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</div><div>an 1019</div><div>=</div><a href="https://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/how-us-policy-honduras-set-stage-mass-migration-today">https://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/how-us-policy-honduras-set-stage-mass-migration-today</a>energy $, 50K bernie<a href="http://grist.org/climate-energy/meet-the-climate-activist-who-made-hillary-clinton-mad/">http://grist.org/climate-energy/meet-the-climate-activist-who-made-hillary-clinton-mad/</a>8/15=http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/glenn-greenwald-hillary-clinton-has-embraced-some-most-brutal-dictators-worldtough and detailed plan ~ isis daishktm:Chapter 10 The Romney-ization of Hillary Clinton p. 203HC met alinsky in college
UNLV scandal 225K$ fee but went to fdn; contract specified hummus for "rock star[M&M practical]
clintons very MC when elected, and in 2000 1.8m$ assets but legal debt  $10m 209
out of law school ngo; married 1975 in living room
2015 GPS www video HC foreign $ narrated " by Eliz warren [not ref to HC?]
HC wanted wall st reform like derivatives 216
Chapter 11 E-mails: The Times Strikes Again p. 219
jeb published email but 1/10th he owned the server. 236
NYT story on email left out that prev Sos used private email 224
2014 record law took effect 18 mos after HC left
scott walker cty exec office used secret email? chris christie
Chapter 12 The Haters and the Enablers p. 238genderbill o had body language expert declare her 'evil" 239
Andrea Dowd 3/4 cols negative

Chapter 13 The Coming Battle p. 250Conservative media figures are attacking Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's plan to revitalize coal communities by deceptively claiming Obama administration environmental policies that Clinton supports are responsible for "destroying" and "crippling" coal country in the first place. But these media figures are downplaying -- or outright ignoring -- more significant factors that have led to the coal industry's decades of decline, such as competition from natural gas and renewables, depletion of easily recoverable coal reserves, and advances in mining technology.<a href="http://mediamatters.org/research/2015/11/17/pro-koch-cbs-analyst-received-15-million-from-t/206918">http://mediamatters.org/research/2015/11/17/pro-koch-cbs-analyst-received-15-million-from-t/206918</a>MSNBC <a href="http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/ex-benghazi-investigator-sues-trey-gowdy-discrimination-and-defamation" style="outline: none; text-decoration: none; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204);">reported</a> that former House Benghazi Select Committee investigator Brad Podliska, is suing the committee for defamation after allegedly facing retaliation for claiming the committee was "hyper-focus[ed]" on Hillary Clinton.Podliska was <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/11/us/politics/former-benghazi-investigator-says-he-was-fired-unlawfully.html?r=0" style="outline: none; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204);">fired</a> in late June after working for almost ten months as an investigator for the committee partly for, according to Select Committee Chairman Trey Gowdy (R-SC), mishandling classified information. On October 11, during an interview with CNN's Jake Tapper on State of the Union, Podliska <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/10/politics/benghazi-committee-investigation-political-hillary-clinton-brad-podliska-lawsuit/" style="outline: none; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204);">called</a> the committee's investigation "partisan" and claimed the focus shifted almost exclusively to Clinton after it was reported that she utilized a private email server while serving as Secretary of State.Gowdy and the committee denied the allegations, and <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/11/us/politics/former-benghazi-investigator-says-he-was-fired-unlawfully.html?r=0" style="outline: none; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204);">said</a> Podliska was "terminated for cause." A committee spokesperson issued a statement accusing Podliska of his own bias in his work, claiming he participated in an effort to direct committee resources to create a "'hit piece' on members of the Obama Administration, including Secretary Clinton." The statement <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/10/politics/benghazi-committee-investigation-political-hillary-clinton-brad-podliska-lawsuit/" style="outline: none; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204);">said</a> the committee would not be "blackmailed into a monetary settlement for a false allegation." Gowdy also <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/10/politics/benghazi-committee-investigation-political-hillary-clinton-brad-podliska-lawsuit/" style="outline: none; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204);">issued</a> his own statement, claiming he never spoke directly with Podliska and was confident no one on the committee instructed him to focus on Clinton. This occurred just weeks after HouseMajority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) <a href="http://mediamatters.org/video/2015/09/29/after-republican-lawmaker-boasts-that-benghazi/205867" style="outline: none; text-decoration: none; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204);">bragged</a> to Fox's Sean Hannity that Clinton's "numbers are dropping" because of the Select Committee's work.The Benghazi Select Committee is <a href="http://mediamatters.org/blog/2015/10/07/now-that-everyones-calling-for-the-end-of-the-b/206025" style="outline: none; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204);">largely a creation</a> of Fox News and other members conservative media, who endlessly called for Congress to investigate Clinton over the Benghazi attacks. After McCarthy acknowledged the partisan nature of the committee, Fox News hosts Bret Baier and Bill O'Reilly and Fox News senior political analyst Brit Hume <a href="http://mediamatters.org/research/2015/10/16/fox-news-finally-concedes-benghazi-committee-is/206217" style="outline: none; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">conceded</a> that the purpose of the investigation was political.MSNBC reported that Podliska is not seeking monetary compensation from the defamation suit, but rather for Gowdy to release a statement admitting his allegation Podliska mishandled classified information was false. He is also asking for an injunction to prevent Gowdy from repeating the claim:<a href="http://www.alternet.org/environment/hillary-clinton-arctic-drilling-not-worth-risk">http://www.alternet.org/environment/hillary-clinton-arctic-drilling-not-worth-risk</a>

