AP: Clinton Rival Calls Her 'Serious Threat' (to America's future)

Clinton Rival Calls Her 'Serious Threat'

By MARC HUMBERT, Associated Press Writer

Wednesday, October 4, 2006

(10-04) 14:09 PDT Albany, N.Y. (AP) --

Raising images of war and stressing his experience as a Vietnam veteran,
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's Republican challenger says in a new fundraising
letter that her "ruthless campaign to seize power is a serious threat to a
secure future for America."

The letter from former Yonkers Mayor John Spencer asks contributors to return
the enclosed "National Security Dispatch" to "Lt. John Spencer (USA-Vietnam)"
because "no battle is more important to America's future than stopping Hillary
Clinton."

The letter drew a sharp rebuke Wednesday from Clinton adviser Howard Wolfson,
who said that "in Mr. Spencer's bizarro world, declaring war on your political
opponent is normal."

Wolfson said the letter represented another departure from what Spencer had
vowed would be a "positive" campaign. In response, Spencer adviser Rob Ryan
said "once again the Clinton campaign throws mud."

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