How cheap is Hillary Clinton’s campaign? This cheap. [View all]
|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.
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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.
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