When Hillary Trumped ACORN

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During HRC's early days in Little Rock she worked at Rose Law firm while Bill toiled as Arkansas' Attorney General:

[Essay] | Stop Hillary!, by Doug Henwood | Harper's Magazine - Part 4

"While at Rose, Hillary’s allegiances began to shift.

"The community-organizing group ACORN, then based in Arkansas and very much in the Alinsky tradition, got a ballot measure passed that would lower electricity rates for residential users in Little Rock and raise them for commercial users.

"Business, of course, was not pleased, and filed a legal challenge, with Rose representing them.

"Wade Rathke, the founder of ACORN and a friend of Hillary’s, was shocked to see her arguing the case in court. And not only did she argue the case — she helped to craft the underlying legal strategy, which was that the new rate schedule amounted to an unconstitutional 'taking of property.'

"This is now a common right-wing argument against regulation, and Hillary was one of its early architects."

 

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Women are excluded.

 

[georgephillip]

Women are excluded.

Do you mean ALL the women...
[Essay] | Stop Hillary!, by Doug Henwood | Harper's Magazine - Part 6
"The Clintons had outgrown Arkansas. Bill contemplated running for president in 1988 but decided not to, in part because he was terrified that one or more of his countless paramours would come forward. But four years later, he found his nerve. There were still plenty of skeletons in the closet, of course.

"An internal campaign memo from March 1992 listed more than seventy-five potential problems for the candidacy. Among them, needless to say, were Bill’s many women — but about two thirds of the sore spots involved both Bill and Hillary, and eighteen of them pertained to Hillary’s work at Rose."