Clinton cancels Va. speech; hostage in N.H.
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Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton has canceled a speech at the winter meeting of the Democratic National Committee because of a hostage situation at her campaign office in Rochester, N.H.
Clinton has not been in New Hampshire since Monday.
DNC Chairman Howard Dean announced Clinton’s decision to cancel her 2:30 p.m. speech at a hotel in northern Virginia around 2 p.m.
Clinton supporters who lined the walls in the back of the hotel ballroom in anticipation of her speech headed home shortly after the announcement.
“Sen. Clinton is doing the correct thing by standing by her staffer and canceling her appearance,’’ said Sandy Allen, a former member of the District of Columbia City Council.
“Her concern is always the American people and a hostage situation conjures up scary thoughts,’’ said Michelle Battle, another Clinton supporter from Washington, D.C. “Security is always an issue. More is always not the answer. The senator is a former first lady and already has Secret Service, praise the Lord.’’
“We are in solidarity with Hillary at this moment when we think of what she is going through,’’ said Rep. Dennis Kucinich, one of two candidates who went ahead with their convention speeches Friday afternoon.
According to NewsCenter 5 and TheBostonChannel.com, a witness who spoke to a woman released by the hostage taker said a man walked into the office around 1 p.m., opened his coat, and displayed a bomb strapped to his chest with duct tape.
The Clinton campaign has 16 offices in New Hampshire. The state headquarters office is in Manchester.
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At least in an emergency, she didn’t sit around and read “The Pet Goat” with a bunch of kids, like someone else I could name…