Clinton Campaign Gets Caught Planting Questions
by Populista, Fri Nov 09, 2007 at 04:06:50 PM EST
As chase martyn just posed on Breaking Blue, the Clinton campaign got caught planting questions.
Chase Marytn's story here
And the original scoop from the Grinnell College newspaper below the fold.
UPDATE: Did Hillary also use plant's at YearlyKos? A commenter on DKos thinks so. This story could be bad, bad news for the Clinton campaign.UPDATE2: The Clinton campaign has CONFIRMED that this happened. Unbeiveable. And the campaign is claiming that Hillary didn't know anything about it.
On Tuesday Nov. 6, the Clinton campaign stopped at a biodiesel plant in Newton as part of a weeklong series of events to introduce her new energy plan. The event was clearly intended to be as much about the press as the Iowa voters in attendance, as a large press core helped fill the small venue. Reporters from many major national news outlets came to the small Iowa town, from such media giants as The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, the Associated Press, and CNN.After her speech, Clinton accepted questions. But according to Grinnell College student Muriel Gallo-Chasanoff '10, some of the questions from the audience were planned in advance. "They were canned," she said. Before the event began, a Clinton staff member approached Gallo-Chasanoff to ask a specific question after Clinton's speech. "One of the senior staffers told me what [to ask]," she said.
Clinton called on Gallo-Chasanoff after her speech to ask a question: what Clinton would do to stop the effects of global warming. Clinton began her response by noting that young people often pose this question to her before delving into the benefits of her plan.
But the source of the question was no coincidence--at this event "they wanted a question from a college student," Gallo-Chasanoff said. She also noted that staffers prompted Clinton to call on her and another who had been approached before the event, although Clinton used her discretion to select questions and called on people who had not been prepped before hand. Some of the questions asked were confusing and clearly off-message.
Link here
I don't want to get into too much of my opinion about this but I'd be pretty mad if my canidate did this. Coming from a campaign that makes it's field workers cry and called a real Iowan a plant.
Sorry for the shortness of this.
Tags: Barack Obama, campaign tactics, Global Warming, Hillary Clinton, John Edwards, students (all tags)
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