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2016 Postmortem

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Joanie Baloney

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Fri May 20, 2016, 05:32 PM May 2016

Talk about bad optics! [View all]

I just saw KamaAina's post about the HRC's ill-conceived Venn diagram. Not as egregious, but equally jarring was this news from San Diego:

The Hillary Clinton campaign officially opened an organizing office in Bankers Hill Tuesday – the first in San Diego. Local Clinton supporters Assembly Member Toni Atkins and Councilmember Todd Gloria, along with...snip

Yes, that's right. The area in San Diego where she chose to locate her office is known officially as Bankers Hill.

The jokes practically write themselves. What happened to that one person on the campaign that checks the candidate for toilet paper on the shoes, spinach in the teeth, etc.?


http://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/Hillary-Clinton-Opens-SD-Organizing-Office--379894281.html


-JB

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Talk about bad optics! [View all] Joanie Baloney May 2016 OP
She doesn't need a ground game when her surrogates are running the elections berni_mccoy May 2016 #1
Both HRC and I will enjoy the jokes because underthematrix May 2016 #2
Truly a fitting location for Ms. Golden Sacks. BillZBubb May 2016 #3
Values create self organising systems Fairgo May 2016 #4
I've heard of making a final stand on Banker's Hill, Hill, but this is ridiculous. Shandris May 2016 #5
Bankers Hill is near the heart of SD LGBT community TimD82 May 2016 #6
Yes, but Joanie Baloney May 2016 #11
Maybe the area's name is derived from all the lugeing down the snow banks going on there? chollybocker May 2016 #7
The rent is moderate nadinbrzezinski May 2016 #8
Yes, I know Joanie Baloney May 2016 #12
UBS Wealth Management Octafish May 2016 #9
Her team already boasted that they want to appeal to "megachurch moms" Warren DeMontague May 2016 #10
To be absolutely fair nadinbrzezinski May 2016 #13
Oh yes, Rancho Retired-o MindPilot May 2016 #16
Go east young man, go east nadinbrzezinski May 2016 #17
Speaking of bad optics-- panader0 May 2016 #14
Thanks for the tip! Joanie Baloney May 2016 #18
How positively Freudian of her! MindPilot May 2016 #15
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