sorry for the tease.....no such luck.....(i know what you were expecting when you clicked that link......heh...)

No LIE: Hil's a Victim of Traffic

By DEBBIE TUMA and DON SINGLETON Daily News Writers

When Sen. Hillary Clinton set out for Long Island yesterday, she got a lesson in how the other half lives.

There was no Air Force One to whisk her to the nearest airport. There was no helicopter to carry her over the lemmings heading for the sea.

There was just the Long Island Expressway — on a Friday afternoon during the summer — and she sat steaming in the traffic, arriving at her first stop an hour and a half late.

Clinton had been scheduled to take part in a discussion on affordable housing at 3 p.m. at the Long Island Housing Partnership in Hauppauge.

She didn't get there until 4:30 p.m., and looked tired and disheveled when she arrived.

"I'm here to address a lot of issues, but I guess one of the key issues on Long Island is transportation," Clinton said. "The congestion is just getting worse, not better, and it makes the movement of people harder than it should be."

Such observations are not lightning bolts to Long Islanders. A reporter asked Clinton what should be done.

"Well, we are an island, so we're really limited in our possibilities," she said. "So we need to look for better forms of public transportation, such as, possibly, a monorail, and also to getting people out of cars and into trains, buses or subways."

Then she headed out into traffic again, stopping-and-going her way to the Hamptons for the rest of the weekend. She and husband, Bill, will be staying in East Hampton with friends — not the Spielbergs.

The senator is scheduled to attend a fund-raiser in Sag Harbor today, and two more tonight in East Hampton. On her way home Sunday, she'll stop off at a benefit on Staten Island for amputation victims from Sierra Leone.

Clinton's political-action committee reported this week that it took in $662,325 in its first six months, catapulting her into the top tier of Senate fund-raisers.

The committee, Hillpac, handed out $100,000 in contributions to lawmakers from Montana to Georgia, according to records filed with the Federal Election Commission. Among its largest donations was $10,000 to the legal defense fund of embattled Sen. Robert Torricelli (D-N.J.).

Campaign finance experts called Clinton's haul impressive without being so large as to raise eyebrows.

"A garden-variety junior senator, newly elected, would have some real trouble raising that kind of money," Washington election lawyer Kenneth Gross said. "She's among the top."

-- Anonymous, July 21, 2001

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Yeha, mebsie, and didja see where about two-thirds of that PAC money went for admin expenses??? I posted something about it a day or so ago.

-- Anonymous, July 21, 2001