To: Rarebird who wrote (56707 ) 7/26/2000 7:48:30 AM From: long-gone Respond to of 116845 OT(?) Published July 26 - August 1, 2000 Sex Slaves! (and Other Tales From Hillary’s Campaign Finance Report) Low Friends in High Places by Ward Harkavy Like a Norma Rae, U.S. Senate candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton captured the official support of the New York State AFL-CIO last week. But like the first lady of Wal-Mart that she actually is, Clinton has close ties to anti-labor forces, according to her newly released campaign-finance report. But there's something for everybody—including privacy advocates and those battling racial discrimination—to dislike in a campaign that raised $4.8 million in just the past three months while spending $5.5 million. And her enemies in the vast right-wing conspiracy will be happy to find out that her contributors include a former United States senator linked to a current Arkansas scandal involving purported Chinese sex slaves. Here are some lowlights from Clinton's July 15 quarterly report. The Senator Who Won't Leave David Pryor, a longtime buddy of the Clintons and former senator and Arkansas governor, hasn't been a member of Congress since 1996, but he's still doling out campaign contributions from his David Pryor for U.S. Senate Committee. On May 8, his committee gave $1000 to Hillary's campaign—the day after yet another ex-senator from Arkansas, Dale Bumpers, also gave Hillary $1000. But that's probably the last thing on Pryor's mind now. David J. Jones, a former Arkansas TV mogul, is on trial in federal court in Little Rock for allegedly importing Chinese women for sexual purposes while rounding up favorable treatment for them from immigration officials and other people in government. The indictment doesn't name the "public officials" who wrote letters for Jones (cont)villagevoice.com