Posted on 02/11/2008 5:18:56 AM PST by ricks_place
WASHINGTON - Among Billaryland's inner circle, Maggie Williams is renowned as the ultimate Hillary loyalist, fierce and unwavering in her devotion for nearly 25 years.
As the First Lady's chief of staff, her office was in the West Wing, right next to Hillary's.
Her title gave away the extent of her clout: assistant to the President as well as Hillary's gatekeeper and chief enforcer.
Even detractors agree with her admirers that Williams would go to the mat for Hillary.
A Kansas City native, Williams, 53, was a central player in the Clinton damage-control machine during the White House years.
In 1995, a uniformed Secret Service officer swore under oath he saw her leave White House lawyer and Hillary confidant Vince Foster's office carrying documents after Foster committed suicide. Williams denied it.
She ran up more than $100,000 in legal bills defending Hillary in various investigations.
A former aide to Reps. Morris Udall of Arizona and Robert Torricelli (later senator) of New Jersey, Williams' ties to Hillary date to when they both were at the Children's Defense Fund in the 1980s.
After the Clintons left the White House, Williams was named president of Fenton Communications, a leading public relations and consulting firm.
When Bill and Hillary Clinton made remarks before the South Carolina primary that offended African-Americans, the campaign put her on the airwaves to try to quell the uproar.
"She's never run a political campaign, but she has run a staff and isn't afraid to crack heads,"
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LOL!
Guys, I nominate a new member to our club.
Sounds like a recipe for success to me...
Her involvement in Vince Foster's unfortunate mishap in a remote DC park is also malodorous. She was apparently involved in sanitizing Vince's office of all White Water evidence, and had at least a minor role in the mysterious "suicide" note caper.
Hillary must think she's in real trouble to bring in a fixer like Maggie.
The perky Katie Couric, following a Hillary campaign piece on "60 Minutes" last night, mentioned that Hillary has a new campaign manager, but did not mention Maggie Williams' name as being the replacement.
Was Maggie part of the "suborn perjury" cavalcade of stars, or did she simply practice the "poor memory" defense?
Why has she been in France all this time?
Yes, she’s Barney Frank’s sister.
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David Fenton again. The most dangerous man nobody's ever heard of...
OKAY, thinking like a DemocRAT....What I don't get is that Hitlery needs Hispanic votes to take Texas. The states where blacks can have influence are done except for Virginia, and it seems to late to stop Obama there now. So again, thinking like a RAT, Obama goes into Texas, promises driver licenses to Tio Philipe, which Hitlery is against (before she was for), and he takes Texas.
Maybe I shouldn't try to think like a DemocRAT.
No, she'll go to the carpet for Clinton. Williams will go to the mat.
“I thought Huma was the one who went to the mat for Hillary.”
She only goes to the carpet for Hillary.
Sorry, you asked for it.
Let's put this out there: In other words Williams was over-paid. But Williams did not mention it. She kept it. Until it was questioned by others and then investigated and found to be a "mistake." She was well aware of what her fee should have been, I am sure. But when she got $37,500 (or her "firm" received it) she was silent and did not return the extra money on her own! Is that the picture?
What does that say about character and honesty regarding this woman, and all associated with Hillary? So, has the money been returned, and to whom?
It would be VERY INTERESTING to find out who/what organization made such a huge "mistake." Or was it a mistake at all? Was it a way to channel money somehow to Hillary by paying Williams under the guise of a "consulting fee?" When dealing with any of the players in the Clinton camp, nothing is surprising...and everything that that they do is is suspicious. They are the Covert Clinton Clan - there is nothing they do that is forthright and upfront.
heh heh... you said carpet... I'm surprised it took 30 posts to get the response I was expecting! Maybe it wasn't as funny as I thought it was.
"Meet Maggie Wiulliams? No, thanks. I've met her already!"
Channel money to opposition reseach!?
(2) Changing campaign directors like this is generally a desperation move. So was whining about the FL and MI primaries.
(3) If she strongarms superdelegates to give her a nomination she did not win by a standard delegate count, it will be taken very, very badly by the Democrat rank and file.
(4) While Obama has a better chance of defeating McCain than Clinton does, in my opinion, if Obama is nominated the Clintons will do everything they can to undermine him, to ensure that she will be the 2012 frontrunner.
There is nothing too low, that this creature would not do regarding the Klintons. Evil is, as Evil does...
What we are seeing here folks is the return of the Dixie Mafia trying to regain the power they so desperately crave since leaving office.
B.L.O.A.T. and keep your powder dry!!! This will be one helluva ride!
Barney Frank's sister. I would have guessed she's Barney's sister.
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