2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Does anyone know how much Senator Sanders pays his campaign workers. [View all]azurnoir
(45,850 posts)Hillary Clinton has hired eight summer fellows as full-time paid staffers, just weeks after the Guardian revealed that the presidential frontrunners campaign was using experienced political operatives as unpaid interns.
The Clinton campaign is adding 20 full-time field organizers in Iowa, seeking to increase her presence and rally Democrats in the crucial caucus state, which she visited on Tuesday as her team acknowledged fears of a better-than-expected showing from the independent challenger Bernie Sanders.
As first reported by the Des Moines Register, eight of those new hires had previously served as full-time organizing fellows. In that capacity, fellows performed almost identical duties to field organizers, who do the most basic work on a campaign: recruiting volunteers and endorsements, going door-to-door and calling voters, often outside the confines of a 9-to-5 day job.
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jul/07/hillary-clinton-unpaid-interns-full-time-staff