On eve of debate, Gennifer Flowers says she'll auction tapes of President Clinton RAW STORY

Published: Tuesday February 26, 2008



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Print This Email This As if Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY) didn't have enough to worry about. Gennifer Flowers, who accused then-presidential candidate Bill Clinton of having a twelve-year relationship with her in 1992, announced Monday she is auctioning tapes of conversations she had with the former president. I dont need to hurt Hillary," a jilted Flowers announced in the Las Vegas Review Journal Tuesday. "She is doing a fine job of that herself, along with her idiot husband. Karma is an interesting thing. If these two dont get elected, and they are a team, it will be karma coming back to visit them. It's about time." Clinton admitted having sexual relations with Flowers, once, in his autobiography, My Life. Major media panned Flowers' timing, and the tapes' suspected content. Bemoans the Los Angeles Times: "One can only imagine what else is on those tapes about shopping lists, the stock market and the dry cleaners. Those preserved phone conversations all came before Monica and what's-her-name and the other one with the big hair." Flowers doesn't deny she's looking for money. She told the Journal she's "kept the tapes 'very safe all these years, and when I just recently received more interest, I said, 'Why not?'" Writing about the announcement, the Times' Andrew Malcolm opined that the market for such recordings may be ebbing, and questions why Flowers picked Monday, of all days, to float the announcement. "Somehow she says she detected renewed interest in the recordings recently and, thinking of her financial security, figured why not sell now?" Malcolm wrote. "Why not indeed? If Mrs. Clinton doesn't do very well in some states next week, the couple may not be around in the political news much anymore. And there goes the market for secretly-made telephone tapes." "I certainly would enjoy the money for my future security," Flowers remarked. "I don't have any guarantee what might be coming." Her publicist, Bruce Merrin, said she's 'exploring a new book with "explosive story additions to the Clinton affair.'"



