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June 26, 2006

Clinton stumps for Whitehouse at URI

SOUTH KINGSTOWN -- Former President Bill Clinton urged a crowd of about 150 Democratic supporters this evening to work hard to get Sheldon Whitehouse elected to the U.S. Senate.

Clinton said that the Senate majority was in the Democrats' reach this November.

The $1,000 per person fundraiser at the University of Rhode Island's University Club netted about $150,000 for Whitehouse, who will face the winner of the Republican primary between the incumbent Lincoln Chafee and Cranston mayor Stephen Laffey.

Clinton is scheduled to deliver the keynote address for the World-Scholar Athlete Games at 7:30 p.m. at the Ryan Center on the URI campus.

-- With reports from Journal staff writer Scott MacKay.

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