4/15 ecowatch... When she spoke to at the League of Conservation Voters’ (LCV) annual dinner in December, <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/12/02/3598104/hillary-clinton-fracking-keystone/" target="blank" style="line-height: 25.2px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s linear; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">much of the media coverage</a> again centered on her failure to say anything about the Keystone XL pipeline. The Washington Post <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/clintons-noncommittal-stance-on-environment-creates-political-dilemma/2014/12/01/609d95a0-796c-11e4-9a27-6fdbc612bff8_story.html" target="blank" style="line-height: 25.2px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s linear; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">ran a piece</a> saying “Her refusal to take a stand on Keystone has disappointed some of the loudest—and richest—environmental activists who view the project as a test of a candidate’s environmental bona fides.”But what about everything else? Taking a look at the full range of Hillary’s positions on the environmental issues and comparing them with the positions and votes of the Republican field, it’s clear that a climate voter—and the planet—can’t afford the luxury of claiming they’re all the same. Virtually every entrant into the GOP field is a <a href="http://ecowatch.com/?s=climate+deniers" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s linear; background: transparent;">climate denier</a> to a great or lesser degree.“The science of <a href="http://ecowatch.com/news/energy-news/fracking-2/" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s linear; background: transparent;">climate change</a> is unforgiving no matter what the deniers may say,” said Hillary at the LCV dinner. “Sea levels are raising, ice caps are melting, storms, droughts and wildfires are wreaking havoc, 13 of the top 14 warmest years in recorded history have happened since 2000, and this past summer scientists found levels of carbon diode in our atmosphere not seen in hundreds of thousands of years.”That’s not a statement you’re likely to hear from any of the GOP candidates. Take only the two announced candidates as examples. Cruz is a full-throated supporter of unlimited, unregulated fossil fuel exploration and extraction or, as he put it “remove the barriers to every form of energy.” He has said there is no global warming and trotted out the debunked theory that there was “global cooling” in the ’70s. “The problem with climate change is there’s never been a day in the history of the world in which the climate is not changing,” <a href="http://ecowatch.com/2015/03/23/climate-denier-ted-cruz-run-for-president/" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s linear; background: transparent;">he said</a>. <a href="http://ecowatch.com/2015/04/07/tom-steyer-climate-denier-hot-seat/" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s linear; background: transparent;">Rand Paul has said</a>that the science behind climate change is “not conclusive” and that anyone who ties extreme weather events to climate change is an “ignoramus.”Speaking at the LCV dinner, Hillary praised the group’s advocacy for the Clean Water Act and Clean Air Act, adding, “Years later, you pushed for and rallied behind President Obama’s use of the Clean Air Act to set the first-ever federal limits on carbon pollution from existing power plants which are driving the most dangerous effects of climate change. The unprecedented action President Obama has taken must be protected at all costs.”...=<div class="top-tools"><div class="left"><div class="story_tools_print"><div class="right"><div class="talk_box"><div class="clear-divider"><div class="the_body body_news-politics clearfix" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Press reports indicate that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will <a href="http://www.wsj.com/articles/hillary-clinton-seen-launching-presidential-bid-in-april-1425254392">announce her run</a> [3] for president next month, setting off a 20-month election cycle.Her first steps are to set up a campaign in the historic early primary states, Iowa and New Hampshire. Perhaps with an eye toward her third-place finish in 2008, Clinton's operation is moving swiftly to secure a political team in Iowa to create a base of operations to stave off any challengers.Along those lines, the Washington Post published a <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/hillary-clintons-iowa-horse-whisperer-jerry-crawford-aims-for-caucus-kentucky-derby/2015/03/02/9c93b638-be23-11e4-bdfa-b8e8f594e6ee_story.html">long profile</a> [4] of Jerry Crawford, a long-time Iowa political hand who is serving as an adviser to Ready For Hillary, the super PAC supporting the former first lady's run for the White House. The profile focuses largely on personal details about Crawford, such as his love of the Kentucky Derby, but affirms that as a former Midwestern co-chair of Clinton's 2008 campaign, he's ready to take her all the way this time.What the piece doesn't go into is that between Clinton's 2008 race and her likely entry into the presidential race again this year, Crawford has been busy serving a corporate clientele and even assisting Iowa Republicans—which should raise eyebrows for those worried Team Hillary is too tied to corporate America instead of Main Street.Monsanto's