So how was the Clinton event in Milwaukee?? It looked pretty good
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Thu Sep 10, 2015 at 09:59 PM PDT
Turnout of thousands for Hillary Clinton rally in Milwaukee
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/09/11/1420291/-Turnout-of-thousands-for-Hillary-Clinton-rally-in-Milwaukee#
The turnout was terrific today for Hillary Clinton's first campaign visit to Wisconsin -- to Milwaukee, a working-class city, where she fired up a crowd of thousands at the city's working-class campus.
They waited as long as two hours in line, out the building and halfway around the block (a huge block), owing to incredibly slow security after a last-minute move of the rally indoors, as even the start of a storm did not dampen the stamina of those still in line.
Some had finally given up on getting into the event -- or the attendance would have been even larger -- and had left, not realizing that the crowd would be accommodated in not just one but two overflow rooms, for another thousand in attendance, in addition to the thousand in the standing-room-only main room (where the stage actually had started to collapse but, after more delay, was bolstered to bring Clinton to the mic almost on time).
Although billed as a "Women for Hillary" rally, it drew as many men as women, and especially young men and women. When Clinton finally came to the stage -- which actually had started to collapse -- after the overflow crowds had been accommodated, reactions of younger supporters were especially strong to her plan to refinance student-loan debt. And, of course, to her mocking of their governor, who again this year had slashed funding for their public university system by a quarter of a billion dollars.
As the (rather stunned by the turnout) pro-Scott "Perp" Walker Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports in its top-of-the-online-page story:
"I've been following what's been going on in Wisconsin," Clinton said.
"I really have been so bewildered."
[editorial aside: Her accompanying facial expression was priceless comic relief, showing that she is not all bewildered -- and the crowd reaction went wild, in a Midwestern way.]
"I grew up in Chicago," she said, "and so I'd come up here. I would travel around Wisconsin even as a young girl, a young woman. And I always admired the people of this state. I admired their can-do spirit, their progressive spirit, their pioneering spirit.
"What happened?"
She hammered at how it happened -- the recession, after a Republican administration destroyed the economic success and even surplus inherited from another Clinton in the White House -- and how the Obama turnaround has to continue to happen, with turnout at the next election to put another Democrat in the White House.
And she hammered at Walker for the jobs that have not happened in Wisconsin, even taking a jab at him for his alpha-male posing with his Harley motorcycle.
It's risky politicking to mock a Harley rider in Milwaukee, where the popular two-wheeler is manufactured by its proud workers, but Clinton made it work with the working-class crowd in the state that still loves its Harleys but has turned against its governor.
"What happens when you're a proud union member and you have a governor who wants to drive you out?" Clinton said to booming applause and chants of "Hillary! Hillary!"
Originally posted to CreamCity on Thu Sep 10, 2015 at 09:59 PM PDT.
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* [new] and universal pre-kindergarten (8+ / 0-)
and affordable excellent child care, and childhood enrichment programs, and a living minimum wage, and more libraries and more parks and more community centers in disadvantaged communities, and mentoring programs, old guys who have trades teaching them to younger people who don't yet know how to do electricity and plumbing and replacing dry rot and roofing and using recycled building materials, and tinkering.
Hillary is going to make it fun, and she's going to give each of us a chance to help, to be part of it, teaching our skills to those that want them.
She'll prioritize attractive and pleasant new school buildings configured for multi-use, as community centers.
I heart Obama, don't get me wrong and his last 500 days are very entertaining, but Hillary's going to represent me, so with Hillary grandmothers who can sew and knit and tat and sing will know just where there are others who want to learn from them, and if that just happens to be in child care centers so hard working parents know their kids are getting skills and aren't just watching TV, they'll feel glad. And it'll all be video monitored, and safe.
it takes a village and organizational skills to gather various villages to target what people need to make their own lives great. She has the heart and she has the executive talent and she has a lot of smart people on her team, ready to pitch in.
plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose
by anna shane on Fri Sep 11, 2015 at 08:01:26 AM PDT
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* [new] Clinton spoke very movingly (6+ / 0-)
about child-care issues and costs, which really resonated with the students at the rally -- on a working-class, urban campus, where more than half are more than 25 years old (and a campus which serves them and the city with the best child-care center in the city) -- and with the other energetic grandmothers there, too.
But the grandmothers knew what many of the students did not, as I could see: That Clinton's first job out of college was with the Children's Defense Fund. When she spoke about that, they were as hushed as they, young men as well as young women, had been vocal about child care and schools and other so-called "women's issues."
