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Carville Sets Sights On Starr

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WASHINGTON (AllPolitics, Nov. 25) -- The Ragin' Cajun is on the rampage again. This time, James Carville has his sights set on Whitewater independent counsel Kenneth Starr.

Carville, a top strategist for Bill Clinton in 1992 who now occasionally advises the president, says he will form a group, which he's dubbed the "Education and Information Project" that will tell the public about Starr's alleged lack of fitness for his job.

"I tried to do this the day that Kenneth Starr was appointed because I knew what a bitter partisan he was, how much he detested the president," Carville said Sunday on NBC's "Meet the Press."

"We're going to take out newspaper ads, we're going to raise money," Carville said. "It's going to be a full-fledged thing. We're going to start recruiting young people on campuses. We're going to bring the truth about Kenneth Starr to the American people."

Carville said his efforts were independent of the White House and, in fact, had been discouraged by administration officials. "I'm not in the permission-seeking business.... This appeasement strategy that they were engaged in when it comes to this partisan guy was the nuttiest thing I've ever seen."

Also appearing on "Meet the Press" was Carville's wife, GOP strategist Mary Matalin, who is rarely if ever shy about crossing swords with Carville. "I find it highly coincidental that there's no cooperation with the White House, that... [Democratic Party Chairman] Senator [Christopher] Dodd and, indeed, the president his own self, are charging Ken Starr unsubstantiated with obviously being out there to get President Clinton," she said. "There's no evidence of that.


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