Thursday, March 27, 2008

Bill, Chelsea campaign today in Pa. for Hillary


It's all in the family today as former President Bill Clinton and first daughter Chelsea make whirlwind tours of the Philadelphia region to drum up support for the woman each calls wife or mom, Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton.

Sen. Clinton is campaigning today in North Carolina and Sen. Barack Obama is in New York.

Tomorrow, Obama will begin a cross-state bus tour in Pittsburgh. The caravan ends Wednesday in Philadelphia.

Bill Clinton will criss-cross central Pennsylvania today making whistle stops in Pottstown, Reading, Carlisle, Lewistown and State College.

After a morning appearance in Pottstown, Clinton will proceed to Albright College in Reading for a noon event at the Schumo Center at 13th and Richmond Streets. Then he travels to Carlisle for a 3:15 p.m. rally at the Dickinson College Gymnasium, 575 West High St.

He is scheduled to speak at Lewistown Area High School at 5:45 p.m. He'll conclude his whirlwind tour with an 8 p.m. rally at Penn State's Recreation Hall, 1 Curtin Rd., in State College.

Chelsea Clinton was scheduled to begin her day in Bensalem this afternoon at home for senior citizens. The event is not open to the public.

She will lead a 3:30 rally on the campus of West Chester University at the Sykes Student Union, 110 West Rosedale Ave. At 7 p.m., she will appear at Cobre Restaurant, 812 N. Broad St., Philadelphia.

In Pittsburgh, Obama will hold an open event at 11 a.m. tomorrow at the Soldiers and Sailors Military Museum and Memorial. Later in the afternoon, Obama will hold a Town Hall Meeting at 5:30 p.m. at Hempfield Area High School in Greensburg, about 20 miles east of the Iron City.