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Newsjock

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Mon Nov 4, 2013, 05:16 PM Nov 2013

Hillary’s big S.F. events closed to press [View all]

Source: San Francisco Chronicle

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton hasn’t even started her 2016 presidential campaign yet — and she’s already shutting out the press.

Clinton’s much-anticipated speech at the Moscone Center on Saturday before the National Association of Realtors conference, a convention that is drawing 22,000 people to San Francisco this week, will be blacked out — closed to the media.

So will her big fundraiser Saturday night with Chelsea Clinton at San Francisco’s Regency Ballroom, a “Millennial Network” event to benefit the Clinton Foundation.

The decision to bar reporters from the Clinton speech before thousands of Realtors is “per her team’s request,” a National Association of Realtors spokeswoman told us in an e-mail Monday.

Read more: http://blog.sfgate.com/nov05election/2013/11/04/we-call-b-s-in-social-media-capital-both-hillarys-big-sf-events-closed-to-press/

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