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Related: About this forumAwesome 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
Tommy2Tone
(1,307 posts)Cha
(297,274 posts)a kochroach.
Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)The importance of both men and women working together. Bet the speech was really good also. Go, Hillary.
Gamecock Lefty
(700 posts)I love a thread where I'm not banned from participating by the Bernistas!!!
katmille
(213 posts)Love the pics in the article.
shenmue
(38,506 posts)Gloria
(17,663 posts)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"!!!!!!!
Kath1
(4,309 posts)That is wonderful to see!
Kath1
(4,309 posts)That is beautiful to see! Go Hillary!
juajen
(8,515 posts)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.
riversedge
(70,239 posts)Tarheel_Dem
(31,234 posts)murielm99
(30,741 posts)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.