Man In IowaBefore joining Clinton's campaign in 2008, Crawford served in a variety of high-profile political roles. In addition to a variety of local positions, he served as the Iowa chair for the presidential campaigns of Mike Dukakis, Bill Clinton, Al Gore, John Kerry—each one the more conservative candidates in their Democratic presidential primaries.So it was a natural fit for Crawford to sign up for the Hillary campaign. But after Clinton's 2008 loss, Crawford <a href="http://www.crawfordlawfirm.com/attorneys/view.cfm?id=20">spent his days</a> [5] at Crawford Muaro, his law and lobbying firm. While there, <a href="http://coolice.legis.iowa.gov/Cool-ICE/default.asp?Category=Matt&Service=Lobby">he represented</a> [6] a variety of corporate clients, including Kraft and Altria (the parent company of Philip Morris USA). He also <a href="http://iowaindependent.com/42153/northey-slammed-as-lapdog-of-egg-industry">served as a lawyer</a> [7] for Jack DeCoster, a factory farm tycoon who infamously supplied eggs that led to a salmonella outbreak. His most prominent client, however, was Monsanto.Monsanto, the agricultural and biotechnology corporation founded in Missouri, is <a href="http://www.alternet.org/take-action/5-most-horrifying-things-about-monsanto-why-you-should-join-global-movement-and-protest">known worldwide</a> [8] for its abuses against the environment and practices designed to crush farm competition. Iowa is a farming state, with agriculture <a href="http://www.iowaeconomicdevelopment.com/WhyIowa/WhyIowaEconomy">making up</a> [9] a large share of its total economy. The 2010 Agriculture Secretary election was particularly important for Monsanto; as one Iowa blogger <a href="http://www.bleedingheartland.com/diary/4337/hired-gun-for-big-ag-endorses-francis-thickes-opponent">noted</a> [10], it holds “patents on most of the corn and soybeans grown in Iowa.” The company was also the subject of an <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/news/monsanto-focus-of-antitrust-investigation/">antitrust investigation</a>[11]. The Democratic nominee for the spot, Francis Thicke, was a <a href="http://www.gmwatch.org/index.php/news/archive/2010/12624-democrat-monsanto-lobbyist-supports-gop-candidate">critic of Monsanto</a> [12] and a backer of antitrust actions against the big agricultural companies. Thus it wasn't long before Monsanto took aim at Thicke, allying itself to the Republican nominee and incumbent, Bill Northey.When Crawford, working for Monsanto at the time, endorsed Northey, <a href="http://okhenderson.com/2010/11/01/last-minute-smack-downs-in-northeythicke-race/">he touted</a> [13] his backing as evidence of “strong bipartisan support,” calling him a “veteran Democratic political insider.” Although Francis Thicke picked up <a href="http://www.bleedingheartland.com/diary/4337/hired-gun-for-big-ag-endorses-francis-thickes-opponent">strong endorsements</a> [10] from progressives in the farm movement, such as food writer Michael Pollen, environmentalist Bill McKibben and former Texas Ag Commissioner and progressive writer Jim Hightower, he was defeated in his race against Northey, <a href="http://grist.org/article/food-2010-11-03-bill-northey-defeats-francis-thicke/">getting</a> [14] just 37 percent of the vote to his 63 percent. Monsanto ended up being Northey's <a href="http://www.followthemoney.org/entity-details?eid=6667233&default=candidate">eighth-largest</a> [15] direct contributor. His top supporter, the Iowa Farm Bureau, is <a href="http://documents.foodandwaterwatch.org/doc/FarmBureauLR.pdf">allied</a> [16] to Monsanto.Clinton and BiotechnologyAlthough Jerry Crawford was a co-chair of Clinton's 2008 campaign and is one of the organizers of Ready For Hillary, this does not necessarily mean Clinton shares his views on Big Agriculture. It is telling, however, that someone who worked as a hired gun for Monsanto to defeat a progressive Democrat is so enthusiastic about a potential Clinton presidency.And it is worth noting that since leaving the State Department, Clinton has been an advocate of genetically modified crops and biotechnology like the techniques Monsanto has pioneered. In a <a href="http://www.agweek.com/event/article/id/23590">paid speech</a> [17] at the 2014 Biotechnology Industry Organization, where she was introduced by former Clinton fundraiser and current Virginia Democratic governor Terry McAullife, Clinton offered support for the industry.“I stand in favor of using seeds and products that have a proven track record....And to continue to try to make the case for those who are skeptical that they may not know what they're eating already. The question of genetically modified food or hybrids has gone on for many many years. And there is again a big gap between what the facts are and what perceptions are,” she said to applause. She went on to defend drought-resistant genetically modified technology Monsanto has developed.There are legitimate debates to be had about Big Agriculture and the benefits of the genetically modified crops that Monsanto specializes in. But it's difficult to have fair and honest debates in a climate where candidates are directly courting the corporations that benefit. Jerry Crawford is a symptom of a bigger problem—the inability of our presidential candidates to build a political operation without incorporating powerful corporate interests from the very outset. Watch Clinton's full talk below:</div>

