Hillary exploits the ghost of Ann Richards
–over sons’ objections
Well, she said last night she intends to do everything she can to win.
And that means using the ghost of Ann Richards in an Internet video to drum up women’s votes in Texas–over the objections of two of her children.
The two sons of Ann Richards, the late former Texas governor, are objecting to an Internet video published by Hillary Rodham Clinton’s presidential campaign that suggests their mother would have supported Clinton.
Clinton’s campaign had permission from Richards’ youngest daughter, Ellen, who said in a statement provided by the campaign that her mother was an “ardent feminist” who would be thrilled by her friend Hillary Clinton’s candidacy…
…But sons Dan and Clark Richards, partners at an Austin law firm, say nobody can know who the outspoken and opinionated former governor would have supported in the race between Clinton and Barack Obama.
“As her children, we never presumed to know her mind when alive and we are not prepared to make a claim as to who she would endorse or what she would do if she were still with us,” they wrote in an e-mail last week. “We are not granting permission for her name to be used in advertisements on behalf of either candidate.”
Comment by A woman of age on 27 February 2008:
I can hear Ann Richards now: “Poor Hillary, she was born with a silver foot in her mouth.”