Almost crossing the line between "quaint villager" and "celebrity stalker"

[Bucky]

Councillor who wanted to marry Clinton’s daughter
Godwin Kipkemoi Chepkurgor, a nominated councillor in Nakuru, says he has some social business with Clinton that started in 2000...

In 2000 when Chelsea, her father and mother, now Senator Hilary Rodham Clinton, visited East Africa, Chepkurgor, then a Fourth Year student at Moi University, tried to make his intention clear. He wrote to Clinton, offering himself as a suitor for Chelsea.

He offered to pay 20 head of beef cattle and 40 goats to the Clintons in accordance to African traditions...

But, instead of the positive response he was anticipating, Chepkurgor received visitors from the National Security Intelligence Service (NSIS). His letter had sent security chiefs in a spin... National Security Intelligence Service officers began background checks on him both at his Kisanana village in Mogotio and at the university. They interrogated his family, villagers, university colleagues and lecturers.

But as usual, you got to read down a ways to find the money quote.

Chepkurgor says he could not circumvent the security and diplomatic red tape to meet Clinton.

"I could not even meet Johnny Carson so I wrote the letter," he says.

Oh Chepkurgor, Chepkurgor, Chepkurgor. I hate to break this to you, but Johnny Carson is dead.

[xultar]

1. Did Carson die in 2000? I thought he died later...

[CanuckAmok]

2. 20 cattle and 40 goats? Sounds like a good deal.

They should have at least considered it, or better yer, let Chelsea decide. Chelsea seems pretty practical; I'm sure she would hsve accepted.

[Bucky]

3. That girl's at least a 90-goater. She's got a graduate degree, after all

And your attempts to undermine the institution of marriage will be reported to Homeland Security, sir!