From top to bottom: Campaigning in Grand Army Plaza in Brooklyn, at a Celebrate Brooklyn benefit concert, at the Dominican Day parade (2), campaigning in Harlem, at City-Sol, an environmental festival on the East River.

"After the loss of more than 1,000 Israeli and Lebanese lives, I’m hopeful that the current ceasefire will hold. Hezbollah must respect the ceasefire and adhere to its requirements and Israel must do the same."

So Hillary Clinton goes to the Hamptons this weekend and collects half a million dollars from people who oppose the war. What's wrong with this picture? One Clinton donor tells a reporter, "I really want to hear her explain why she voted for the war and why she hasn't changed her position" - this as he is driving up to a mansion in order to write her a $1000 check. Attention Joe Baldi: Please, call us!

Questions, cash flow for Clinton at fundraiser
BY GLENN THRUSH
Newsday Washington Bureau
August 13, 2006

The drinks were flowing and so were the $1,000 checks, but there was also an undertow of resentment over Hillary Rodham Clinton's support of the Iraq war at an East End fundraiser for the senator yesterday.

The New York Democrat's campaign said a Friday night dinner and three events yesterday were overbooked and overwhelmingly successful. But days after Ned Lamont toppled Joe Lieberman in Connecticut, some Clinton donors, many of them from the Manhattan arts community, faced her down over the war during a sometimes tense brunch yesterday morning in North Haven.

"I really want to hear her explain why she voted for the war and why she hasn't changed her position," said Joe Baldi, pulling up to the iron gates that led to the beachside mansion of Clinton supporter Lisa Perry.

When $45,000,0000 is not enough, head to the Hamptons! But even a $45 millionairesse owes the voters an opportunity to hear the candidates debate the issues. That's democracy, Senator. From Newsday:

Hillary in the Hamptons
Sen. Clinton arrives ready to raise funds in East End; curtails questions about debate before primary
August 12, 2006

U.S. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton kicked off her Long Island fundraising tour Friday with an announcement about federal funding to save the shorelines and sidestepped whether she'd debate primary challenger Jonathan Tasini.

Tasini, a critic of Clinton's support for the Iraq invasion, has demanded five debates with her before the Sept. 12 primary. Clinton was noncommittal when pressed on the matter Friday.

"Well, we'll just have to see how the campaign develops," Clinton said at Overlook Beach in Babylon town.

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Clinton has also resisted Tasini's attempts at getting her to debate him. In a letter to Sen. Clinton last week, Tasini suggested that one debate focus exclusively on the war in Iraq and the Middle East, and that another be held in Buffalo, a city that has lost manufacturing jobs, to discuss the state's economy.

Tasini, the former head of the National Writers Union, has raised about $100,000 from donors. Clinton had amassed $22 million before the Hamptons trip.

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August 11, 2006

An upstart candidate defeats an incumbent U.S. Senator. It happened in Connecticut, where Ned Lamont beat Joe Lieberman in that state's Democratic primary. And Lamont's victory is giving Jonathan Tasini some hope as he aims to take down Senator Hillary Clinton. NY1's Molly Kroon filed this report.

"I believe this war should never have happened," said Jonathan Tasini.

Hoping to ride the wave that took Ned Lamont to victory in a Connecticut primary, Sen. Hillary Clinton's little-known challenger tried to back her into Joe Lieberman's political corner Thursday.

“That vote in Connecticut had at its core a larger message: Something is amiss in our country, and pro-war, pro-corporate Democrats must be held accountable for their votes and their actions," said Tasini.