Abstract

Klayman Watch

Did Larry Klayman, the conservative lawyer/provocateur who spent much of the 1990s suing Clinton-related targets via his Judicial Watch and accusing the Bill-and-Hillary crowd of vast corruptions, recently try to skirt campaign-finance law to obtain an illegal million-dollar boost for his back-of-the-pack US Senate campaign in Florida? Klayman started Judicial Watch in 1994 and became famous--in a cable TV sort of way--by filing what seemed like thousands of lawsuits against Clintonites. On September 23, Klayman left Judicial Watch, which issued a terse three-sentence statement that could be read as a sign that the parting had not been amicable. That day, Klayman announced he was running for the US Senate from Florida and that he intended to be Hillary Clinton's "worst nightmare" In the first three months of Klayman's campaign, he raised $610,555, mostly through direct-mail fundraising conducted by Viguerie's American Target Advertising, according to Federal Election Commission records.