Mediaboss Marketing

Oct 9, 2014 10:04pm

Credit: Cliff Owen/AP Photo

PHILADELPHIA New grandmother Hillary Clinton made her first public campaign appearance of the year Thursday for Pennsylvania gubernatorial candidate Tom Wolf, giving passionate and personal remarks that if not for the Wolf for Governor signs prominently behind her could easily have been mistaken for a presidential stump speech.

While Wolf, a businessman from York County, has a strong lead in the polls against incumbent Gov. Tom Corbett, the star of tonights Women for Wolf event at the National Constitution Center downtown was clearly Clinton.

To a crowd of nearly 1,000 people and with the Ready for Hillary bus stationed outside, Clinton took the stage to roaring applause (and Katy Perrys Roar blasting overhead), and laid out a case that Wolf was the fresh start both Pennsylvania and the country needed, praising his Made in America success story and his commitment to working-class families.

Tom Wolf stands for families, for working people, for fairness, and for justice, Clinton said to a cheering audience.

Clinton went on to talk fervently about the need for affordable education, raising the minimum wage, equal pay, quality affordable childcare, reproductive rights for women, and even same-sex marriage equality, crying out: We will never compare the marriage of two loving and committed partners to incest.

But Clintons speech was also uniquely personal, with a number of her own anecdotes and Pennsylvania connections woven throughout.

When she championed for working families, she reminisced about her hard-working father who grew up in Scranton and the summers she spent with him in the Poconos.

When she talked about the importance of family values, she gave a shout-out to Marjorie Margolies, her son-in-laws mother who was in the audience, joking they both have the same grandmother glow.

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