Former President Clinton’s First Amendment rights had an unlikely champion yesterday — Republican Senate candidate John Spencer.

Spencer, reacting to a published report that Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton has veto power over what her husband can say in public, issued a tongue-in-cheek statement urging that Bill Clinton be allowed to speak freely.

"It is a shame that President Clinton is losing his First Amendment rights," said Spencer, the former mayor of Yonkers. "We think this is a big mistake. How else would we have known that President Clinton was working behind the scenes to support the Dubai port deal while Sen. Clinton was trying to block it?"

Spencer said the senator should "stop censoring her husband."

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