Evening with Hillary's Campaign Manager Patti Solis-Doyle

[Herman Munster]

http://mydd.com/story/2007/10/16/232840/50

The fifth life lesson was don't ever get cocky. She then said that the polls have been good for the campaign lately. However, ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN. She then said that she wasn't running a frontrunner's campaign. In fact, Hillary would fire her if she ran a frontrunner's campaign. She wanted the campaign to stay focused and wake up every morning like they are several points down in the polls. She then went on to ask the audience to please volunteer to help the campaign. She said that they could use all the help that they could get....

The sixth life lesson was to never lose sight of what you're working for. She described the difficulty of balancing her daily work schedule with finding time to be with her family, especially her children. Patti said that she works about 18-20 hours every day. However, she has a commitment of coming home early a few nights of the week to spend a few hours with her family and tuck her children into bed. After this brief respite, she goes back to headquarters and work on the campaign VERY late. It's truly extraordinary the time commitment that these campaign workers are giving to these campaigns. Understandably, she relies heavily on coffee. She then told the audience that the reason why she's investing so much of her time in this campaign was for the future of her children. She then told us about how her 9 year old daughter after seeing some article about Hillary in a newspaper, said that she wanted to run for president when she grew up just like Hillary. That's what she's working for....

Finally, the last life lesson was that politics is not a spectator sport; you must get involved. She then encouraged members of the audience to go to headquarters and to please help with phone banking etc. She then described ways that volunteers could get involved in the campaign, including going to early states and working in Iowa, New Hampshire etc. The main thrust of her speech was to get involved in the campaign. She repeated this theme several times throughout her talk at GW.