Bernie's Maggie Williams (transcript of Imus show; new Hillary manager took 50K in the White House)

from Imus show ^ | 2-11-08

[doug from upland]

Subject: Bernie's Maggie Williams Date: Mon, 28 Jul 1997 21:10:25 -0400 From: Ron Hardin Organization: AT&T WorldNet Services Newsgroups: alt.fan.don-imus

McCord: And uh, California entrepreneur Johnny Cheung charging That aides to first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton solicited a $50,000 Campaign contribution from him.

Imus: And he turned the check over there to Maggie Williams, didn't he.

McCord: That is uh, that's our understanding, Iman..

Bernie (voice): ..I'll take that..

McCord: ..according to Mr. Cheung.

Imus: Pardon me, Maggie?

Bernie (voice): I will take that.

Imus: Oh, okay.

McCord: At the time he was seeking VIP treatment for himself and Six Chinese executives. Says he met with White House aide Evan Ryan asking if the Chinese execs could visit with the first lady And dine at the White House..

Bernie (voice): ..I'll put it right in my hand bag..

Imus: ..that will be fine..

Bernie (voice): ..ain't nobody touching this..

McCord: Mr. Ryan left for about twenty minutes and then..

Imus: (unintelligible)

McCord: ..came back according to Mr. Cheung and made a Pitch for a contribution to the DNC.

Bernie (voice): ..that's all you're coughing up?..

McCord: ..and a day later Cheung gave the check to Maggie Williams.

Imus: ..who claimed that she was taken totally by surprise there, And ..

Bernie (voice): ..I had no idea what was happening..

Imus: ..was so flustered she just didn't know what to do..

McCord: ..that's right..

Imus: ..first time anybody's ever handed her a check, apparently. Most days ..

McCord: ..yup..

Imus: ..I suppose it had been cash.

Bernie (voice): ..I had just had my hair straightened out..

Imus: ..God, oh god..

Bernie (voice): (unintelligible) I was awful (unintelligible) that day..

Imus: .. We don't need to go there, I don't think, do you?

Bernie (voice): ..I was traumatized..

Imus: ..It add Jesus God, no wonder I mean, oh God, it's thirteen After the hour, what else?

Duck: Quack quack..

[doug from upland]

Johnny Chung wanted some access. He was told by an aide in our White House what it would take. He then brought a $50,000 check INTO THE WHITE HOUSE. Maggie Williams was never called testify because, unlike Alec Baldwin, she really did move to France.

[Dahoser]

I remember that routine. Bernie used his Maya Angelou voice. Hilarious.

[RDTF]

the price to sleep in the Lincoln bedroom?

[doug from upland]

Chung and the execs got to attend the next Saturday address by the prez from the White House.

[maggief]

Clinton Won Easily, but Bankroll Shows the Toll
New York Times, The (NY) - November 21, 2006
Author: ANNE E. KORNBLUT and JEFF ZELENY ; Suevon Lee contributed reporting.

EXCERPT

Since 2001, when she took office, Mrs. Clinton has spent at least $36 million on her re-election. For 2005 and 2006 through Oct. 18, she spent $29.5 million; a final tally will not be available until next month.

At that level, she spent nearly twice as much as Senator Charles E. Schumer, her Democratic colleague from New York, did in his 2004 re-election campaign, when he spent $15.5 million and won 71 percent of the vote, four points more than Mrs. Clinton won this year.

For her money, Mrs. Clinton also won a slightly smaller percentage of the vote in New York this year than did Eliot Spitzer in his successful race for governor. Mr. Spitzer, who raised nearly $41 million for his campaign, won 69 percent of the vote.

Mark Penn, Mrs. Clinton ‘s pollster and longtime adviser, received at least $1.1 million. Mandy Grunwald, her longtime communications strategist, received more than $930,000. Hudson Media Partners, an offshoot of the Glover Park Group consulting firm where two prominent Clinton advisers, Howard Wolfson and Gigi Georges, work, received nearly $200,000.

Campaign aides said much of the consulting work went toward building a donor list that would be vital in a presidential race. But they did not specify the work done by each of the consultants or say exactly how much of the money they received went to preparing for a presidential run rather than Mrs. Clinton ‘s Senate re-election. And the figures have raised eyebrows among the people who raise money for her.