<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/09/10/hillary-clinton-fracking_n_5796786.html">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/09/10/hillary-clinton-fracking_n_5796786.html</a>

This <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2014/09/hillary-clinton-fracking-shale-state-department-chevron" target="hplink" sl-processed="1" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">story</a> originally appeared on <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/" target="hplink" sl-processed="1" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Mother Jones</a> and is reproduced here as part of the <a href="http://climatedesk.org/" target="_hplink" sl-processed="1" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Climate Desk</a> collaboration.

ONE ICY MORNING in February 2012, Hillary Clinton's plane touched down in the Bulgarian capital, Sofia, which was just digging out from a fierce blizzard. Wrapped in a thick coat, the secretary of state descended the stairs to the snow-covered tarmac, where she and her aides piled into a motorcade bound for the presidential palace. That afternoon, they huddled with Bulgarian leaders, including Prime Minister Boyko Borissov, discussing everything from Syria's bloody civil war to their joint search for loose nukes. But the focus of the talks was fracking. The previous year, Bulgaria had signed a five-year, $68 million deal, granting US oil giant Chevron millions of acres in shale gas concessions. Bulgarians were outraged. Shortly before Clinton arrived, tens of thousands of protesters poured into the streets carrying <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/17/bulgaria-chevron-fracking_n_1210299.html" target="_hplink" sl-processed="1" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">placards</a> that read "Stop fracking with our water" and "Chevron go home." Bulgaria's parliament responded by voting overwhelmingly for a fracking moratorium.

