Posted on 08/19/2014 6:49:07 AM PDT by ConservingFreedom
Hillary Clinton is going back to Iowa — her first visit to the crucial presidential battleground since her loss to Barack Obama there in 2008.
Clinton is scheduled to appear at Iowa Sen. Tom Harkin’s annual steak fry on Sept. 14, her office disclosed Monday — an announcement that intensified speculation she plans to run for President in 2016.
The 37th annual steak fry, a signature political event in Iowa, takes place 18 months before Iowa’s first-in-the-nation caucuses — a critical moment in the 2016 presidential campaign.
Clinton will be accompanied to the steak fry — the last before Harkin retires — by former President Bill Clinton, who is scheduled to speak along with his wife, his spokesman, Matt McKenna, said.
The visit will be Clinton’s most high-profile political move since she stepped down as secretary of state last year.
But her advisers said the planned appearance was in line with the work she plans to do over the next month to help Democrats in the 2014 midterm elections.
“She’s looking forward to campaigning for her Democratic friends and colleagues and to helping the effort to move America forward, including a stop to see her old friend and colleague Senator Harkin to help raise money for important races in Iowa,” spokesman Nick Merrill said. Former President Bill Clinton is scheduled to speak along with his wife at the steak fry.
Still, Ready for Hillary, a political action committee building a grassroots movement of support for a potential Clinton presidential bid, will also be on the ground in Iowa and playing a “major role” at the Harkin Steak Fry, a source said.
Over the next month, Clinton will also be fund-raising for the Democratic National Committee, the Democratic Governors Association, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee.
The former First Lady and U.S. senator has been touring the country this summer promoting her latest memoir, “Hard Choices.”
While speculation about her presidential ambitions is unrelenting, Clinton has said only that she is “thinking about” running in 2016.
Her daughter Chelsea is expecting her first baby in the fall — an event that could upset the grandmother-to-be’s Iowa plans.
That shot of Hillary in a mumu was not helpful publicity, in my opinion.
Your comment is a lot more polite than mine was. :-)
She getting paid for showing up?
Demand a mid sized Gulfstream?
Over a wood fire. If that isn't possible, use charcoal. If that isn't possible, use a broiler. If that isn't possible, eat it raw.
Is that a right of passage? Go see that commie SOB.
Interesting.
I used to broil steaks when I was young, in college.
Then my aunt asked why I would ruin a steak by broiling it.
Always pan fry is what she said.
Go figure.
Someone needs to snitch to the PETA and Vegans about Hillary’s bad behavior.....
Thanks.
A lot.
To be followed by the Al Franken Rib Boil-Off in September.
My Gandma always fried everything.
A nice dollop of good pure lard does wonders
There is nothing nice or good about Hillary. She's just pure lard. And she's a hopper car-load of it.
Will they get to touch her crown or just kiss her ring?.
I like chicken fried beef steak
Tom Harkin the phony Vietnam vet is as far left as they come. Pro-Castro, pro-Sandinista, pro-Hamas, etc.
If Hillary goes to his “farm” and asks for his support, her chameleonlike Teflon camouflage won’t hide the fact that she shares Harkin’s moonbat views.
The Flying Buttress is cleared to land in Iowa. How does Hillary like her steak? Snide suggestions are welcome.
;^)
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