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To: PartyTime who wrote (50864)	10/23/2000 9:48:28 AM
From: Bill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Were Gore honest, he'd fess up to what his partner did to Juanita Broaddrick.

To: PartyTime who wrote (50864)	10/23/2000 10:28:33 AM
From: jlallen	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

Newsmax Sunday October 22, 2000; 9:12 PM EDT A Gore Girlfriend? Most pundits believe that the famous convention kiss Vice President Al Gore planted on his wife, Tipper, in August was designed to send a message: There will be no more Monica Lewinskys in any Gore White House. But some aren't buying the Gores' lovey-dovey line. Popular Boston radio host Howie Carr, for instance, has been talking about a Gore girlfriend on his daily broadcast for months now. Much of Carr's information comes from CounterPunch publisher Alexander Cockburn, who first broached the topic years ago in his column. Cockburn and CounterPunch editor Jeffrey St. Clair have returned to the scene of the crime in their new book, "Al Gore: A User's Manual." The liberal duo suggest that Tipper Gore went to extraordinary lengths to separate her husband from one Kathleen McGinty, who began her White House career after serving as Al Gore's chief environmental adviser during the 1992 campaign: "Tipper had taken an unusual interest in McGinty's personal life," write Cockburn and St. Clair. "In 1995 she learned that McGinty had repeatedly postponed her marriage to Hausker, citing the crushing workload that kept her tied down at the White House. Evidently eager that McGinty cement her union and therefore leave Washington, Tipper intervened. She handled the wedding arrangements and shipped the newlyweds off to a monthlong honeymoon to Australia's Great Barrier Reef in the rain forest in faraway New Guinea." But if Tipper took any marital solace from McGinty's absence, it was shortlived. The "Green Queen," as McGinty became known, returned to the White House as chair of the Council on Environmental Quality. In 1997, Fortune magazine described the unusual access the young Gore aide had to the corridors of power: "In reality, she is Vice President Gore's [and therefore President Clinton's] chief anti-pollution adviser. ... While Cabinet meetings are rare, McGinty, 34 years old, meets weekly with the President and Vice President." But despite her role as longtime Gore confidante - or maybe because of it - McGinty suddenly found herself separated from the vice president once again, this time as he began to plan his run for the White House in earnest. In September 1998, U.S. News and World Report carried this item in its Washington Whispers section: "In an unexpected move, Kathleen McGinty, chair of the White House Council on Environmental Quality, is quitting. The longtime aide to Vice President Al Gore had been expected to stay through 2000 to work on his presidential campaign and then take a plum post in a new administration - if elected. But McGinty, known for her political savvy and tough environmental advocacy, now plans to move to India, where her husband, an employee of the Center for Strategic and International Studies, is being assigned." Radioman Carr brought Cockburn before his Boston microphone last week and wasted no time pressing the author on what he knew about the Gore girlfriend story. CARR: I gotta ask you one thing. You also have a newsletter out. A couple of years ago - maybe longer than that now - you were intimating that Al Gore had a girlfriend. And as soon as your book came out I said, oh great, more stuff on the girlfriend. So I went and looked up the girlfriend. It seems like you've kind of backed off a little bit from that now. COCKBURN: Well, it is true that in CounterPunch we - I have to choose my words carefully here - we suggested ... CARR: That's why I haven't used the name ... COCKBURN: We did suggest that someone, a prominent environmental official and Al Gore might have ... ah ... had some warmth of their own ... CARR: Seeing a lot of each other ... COCKBURN: At a particular conference to do with global warming their own warmth might have contributed to the overall heating up of the terrestrial mass. Well, we believed that at the time. And for the book actually we re-interrogated our sources and actually pulled back because the source then became a little less confident than before. Still, apparently Cockburn and St. Clair believe there's something to the story. The reference to Tipper Gore's concern about McGinty's "personal life" was included, after all, despite their source's newfound hesitancy. Listen to Howie Carr on WRKO 680 AM in Boston, 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. weekdays. Or on the Internet at www.howiecarr.com.