Posted on 09/01/2004 10:23:47 PM PDT by Timeout
Months ago, I was chatting with a Republican who is very, very knowledgeable about Kerry and I mentioned Kerry's 1971 travels to Paris, and meetings with Madame Nguyen Thi Binh. Binh had been a member of the Central Committee for the National Front for the Liberation of the South, and was now Foreign Minister of the Provisional Revolutionary Government (PRG) of South Vietnam. The military arm of the PRG was widely known as the Viet Cong, just as Madame Binh was widely recognized as the Viet Cong delegate to the conference.
"Yeah, I've heard about that," the Republican said. "I've heard a lot of interesting things about that, but I don't think I want to talk about that just yet."
My eyebrows were raised, but he wouldn't say more.
Well, apparently Newt Gingrich just said to Sean Hannity, very slowly, very carefully, that John Kerry traveled to Paris three times to meet with the Communist leadership in secret.
I think we now know what that Republican didn't yet want to talk about.
bttt
Just confirmed: that website is from the "Hillary Rodham Clinton For President" group. The site's admin is the group's treasurer.
They are legally obligated to report their financial standing and all contributions. They're a month late. The FEC has sent them a "past due" letter (viewable at the FEC site).
I'm sorry. I'll restate my question.
Would that make her ineligable to make a bid to run for Presidency? Can she still file?
Thanks for verifying the website.
And yet another look being tested for this site:
http://www.hillary.org/options/
Hillary Clinton for President
PEACE - LOVE - PROSPERITY - SANITY
Add Your Message and a Donation : Hillary Rodham Clinton for President : Search
Viewing messages 1 to 15. Esme Taylor
Send Hillary and Bill Clinton back to the White House. Hillary and Bill have the established international alliances necessary to restore respect for America. Unlike other candidates, the more the Republicans bash the Clintons is the higher the go and more powerful they get! Come on Hillary. Don't be scared. I spent every day for nine long years supporting you for President for a very good reason. Your country needs you now more than ever. GO GIRL!!!
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I think the word "draft" in the title refers to "make her a candidate against her will", not "beta version of new campaign". The MO of the conspiracy has long been to "force" her to run.
If she's not registered - and apparently tomorrow is the deadline - she can't run on a normal ballot. The only option then is a write-in campaign, which would be useless.
I've inquired at hillary.org about this issue. We'll see how they react/respond.
"draft" in the title refers to "make her a candidate against her will"
That is another way to look at it. But the word DRAFT isn't on all of the site splashes I'm finding. It looks like the site is under construction for a few different looks.
You could be right, draft her to run, I still think it is DRAFT for design splash page.
Please keep us up to date. Thanks for the research.
CLINTON, HILLARY RODHAM ID: P00003392 CHALLENGEROffice Sought: President
State: Presidential Candidate
District: 03
Party: DEM (Democratic Party)
And there is action (though not much): The International Longshore and Warehouse Union PAF donated $1000 on 7/14/04.
Now if I could just figure out why she shows up on a search here but not here (but oddly Bill is listed in the latter), both do FEC candidate searches.
BTTT
NOW, look at who made the donation!
INTERNATIONAL LONGSHORE AND WAREHOUSE UNION
http://herndon1.sdrdc.com/cgi-bin/com_detail/C00176214/
Make sure you clip or mark this article. The LIVE page, http://www.refuseandresist.org/mumia/2000/010700delegation.html HAS BEEN EDITED!
This article below is from the CACHE!
http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:-68poMwKFuEJ:www.refuseandresist.org/mumia/2000/010700delegation.html+INTERNATIONAL+LONGSHORE+AND+WAREHOUSE+UNION+%2B+clinton&hl=en&ie=UTF-8
International Delegation to Deliver Message to Clinton: 'Stop the Execution of Mumia Abu-Jamal!'
SAN FRANCISCO, January 5 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Member of parliaments and legislative bodies from several countries, joined by union leaders and human rights activists, will assemble in Washington, D.C., on January 12 as part of an international delegation to ask President Clinton to stop the threatened execution of Mumia Abu- Jamal. Abu-Jamal is an African American radio journalist who has been on death row in a Pennsylvania prison for 18 years following his 1982 conviction for killing a police officer.
On hand from the United States will be Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.), Martin Luther King III, Rev. Walter Fauntroy, a representative from the International Longshore and Warehouse Union and others.
Describing the trial that led to Abu-Jamal's conviction as "one of the worst travesties and miscarriages of justice that has ever occurred in this country," Baldemar Velasquez, coordinator of the January 12 delegation, said the group had requested a meeting with President Clinton to ask him "to direct Attorney General Janet Reno to conduct an investigation of the Pennsylvania legal system to ascertain how this terrible situation came about." The delegation also hopes to meet with the Attorney General. Visits to the White House and Justice Department will be preceded by a news conference to be held in Washington, D.C., at the National Press Club, 529 14th St., N.W., East Room, at 9 a.m., also on Wednesday, January 12.
