Buffalo News: Clinton gets 'A' for effort, but jobs promise unfulfilled

[Stephanie]

Does anyone know what she was hoping to do that would would have brought in 200,000 jobs?

http://www.buffalonews.com/editorial/20060319/1029706.asp

Clinton gets an 'A' for effort, but her jobs promise remains unfulfilled
By JERRY ZREMSKI
NEWS NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT
3/19/2006

WASHINGTON - In keeping with a campaign promise to boost the upstate economy, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton helped win millions of dollars for the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus, teamed upstate farmers with downstate restaurants and even enlisted British Prime Minister Tony Blair in her efforts.

But there's a big part of Clinton's promise she couldn't keep.

"Hillary has a serious plan to create 200,000 new jobs upstate," an announcer intoned in one of her 2000 campaign ads.

The latest federal figures, though, show that upstate New York shed another 34,800 jobs in the five years between the former first lady's arrival in the Senate and January 2006.

That fact leaves Clinton with some explaining to do as she runs for re-election, two years before a possible race for the presidency.

And she explains it by saying things could have been different if Democrat Al Gore had won the 2000 presidential election - and stayed the course her husband, former President Bill Clinton, had set.