How cheap is Hillary Clinton’s campaign? This cheap.

[brooklynite]

|Washington Post

NEW YORK -- John Podesta -- counselor and enforcer to two presidents, longtime Democratic sage and now the chairman of Hillary Rodham Clinton’s presidential campaign -- stood in line on a Manhattan street corner the other day, waiting to board a bus.

...snip...

Like fellow passengers, who included thrifty senior citizens and college girls in sorority T-shirts, Podesta was paying just $30 to travel to Washington aboard a Vamoose bus. That’s about a third of the cost of the cheapest Amtrak ticket and less than the taxes on a coach seat on a shuttle flight -- and that's the reason the Clinton campaign has decreed that staffers must schlep on the bus.

“It’s become solidarity to take it,” said Podesta, who agreed to let a Washington Post reporter and photographer accompany him on his subway-and-bus commute from New York to Washington last week.

There is plenty of eye-rolling among the staff, nonetheless. Campaign staffers are also using their personal cellphones for work -- no land lines or campaign-issued models -- to save a few bucks.

[cali]

1. as the article says, this is as much about theatre as it is about being thrifty

[KittyWampus]

3. have you ever been involved in theater? There's a sense of common cause

amongst the crew members. Which is important.

[B2G]

5. Is Hillary taking the bus?

No?

[KittyWampus]

19. only if she has exact change

[JoePhilly]

18. You'd be complaining no matter what form of transportation these folks took

Too expensive ... more proof she' hates the common man!!!

Not expensive ... its theater!!!

No matter what happens, there will be much complaining.

[TreasonousBastard]

2. Kinda makes sense this early in the game...

but watch them find Citations to get around in when it gets closer to The Day.

[snooper2]

10. Hill-a-copter

LOL

[Segami]

17. LOL!

Of course, she's flying coach.......

[Agnosticsherbet]

4. I think it is a good thing when people at the level rub shoulders

with normal, middle class Americans.

Spending money on bus tickets and at mom and pop restaurants is good for the economy.

[MineralMan]

6. Sounds great to me, really.

I like it. John Podesta could afford to travel otherwise, but why bother?

I think it's a good move, really. A chance to listen to a different group of people, too.

[NCTraveler]

7. Wise, not cheap.

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It presents an excellent image. Hillary and Podesta understand the importance of image alone. It can't be understated. This also has to help in building the campaign from the ground. People really love this type of stuff. Podesta is such an interesting and accomplished person. When people know who they rode with they will feel some form of attachment and possible even read about him and his connections. Every rider that feels that then tells a couple of friends the story. These things build support in an exponential manner.

[snooper2]

8. Aw, why didn't you link to this article? In 2008, Clinton couldn’t buy Iowans’ love.

So she bought them snow shovels.

(this article is referenced from the one in the OP)








AMES, Iowa — In Phyllis Peters’s garage, there is a snow shovel. A nice one: green, shiny, with an ergonomic steel handle. It came from Hillary Rodham Clinton.

snip--

Last time around, Clinton tried to win over Iowans with bloodless logic, touting her résumé and her grinding work ethic. When that fell short, Clinton’s well-funded campaign — unable to buy her love — started buying everything else.

An expensive chartered “Hill-a-copter.” A $95,000 order of deli sandwiches. And 600-odd new snow shovels, some of which still sit, unused, in basements and garages across Iowa.

The idea behind them seemed to be that Clinton’s own voters might be so old, or so un-enthused, that they wouldn’t leave the house if it snowed. And that Clinton’s own Iowa volunteers — if sent on a voter-rescue mission — might not be prepared for .?.?. winter. In Iowa.



http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/in-2008-clinton-couldnt-buy-iowans-love-so-she-bought-them-snow-shovels/2015/06/06/742be0e0-07a6-11e5-95fd-d580f1c5d44e_story.html?postshare=7761433769712552

[LanternWaste]

12. I'd guess because it's both dated and irrelevant in the here and now...

"why didn't you link to this article?""

I'd guess because it's both dated and irrelevant in the here and now, but you illustrate a great point-- any positive move each candidate makes will be countered with dated and petulant irrelevancies until the campaigns are over. More often than not, by those who hold two standards-- one for the candidate they support, and a higher standard for all other candidates.

Good luck with the smilies, though... they work better than literacy for many people.

[snooper2]

13. The article I linked to is three days old- 2015/06/06

FYI-


You don't like smilies!

They are GREAT!

[Wilms]

9. Good idea.

That's means having to raise less from questionable sources.

[DesMoinesDem]

11. Please. This has nothing at all to do with saving money.

[Fumesucker]

14. Chairman Podesta continued his remarks by saying HRC will now be staying at Motel 6 exclusively

Tom Bodett is leaving the light on for Hillary.

[KittyWampus]

20. you are as sharp as ever, Fumesucker.

-zing-

[TheCowsCameHome]

15. I never received my "free" Hillary 2016 bumper sticker,

the one offered in a linked post from Skinner back in April - but I did get blitzed with emails looking for donations.

Times must be tough at the HRC campaign headquarters.

Bernie's lookin' better and better all the time.

[brooklynite]

16. I did...

...on the back of my car.

[TheCowsCameHome]

21. You must be in the 1%

that did get one.