In keeping with a campaign promise to boost the upstate economy, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton helped win millions of dollars for the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus, teamed upstate farmers with downstate restaurants and even enlisted British Prime Minister Tony Blair in her efforts.

But there’s a big part of Clinton’s promise she couldn’t keep.

"Hillary has a serious plan to create 200,000 new jobs upstate," an announcer intoned in one of her 2000 campaign ads.

The latest federal figures, though, show that upstate New York shed another 34,800 jobs in the five years between the former first lady’s arrival in the Senate and January 2006.

(Can anyone say High Taxes?)

That fact leaves Clinton with some explaining to do as she runs for re-election, two years before a possible race for the presidency.

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