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CLOSERI JK Flint, Mich.
"I just think it's really unnecessary to give
her a hard time, really," said Suellen Fast, 40,
San Diego coordinator. "But you know, she
stands up under it really well."
But don't think club members are against
having fun. Fun was one reason Ruth and
Eugene Love of Silver Spring, Md., formed the
club in September 1992, well before the
Clintons moved into the White House.
"We just think Hillary is a very, very
special lady, and we wanted to show how we
felt and give some support to her ideas and
the things she was working on," said Ruth
Love, 70, a retired schoolteacher.
The first lady is pleased by the favorable
attention, said Neel Lattimore, a spokesman
for Clinton.
AP PHOTO
"I have a fan club is a very flattering
Lina Accurso works in her home
thing," he said. "Mrs. Clinton is a fan of
office/kitchen.
many, many people, and I'm sure she's
delighted that maybe she has some fans out
Fan club formed
there going through the effort of forming a
group or a club."
After getting an OK from the Clinton
campaign, the Loves announced their idea at a
for first lady
meeting of Montgomery County's Democratic
club. They soon sold $400 worth of red-and-
white "Hillary Clinton Fan Club" buttons.
is 4,000 strong
The several hundred dollars raised from $1
membership contributions was donated to the
Clinton-Gore campaign and the Democratic
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Party, said Eugene Love, 80.
"We don't keep anything for ourselves. It
ashington Better think twice
all goes in contributions to Democratic
W
before making that next joke
candidates or causes," he said.
ab Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Membership went nationwide after the
The person you're talking to could
Loves bmitted an article about the club to
be a member of the Hillary Rodham Clinton
the Hibary Clinton Quarterly, a magazine
Fan Club.
published by Frank Marafiote in Concord,
The club has 4,000 members, and its
N.H.
numbers are growing. Quite a few don't care
The club now has nine chapters, as far
for all the snide remarks about their hero, the
away as Osaka, Japan, and Graz, Austria.
first lady.
Membership has increased to $3.
"I give her all the credit in the world, and I
Fans across the country said they have a
get very angry when somebody tries to make
number of activities planned.
her into some sort of stereotype Amazon
Janet Pokrinchak, 51, coordinator of the
woman with a whip," said Lina Accurso, 41,
15-member Sarasota, Fla., chapter, plans a
coordinator of the Port Chester, N.Y., chapter.
Hillary Clinton look-alike contest at a local
"She is just a woman who's going ahead and
mall.
trying to make it easier for the rest of us."
To reach the club, write to the Hillary Rodham Clinton
Accurso and other members are mystified
Fan Club, co Ruth and Eugene Love, 15115 Interlachen
by the ridicule, scorn and wisecracks -
Dr., Apt 314, Silver Spring, Md. 20906.
particularly the mocking speculation about
the Clinton marriage and about which Clinton
really is running the White House.
These fans ask: What kind of people would
disparage a woman who's revolutionized the
role of first lady and achieved so much as a
mother and a career woman?
"They're jealous," said Rubye Jo Henson,
82, coordinator of the McLoud, Okla., chapter.
"The men are jealous because they don't want.
a woman to be as smart as they are. And the
women are almost the same way. They envy
her."
Miami, OKlahoma
First lady
fan club
Miami News Record
forms
2-14-97
Miami News Record
2/14/94
WASHINGTON (AP)
Better think twice before mak-
ing that next joke about Hill-
ary RodHam Clinton. The per-
son you' talking to could be
a member of the Hillary
Rodham Clinton Fan Club.
The club has about 4,000
members, and its numbers are
growing. Quite a few don' care
for all the snide remarks about
their hero, the first lady.
"I give her all the credit in
the world, and I get very angry
when somebody tries to make
her into some sort of stereo-
type Amazon woman with a
whip," said Lina Accurso, 41,
These fans ask: What kind
coordinator of the Port Ches-
of people would disparage a
ter, N.Y., chapter. She is Just
woman who's revolutionized
a woman who going ahead
the role of first lady and
and trying to make It easier for
achieved so much as a mother
the rest of us."
and a career woman?
Accurso and other members
"They'r jealous," said
are mystified by the ridicule,
Rubye Jo Henson; 82, coordi-
scorn and wisecracks par-
nator of the McLoud, Okla.,
ticularly the mocking specula-
chapter. "The men are jealous
tion about the Clinton mar-
because they don't want a
riage and about which Clinton
woman to be as smart as they
really is running the White
are. And the women are almost
House.
the same way, They envy her.''