Clinton urged Bulgarian officials to give fracking another chance. According to Borissov, she <a href="http://www.state.gov/secretary/20092013clinton/rm/2012/02/183342.htm" target="_hplink" sl-processed="1" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">agreed</a> to help fly in the "best specialists on these new technologies to present the benefits to the Bulgarian people." But resistance only grew. The following month in neighboring Romania, thousands of people gathered to protest another Chevron fracking project, and Romania's parliament began weighing its own shale gas moratorium. Again Clinton intervened, dispatching her special envoy for energy in Eurasia, Richard Morningstar, to push back against the fracking bans. The State Department's lobbying effort culminated in late May 2012, when Morningstar held a series of meetings on fracking with top Bulgarian and Romanian officials. He also touted the technology in an interview on Bulgarian national radio, saying it could lead to a fivefold drop in the price of natural gas. A few weeks later, Romania's parliament voted down its proposed fracking ban and Bulgaria's eased its moratorium.

The episode sheds light on a crucial but little-known dimension of Clinton's diplomatic legacy. Under her leadership, the State Department worked closely with energy companies to spread fracking around the globe—part of a broader push to fight climate change, boost global energy supply, and undercut the power of adversaries such as Russia that use their energy resources as a cudgel. But environmental groups fear that exporting fracking, which has been linked to <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2013/10/radioactivity-fracking-waste-pennsylvania" target="hplink" sl-processed="1" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">drinking-water contamination</a>and <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2013/03/does-fracking-cause-earthquakes-wastewater-dewatering" target="hplink" sl-processed="1" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">earthquakes</a> at home, could wreak havoc in countries with scant environmental regulation. And according to interviews, diplomatic cables, and other documents obtained by Mother Jones, American officials—some with deep ties to industry—also helped US firms clinch potentially lucrative shale concessions overseas, raising troubling questions about whose interests the program actually serves.

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9/14

<a href="http://ecowatch.com/2014/09/05/hillary-clinton-climate-deniers-renewable-energy">http://ecowatch.com/2014/09/05/hillary-clinton-climate-deniers-renewable-energy</a>

As she continues to play a game of “will-she/won’t she” regarding a potential 2016 presidential run, Hillary Clinton called out <a href="http://ecowatch.com/climate-change-news/" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s linear; line-height: 25.2px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">climate change</a> deniers while delivering a keynote address at the<a href="http://www.cleanenergysummit.org/" target="_blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s linear; line-height: 25.2px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">National Clean Energy Summit</a> in Las Vegas this week.

She also spoke of the need for America to become the “clean energy superpower of the 21st century,” talking about the benefits of <a href="http://ecowatch.com/news/energy-news/" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s linear; background: transparent;">clean energy</a> in creating jobs, competing globally, and reducing greenhouse emissions.

“Clinton began her remarks at the National Clean Energy Summit by laying out the problems climate change is already causing today, including extreme weather and droughts,” reported<a href="http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/hillary-clinton-calls-out-climate-deniers" target="_blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s linear; background: transparent;">MSNBC</a>.

Clinton said, “[These are] the most consequential, urgent, sweeping collection of challenges we face. The data is unforgiving no matter what the deniers try to assert. Sea levels are rising. Ice caps are melting. Storms, droughts, and wildfires are wreaking havoc.”

She especially touted the economic impact of clean energy development, saying, “Aside from the deniers and the special interests and all the other folks who want to pretend we don’t have a crisis is the fact that we are leaving money and jobs behind. For those on the other side, they have to answer to the reality they are denying peoples’ jobs and middle class incomes and upward mobility by their refusal to look to the future.”

She praised the work already being done in states like Nevada where Tesla has <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/cars/2014/09/04/tesla-gigafactory-reno/15095411/" target="_blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s linear; background: transparent;">announced</a> this week it will build a solar- and wind-powered battery factory near Reno, and Iowa, which has been a leader in clean energy, especially wind power. (Naturally, political tea-leaf readers saw her mention of Iowa as a sign that she’s running, since Iowa hosts the first primary of the campaign season.)

