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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Grainne who wrote (19037)	3/22/1998 10:17:00 AM
From: Janice Shell	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

Is it normal to give a political party several hundred thousand dollars? I've read differing accounts of how much they actually gave to the DNC over the years. According to some, it was only a few thousand every campaign. It is reported that the Willeys did this, also. And that she and her husband considered the Clintons FRIENDS, and equals, socially speaking. Evidently Ed Willey was an old friend of Al Gore; the two couples were social friends. But neither of the Willeys was acquainted with the Clintons until they became involved with the 1992 campaign. And of course we know from the video clip that Bill didn't know who Willey was until her saw her at a campaign function. Willey seems to have tried to give the impression that she and her husband were "close friends" of Bill and Hillary, but I don't doubt a lot of people do that. In actual fact, four years after her husband's death she's still complaining that they'd never been invited to a White House Christmas party. And come to think of it: I wonder why Willey went to Clinton, rather than Gore, when she was desperate. Asking Al for help would have been by far the more "normal" thing to do; if the president needed to be involved, Gore could have presented the matter to him. This hasn't occurred to me before, and it IS strange. So. She sends Bill gifts, sends him notes, tries to attract his attention; all this before she was aware of her husband's problems, and when, if the "chicken soup" story is true, she had reason to think he took a more than casual interest in her.. Hmmmm. Food for thought.