"I just think it's really un-
necessary to give her a hard
time, really," said Suellen Fast,
40, San Diego coordinator.
"But you know, she stands up
under it really well."
But don't think club mem-
bers are against having fun.
Fun was one reason Ruth and
Eugene Love of Silver Spring,
Md., formed the club in Sep-
tember 1992; well before the
Clintons moved into the White
House.
6A
THE DENVER POST
First lady, it seems, IS tops WI
By Lane Kelley
Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel
Mail pours in af er Hillary-bashing led
DEERFIELD BEACH, Fla: - Ruth
Love loves the first lady, at least as a
their one-time fee of $3, members get a
nated the money to the Clinton campaign.
fan.
turquoise-and-white button, plus whatev-
Money collected since has covered the
continue
Love, 70, who lives in Deerfield Beach
er good feelings they get from lending
cost of mailings and buttons, they said,
in winter and in Silver Spring, Md., for
moral support to the first lady
"The only person who gets paid is the
on
the rest of the year, started the Hillary
There is even a chapter of the Hillary
guy who makes the buttons," Eugene
Rodham Clinton Fan Club during the
fan club in Osaka, Japan.
said. "We're not in this for the money."
next
1992 presidential campaign.
"She's doing etter in Japan than the
When the Loyes come to Florida for
She got the idea for the club when two
president is," said Eugene Love, 80, who
the winter, they take a break from many
Republican candidates - Pat Buchanan
helps his wife with the club's mail.
page
of their club duties.
and Pat Robertson began to attack the
Word about the club has been spread
But when they return to their home in
lawyer from Arkansas as an enemy of
by network news broadcasts and articles
the Washington suburb of Silver Spring,
family values.
by various wire services.
they pick up their club responsibilities
"I thought she was really being bashed
It's got us swamped,' Eugene said.
and ride the subway into Washington
a lot when she didn't deserve it," Love
"This Mom-and-Pop operation is about to
once a week to help answer the Clintons'
said.
break down."
fan mail in the old Executive Office
Others apparently agreed. The fan club
The Loves who are retired, collected
building.
now has 4,000 members, she said. For
$5,000 fror
aberships in 1992 and do-
"They' re very good about it,". said
Brown vot.
Denver Post
SA
Wednesday, February 23, 1994
Ads targeted women;
th many world lwide
more Is
Percentage of non smoking
S
16-year-old girl who began
smoking each year
an, 70, to start club
two terms with Bill Clinton and an addi
tional eight years with Hillary A total of
riel Alper, a staff assistant to the first
16 years could possibly undo the misery
new
Virginia Slims, Silva Thins
that the last 12 have managed to do
cancer
and Eve cigarettes
lady.
sity of
introduced around
Etsuko Sasai, head of the Hillary club
Both Loves are lifelong Democrats,
in Japan, wrote to say, Former first
Cancer
1967; sales
10.7%
though they admired Barbara Bush and
Betty Ford.
ladies seemed to be two steps behind the
e effect
peaked
in 1976
president. Hillary is, to me, one step
D.
Eugene got his first government job
ahead of President Clinton.
irch for
during Herbert Hoover's administration
Maybe in spirit, but not in mail vol
ed next
and, during the New Deal years, became
the car-
ume.
6.8%
a strong fan of Franklin Roosev wife.
caused
The president gets about 50,000 letters
"I thought that Eleanor Roosev was
a week, and the first lady, 7,000 a week
smoking
4.5%
Mrs. God," he said.
Alper said.
Hillary Clinton seems to be attracting
For more information on the Hillary
study of
a similar following, among both her
Rodham Clinton Fan Club, write to Ruth
nger ev-
1940 60 70 800.90
American and non-American fans.
national
and Eugene Love, Century Village East
period.
SOURCE: University of California San
Bonnie Brunet of Camden, Maine,
Lyndhurs
Iding, Building J; Apt. 3041
Deerfiel
ore than
Diego Cancer Center study, reported In
joined the Hillary club, writing to tell the
h, Fla. 33442; or call (305)
Journal of American Medical As
ken
Loves that she expects the country to get
421-8813.
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