Most news reports pointed out that she <a href="http://ecowatch.com/2014/05/21/30-groups-hillary-keystone-xl/" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">failed to mention</a> the controversial <a href="http://ecowatch.com/news/energy-news/keystone-xl-pipeline-2/" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Keystone XL</a>pipeline. And <a href="http://ecowatch.com/business/renewables/" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">clean energy</a> advocates will most likely not be happy that she also promoted the benefits of <a href="http://ecowatch.com/news/energy-news/fracking-2/" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">fracking</a>, while cautioning about the need for “smart regulations” to protect the health and safety of communities.

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Ms. Jacobson is a longtime Democratic Party fundraiser. In addition to helping found Third Way, she also serves as Senior Advisor to Senator <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Evan_Bayh" title="Evan Bayh" style="line-height: 19.5px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Evan Bayh</a>, National Finance Chair for the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Democratic_Leadership_Council" title="Democratic Leadership Council" style="line-height: 19.5px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Democratic Leadership Council</a>, and Founder and Executive Director of <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Next_Generation&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Next Generation (page does not exist)" style="line-height: 19.5px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Next Generation</a>, a <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Political_action_committee" title="Political action committee" style="line-height: 19.5px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">political action committee</a> devoted to supporting moderate, centrist Senate candidates. Ms. Jacobson was an early supporter of <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Bill_Clinton" title="Bill Clinton" style="line-height: 19.5px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Bill Clinton</a>’s 1992 Presidential campaign, and was Finance Director of the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Democratic_National_Committee" title="Democratic National Committee" style="line-height: 19.5px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Democratic National Committee</a> when he assumed office in 1993. Ms. Jacobson received her B.A. in Political Science from Syracuse University and a Masters in Public Relations from American University. She is married to <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Mark_Penn" title="Mark Penn" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Mark Penn</a>, the worldwide CEO of <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Burson-Marsteller" title="Burson-Marsteller" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Burson-Marsteller</a>, who served as pollster and strategic advisor to President Clinton and Senator <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Hillary_Rodham_Clinton" title="Hillary Rodham Clinton" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Hillary Rodham Clinton</a>.

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Hunting Hillary Clinton

Arthur Finkelstein, long-time GOP political consultant, to lead campaign

to defeat Hillary re-election and derail her presidential hopes

by Bill Berkowitz

www.dissidentvoice.org

February 17, 2005

“Stop Her Now,” is the name of the new Web site soon to be launched by Arthur Finkelstein, the chief political guru of New York Governor George Pataki, and one of the country's most successful yet least known political consultants/spin doctors. The “Her” at StopHerNow.com is New York Senator Hillary Clinton. According to the New York Post, Finkelstein, the longtime master of the political attack ad, hopes the site will raise as much as $10 million from Hillary-haters across the nation and provide a gathering point for conservative activists working to defeat her in next year's Senatorial election. Hillary's defeat would likely derail any presidential aspirations she might have.

The New York Post's Fredric Dicker has called Finkelstein “a secretive and sometimes controversial national GOP consultant who played a key role in Pataki's defeat of Gov. Mario Cuomo in 1994.” The Associated Press’ political writer Marc Humbert characterized Finkelstein as being “media-shy.” Nearly ten years ago, CNN's Jonathan Karl wrote of Finkelstein: “He is the stuff of Hollywood: A man who can topple even the most powerful foes, yet so secretive that few have ever seen him.” Former New York Senator Alphonse D'Amato maintained that Finkelstein “is probably one of the brightest, cutting-edge political scientists I've ever met.”

Hating Hillary: A Cottage Industry

The end of Bill Clinton's presidency coincided with the birth of the political career of his wife, Hillary Rodham Clinton. Once she decided to run for the Senate seat from New York, Hillary-bashing replaced Bill-bashing as the right's most popular and financially rewarding activity.

In the fall of 2000, when Morton Blackwell established a group called the Emergency Committee to Stop Hillary Rodham Clinton, he sent an e-mail that read in part: “As you know, the establishment media have protected Bill and Hillary Clinton from the worst of their crimes, corruption and cover-ups.” To underscore his sense of urgency, Blackwell, who in 1979 founded The Leadership Institute, recruited such high-powered right wing luminaries as Edwin Meese III, Ronald Reagan's Attorney General during the Iran/Contra scandal, Lynn Nofsinger, longtime Republican Party activist, Oklahoma Republican Congressman Ernest Istook and Alan Keyes, the recently failed Senatorial candidate from Illinois.

