Path: bloom-picayune.mit.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!americast.com!americast.com!americast-post Newsgroups: americast.twt.news From: americast-post@AmeriCast.Com Organization: American Cybercasting Approved: americast-post@AmeriCast.com Subject: Flowers: Clinton saved my state job Date: Fri, 30 Oct 92 15:33:28 EST Message-ID: \SE A;NATION \HD Flowers: Clinton saved my state job \BY Bill Gertz \CR THE WASHINGTON TIMES Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton interceded with an associate in the state government to make sure Gennifer Flowers kept her job, the professed former lover of the presidential nominee said yesterday. Miss Flowers, in a radio talk show interview broadcast yesterday, said she was unaware that Charlette Perry, a black employee of the Arkansas Board of Review, was passed over for the job that was given to her. A grievance board in June 1991 ruled in Miss Perry's favor, saying she was unfairly denied the position given to Miss Flowers. "I talked to Bill about it," Miss Flowers said of Mr. Clinton. "Don Barnes is the head of the agency and I said, 'Charlette has won this grievance,' and he said, 'Don't worry about it. Barnes will take care of it.' " Don K. Barnes, the political appointee who hired Miss Flowers, rejected the grievance committee ruling, thus keeping Miss Flowers in the position. Miss Flowers, who asserted in January that she had a sexual relationship with Mr. Clinton for 12 years, said she appealed to him for help in finding work to support her mother, who had been stricken with cancer. Miss Flowers' remarks yesterday were made in a telephone interview from Phoenix with Rush Limbaugh, the syndicated radio talk-show host. An aide to Mr. Clinton told her what to write on the job application so she would be assured of getting the job, Miss Flowers said. She was then hired. "I didn't feel good about Charlette Perry," Miss Flowers said. "I knew that strings has been pulled to get me the job. I didn't know of Charlette Perry until after I took the position." Mr. Clinton was kept "updated and posted" about problems with the job as an administrative assistant for the Appeals Tribunal of the Arkansas Employment Security Department, Miss Flowers said. She was paid $17,500 per year and was dismissed after she told her story publicly. "I was making every effort to communicate these things to him," she said. "He [Mr. Clinton] had asked me in particular to keep him updated on that situation." Miss Flowers also said she believed the Democratic Party has used its influence to suppress Miss Perry's story with many major American media. The current edition of Penthouse magazine published photographs of Miss Flowers and an article she said was "90 percent malicious, opportunistic gossip." Max Parker, a spokeswoman for the Clinton campaign, had no comment on Miss Flowers' radio remarks, which were broadcast on WMAL. This article is copyright 1992 The Washington Times. Redistribution to other sites is not permitted except by arrangement with American Cybercasting Corporation. For more information, send-email to usa@AmeriCast.COM