The man behind Willie Horton ads has new target: Hillary Clinton
Sean Cockerham | McClatchy Newspapers
last updated: July 14, 2007 10:58:32 AM
TACOMA, Wash. — The presidential election season has begun. So Floyd Brown is out hunting Democrats.
Brown is among the nation's best-known conservative political knife throwers.
This is the fellow responsible for the "Willie Horton" television ad that helped derail the Michael Dukakis presidential campaign in 1988. Brown later wrote a book called "Slick Willie: Why America Cannot Trust Bill Clinton." He also created a 1-900 line in 1992 so callers could hear edited excerpts of telephone conversations between Clinton and Arkansas lounge singer Gennifer Flowers.
George H.W. Bush, the Republican president at the time, repudiated the Flowers phone line "as the kind of sleaze that diminishes the political process." Clinton press secretary Mike McCurry once accused Brown of being "personally responsible for some of the sleaziest politics this country has seen."
Now Brown and the national conservative group he founded, Citizens United, are working on "Hillary: The Movie" to come out this fall.
"This project aims to expose the truth about her conflicts in the past and her liberal plot for the future," Citizens United says on its Web site.
Citizens United is a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit that Brown founded in 1988. Brown is now chairman of the board, and his protege, David Bossie, runs the day-to-day operations of Citizens United as its president.
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