Blackwell wasn't the only one tilling the anti-Hillary fields. Early in 2000, The Washington, DC-based National Conservative Campaign Fund issued a Special Report entitled “Campaign Strategy to Stop Hillary Clinton,” which aimed to drive up her negatives, establish a "Defeat Hillary Clinton" Web site, and run a protracted anti-Hillary media campaign. NCCF currently bills itself as “an independent political action committee,” with Thomas L. Phillips as Chairman, and D. Jeffrey Hollingsworth, Executive Director. The group's Advisory Board contains a number of veteran right wing activists including Gary Aldrich, L. Brent Bozell III, Floyd Brown, Angela “Bay” Buchanan, Ann Coulter, George Gilder, C. Boyden Gray, Donald P. Hodel, Terrence P. Jeffrey, G. Gordon Liddy, Ralph Reed, Jr., Alfred S. Regnery, William Bradford Reynolds, John K. Singlaub, and Armstrong Williams.

Former New York Congressman Gerald Solomon, on behalf of The American Conservative Union's “The Hillary Rodham Clinton Voter Alert Campaign,” sent out a 92-page paperback book entitled Hillary Rodham Clinton: What Every American Should Know. The American Conservative Union, founded in 1964 and headed by David Keene, claims to be “the nations’ oldest and largest grassroots conservative organization.” According to its Web site, the ACU's purpose is to effectively communicate and advance the goals and principles of conservatism... capitalism, belief in the doctrine of original intent of the framers of the Constitution, confidence in traditional moral values, and commitment to a strong national defense."

In early April 2000, the Washington, DC-based right wing think tank, the American Enterprise Institute, got in on the action by hosting a conference called “The Legacy and Future of Hillary Rodham Clinton.” Co-sponsored by David Horowitz's Los Angeles-based Center for the Study of Popular Culture, the event, wrote journalist David Corn, “tilted toward the Hillary-sucks side.”

And, Christopher Ruddy, the reporter largely responsible for keeping the “Vincent Foster was murdered” story alive in the right-wing media, pitched subscriptions to his new publication by offering two premiums -- a special report Hillary Clinton: The Story the Media Won't Tell and an audio-tape set Bill and Hillary's Secrets Revealed.

All those efforts may have raised millions of dollars for the organizations involved, but they fell short of their goal as Hillary handily defeated Congressman Rick Lazio to win the Senate seat.

Turning to the Internet

That was then and this is now. The fact that George W. Bush is starting his second term and Republicans are in control of the government doesn't lessen the likelihood of another major league hardball campaign against Hillary Clinton. But if the mountains of mud that were flung so enthusiastically in 2000 didn't stick, why do GOP partisans think it will be different this time around?

Hillary bashers are counting on a political trifecta consisting of the Internet, lessons learned from the Swift Boat Veterans attack against John Kerry, and the genius of Arthur Finkelstein.

“The decision to turn to the Internet is a de facto acknowledgment that the so-called ‘tough New York press corps’ failed to do its job during Clinton's campaign five years ago, when a whole host of questions about the former first lady's involvement in a number of controversies during the 1990s went unexplored,” NewsMax.com, a right wing online news magazine, reported in early February. NewsMax hinted that the campaign against Hillary would do well to learn from the smear campaign against Senator John Kerry by the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, which at first was ignored by the mainstream press and succeeded in getting their message out by first using the Internet and talk radio.

Finkelstein's Web site launch comes on the heels of his having been fired by the state's Republican Party "in the wake of Republican setbacks in New York in the November elections," AP reported. Pataki, thinking about a possible run for president in 2008, “has said he will personally continue to use” Finkelstein, “but [he] will seek other political advice, too.”

Who is Arthur Finkelstein? Will his “Stop Her Now” campaign be more successful than the Stop Hillary efforts of 2000?

