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cynatnite Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-13-05 03:40 AM
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A counter Clinton library????
Edited on Sat Aug-13-05 03:41 AM by cynatnite
I didn't find out about it until I read it wasn't going to happen now. Seems as though the 'millions' of people who 'hate' the Clintons didn't come through on the needed money.

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LITTLE ROCK - A group that had hoped to build two museums to rebut the displays at the Clinton Presidential Library is folding.

"I'm giving up," said Houston businessman Richard Erickson, who established nonprofit Counterlibe Inc. last year to fund construction of a Counter Clinton Library in Little Rock and another in Washington.

"I was very passionate about this, but also very naive as far as fundraising procedures go," he wrote in an e-mail to The Associated Press.

He said the Counter Clinton Library's Web site would be shut down soon. In addition to railing against the former president and his wife, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., the site touts what may have been the failed organization's biggest moment — a segment on Comedy Central's "The Daily Show" in which a fake news reporter makes fun of the group's very mission.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050812/ap_on_re_us/counter_clinton



http://www.counterclintonlibrary.com/

The official site will be down soon. It's a riot!
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expatriot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-13-05 03:43 AM
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1. brought to you by the same people who cry treason when you criticize *.nt
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Zinfandel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-13-05 03:48 AM
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2. You think Richard Erickson is going to send back any of the donations...
What a pig!
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dbt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-13-05 03:58 AM
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3. The way I understand it, Erickson says the donations have been
"eaten up" in the fund-raising mechanism and middleman levels. This comes from the always-suspect, rabidly anti-Clinton RAG known as the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.

Bottom line: it doesn't look like any donors will get their money back. What WILL we tell the children? How do you explain SCAMS to a five-year-old?
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