Tuesday, March 09, 1999
Clinton returning to Tristate
Fund-raiser, 'economic event' on tap
BY PAUL BARTON
Enquirer Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON — President Clinton will make his third visit to Cincinnati within a year on March 25.
The White House announced Monday that the president will attend a fund-raising luncheon at the home of prominent trial attorney and Democratic activist Stanley M. Chesley.
The fund-raiser will be on behalf of the Democratic National Committee.
Before lunch, Mr. Clinton is scheduled to appear at what the White House is calling an “economic event” in Cincinnati, al though the details have not been released.
Meanwhile, Vice President Al Gore, the leading contender for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2000, is coming to the city April 19 for a fund-raiser of his own.
Mr. Chesley said the president's trip has been planned for seven to eight months and is not part of an effort to attack Rep. Steve Chabot, R-Cincinnati, one of the House prosecutors during the president's recent impeachment trial.
There was speculation shortly before the trial concluded last month that the president would try to help unseat several of the House prosecutors.
“He likes Cincinnati,” Mr. Chesley said. “I am very proud he wants to come to Cincinnati and my home.”
When asked what attracted him to the city, Mr. Chesley kidded, “He likes the food I serve.”
Mr. Chesley has raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for Democrats.
The president last appeared in Cincinnati on Sept. 17, just a week after the release of independent counsel Kenneth Starr's report detailing Mr. Clinton's sexual affair with Monica Lewinsky.
The president met with a crowd of largely friendly people in Over-the-Rhine and again attended a fund-raiser organized by Mr. Chesley, raising between $250,000 and $500,000 to help the Democratic Party in the 1998 elections.
Prior to that, he came for a fund-raiser at Mr. Chesley's house on March 10, 1998, raising close to $1 million.
The president also came to the Tristate on April 9, 1998, to meet with tobacco farmers in Carrollton, Ky. At the time, Congress was considering a tobacco settlement.
Before 1998, the president's only visit to Cincinnati was March 23, 1996, when he visited Xavier University to discuss the role of government and the private sector in adapting to the 21st century.
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