Thursday, March 19, 1998 • Volume 4, Number 16 Page 1of8 ;.;:;.:.:;.=· • =·= Democratic w1ll1es THE ----· from the heartland Liquid scandal situation makes '98 a crap shoot HOWEY HPR Forecast We honestly have no idea what might happen next in the Clinton/Lewinsky/Willey/Jones/Densuk/Browning scan­ dal or what impact it will have . POLITICAL INDIANAPOLIS - Remember••• Mount St. Helens in Washington just before it exploded back in the early 1980s? It had a bulging dome of magma that was awe-inspiring before it ruptured from its side in catastrophic fashion. REPORT 1 That's how HPR views the bizarre sex scandal enveloping President Clinton.At this writing- 48 hours after Kathleen Willey The Howey Political Report is published 40 times a year by NewsLink, Inc. Founded in 1994, The Howey Political Report is gave the 60 Minutes interview that was a bookend to the Hillary an independent, non-partisan newsletter analyzing the political Clinton "stand by your man" interview six years earlier - President process in Indiana .. Clinton was sitting on a St. Helen's style 67 percent approval rating. Brian A. Howey That CNN-USA Today Poll was up from 63 percent on March 9. editor and publisher In the 60 Minutes interview with Ed Bradley, Willey said that when she turned to President Clinton for help, he hugged her tightly, The Howey Political Report Office:317-254-1533 PO Box20877 Fax: 317-254-2405 kissed her on the lips, fondled her breasts and placed her hand on his Indianapolis, iN 462i.O [email protected] erect penis. Indiana Democratic Chairman Joe Andrew described to Washington office: 202-775-3242 Richard Berke of the New Turk Times a Kathleen Willey who "was Daytime number: 317-254-2400,Ext.273 convincing to many in the party because she came off as just the NewsLink Home Page: http://www.inoffice.com/hpr kind of person to whom suburban female Democratic voters can Subscriptions: $250 annually via fax or first class relate:' mail. Call subscription office at 317-254-1533. Andrew told The Times, "For those people who relate more to Kathleen Willey than the other accusers that may be dangerous © 1998, The Howey Political Report. All rights reserved. because she fits more into a target audience in certain Midwestern Photocopying, faxing or reproducing in any form, in whole or in states. Kathleen Willey may be more attractive, believable and credi­ part, is a violation offederal law and is strictly prohibited without consent of the publisher. ble to that audience than Paula Jones." While Andrew spoke nationally in stunning candor, there was virtual silence from Indiana female candidates such as Rep. Julia Continued on page 2 "QUOTE" OF THE WEEK INSIDE FEATURES "I don't intend to be a dictator. Iam going to be con­ • Play of the Week: Hoosier chef at White House page 2 troversial in my role as a leader... " • Bob Lang: Clinton and the Secret Service page 3 - Lake County Democratic Chalnnan Stephen • Horse Race: Leising, Blankenbaker polls pages4-S Stlgllch, to the Munster Times • Columnists: WI eland, Novak, Shore page6 • Perhaps We Wander: Tax Commission resumes page 7 • Brinkman one of the last mavericks to go page 8 Thu rsda'.f, March 19, 1998 Page 2 of 8 1 Ireland said on NBC's 'foifay Show, "Perhaps we 1 I11CKI~~B~ need to redefine what ~ g1c1od president is, what Carson and congressional challengers Gail a good man is - becam;e ti 1is is beyond the idea T A~ P E Riecken, Virginia Blankenbaker and Jean of being the likable rogu:~ or the womanizer and • llUll Leising on the topic. There also was from really on into sexual m.sau lt,sexual abusd Indiana's virtually non-existen~ women's ad\' J ... think we're heading in so1r: of very deep water PLAY OF THE WEEK: WM~1~ cacy groups. here with thi.s kind of alk1:ation:' Presiden-1 Clinton dined with That wasn't the case in other parLs of :be British Prime Minister Tm1y country. The San Francisco Chromcle :rep :1,r-:e(J Blair at the White Houst, toil­ Hoosier feminists silent the WiUey accusations Sunday mght on CBS ing in the kitchen glazin,~~ Most Indiana n1ew11papers did not check "have set off a political earthquake among femi­ hom~y mcmgo chicke11 w;iis Bill the pulse on local feminiil. movements follow­ nists - one that has shaken ew:i longtime sup .. O'Brien, tile executive cl·1ef at ing the Willey interview. porters:' Elkhart G1eneral Hospital!. The most cons pie u ous Hoosn·er woman The Milwaukee lournal-Sentinel repor :i:·1l According1 to the South llliend to comment on the subjcc: was Jndlcmapolis Willey's "explosive television interview ... was a Tribune,Cl'Brien's colleig1:· turning point ... in the view of some ariea fm.: .. Star/News political writer lvfary Beth Schneider, roommate is John MoeH1!r, nists and professional women?' who pondered the notiolll n her Sunday column assi!;tant chef to the Whi1te The Kansas City Star reported 1he "rod: written prior to the Willey broadcast on Hou:1e. It was that conrlie ttion solid support President Clinton as enio:· 2d whether reporters had the duty to snoop into that brought O'Brien to 11600 r among women is beginning to erode:' the private lives of poll tki:ms."What are we !Pennsylvania Avenue on .