article_snippet.sent: But former First Lady Hillary Clinton was blasted for former First Lady Hillary Clinton 'staged' visit on Tuesday morning to a coffee shop in LeClaire, Iowa.
article_snippet.sent: Austin Bird, one of the men pictured sitting at the table with former First Lady Hillary Clinton, claimed the whole event was orchestrated 'from beginning to end'.
article_snippet.sent: former First Lady Hillary Clinton sat to talk with three young Iowans at a coffee shop on Tuesday – all of whom were driven to the whole event by former First Lady Hillary Clinton Iowa campaign's political director .
article_snippet.sent: Price then drove him and two other young people to the coffee house to meet former First Lady Hillary Clinton after vetting him and two other young people for about a half-hour.
article_snippet.sent: The three got the lion's share of former First Lady Hillary Clinton's time and participated in what breathless news reports described as a 'roundtable'– the first of many in former First Lady Hillary Clinton brief Iowa campaign swing.
article_snippet.sent: and we went up to the coffee house, and we sat at a table and then Hillary just came up and talked with we.'
article_snippet.sent: It's unclear how many Iowans featured in photographs with Secretary Clinton that rocketed around the country on Tuesday were planted. '
article_snippet.sent: Secretary Clinton's also an outspoken progressive whose Facebook wall shows Secretary Clinton ordered a 'Hillary For President' bumper sticker 22 months ago. '
article_snippet.sent: Secretary Clinton's nascent campaign has carefully coordinated Secretary Clinton image as a spontaneous, handshaking populist in Secretary Clinton first days as a candidate, posing with Pennsylvanians at a gas station and venturing into an Ohio Chipotle restaurant for lunch.
article_snippet.sent: – Clinton's nascent campaign leaked information to The New York Times so The New York Times reporters could get security-camera footage to prove the former first lady – had tried to mingle with voters.
article_snippet.sent: Scripting supposedly off-the-cuff appearances is common in presidential politics but could hurt Secretary Clinton especially hard since Secretary Clinton gonzo road-trip journey to America's broad midwest is designed to counter Secretary Clinton image as cold, calculating and politically venomous.
article_snippet.sent: And planting party insiders in place of typical Iowans won't go over well in the Hawkeye State, where pressing the flesh and collecting caucus votes is a quadrennial full-contact sport.
article_snippet.sent: Setting up faux events for news cameras is nothing new in politics, but Iowans take presidential contests seriously and could punish Secretary Clinton for the deception .
article_snippet.sent: Secretary Clinton's campaign has already taken heat for depicting at least three people in Secretary Clinton campaign launch video as 'everyday' Americans who were actually partisans with political connections.