that a divorce is inescapably a public matter. He rightly concluded that it is Hutchinson's public concern with the stability of the family that has brought his divorce to the political forefront and that there will be repercussions in the state, if not nationally. The extent of those repercussions is difficult to gauge, especially since the senator won't face re-election for three years. (from one editorial) “It's like throwing a pebble in a pond,” she says. “You don't know where the ripples are going to end.” Hahn is echoing what most of the cooler Republican — and Democratic — heads said after Hutchinson filed for divorce this week: That there is immediate political damage and that some of it will be permanent, but not necessarily enough to write Hutchinson's political obituary. Not even after 29 years of marriage, three children, a Baptist ministry, a decade of political success based on conservative, “family values” themes and Senate votes to convict Bill Clinton in the aftermath of the president's affair with a White House intern. For every hard-right Christian or social moderate who may now believe that hypocrisy and Hutchinson rhyme, the argument goes, there will be a more pragmatic conservative who may be less concerned with Hutchinson's personal life than his Senate voting record. (from another editorial)