(snip)

A close friend of Mrs. Clinton , Maggie Williams , received a $37,500 consulting fee, paid to her firm, Griffin Williams Critical Point Management, at the end of July.

Asked what the payment was for, Mrs. Clinton ‘s campaign aides checked and subsequently responded that the payment had been a mistake. They said it should have been for less than $5,000 to reimburse Ms. Williams , who served as chief of staff to Mrs. Clinton in the White House, for travel costs. They said Ms. Williams would return the extra money. Ms. Williams , who was said by Mrs. Clinton ‘s aides to be traveling, did not return a call to her office.

[The_Republican]

Maggie Williams is what Imus WRONGLY called the Rutgers Basketball team.

That term was invented for MW.

[Ann Archy]

Maggie Williams is married to Ron Noble head of INTERPOL and of WACO fame!! They are BAD NEWS!

[Kenny Bunk]

Maya Angelou voice

Ya know, your insensitive racist homophobic gender-normative hegemonic attack on this national icon gave me an idea.

Instead of waterboarding the terrorist fellows presently vacationing at Guantanamo, perhaps a more effective form of torture would be Maya Angelou recordings. I give the toughest Muslim suicide bomber 10 minutes before he cracks. Perhaps an even more potent threat might be to include the overweight linguistic charlatan as one of the terror chappie's Seventy-two Virgins.

[boxerblues]

But they did not specify the work done by each of the consultants or say exactly how much of the money they received went to preparing for a presidential run rather than Mrs. Clinton ‘s Senate re-election

At the same time hillary was out in public saying she was not even thinking about running for president

[martin_fierro]

Bernie (voice): ..I had just had my hair straightened out..

Imus: ..God, oh god..

Bernie (voice): (unintelligible) I was awful (unintelligible) that day..

Imus: .. We don't need to go there, I don't think, do you?

 lol

[Hacklehead]

“Bernie (voice): ..I’ll put it right in my hand bag..
Imus: ..that will be fine..
Bernie (voice): ..ain’t nobody touching this..”

LOL. Those were the days.

[AbeKrieger]

perhaps a more effective form of torture would be Maya Angelou recordings. I give the toughest Muslim suicide bomber 10 minutes before he cracks

You cruel and inhuman b@st@rd. Time to read up on Geneva :)

[Kenny Bunk]

Abe, your bitter remarks have so upset me that I shall be quite unable to attend my weekly PETA meeting this afternoon. I shall however, attempt to regroup and make the Hillary! meeting later this evening.

As far as Geneva goes, I was specificallty promised that what happens at the Convention stays at the Convention.

[SERKIT]

A very sanitized bio of Maggie Williams:

http://www.answers.com/topic/maggie-williams

Excerpt:

Williams had been following the campaign and was increasingly upset with the way the media was portraying Mrs. Clinton, especially during the Republican National Convention. Finally, after polite persuasion from several friends, Williams joined the campaign in August of 1992 to serve as Mrs. Clinton's media adviser. Almost immediately, the image of Hillary Clinton in the minds of Americans began to improve. Williams's strategy was simple: let Hillary be Hillary.

When Bill Clinton won the presidential election, Williams agreed to stay on as Hillary Clinton's transition director. And when the Clintons moved into the White House, they--along with some friends and colleagues--were able to persuade Williams to take a job with the Clinton administration.

As a tribute to her talents, Maggie Williams was given the title of assistant to the president and chief of staff to the first lady. No previous White House official had ever held this dual role. Her duties require that she keep two offices, one in the Old Executive Office Building, where her staff works, and another in the West Wing of the White House--a testament to the Clintons' faith in her.

As the manager of Hillary Clinton's staff of 13, Williams has a host of responsibilities that include everything from speech writing to schedule organization to testifying before Congress on the first lady's behalf. Her loyalty to Hillary Clinton is unquestionable. According to Time, Williams considers herself a "counterpart" to the president's chief of staff, and while some would argue that her responsibilities are indeed tremendous, others feel that she may have broken White House etiquette by making an assumption of "equal rank." Still, many in Washington believe that Mrs. Clinton would have "hit a lot more potholes" if it weren't for Williams's expertise as a media strategist. Paul Costello, a senior vice president for a prestigious public relations firm that advises other political leaders, commented to Vanessa Gallman of Essence: "Maggie has helped [Mrs. Clinton] rise above all the questions about her role, and she has helped shape the image of Hillary as someone concerned with helping people."