Kathleen Willey, Come on Down

VIDEO: Hannity Pimps Willey, Part I VIDEO: Hannity Pimps Willey, Part II

That didn’t take long at all. No sooner had former President Bill Clinton talked
about possible swiftboating of Hillary, you had Sean Hannity serving up a primetime spot for Kathleen Willey last night. The woman seems to have been left in bad shape after her husband’s suicide, which she now
has whipped up into a tell-all book that blames the Clintons for, well, everything. Just in time for the ’08 primary season. What a coincidence.

Willey flashback
from 1998:

… .. When the real estate market crashed at the end of the 1980s, Ed Willey apparently kept up the illusion of wealth by concocting various real estate pyramid schemes. Reality eventually caught up with the Willeys, though. In 1993, his Vail home already confiscated by the IRS, Ed Willey was caught embezzling $255,000 from Josephine Abbott and Anthony Lanasa, a brother and sister who’d hired him for a condo deal. They threatened to file a complaint with the Virginia Bar Association. So Kathleen and Ed Willey both signed a contract promising to pay back the $255,000 Ed had stolen from his clients, plus 6 percent annual interest. It was this crisis that brought Kathleen Willey to the Oval Office that afternoon in November 1993, and it was this crisis that precipitated Ed Willey’s suicide the same day. But those two Virginia Supreme Court rulings, Abbott vs. Willey and Lanasa vs. Willey, tell an additional story. It turns out that after Ed Willey’s suicide, Kathleen abruptly decided not to repay the debt, even though Ed had left her the beneficiary of some $350,000 in life insurance. At the same time, as the Richmond Times Dispatch has reported, Willey started calling Abbott’s and Lanasa’s lawyer in the middle of the night, blaming him for her husband’s suicide. So frequent were the calls that a judge finally issued a warrant for Kathleen’s arrest on a harassment charge, though no arrest was ever made. … ..

More details recounting
Willey’s credibility from the DailyHowler (circa 2003), which you can read
for yourself.

So if you want to talk about real swiftboating, Kathleen Willey’s tell-all trash is it. Hillary haters will be the first in line.

But I’m just wondering if any of Ms. Willey’s letters to Bill are included in the book. Somehow I doubt it.

Following is the text of letters from Kathleen E. Willey to President Clinton or his secretary – and one from the president to Willey. All but the first note date from after the November 29, 1993, meeting during which Willey says Clinton groped her. The White House released the letters on March 16 in an effort to bolster the president’s insistence that his contacts with Willey were above board. Dear Mr. President, What a wonderful week you have had! Congratulations on all of your well deserved success. I would very much like to have a few minutes of your time to discuss something of importance to me. I will wait to hear from you – Fondly, Kathleen NH I’ll see her next week B. Letter of October 18, 1994 Dear Mr. President, Thank you so much for taking the time to meet with me. Since I’ve seen you, I have had the opportunity to talk with Mel French, Harlan Lee, the assistant chief of protocol, and Craig Smith. I hope to meet with Leon Panetta next. As I said to you, I have invested almost three years with your campaign and administration and am not very willing to depart yet. I would like to be considered for an ambassadorship or a position in an embassy overseas. I now find myself with no encumbrances, with Shannon away at medical school and Patrick in college in North Carolina. I feel confident that I would represent you and our country well if given the opportunity and hope you will consider my request. Please accept my best wishes for your historic trip to the Mideast next week – I don’t need to remind you of my willingness to help you in any way that I can. Fondly, Kathleen Letter of November 11, 1994 Dear Mr. President – You have been on my mind so often this week – There are so very many people who believe in you and what you are trying to do for our country – Take heart in knowing that your number one fan thanks you every day for your help in saving her wonderful state. With appreciation Kathleen Letter of December 15, 1994 Dear Mr. President – I came up for the day to visit all of my White House friends and was hoping to be able to visit with you for a few minutes – I’m leaving on Monday to spend Christmas with Debbie & Tom Seibert in Stockholm – isn’t it wonderful of them to include me in their first Christmas in Sweden? I can hardly contain myself – I’m so excited. I hope you have a good and restful Christmas – good luck with your speech tonight – I know that you will do well – I hope I get back to Richmond in time to see it – Have a good holiday, The White House looks magical – Fondly, Kathleen

There are more where those came from. All these years later I still don’t understand why you’d send letters to a man who allegedly “groped” you, that is unless you liked it. “Fondly” isn’t a way you sign something if you’re ticked off. All these years later she’s miffed and decides to come out with a book. Everybody needs to earn a living, but it shouldn’t be through desperate writings of a vindictive loon.