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kskiska

(27,045 posts)
Wed Oct 10, 2018, 04:58 PM Oct 2018

Kathleen Willey is begging for money on FR

I won't post her link, but here's an excerpt:

Thanks to all of you for your understanding and support through these turbulent years. Ever since I became involved in the Clinton impeachment 21 years ago (not of my doing, I was subpoenaed,) I have not been able to find meaningful employment. I "almost" got a lot of positions, but nothing ever came to fruition. Sitting across the desk from a recruiter and saying that your name is "Kathleen Willey" is not easy!

What money I did have simply disappeared on living expenses. I ran out and am now living on Social Security, which never lasts the entire month. I am "under water" and selling this house is not an option. I would be left with nothing.


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Kathleen Willey is begging for money on FR (Original Post) kskiska Oct 2018 OP
A fool and his/her money is soon parted. Too bad she was not nominated by Trump for SCOTUS Freethinker65 Oct 2018 #1
She is such a con artist. yardwork Oct 2018 #2
Post removed Post removed Oct 2018 #15
I disagree strongly. Nobody says we have to believe people without evidence. yardwork Oct 2018 #17
Really? forthemiddle Oct 2018 #19
I don't know what you heard. I heard different. yardwork Oct 2018 #21
Then we heard differently forthemiddle Oct 2018 #22
I never heard anybody say that it was up to Kavanaugh to prove it didn't happen. yardwork Oct 2018 #27
It is never up to the accused to prove something didn't happen. Shrike47 Oct 2018 #24
except it isn't clearcut mercuryblues Oct 2018 #23
I remember that. kskiska Oct 2018 #25
When even Linda Tripp won't corroborate.... yardwork Oct 2018 #29
Don't forget the other women she worked with who Hortensis Oct 2018 #38
As I said above, she's a con artist. And not a very skilled one. yardwork Oct 2018 #42
Yes. Reading her background's like wading in a sewer. Hortensis Oct 2018 #43
Good luck, Kathleen PJMcK Oct 2018 #3
Is that nice? gratuitous Oct 2018 #12
She's full of it. I bet 95% of Americans couldn't say who Kathleen Willey is. n/t pnwmom Oct 2018 #4
I definitely can. But I'm fucking old now. maxsolomon Oct 2018 #31
And you're more political than most people or you wouldn't be here. nt pnwmom Oct 2018 #32
At least she had the decency not to show up at the Trump debate maxsolomon Oct 2018 #34
She WAS at the debate. kskiska Oct 2018 #35
oh. my bad. maxsolomon Oct 2018 #41
they would have paid her if Hillary was in office JI7 Oct 2018 #47
Even Ken Starr didn't find her credible kskiska Oct 2018 #5
Boo Hoo Gothmog Oct 2018 #6
Womp womp. nt tblue37 Oct 2018 #39
She should ask... Mike Nelson Oct 2018 #7
Why doesn't she become a right wing radio host? Power 2 the People Oct 2018 #8
she managed to get not working for 21 years and only now is struggling? unblock Oct 2018 #9
Um just a guess here ... could it be you are just a loser? lpbk2713 Oct 2018 #10
Did she already spend that $9,000 from safeinOhio Oct 2018 #11
She should change her name. Nobody remember what she actually looks like anymore. NurseJackie Oct 2018 #13
I thought I was well versed on all things Clinton. WeekiWater Oct 2018 #14
Exactly. I bet most people forgot her name long ago. But she's still blaming the Clintons. n/t pnwmom Oct 2018 #33
A plus 50 strip club just opened around here. Might be a good opportunity. Nt jaysunb Oct 2018 #16
I legitimately believe she is mentally ill. Tommy_Carcetti Oct 2018 #18
Then there was her story kskiska Oct 2018 #26
Not credible. Some right wing think tank or the like treestar Oct 2018 #20
the Clintons need to be in office or running for office for her to get paid JI7 Oct 2018 #28
Womp whomp. MontanaMama Oct 2018 #30
What's FR? I assume it's something like GoFundMe.com???? nt LAS14 Oct 2018 #36
Free Republic--a right wing website. nt tblue37 Oct 2018 #40
Should stand for Fascist Republic. Turin_C3PO Oct 2018 #44
Thank Zeus for Democratic Social Security!1 UTUSN Oct 2018 #37
She nearly got a guy killed by Pat Buchanan's brother with an assist by Tweety dsc Oct 2018 #45
She's got a Go-Fund-Me kskiska Oct 2018 #46
Well, boo hoo. Righties aren't supposed to depend on Social Security or admit to need. Vinca Oct 2018 #48

Freethinker65

(10,023 posts)
1. A fool and his/her money is soon parted. Too bad she was not nominated by Trump for SCOTUS
Wed Oct 10, 2018, 05:03 PM
Oct 2018

Her debts would have magically disappeared.

