GOP Strategist Goes Anti-Hillary
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ALBANY – Conservative Republican strategist Arthur Finkelstein, a political guru to Governor Pataki, is starting an anti-Hillary Rodham Clinton “Stop Her Now” political action committee, a fellow GOP operative said yesterday.
A top Clinton adviser said the move was evidence Republicans plan “a negative campaign of lies and distortions” against the former first lady in her 2006 bid for re-election to the Senate.
The GOP operative, who is familiar with Mr. Finkelstein’s plans but spoke only on condition of anonymity, said the “Stop Her Now” offensive would be aimed at defeating Clinton in 2006 as a means of thwarting any move by her to run for the White House in 2008.
New York magazine, which first reported Mr. Finkelstein’s plans yesterday, said the Pataki adviser hoped to raise more than $10 million for the effort.
