NYPost

I'D HAVE SHOT HIM DEAD - HILL BRO

By ADAM MILLER and TRACY CONNOR

August 23, 2001 -- Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's brother says he wishes he'd been packing heat when he was attacked by a jealous neighbor who caught him getting hot and heavy with his girlfriend.

"I wish I had a gun when he broke into my house, because I would have killed him," Tony Rodham flippantly told The Post yesterday at his summer cottage in Lake Winola, Pa.

"I would have been in my legal right to shoot him because he broke into my house. That would have been good, because the story would have been over in one day."

Rodham, whose sister is an ardent gun-control advocate, then invoked the name of the National Rifle Association's most famous board member.

"If I had shot him," he said, "Charlton Heston would have given me a medal."

Heston and the NRA had no response to Rodham's tough-guy remarks, and Sen. Clinton was traveling and couldn't be reached for comment.

Rodham was knocked around over the weekend by factory worker Daniel Coyne, who told cops he flipped out when he found his fiancee, Kellie Quick, "having sex" with the senator's sibling.

Rodham, 47, claims Quick, 36, is just a good friend and they were only lying on the couch when her suspicious "punk" boyfriend clambered onto the porch, barged in and started kicking him.

Coyne, 45, was charged with burglary, trespassing and assault after the Sunday morning fisticuffs. He faces up to 22 years in prison if convicted.

Quick, 36, took out an order of protection against Coyne on Tuesday, describing how he had broken into the Rodham family cottage, thrown her onto the floor, assaulted her "neighbor," and threatened both of them.

In the order, the petite mother of two said Coyne, a paper-mill shop steward and former Army intelligence man, owns licensed weapons.

Coyne, who has been hiding out at a motel, zipped through the sleepy vacation hamlet in his silver four-wheel drive yesterday morning, with the Wyoming County sheriff close behind.

The cops followed him up the driveway to his house, about a mile from the Rodham residence, and he agreed to return with them to the sheriff's office.

Sheriff Richard Montross didn't return calls, and Coyne's newly hired lawyer was also mum.

Wyoming County District Attorney George Skumanick meanwhile said the circumstances under which Coyne went berserk would not be a mitigating factor in the case.

"You just can't go busting into someone's house and kicking and beating them," he said. "There are other ways to handle that situation."

-- Anonymous, August 23, 2001

Answers

what? the guy can't protect himself without a gun? Evidently not since he was 'kicked' and 'knocked around.'

What a wimp!

LOL

-- Anonymous, August 23, 2001

BF, it's hard to fight back with your pants round your ankles. . .

-- Anonymous, August 23, 2001

Hilary must be so proud of her bloodlines! ;^)

-- Anonymous, August 23, 2001

So how comw she didn't become grossly fat and beat up her spouse for dallying? Life is unfair!!! Ha--maybe she's a late developer!

-- Anonymous, August 23, 2001