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In reply to the discussion: Martin O'Malley Packs the House in Iowa [View all]Divernan
(15,480 posts)33. Real locals-not HRC's campaign staffers bussed in 4 Potemkin meet&greets
Clinton's campaign staff DROVE 'ordinary' Iowans to Hillary's first campaign stop - including health care 'lobbyist in training' who was an Obama campaign intern and Biden chauffeur
Austin Bird sat for coffee on Tuesday morning in the town of LeClaire, Iowa, chatting with Hillary Clinton as photographers snapped pictures
News reports called him a 'student' and her campaign called it an unscripted event
But Clinton's Iowa political director Troy Price drove Bird and two other people to the coffee house
Bird is a hospital government relations official who interned with Barack Obama's 2012 presidential campaign
The Iowa Democratic Party, which Price ran until a month ago, tasked him to be Joe Biden's driver during an October Senate campaign trip in Davenport
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3040482/Campaign-staff-DROVE-ordinary-Iowans-Hillary-s-campaign-stop-including-health-care-lobbyist-training-Obama-campaign-intern-Biden-chauffeur.html#ixzz3cob6lA9b
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Yes folks, it takes a Potemkin Village to stage a HRC listening tour!
http://twitchy.com/2015/04/16/potemkin-table-meet-the-every-day-iowans-hillary-clinton-sat-down-with-totally-at-random-photo/
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My intent was not to attack the thread, and if that is how it is/was perceived
guillaumeb
Jun 2015
#13
I think that both Sanders and O'Malley can represent a refreshing alternative
guillaumeb
Jun 2015
#19