The YearlyKos convention brought two (not just one) campaign missteps for Senator Hillary Clinton’s presidential aspirations, and both were driven by her campaign’s fundraising problems.
Everyone knows about this one:
Clinton: “A lot of those lobbyists whether you like it or not represent real Americans. Nurses, social workers, yes they represent corporations that employ a lot of people.”
But what about the first?
Clinton’s original plan to blow-off the YKos breakout session * was booed on Thursday night there and, to her credit, she wisely fixed the error and rescheduled to do a Saturday a.m. session.
But that first misstep, getting off on the wrong foot there, was caused by the same problem that wrought the second one. Although YKos was scheduled for this date a long time ago, the Clinton campaign chose to book a six event fundraising tour of the Hamptons on Long Island, New York, instead.
More on the nature of those events in the Hamptons, and Clinton’s serious fundraising problems, with supporting links, at the jump…
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