Hunting The Clintons: The True Story Behind Gennifer Flowers’ $500K Payday - by Joe Conason

[DonViejo]

September 25, 2016 2:56 am

After many years immured in political obscurity, the once-notorious Gennifer Flowers is now expected to attend the first presidential debate between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton — perhaps as the guest of the Republican nominee’s campaign. Exactly what the dirty tricksters working for Trump hoped to gain from announcing her appearance, which can only draw fresh attention to their candidate’s vulgarity (and his own adulteries) is not clear. But since they have conjured Flowers into the spotlight, it may be worth reviewing the real story behind Flowers’ notoriety, as Gene Lyons and I first did in The Hunting of the President (St. Martins Press, 2000) — from which the following excerpts are adapted:

The strangely spelled name of Gennifer Flowers first came to public attention during a press conference at the Arkansas state capitol on October 19, 1990, where a disgruntled former state employee named Larry Nichols announced the filing of a three-million-dollar libel lawsuit against then-Governor Bill Clinton. Nichols complained that he had been wrongly fired from his state job as a “scapegoat,” in order to conceal “the largest scandal ever perpetrated on the taxpayers of the state of Arkansas.”

The governor had misused state development funds for “improper purposes,” his lawsuit charged; appended was a list of five alleged Clinton mistresses upon whom those funds had supposedly been spent. Nichols planned to subpoena all of them to give depositions about their relationships with the governor, including Flowers, a 40 year-old cabaret singer originally from rural Brinkley, Arkansas, population 4,000 (which also happened to be the hometown of Sheffield Nelson, one of two Republican candidates hoping to run against Clinton that year; the other was Rep. Tommy Robinson, a former sheriff).

Flowers turned out to be the only one of the five whom Nichols knew personally. They had recorded advertising jingles together and still used the same booking agent. And there was one more interesting coincidence: In early October, about two weeks before Nichols’s press conference, Gennifer Flowers had called the governor’s office seeking help in finding a state job.

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[madaboutharry]

1. Gennifer Fowers is some piece of work.

Another pathalogical liar. It's hard to keep track.