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...WOMAN SHOWS GO, UTAH CONGRESSWOMAN Enid Waldholtz's five-hour press conference last week will be hard to top. She borrowed heavily from past performers--Richard Nixon (my mother was "a saint"), Mayor Marion Barry (the "bitch set me up") and Senator Bob Packwood ("I was a binge drinker")--and fashioned her own revue. Her wealthy father, "the finest man I know," inconveniently remembers the $2 million that went to her 1994 campaign as a loan (there is a $1,000 limit), but that's because his memory is not so good. Anyone would have been fooled by Joe Waldholtz...
There was a theme in this pudding of words, however muddled: Look at me, poor Enid, fooled by Joe like so many others. Indeed, Joe scammed Enid and her father in the end (for $2 million more than went into her campaign), but that doesn't mean that she wasn't, in the beginning, a knowing beneficiary of the con artist--who knows an easy mark is someone with a smidgen of larceny in her heart. It was Enid who originally employed the "millionaire's loophole" in 1992, before she ever married Joe. Calling on a technique that figured prominently...
Waldholtz is clearly hoping that Enid as victimizer--she admitted she won with "tainted money," but she "can't give an election back" because it would deprive Utah residents of their voice--was pushed offstage by Enid the victim. (And by the way, she revealed, Joe has made some "questionable life-style choices'' that make him unfit to share custody of their daughter.) Certainly, she's in a fix, having to hire lawyers, perhaps pay more than $1 million in campaign fines, and support herself. She's been behind on the $3,800 monthly rent for her Georgetown home. Although...
Utah Representative Enid Greene Waldholtz held a five-hour press conference to explain the soap-opera saga that has sent her skyrocketing political career into the tailspin of a financial and marital scandal. A tearful Waldholtz claimed she was conned by her husband Joe, who she said improperly manipulated both their personal finances and her 1994 campaign funds. Waldholtz insisted she would not resign, though only 39% of surveyed Utah voters believed her version of events...
...OPRAH AWARD: Representative Enid Waldholtz said she trusted husband Joe with her money "because I was weary of always being the strong one." In return, she said, he stole a fortune, broke campaign laws and got her to sign a phony document while she was doped up on postpartum painkillers...