warring factions of the draft Hillary movement

Iowa Ruckus
The Draft-Hillary Camps Push Their Buttons, and Each Other's

By Mark Leibovich
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, November 17, 2003; Page C01

DES MOINES

How divided is the race for the Democratic presidential nomination? Even the Draft Hillary movements can't stand each other.

"We're avoiding him," says Adam Parkhomenko, the 18-year-old leader of VoteHillary.org in Arlington, talking about Bob Kunst, leader of Miami Beach-based HillaryNow.com.

"I'm avoiding him," says Kunst of Parkhomenko. "The kid is on a total ego trip."

Not true, says Parkhomenko. "We wouldn't be in this situation if the guy had just returned my e-mails. And when he finally did, all he wanted was for me to help him to sell bumper stickers."

"I'm way too busy for this nonsense," Kunst declares.

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Saturday's dinner is also a chance for the Draft Hillary movements to coalesce. But there's little coalescing going on between Parkhomenko and Kunst. They are selling their respective Hillary buttons and bumper stickers outside Veterans Memorial Auditorium. They are separated by about 50 feet but don't speak to each other. Only about each other.

"He's an 18-year-old kid," says Kunst, who is 61. "I don't trust him."

"Yeah, whatever," Parkhomenko says.

Both have been barred from the auditorium by the state party because they are not official representatives of officially declared campaigns. Both agree that their feud is unfortunate. It began last summer when Kunst failed to return Parkhomenko's e-mails and intensified in late September when, by Parkhomenko's accounting, Kunst "totally blew me off" outside a presidential debate in New York. Parkhomenko became increasingly suspicious that Kunst "had his own agenda," and Kunst became increasingly angry when Parkhomenko started giving media interviews about drafting Hillary.

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Sometimes I think this is really just about media keyboard peckers getting bored with the candidate field and like little spoiled, overindulged children they want new toys to play with when they get bored with their old ones.

If Hillary was drafted to run they'd kick her around for awhile and then there would be more media chatter about the "weak field" thus giving momentum to a Draft Gore movement. The same cycle would repeat itself again until there was a movement to draft someone else: Bill Richardson? Tom Vilsack? Russ Feingold? Enough already!

They WANT Hillary to run; they need something to energize the base...

he's a nut-case of the highest order.

:crazy: