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Politics : Hillary Rodham Clinton, Senator from New York? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: jlallen who wrote (3074)	1/26/2001 9:03:12 AM
From: Tom Clarke	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 3389

BEG PARDON, BUT HILLARY IS LYING LOW Friday,January 26,2001 By FRANKIE EDOZIEN and GREGG BIRNBAUM Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton is pulling a disappearing act today amid the furor over last-minute presidential pardons - even dropping out of a long-planned event with the Rev. Jesse Jackson. Several other meetings scheduled today with elected city officials have also been abruptly canceled. Clinton was to speak at Jackson's Rainbow/PUSH Wall Street Project luncheon in Midtown. The group announced her role in a media advisory yesterday morning. But event spokesman Mike Paul said later in the day that it was his understanding Clinton had scheduling conflicts and had been erroneously billed as the keynote speaker. Clinton even took a pass on meetings with two top Democrats, Public Advocate Mark Green and Comptroller Alan Hevesi. A previously postponed meeting with Mayor Giuliani was put off a second time - at the mayor's request. The mayor said he was agitated by former President Clinton's pardon of billionaire fugitive Marc Rich, ex-husband of songwriter and Democratic fund-raiser Denise Rich. "I thought it was inappropriate to have it [a Clinton meeting] right now . . . I'm very upset about this," Giuliani said. "It's not political. I think what the president did is an absolute outrage." Rich fled to Switzerland in 1983 to avoid 51 counts of conspiracy, tax evasion and racketeering. Giuliani also questioned the connection between pardons granted to four Hasidic Jews convicted of a $40 million federal swindle and the near-unanimous vote Clinton won in their Rockland County village when she ran for the Senate. Representatives of the four met with both Clintons at the White House shortly before the ex-president issued the pardons. Giuliani also said that if Sen. Clinton showed up at City Hall, she'd be peppered with pardon-related questions by reporters and the substance of their meeting would be lost. Democrats tried to play down the significance of the senator's no-show. "It's not an unusual occurrence," insisted Green's spokesman, Steve Sigmund. "She just has conflicts." Clinton's spokesman, Howard Wolfson, declined to comment. Insiders said Clinton planned to spend the day holed up in her Chappaqua home. The mayor yesterday reiterated his call for a congressional investigation into the controversial pardons. Such an investigation would not be unprecedented. President Gerald Ford agreed to testify before Congress in 1974 to explain why he pardoned his predecessor, Richard Nixon. nypost.com