Finkelstein has had a long and colorful political career that has seen him work with some of the most reactionary politicians both at home and abroad. He runs Arthur J. Finkelstein & Associates, and during his thirty-year career he has worked for President Reagan and President Nixon. In addition to spearheading the then-little-known Pataki's 1994 victory over Mario Cuomo, he was also a top adviser to Alfonse D'Amato and Jesse Helms during their Senate careers. But he hasn't always led his clients to victory -- in 1996 he was a major, if well-hidden, consultant to Senator Bob Dole's losing presidential campaign.

In addition, Finkelstein was also an early director of Terry Dolan's groundbreaking political operation, the National Conservative Political Action Committee (NCPAC).

Finkelstein is an international player as well. According to AP's Humbert, “Finkelstein has been increasingly active is Israeli politics. He helped Benjamin Netanyahu during his 1996 campaign for prime minister and he is an adviser to the current Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon.”

And, you can add one more element to Finkelstein's reality; he is gay, yet he's worked for a gaggle of gay-bashing Republican Senators including Lauch Faircloth (R-N.C.), Jesse Helms (R-N.C), Don Nickles (R-Okla.) and Sen. (Bob) Smith (R-New Hampshire), all of whom voted against legislation banning discrimination against gays while Finkelstein was working for them.

Finkelstein is also Jewish, but that didn't stop him from using anti-Semitism during a 1978 South Carolina congressional race between Republican Carroll Campbell and Democrat Max Heller. A 1996 report published by the National Jewish Democratic Council summarized the story:

“According to press accounts, Campbell commissioned a poll, conducted by the notorious GOP pollster Arthur Finkelstein, in which voters were asked their views of Campbell, who was described as ‘a native South Carolinian,’ and Heller, who was described as ‘a Jewish immigrant.’ The Campbell-Finkelstein poll also asked voters whether they approved or disapproved of U.S. aid to Israel, hardly a significant issue in the campaign except that it injected Heller's religion into the race and implied that, as a Jew, he would favor Israel over the U.S. Then just five days before the election, an independent candidate attacked Heller because Heller did not ‘believe in Jesus Christ.’ Heller lost by less than 6,000 votes. Years after the election it was revealed that there had been contact between the independent candidate and the Campbell campaign, leading some observers to believe that the independent candidate had entered the race at the behest of the Campbell campaign.”

His non-political clients have included Time Magazine, Scott Paper, McDonalds, Quaker Oats and the Trump Organization. This past summer, Finkelstein was hired by opponents of the new stadium on the West Side of Manhattan being proposed for the New York Jets football team to prepare anti-stadium advertisements. Finkelstein & Associates recently entered into a joint venture with Kidron Strategies to provide consulting services in Israel specifically focusing on the corporate and consumer markets.

In a rare interview in December 2004, with Boaz Gaon of Maariv, an Israeli daily newspaper, Finkelstein seemed to be suggesting that things may have shifted too far to the right in the U.S.: “The political centre has disappeared, and the Republican Party has become the party of the Christian right more so than in any other period in modern history,” he said.

“Bush's strategy secures the power of the American Christian right not only for this term,” Finkelstein said. “In fact, it secures its ability to choose the next Republican president.”

Finkelstein told Maariv that he was troubled by the strategy of dividing the country by “values of religion and culture.”

“Bush courted the evangelical vote,” he said, “and turned these elections, in fact, into a referendum on the religious and cultural nature of America. This is my problem.”

Finkelstein's comments reflect his concerns that Governor Pataki would have a hard time getting a GOP presidential nomination given the party's current domination by the Christian right.

An early February independent poll from the Siena College Research Institute found Hillary Clinton beating either Pataki or former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani in a 2006 Senate race. The statewide poll had Clinton leading Pataki, 58 percent to 32 percent, among registered voters and besting Republican Giuliani, 52 percent to 43 percent.

The Finkelstein Web site is a clear indication that “Republicans are clearly planning on waging a negative campaign of lies and distortions against Senator Clinton,” said Howard Wolfson, an adviser to the former first lady. “New Yorkers will see through it, and we will be prepared.”

Bill Berkowitz is a longtime observer of the conservative movement. His WorkingForChange.com column Conservative Watch documents the strategies, players, institutions, victories and defeats of the American Right.

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