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Mrs. Clinton Sought Donations Using List of White House Visitors
By CLIFFORD J. LEVY
The New Yourk Times
The Senate campaign of Hillary Rodham Clinton obtained 1,400
names from an official government list of visitors to the White
House and sent them solicitations for political contributions
last month. Mrs. Clinton's campaign acknowledged yesterday that
she had played a role in the transfer of the names, though the
campaign insisted that what happened was accidental.
The fund-raising solicitations were signed by President Clinton,
who wrote, "We Democrats better do everything in our power to
make sure that her voice is heard in the U.S. Senate."
A spokesman for Mrs. Clinton's campaign, Howard Wolfson, said
the transfer of the names occurred while Mrs. Clinton was
preparing for the annual White House holiday parties last
December. She was examining an official list of people who were
to receive invitations. At the same time, he said, she was
looking at lists of political supporters, in an effort to
organize fund- raising events for her campaign.
He said the official visitor list was inadvertently mixed in with
the political lists. "This happened once � it should not have
happened � and it will not happen again," he said.
The annual holiday events at the White House are customarily paid
for by the political party that controls the presidency. But the
invitation list is considered government property and it is
considered improper to use it for political purposes.
The disclosure that the campaign received the names comes as Mrs.
Clinton's Republican opponent, Representative Rick A. Lazio, has
repeatedly criticized her fund- raising practices. Mr. Lazio
has said that like her husband, Mrs. Clinton has rewarded
political contributors with invitations to stay in the Lincoln
Bedroom of the White House, and has also used other government
resources for inappropriate political purposes.
The transfer of the names recalls an inquiry in 1997 by
Congressional Republicans, who contended that the re-election
campaign of President Clinton and the Democratic National
Committee had used an extensive White House database of names for
fund-raising. The Democrats denied the charges.
Told yesterday of the transfer of the names to Mrs. Clinton's
campaign, the Lazio campaign stepped up its attacks on her
integrity.
"It's a shame, though it is not surprising, to find the White
House illegally helping Mrs. Clinton's campaign," said Dan
McLagan, a spokesman for the Lazio campaign. "Those lists, like
the Lincoln Bedroom, belong to the American taxpayers, and Mrs.
Clinton is treating them like her personal property."
Mr. Wolfson said Mrs. Clinton's campaign had not received any
other names from official White House lists. He said the
campaign had obtained the 1,400 names only because the official
list was not removed from the political lists before they were
returned to the campaign.
The official list was later entered into the campaign's
fund-raising rolls, he said. Of the 1,400 names transferred, 400
were of people who were not already on the rolls. From those 400
people, the campaign has received five donations totaling $225,
and is returning the money to the contributors, Mr. Wolfson
said.
Mr. Wolfson said more than 350,000 people received the
fund-raising letters signed by the president.
He said the 400 names had been purged from the campaign's lists.
Among the 400 were people with White House press credentials,
including journalists from ABC News and The New York Times.
In 1997, Congressional Republicans investigating what they termed
the fund-raising improprieties of President Clinton's 1996
campaign contended that administration officials had transferred
a White House database containing about 350,000 names to the
Democratic National Committee, where, the Republicans said, the
database was used for fund- raising. Government officials had
compiled the database to track visitors to the White House and
put together invitation lists for White House events.
The Clinton administration denied those accusations. But the
Republicans said memorandums they had obtained showed that Mrs.
Clinton and an adviser in her current campaign, Harold M.
Ickes, who was then deputy chief of staff, were involved in the
decisions about how to manage the database.
Mr. Wolfson, responding to the criticism from the Lazio
campaign, sought to link Mr. Lazio to Representative Dan Burton
of Indiana, a leader of the Republican inquiries into the
fund-raising by the president's campaign.
"Rick Lazio is sounding more and more like Dan Burton and the
Republican attack machine every day," Mr. Wolfson said. "New
Yorkers are tired of the politics of insults."
The three-page fund-raising letter signed by President Clinton
reflects his attempt to assist his wife's campaign while
remaining somewhat out of the spotlight. Mr. Wolfson said that
other than signing the letter, the president had no involvement
in the solicitation, and did not know about the transfer of the
names.
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