Christmas came early for Christine O’Donnell when she visited D.C. last week. “I kind of feel like Santa Claus,” she said with a laugh as Washingtonians lined up to get her to sign copies of her new book, “Troublemaker,” at Barnes & Noble Thursday night.
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The former Senate candidate gave a copy of the book to a rising college freshman who couldn’t afford to buy one herself. Her advice for this particular soon-to-be student? Go to every class and sit in the front.
“I did that the last week, and I was like, ‘Wow, I wish someone told me that at the beginning,’ ” she said.
After signing fans’ books, she commented on her latest controversy — leaving Piers Morgan’s show on Wednesday after he refused to drop a line of questioning she later described as “borderline creepy.”
“I don’t want to talk about sex,” she told reporters after the signing. “I’m not that 20-year-old anymore.” (Though she did receive a birthday cake earlier in the day that said she was only turning 21, not the 42 years that she’s actually celebrating later this month.)
Next on her agenda — speaking to the Los Angeles Women’s Theater Project. She said that the liberal group, of which her sister is a board member, supports her out of a sense of solidarity against media sexism. ” ‘She’s a woman in a male-dominated arena, and we’ve got to celebrate that,’ ” she said, explaining how the group feels about her.
– Contributed by Betsy Woodruff
