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

To: jlallen who wrote (9916)	10/16/1998 8:39:00 PM
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To: jlallen who wrote (9916)	10/17/1998 1:01:00 PM
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Clinton Tells Democrats ''Don't Give Up'' Election By Steve Holland CHICAGO (Reuters) - President Clinton, buoyed by a week of foreign and domestic accomplishments, urged Democrats Friday to get out and vote in mid-term elections Nov. 3 to ''ratify the course'' he and his party have taken for six years. ''Don't give up, bear down, we can win, if you do your part,'' he said. Clinton raised money for embattled Illinois Democratic Sen. Carol Moseley-Braun at the end of a ''dizzying week'' in which he has worked for peace in the Balkans and the Middle East, and sealed a budget deal with Republicans that showed he still had political clout despite the threat of impeachment. Some polls have suggested Democrats, turned off by Clinton's affair with Monica Lewinsky, might turn out in low numbers in the mid-terms which could allow Republicans to increase their majorities in the House and Senate. Clinton made reference to those fears in remarks at the Union League Club in downtown Chicago during an event closed to the public that raised $500,000 for Moseley-Braun's campaign. ''This election will be determined not simply by who has the better side of the argument, or what people agree with in terms of what ought to be done, but who shows up,'' he said. In remarks before leaving Washington, Clinton was blunter. ''Staying home is not a very good option when so much is riding on a trip to the ballot box.'' Clinton clearly seemed upbeat about his own political career after browbeating Republicans to approve his budget plans for hiring 100,000 new teachers and other programs. ''The election in less than three weeks now will be very important in defining what kind of country we decide to be well into the next century, whether we ratify the course that we have now taken for the last six years,'' Clinton said in Chicago. Outside, a small group of demonstrators reminded the president of his political troubles. ''Impeach the Felon,'' said one sign they held up. Clinton, still facing an impeachment inquiry over the Lewinsky scandal, made his brief trip to Chicago to help Moseley-Braun, who has big political problems of her own. Her bid for re-election is in doubt because of accusations in court that she and her former fiance spent campaign money on travel, clothes and other personal items, and a flap over whether she should have used an inheritance to reimburse Medicaid for her mother's care. In the most recent poll conducted by the Chicago Tribune, Moseley-Braun trailed her Republican opponent, Peter Fitzgerald, by 13 points ahead of the November election. A recent Chicago Sun-Times poll showed her lagging by 15 points. Fitzgerald, 37, is a conservative state senator and heir to a banking fortune. ''I feel confident that the people in this state are ready to make a statement that they approve of the direction the president is taking this country, that they approve of the work I have done as your senator,'' she said. After the fund-raiser, Clinton met 30 African-American ministers to discuss the importance of the fall election and the urgency of getting out the vote for Moseley-Braun, said White House spokeswoman Amy Weiss. The budget agreement hammered out in eight intense days of negotiations was considered a moral victory for Clinton and his aides. Aides felt it showed he was still able to deliver for Democrats on getting money for education and environmental programs in spite of the scandal hanging over his head. ''This budget would not have been possible unless the members of the Democratic caucus in Congress had been united behind me. There's a reason that this budget looks like we wrote it and passed it even though our party is in the minority,'' Clinton said. But his main priorities died -- anti-smoking legislation, a patients' bill of rights with consumer protections from insurance companies, and campaign finance reform -- and Clinton said the fight over them would begin anew early next year. >>>What Clinton fails to admit is he asked for over 11 billion dollars >>>for the so-called 100,000 teachers and got 1.2 billion. Plus he >>>ended up raiding a police-firefighters pension fund to find >>>additional money for the teachers. Amazing how the government >>>doesn't live by the same laws as private sector --- their so-called >>>excuse is separation of powers.