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DeepModem Mom

(38,402 posts)
Fri Sep 11, 2015, 01:54 PM Sep 2015

Awesome event! Turnout of thousands for Hillary Clinton rally in Milwaukee: (HILLARY GROUP)

The turnout was terrific today for Hillary Clinton's first campaign visit to Wisconsin -- to Milwaukee, a working-class city, where she fired up a crowd of thousands at the city's working-class campus.

They waited as long as two hours in line, out the building and halfway around the block (a huge block), owing to incredibly slow security after a last-minute move of the rally indoors, as even the start of a storm did not dampen the stamina of those still in line.

Some had finally given up on getting into the event -- or the attendance would have been even larger -- and had left, not realizing that the crowd would be accommodated in not just one but two overflow rooms, for another thousand in attendance, in addition to the thousand in the standing-room-only main room (where the stage actually had started to collapse but, after more delay, was bolstered to bring Clinton to the mic almost on time).

Although billed as a "Women for Hillary" rally, it drew as many men as women, and especially young men and women. When Clinton finally came to the stage -- which actually had started to collapse -- after the overflow crowds had been accommodated, reactions of younger supporters were especially strong to her plan to refinance student-loan debt. And, of course, to her mocking of their governor, who again this year had slashed funding for their public university system by a quarter of a billion dollars...

http://m.dailykos.com/story/2015/09/11/1420291/-Turnout-of-thousands-for-Hillary-Clinton-rally-in-Milwaukee via Daily Kos

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Awesome event! Turnout of thousands for Hillary Clinton rally in Milwaukee: (HILLARY GROUP) (Original Post) DeepModem Mom Sep 2015 OP
Go Hillary Go! Tommy2Tone Sep 2015 #1
This is brilliant! Thank you, Hillary. scott walker is such easy fodder to blast.. such Cha Sep 2015 #2
It is exciting to see men in a rally supporting women, this is the new today's men who understand Thinkingabout Sep 2015 #3
RAISE HILL 2016! Gamecock Lefty Sep 2015 #4
Me too. katmille Sep 2015 #9
Huzzah! shenmue Sep 2015 #5
I lived in Milwaukee for a year back in the early 80's UPDATE link to SLIDE SHOW Gloria Sep 2015 #6
I noticed how young the crowd was. Kath1 Sep 2015 #8
Right on! Kath1 Sep 2015 #7
My brother, Dr. BL Foster, would be so proud. juajen Sep 2015 #10
I miss living in Madtown also. riversedge Sep 2015 #11
That can't be. They must have been paid, right? Tarheel_Dem Sep 2015 #12
Nah. They had to pay $50.00 to get in. murielm99 Sep 2015 #13

Cha

(297,274 posts)
2. This is brilliant! Thank you, Hillary. scott walker is such easy fodder to blast.. such
Fri Sep 11, 2015, 02:35 PM
Sep 2015

a kochroach.

Thinkingabout

(30,058 posts)
3. It is exciting to see men in a rally supporting women, this is the new today's men who understand
Fri Sep 11, 2015, 03:55 PM
Sep 2015

The importance of both men and women working together. Bet the speech was really good also. Go, Hillary.

Gloria

(17,663 posts)
6. I lived in Milwaukee for a year back in the early 80's UPDATE link to SLIDE SHOW
Fri Sep 11, 2015, 07:32 PM
Sep 2015

Got there courtesy of a job transfer...

UPDATE Found where it was held.... photos from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Dated 9/10/15

http://www.jsonline.com/multimedia/photos/hillary-clinton-visits-milwaukee-b99574747z1-326542211.html

Event was on the campus of Univ. of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (I took a class there once!)

OH, Look at all the "young folks"!!!!!!!

juajen

(8,515 posts)
10. My brother, Dr. BL Foster, would be so proud.
Fri Sep 11, 2015, 11:17 PM
Sep 2015

He was a Professor there for a afew years, can't remember exactly how many. He was a mathmetician. I miss him very much. He loved living in Madison.

murielm99

(30,741 posts)
13. Nah. They had to pay $50.00 to get in.
Mon Sep 14, 2015, 05:15 AM
Sep 2015

At least fifty dollars!

And there are no black people there. We are supposed to count the black people. Bernie's supporters say that is what we do.

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