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HenchPAC NewsU.S. Senate hopeful Rick Lazio alleged yesterday that his opponent Hillary Clinton hired a private investigator to dig up dirt on him as soon as he announced he would run against her.
The New York congressman said the development is an indication of the kind of dirty tricks campaign he expects Mrs. Clinton to wage in her bid for elected office.
Speaking to WABC radio's Sean Hannity Wednesday afternoon, Lazio revealed the Clinton campaign shocker:
"The first day, the first day that I got out of the box, they had an investigator with a camera following me around everywhere we went upstate. So that's the kind of tactics that we're up against."
The Clintons are notorious for hiring private investigators to go after opponents, enemies, witnesses or anyone else they perceive as a personal or political threat.
In 1992 the Clinton presidential campaign paid San Francisco gumshoe Jack Palladino $100,000 from its campaign kitty to help silence a number of women who staffers believed might claim affairs with the candidate.
According to longtime Clinton insider Dick Morris, Mrs. Clinton is behind the White House's "Secret Police" operations. Morris also claims that PI's like Palladino were bankrolled with taxpayer subsidized federal election matching funds.
Last year one-time Clinton mistress Gennifer Flowers told a New York talk radio audience that Palladino went around asking all her friends, "Is Gennifer the type to commit suicide?"
Though Lazio did not identify the Clinton investigator by name, other known Clinton dirt diggers include investigators Terry Lenzner, Anthony Pellicano and Democratic operative Ron Tucker.
With her husband in the White House, Mrs. Clinton's Lazio scandal patrol can rely on powerful elected Democrats to do her dirty work. On Monday New York State Comptroller Carl McCall wrote to the Securities and Exchange Commission requesting a probe of Lazio's investments.
Lazio told Hannity that the Clinton campaign turned sharply negative after several polls showed him in a dead heat with the first lady.
"She's been around campaigning for a year upstate. And after a year, I'm in the race and we're ahead of her by ten points upstate. I mean, she's got to say to herself, listen, the only way we win this race is if we try to make this guy into something that he's not. And that's what they're trying to do."
Lazio assured Hannity that he had no Sexgate-like skeletons in his closet, the kind of dirt Clinton investigators are sure to seek out.
"I've never had a girlfirend. Except for my wife. That's the only girlfriend I've had since I've been married and I'm proud of that."
Lazio said that Mrs. Clinton has virtually unlimited resources to wage her war for higher office.
"She has got enormous financial resources at her disposal. When Bill Clinton goes out and raises $25 million dollars at one dinner for the Democratic National Committee, you got to believe that a chunk of that money is going to find its way back to New York."
Though Lazio vowed to respond Mrs. Clinton's attacks, he avoided specifics when Hannity asked if he would use some of her own scandal baggage against her.
"Yes, the answer is yes," said the Long Island Republican. "We will respond forcefully every time she goes on the attack, especially with these malicious attempts at distorting records and, again, trying to fool the people of New York about my record."
The GOP hopeful made only one direct reference to any administration scandal when he brought up the latest flap over missing nuclear secrets at Los Alamos.
"Everytime one of these situations happen about national security lapses, another reminder of another scandal, people, I think, in New York have just had it. They don't want any more of the soap opera."
But when Hannity pressed Lazio on whether he would raise other questions about Mrs. Clinton's involvement in an assortment of White House scandals, the candidate responded only in general terms:
"Well, I mean, I think it's -- character is an issue. For the people who said, you know, character doesn't count, they ought to hang their heads in shame, frankly. It's a core issue."
HENCH adds: Hey Rick, next month, when the polls show you ahead by 5-10 points ahead, make sure to hide your dog, cat, wife, kids and car. All fair targets for these scumbags, as previously proven.
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