The three “everyday” Iowans seen talking to Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton at a coffee shop on Tuesday were personally invited and driven to the “roundtable” that has been described as unscripted, according to the Daily Mail.
The three individuals have been identified in the report as former Obama campaign intern Austin Bird, University of Iowa College Democrats president Carter Bell and Planned Parenthood of the Heartland staffer Sara Sedlacek.
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton meets with local residents at the Jones St. Java House, Tuesday, April 14, 2015, in LeClaire, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)
Bird reportedly spilled the beans in a phone interview with the Daily Mail, revealing that a Clinton campaign staffer, Troy Price, called him and the two other people to set up a meeting at a restaurant in Davenport, Iowa. Bird, who also once chauffeured Vice President Joe Biden, said they didn’t realize at first they were going to be meeting with the former secretary of state.
“We were asked to come to a meeting with Troy, the three of us, at the Village Inn,” he told the Daily Mail. ‘It was supposed to be a strategy meeting…then all of a sudden he says, ‘Hey, we have Secretary Clinton coming in, would you like to go meet her?’”
After “vetting” them for less than an hour, Bird said they were driven to meet Clinton in LeClaire, Iowa, during one of her first campaign stops. The three of them, he recalled, sat down at a table and Clinton soon “came up and talked with us.”
“I mean, Troy asked us all to do – to go to a meeting with him. And we didn’t really know what it was about. I mean, he did. He knew,” Bird added.
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton meets with local residents at the Jones St. Java House, Tuesday, April 14, 2015, in LeClaire, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)
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