Response to yardwork (Reply #2)

yardwork

(61,622 posts)
17. I disagree strongly. Nobody says we have to believe people without evidence.
Wed Oct 10, 2018, 06:07 PM
Oct 2018

That's right wing framing.

forthemiddle

(1,379 posts)
19. Really?
Wed Oct 10, 2018, 06:16 PM
Oct 2018

What BS.
I thought we heard that we believe survivors, and it was up to the accused to prove it didn’t happen.

And BTW, I believe Dr Ford.

yardwork

(61,622 posts)
21. I don't know what you heard. I heard different.
Wed Oct 10, 2018, 06:18 PM
Oct 2018

It's never up to the accused to prove an assault didn't happen. The law doesn't work that way.

By the way, both Dr. Ford and Deborah Ramirez gave the FBI the names of corroborating witnesses. The FBI didn't bother to contact them.

forthemiddle

(1,379 posts)
22. Then we heard differently
Wed Oct 10, 2018, 06:23 PM
Oct 2018

I heard over and over agin, it wasn’t a court of law but a job interview, so it was up to him to prove it didn’t happen.
Also I agree about the Ramirez case, but with Dr Ford, she named 3 people, and they were all interviewed.
The Ramirez case was an embarrassment to the FBI.

yardwork

(61,622 posts)
27. I never heard anybody say that it was up to Kavanaugh to prove it didn't happen.
Wed Oct 10, 2018, 06:51 PM
Oct 2018

Who said that?

Dr. Ford named considerably more than three people. Did the FBI interview the man she was dating that summer? Did they interview the man who was living where the July 1 party took place?

Shrike47

(6,913 posts)
24. It is never up to the accused to prove something didn't happen.
Wed Oct 10, 2018, 06:27 PM
Oct 2018

We evaluate the evidence. In the Kavanaugh matter, the Republicans refused to investigated corroborating evidence. There is a provision in the rules of legal procedure in my state, and many others, that says that if one side willfully suppresses evidence, it may be presumed the evidence would be adverse to them. In other words, you are hiding evidence because you know it would hurt you.

That is one reason to believe Dr. Blasey-Ford.

mercuryblues

(14,532 posts)
23. except it isn't clearcut
Wed Oct 10, 2018, 06:25 PM
Oct 2018

At the time, she told Linda Tripp. You remember her? Tripp testified that Willey seemed quite pleased and excited.


But what is already a confusing story by Willey is further muddied by a former close friend, Julie Hiatt Steele, who has testified that Willey asked her to lie in confirming that Willey told her about the alleged incident on the day it occurred, and by then-White House employee Linda R. Tripp. Tripp, who ran into Willey as she left the Oval Office that day, has contradicted Willey's account of what happened with Clinton in grand jury testimony and interviews with FBI investigators.


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/clinton/stories/willey110198.htm



kskiska

(27,045 posts)
25. I remember that.
Wed Oct 10, 2018, 06:41 PM
Oct 2018

Willey was excited about her upcoming meeting with Clinton and asked Linda her advice on what to wear to entice Clinton.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
38. Don't forget the other women she worked with who
Wed Oct 10, 2018, 08:39 PM
Oct 2018

testified that she was hoping to beguile Clinton into an affair and would wait in the halls when she heard he was coming through so he'd see her.

If she wants money, she should hit up the people who "befriended" her back then and persuaded her to accuse Clinton. So unfair to use and then dump her only because she couldn't keep her lies straight. But perhaps some of her other unsavory activities, all documented, have something to do with her current problems.

But in any case, most of those people are still around somewhere. Some may still work at Judicial Watch, but it would be very strange if Kellyanne Conway and her husband couldn't put her in touch with anyone who's still alive and would take her call, of course.

