Posted on 04/18/2015 10:15:44 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
In the first week of her presidential campaign, Hillary Clinton and her team sought to have a "grassroots" effort with a road trip to Iowa, where she focused on small, intimate roundtables with voters.
But it takes extensive planning and cloak-and-dagger maneuvering to stage simple events for a former first lady and Democratic front-runner, who has a Secret Service detail and media circus following her every move.
Clinton started the final day of her first campaign trail trip on Thursday by having coffee with a group of five local leaders in Council Bluffs, Iowa.
Business Insider spoke with most of the attendees, and they explained the high level of secrecy that surrounded the event one of them dubbed "the thrill of a lifetime." There were warnings about leaks, drives to undisclosed locations, and a campaign staffer who confiscated the guests' cellphones ahead of the sitdown.
For Pottawattamie County Democratic Party Chairwoman Linda Nelson, her meeting with Clinton began "a couple weeks ago" with a phone call from Troy Price, a veteran Iowa operative who's working on the campaign. Nelson said Price asked her to join him and Matt Paul, another Iowa-based Clinton campaign staffer, for breakfast on Thursday.
According to Nelson, she and Price have met before when he was in Council Bluffs, so she didn't think the plan was unusual. However, after Clinton launched her campaign last Sunday and word got out that the candidate would be in the area, Nelson began to suspect this meeting with Price might have a special guest.
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Wow. Hillary meeting the people? She’s only meeting prescreened Democrat activists. What the heck???
What an absolute flake.
Stephen King's toxic politician in The Dead Zone was a creampuff in comparison.
And yes, I know King is undoubtedly a Hillary supporter.
It’s just cuawffee. And the Secret Service. And a pushy people with cameras and microphones. And two weeks of advance planning. And background checks.
Just folks. No big woop.
Did they only have to surrender their "official" cell phones, or did they get to keep their "personal" cell phones.
1.) Don’t look at her or you’ll turn to stone.
It's the Faustian bargain one has to sign with Satan's daughter.
Meaning she can't draw a crowd.
And it INSURES her that there will be NO QUESTIONS!!!!
(Oh wait,...)
“Business Insider spoke with most of the attendees, and they explained the high level of secrecy that surrounded
the event one of them dubbed “the thrill of a lifetime.”
I don’t by any means believe that my life is the stuff of legend or would make a blockbuster movie but if I EVER reach the point that I would describe a meeting with Hitlery as “the thrill of a lifetime” I hope I drop dead on the spot.
She had coffee with plants... I'm not sure, but I think they were a ficus, rubber tree... and I think a coleus. Can't fool me... the pictures floating around were plain as day.
The only authentic thing Hillary has done in her life was taking that lamp/book (whatever) to Billy Jeff’s head in the White House bedroom after MonicaGate came to light.
WArning - get barf bag first
Maybe one of these:
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