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dlwickham

(3,316 posts)
Tue Jun 9, 2015, 05:16 PM Jun 2015

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

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.

He was wearing jeans and running sneakers and carrying a scuffed duffel bag stuffed with dirty laundry. He did not look glamorous.

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.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2015/06/09/how-cheap-is-hillary-clintons-campaign-this-cheap/

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How cheap is Hillary Clinton’s campaign? This cheap. (Original Post) dlwickham Jun 2015 OP
Wait, is this cheap or green? Is she gonna get attacked for being green? randys1 Jun 2015 #1
More should follow that example. n/t TheCowsCameHome Jun 2015 #2
It's known as "Walking the walk." No Vested Interest Jun 2015 #3
Vamoose buses do not go to Iowa, New Hampshire, or South Carolina. KamaAina Jun 2015 #4

No Vested Interest

(5,166 posts)
3. It's known as "Walking the walk."
Tue Jun 9, 2015, 05:25 PM
Jun 2015

Won't hurt any of them, really.
Remember, Hillary was seen standing in line at Chipotle's.
She didn't send in someone.
Walking the walk.

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