Clinton rallies faithful
2006-10-20
Source: Baltimore Sun
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rss feedFormer President Bill Clinton, long a top fundraiser for the Democratic Party, lent his burgeoning post-White House celebrity status to Maryland's most high-profile races yesterday, dropping by Baltimore as part of a larger effort to rally the party's core voters and raise last-minute cash.
Clinton, who has traveled to Boston, Portland, Maine, and Providence, R.I., this week alone - and who headlined a fundraiser in Virginia yesterday after leaving Maryland - came to stump and raise money for Baltimore Mayor Martin O'Malley's gubernatorial bid and Rep. Benjamin L. Cardin's race for the U.S. Senate. Both candidates face significant Republican opposition.
The visit, three weeks before the Nov. 7 election, followed at least 15 political events Clinton has attended this month, according to the Clinton Foundation. The 42nd president has a host of fundraisers and rallies planned in 12 states between now and the election - including in Florida, California and Illinois - as Democrats work to take back control of Congress.
Yesterday's rally gave Clinton a forum to criticize President Bush and defend his own administration's record against recent attacks. It also gave him a chance to burnish his image, at least among Democrats, as a central force in American politics five years after he left Washington facing the possibility of a spotty legacy that includes impeachment.
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