New strategy for Hillary: talk, then attack
BY GLENN THRUSH
Newsday Washington Bureau

June 23, 2006, 9:47 PM EDT

WASHINGTON -- As Democrats spent the past week presenting two different Iraq withdrawal plans, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton has offered her party a Third Way out of the mess: Make a speech, then go attack the Republicans.

"I think we come out more united," said Clinton, who addressed the centrist New Democrat Network in Washington Friday.

"We're not blindly united like the other side is, where they are like the three monkeys, Hear No Evil, See No Evil, Speak no Evil. They're not going to say anything negative about the president, the vice president, the secretary of defense or anybody else."

A Hillary Defeat in Brooklyn
New York Times Empire Blog

Brooklyn City Councilman Bill de Blasio, a seasoned political operative, may be smarting today. He made an appearance before a local Democratic organization in his Brooklyn district on Thursday night to urge members to endorse his old boss, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton. (Mr. de Blasio managed Mrs. Clinton’s 2000 Senate campaign before running for a Council seat.)

But in a public rebuff, the group, the Central Brooklyn Independent Democrats, instead endorsed Jonathan Tasini, the antiwar activist who is in the process of collecting the signatures he needs to enter the Democratic primary against Mrs. Clinton.

New York Times Empire Blog

Hillary’s Challenge - to Tasini?

Jonathan Tasini, the antiwar activist running for the United States Senate in New York, has tirelessly traveled the state trying to collect the 15,000 signatures he needs to enter the Democratic primary against Hillary Rodham Clinton.

But he says he’d welcome it if the Clinton operation and its allies in the state Democratic Party employed a heavy-handed tactic that politicians frequently use to keep challengers off the ballot in New York: deploying armies of lawyers to question the validity of signatures.

Tasini wants 15,000 signatures, 0 troops in Iraq

By Lincoln Anderson and Jefferson Siegel
Villager

Senate candidate Jonathan Tasini kicked off his petitioning effort to gather signatures to get on the ballot at Union Square on Tuesday morning, where he was joined by antiwar activist Cindy Sheehan. Tasini has to collect 15,000 signatures in the next five weeks to qualify for the ballot in the Sept. 12 Democratic primary.

The incumbent, Hillary Clinton, is automatically on the ballot after she received the unanimous endorsement of the Democratic State Committee this week at their convention in Buffalo.

Dems pick Hil for Senate: But sure sounds like she's got her eyes on a bigger prize in acceptance speech

BY HELEN KENNEDY - DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
New York Daily News

BUFFALO - Sen. Hillary Clinton triumphantly accepted the unanimous renomination of her party yesterday with a video and speech that did absolutely nothing to slow speculation about a 2008 presidential bid.
If you didn't pay very close attention, you'd have thought she was already running for President - against George W. Bush.

She didn't even acknowledge having any Senate race opponents, but did a fair amount of Bush bashing and gleefully opened her campaign video with a shot of the President predicting she would lose in 2000.