The delegation will take to Washington petitions signed by hundreds of thousands of people in support of an "Open Letter to Bill Clinton" urging the president to act in the Abu-Jamal case, which is currently before a federal district judge in Pennsylvania. The judge there is considering claims of 29 separate violations of Abu-Jamal's constitutional rights. "We know that President Clinton cannot order a new trial in this case, nor can he commute Abu-Jamal's sentence. But ordering an investigation by the Justice Department would go a long way in getting at the truth and would, we are confident, stop the execution," said Velasquez.
Velasquez, who is president of the Farm Labor Organizing Committee, based in Toledo, Ohio, and a vice president of the Ohio AFL-CIO, said delegation members will be coming from Brazil, France, Germany, Great Britain, Martinique, South Africa, Spain and perhaps other countries. "For so many political leaders and other notables to come here -- in come cases traveling thousands of miles at great personal expense -- to make a statement in this case demonstrates how deeply the feeling is all over the world that a terrible injustice is being committed here and that people of conscience must speak out now to stop it," Velasquez declared.
Attached find the current listing of the January 12 delegation with additional names expected.
Jean-Pierre Aranega, France, union official, Postal Workers Union
Jose Arbex, Brazil, journalist, Herzog Award of Journalists
Robert Bareille, France, union official, National Energy Workers Union
Manuel Camara, Spain, member, Senate
John Conyers, U.S., member, U.S. House of Representatives
Jeremy Corbyn, Great Britain, member, Parliament
Ossie Davis, U.S., actor and political activist
Jean-Luc Ega, Martinique, deputy-mayor, Sainte-Anne
Walter Fauntroy, U.S., director, National Black Leadership Roundtable
Daniel Gluckstein, France, coordinator, International Liaison Committee
Dick Gregory, U.S., human rights activist
Georges Hage, France, vice president of Foreign Affairs Commission, National Assembly
Ronald E. Hampton, U.S., executive director, National Black Police Association
Carlsten Huebner, Germany, member, Parliament
Sam Jordan, U.S., director, Program to Abolish the Death Penalty, Amnesty International USA
Martin Luther King III, U.S., president, Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Joe Madison, U.S., radio journalist
Lindsay McLaughlin, U.S., legislative representative, International Longshore and Warehouse Union
Patrick Mkezi, South Africa, president, Azania's Workers Union
Martha Osamor, Great Britain, coordinator, People of Color Caucus, Trade Union Congress
Rev. Randall Osborne, U.S., executive vice president, Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Lothar Ott, Germany, union official, GEW (Teachers Union)
Edward Rosario, U.S., executive board and official representative, San Francisco Labor Council, AFL-CIO
Jean-Claude Roujeau, France, professor of medicine
Eduardo Suplicy, Brazil, senator, State of Sao-Paulo
Baldemar Velasquez, U.S., president, Farm Labor Organizing Committee, AFL-CIO
Alisa Wilkins, U.S., national vice president, Lawyers Guild
Steve Wiser, U.S., death row spiritual advisor, Bruderhof
All local supporters are encouraged to join us in welcoming the delegation. We will gather in front of the White House (Lafayette Square side) on the morning of January 12 between 10 and 10:30 a.m. Please encourage your friends and associates to come so that we can welcome them with as large a group as possible.
Re: Hillary --
Well, I knew I read it on FR way back during the winter!
Whoever posted it then was correct, it seems.
Hillary's got her ducks in a row.
VERY interesting...excellent catch...
"Do you think this is the iceberg we've been waiting for?"
I wonder how much of this stuff Hillary knew in advance...
The same old question applies.
Hillary's October Surprise???
Can't be that. We would know by tomorrow if she was running, right?
I'm a little fuzzy about the rules of the game.
This FEC filing means she IS running for Pres? So at any point, Kerry could drop out or have an "unforeseen" incident and she would be the one running against Bush?
OR does something have to be done or etched in stone by tomorrow?
Besides, Pres Bush is an avid skillful poker player....as the song goes know when to hold'em...know when to fold'em. And we all know Pres Bush will NEVER fold'em!!! Looks like he's out of that holdin' pattern!!! He's holding 4 aces!!!
My take is, the deadline to file is now.
But we know she's already filed, some time ago.
So if this were to pass, Kerry could drop out at any time, the dems would have to run someone else.
And she or someone could step in to fill the spot.
As long as they had already filed, and who knows who else has done so.
The FEC ruling just means she's set up to go, not that she will, but that if anything unforeseen were to occur, then she could step in.
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