Tuesday, August 08, 2000
Lazio taps Cincinnati funds for campaign
Senatorial candidate says anti-Clinton race 'transcends' New York
By Howard Wilkinson
The Cincinnati Enquirer
Republican Senate candidate Rick Lazio came from New York to Cincinnati on Monday to draw from something his Democratic opponent, Hillary Rodham Clinton, has gone to twice already — the Queen City's well of campaign dollars.
“The race in New York transcends New York's boundaries,” the 42-year-old Long Island congressman told about 100 Cincinnatians gathered at the Queen City Club for the $1,000 per plate lunch. “That's why you're all here.”
Mrs. Clinton's fund-raising events at the Amberley Village home of Lauren Chesley Cohen raised about $150,000 for her campaign. The events were sponsored by Mrs. Cohen's father, Stan Chesley, and by Richard Lawrence, two trial lawyers who have raised millions for Democratic causes during the Clinton years.
Much of the money taken in at the Amberley Village fund-raisers came from out-of-state donors who sent checks or who came to Cincinnati for the events.
The Cincinnati money Mr. Lazio raised Monday — somewhere in the neighborhood of $50,000 to $75,000 — came directly from the contributor list of U.S. Rep. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, a close friend of the Long Island congressman.
“Rick hasn't raised as much money out of state as Hillary Clinton has, and he needed to catch up,” Mr. Portman said. “I wanted to do everything I could to help.”
As of June 30, Mrs. Clinton's New York Senate campaign had raised $97,615 from 102 individuals in Ohio.
Before Monday's fund-raiser, Mr. Lazio's campaign had taken in in only $24,000 from 34 individuals.
In a brief speech at the Queen City Club, Mr. Lazio made light of his running against an opponent in a New York Senate race who was raised in Illinois, spent most of her adult life in Arkansas and the last eight years in Washington, D.C.
Telling the crowd that this was his first visit to Cincinnati, the congressman said he felt “kind of like Hillary Clinton when she visits New York.”
“We are going to be outspent in this race, but we are going to work hard,” Mr. Lazio told the luncheon crowd made up largely of Cincinnati lawyers and business people. “We are on the verge of ending the Clinton era and all that that means.”
The New York Republican was also harshly critical of President Clinton for his veto of GOP legislation to reduce the so-called “marriage penalty” in the tax code.
“He took time out from the golf course at Martha's Vineyard just long enough to veto the marriage penalty bill,” Mr. Lazio said. “That's just how out of touch he is.”
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