~ And the Arkansas Democrat-Gaze.t'tii doing investigating po Iit ic ans' private lives in week's contract. "It was .ri reported that Little Rock NOW president Karin the first plac,e?" Schneide 1· i.sked in the first of a weelk of hard work," O'B1·ien Wiggins is coming to the uncornfortable condLL· series of questions. "It'~; a cuestion that has told the Tribune. "Sometimes sion that Clinton may well have made unwd­ troubled me and many n'J orters I know for a we went in at 6 or 7 a.m. and come sexual advances toward women. [t : uot,1!d. long, long time.Long before any of us ever didn't ge·t out of there u11til Wiggins as saying, "I guess he's got elllou;;h heard of Lewinsky, Jon es or even Clinton. Back midnight" While O'Brier1 did­ denials behind him that it's starting to fo,Jk su.; .. before anyone trailed Gaq Hart. Was that out of n't meet the President, he did picious." line? If so, then were thie 1111 ws media right to Continued on page 3 Nationally, NOW President Patrlcia ignore President John E E:~mnedy's sexual flings Page 3 of 8 Thursday, March 19, 1998 that apparently included a mob moll? Does the In 1996, Frank O'Bannon clearly benefit­ private character equal public character? ted from the "soccer mom" vote in his stunning Haven't some men, such as Rev. Martin Luther victory over Stephen Goldsmith. An erosion of TICKER King and Franklin D. Roosevelt, been great lead­ that support for Democratic candidates should p ers, though imperfect men?" Clinton reach an embattled state could be T A E painful for incumbent Democrats like Tim Quayle most vocal Republican Roemer,Julia Carson and challengers like Baron meet First Lady Hillary Rod­ ham Clinton, who stopped by If there has been one outspoken Hoosier Hill and Gail Riecken. the kitchen. on the topic, it has been former Vice President Riecken, in particular, is going to need Dan Quayle. He said on NBC's Meet the Press every vote she can get next fall against U.S. Rep. • •• that there has been a "pattern of such behavior" John Hostettler. Cook gives a Partisan Voting Allen County Republicans have with President Clinton and argued that a weak­ Index rating (a figure showing how each of the scored an interesting coup. ened President Clinton "may be good political 435 CDs deviated from the national 1992 and Stephen Bailey,once chairman advice, but it's not good advice for the country?' 1996 elections) of 2.3 percent Republican in the of the county Demoaatic Quayle added that the question of mari­ 8th CD,4.4 percent Republican in the 9th CD Finance Committee, has tal infidelity "is to some extent" relevant for and 4.4 percent Democratic in the 10th CD. switched parties (Jim Chap­ someone running for high office. Cook also notes that while Clinton's man & Leslie Stedman, Fort In South Carolina, Quayle was more ani­ approval ratings have skyrocketed during his 1998 crisis, the numbers of the First Lady, Wayne Journal Gazette). "I've mated before a partisan Republican audience. had so many people tell me The Charleston Post and Courier reported Speaker Gingrich and Congress all rose. Americans seem to be saying they like the that my philosphies as a mod­ Quayle "raged against Bill Clinton" at a fundrais­ vibrant economy and dominance over Asian erate, fiscal conservative er Saturday night - prior to Willey on 60 upstarts (a far cry from the 1980s) and don't Demoaat are in tune with Minutes. He called the actions of White House want anything to mess it up. Cook believes that whatthe local Republican officials during the Paula Jones and Whitewater Americans have begun to realize how dramatic base is wanting," said Bailey, investigations "shamefol?' the impeachment of a president could be, rank­ who ran for the Fort Wayne "It is painful to read in the newspapers ing it with an national traumas of an assassina­ Gty Coundl as a Demoaat in the conduct that is going on in the Oval Office;' tion or wartime defeat. 1995 and lost.He might run Quayle said, adding that President Clinton and If and when that changes to disgust over again in 1999.Allen County his aides were "deliberately trying to hinder the actions of a President in the Oval Office with Demoaatic Chairman Brian independent counsel Kenneth Starr's investiga­ a series of women remains to be seen.