invoked it during bill clinton s impeachment proceedings 15 years ago. has it already been 15 years? as i come here with some sense of reluctance, the president and i have been close friends for 25 years. we even crashed a twin engine beech bonanza trying to get to the gillett coon supper, a political event that won at his own risk. and we crashed this plane on a snowy evening in a rural airport. off the runway, sailing out across the snow jumped out, j jumped up, and ran away unscathed. to the dismay of every politician in arkansas.
have to go to. eating raccoon or at least taking a bite of it is something that, you know, you kind of have to do when you go to the dinner. it dates back to the 1940s. is there another purpose for it? are they raising money? what kind of crowd does it usually attract? the dinner started out as a fund raidser for the gillett high school football team and it sort of evolved into keeping the football team afloat and then evolving into paying for uniforms and what not for the team. and then marion barry is a former member of congress took it over and made it more into a political type of event. it was something that obviously then governor bill clinton attended every year. as senator bumpers was talking on the floor of the senate the about the importance and the infamous plane landing that he was talking about. so it s something is if you are
back in 1987 then governor bill clinton showed up and commented on the main course. for those who have never had the opportunity to try coon, we asked some to tell us what it tastes like. it taste as little like squirrel except squirrel is a little tougher and more stringy. but if you can cross a squirrel with a chicken, that would be coon. it s sweeter than beef or pork. those were bill clinton s pre-vegan days. why just pryor and cotton? this was something we had to experience ourselves. not me. i only eat about five things and raccoon doesn t happen to be one of them. that would be too much saturated fat or something. i was able to talk a few people into going for us. perry bacon and anne thompson.
night. you have two big races. you mentioned earlier mark pryor against tom cotton, a sfat race and who controls the senate. the other big race down here is mike ross who if you remember was actually a congressman, a democratic congressman from arkansas now running for governor. he was actually bill clinton s driver back in the 80s. he s running against asa hutchinson, one of the impeachment managers. they are running hin a big race here. two hours south of little rock. everyone feels like they have to really attend even though ross and hutchison, it s only cotton and pryor who got to speak. not only is there a summer but there s a raccoon supper, there s a presupper event now, too. almost a day long event here in gillett, a town of 621 people. do they eat anything funny at the presupper where they have chipmunks or squirrels or
subpoena power included the bridge, not just port authority finances. all the republicans voted for it. i thought that was very interesti interesting. they could have said they ve said before this is political, we don t like this partisanship that has been shown through this investigation, but they voted to continue. yes, it was unified, not a party line. i want to put up a really interesting quote from the washington post. i think it was yesterday or the day before. but former governor tomorrow cain, one of the most respected in new jersey, his reputation is as chris christie s political godfather. on the one hand i think he has a lot to offer. i think he s the mobile able politician since bill clinton. on the other hand you look at the qualities and ask do you really want that in your president? and senator lesniak, you snow senator cain. you speak about the christie/cain relationship and someone like governor kaine