Interestingly, she may have crossed paths with Brett Kavanaugh when she was still trying to monetize fake scandal and he to manufacture it, but he wasn't impressed:

WaPo: Kavanaugh pressed his colleagues to drop references to a former White House aide, Kathleen Willey, who had accused Clinton of sexual assault but whose allegations had failed to gain traction. “Kathleen Willey hasn’t convicted squat,” Kavanaugh wrote, calling the proof in her case “he-said/she-said.” ... “Bottom line: We look unhinged to include Willey...”

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
43. Yes. Reading her background's like wading in a sewer.
Wed Oct 10, 2018, 09:21 PM
Oct 2018

She actually had a "scandal a day" website in 2015 where she yet again tried to make money making up lies about the Clintons. There was a huge market for them, but even with her notorious name on it she failed at that also.

maxsolomon

(33,345 posts)
31. I definitely can. But I'm fucking old now.
Wed Oct 10, 2018, 08:09 PM
Oct 2018

about 1/5 of America wasn't alive when Clinton was impeached.

kskiska

(27,045 posts)
5. Even Ken Starr didn't find her credible
Wed Oct 10, 2018, 05:08 PM
Oct 2018

Last edited Wed Oct 10, 2018, 07:09 PM - Edit history (1)

(or Broadderick, for that matter).

Mike Nelson

(9,956 posts)
7. She should ask...
Wed Oct 10, 2018, 05:13 PM
Oct 2018

… for more money from FOX and the Deplorable crowd... they have a lot of money. Was she at the Trump-Clinton press conference and debate? The pay should have been $10,000, at least. If one lives simply, SS and those bonus checks can get one by...

Power 2 the People

(2,437 posts)
8. Why doesn't she become a right wing radio host?
Wed Oct 10, 2018, 05:13 PM
Oct 2018

That's usually the career path for right-wing scoundrels. There's money in selling your soul.

lpbk2713

(42,757 posts)
10. Um just a guess here ... could it be you are just a loser?
Wed Oct 10, 2018, 05:21 PM
Oct 2018



I don't recall ever having heard the name Kathleen Willey before so don't
think all job recruiters are waiting for you to walk through their door.

NurseJackie

(42,862 posts)
13. She should change her name. Nobody remember what she actually looks like anymore.
Wed Oct 10, 2018, 05:26 PM
Oct 2018

She could start going by Kay or Kate or Elizabeth or Kathleen Matzuk.

 

WeekiWater

(3,259 posts)
14. I thought I was well versed on all things Clinton.
Wed Oct 10, 2018, 05:33 PM
Oct 2018

I had forgotten her name.

Wish her and all of the others out there living out their retirement on SS alone the best. Sounds like she might have some equity in her home. She might want to think about supporting the investors class and getting a reverse mortgage.

Tommy_Carcetti

(43,182 posts)
18. I legitimately believe she is mentally ill.
Wed Oct 10, 2018, 06:15 PM
Oct 2018

Between her weird fan girl letters she sent to Clinton and the bizarre claim that Clinton attacked her on same day her husband killed himself, I think she’s dealing with some substantial unresolved issues.

Part of me feels sorry for her, but she is in no way at all credible.

On the other hand I don’t feel the least bit sorry for Juanita Broaddrick. That is one absolute disgusting, vile person.

kskiska

(27,045 posts)
26. Then there was her story
Wed Oct 10, 2018, 06:45 PM
Oct 2018

that the Clintons were out to get her and even killed her cat. She suggested in an interview that after her name surfaced in the Paula Jones sexual harassment lawsuit against Bill Clinton, the Clintons arranged to have her kitty assassinated. She said she got an anonymous phone call taunting her about her missing cat and later discovered a cat skull on her porch.

JI7

(89,250 posts)
28. the Clintons need to be in office or running for office for her to get paid
Wed Oct 10, 2018, 06:54 PM
Oct 2018

now they have no use for her.

dsc

(52,162 posts)
45. She nearly got a guy killed by Pat Buchanan's brother with an assist by Tweety
Wed Oct 10, 2018, 09:34 PM
Oct 2018

She told a deranged story about being threatened by someone connected to the Clintons which Tweety breathlessly broadcast and Pat Buchanan's brother decided to kill this guy. Fortunately he didn't succeed.

Vinca

(50,273 posts)
48. Well, boo hoo. Righties aren't supposed to depend on Social Security or admit to need.
Thu Oct 11, 2018, 07:01 AM
Oct 2018

Write a book, sell cookies, open an ebay store. There's always something to do to turn a buck. Good luck begging on FR.

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