I found an article on the MAGLEV occurance...
she was almost at IMG's doorstep campaigning...
HILL ENERGIZES 'CAMPAIGN' AT UPSTATE ELECTRO-PLANT
Gregg Birnbaum in Binghamton and Robert Hardt Jr. in New York
06/10/1999
New York Post
Page 2
Copyright (c) 1999, N.Y.P. Holdings, Inc. All rights reserved.
First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton yesterday brought her still-undeclared U.S.
Senate campaign to an upstate high-tech manufacturing plant, fielding
questions from factory workers for nearly an hour.
The Oprah-like appearance at a Lockheed-Martin electronics plant in
Binghamton was Mrs. Clinton's 11th visit to New York this year and her first
since she announced last week that she will form an exploratory committee
next month.
Mrs. Clinton strolled onto the factory floor, decked out in a bright pink pants
suit, with a pearl necklace, in contrast to the 40 casually dressed employees
who were seated in a circle around her.
Mrs. Clinton - who said she had come to hear what was on the minds of the
employees at one of the biggest companies in town - appeared stiff and visibly
nervous at the start of the event and stumbled when one employee mentioned
a high-tech rail project known as " Maglev ."
"Could you tell me what that technology is?" Mrs. Clinton asked, as she and
the workers laughed.
" Maglev is a new phrase for me."
Maglev - which stands for magnetic levitation - is familiar to many New
Yorkers in business and government because it was a highly publicized
transportation program pushed by former governor Mario Cuomo.
There were no restrictions on questions that workers could ask, but none
raised any about the First Lady's political ambitions in New York or about her
husband.
Mrs. Clinton said she was aware the upstate region, known as the Southern
Tier, had been hit hard economically in recent years and she called for more
government spending on high-tech research and closer cooperation between
businesses and universities.
"We don't have enough jobs, with enough growing incomes, for enough
people," Mrs. Clinton said.
Leaving the electronics plant, Mrs. Clinton - who has been kept far away from
the media during her previous New York appearances - even stopped to take
close-up questions from reporters who got toe-to-toe with her.
Mrs. Clinton chuckled when asked if she were any closer to making a decision
about running for the Senate.
The First Lady also was the star attraction later at a fund-raiser for U.S. Rep.
Maurice Hinchey (D-Binghamton), a close political ally of the Clintons.
Last night, Mrs. Clinton flew to New York City for a Democratic National
Committee fund-raiser in the West Village home of composer Jonathan Sheffer
and his partner, Dr. Christopher Barley.
About 50 guests were expected to attend the private $5,000-a-head dinner at
Sheffer and Barley's home.
Sheffer, who co-hosted a Hamptons cocktail party for the DNC last summer,
told The Post he hopes Mrs. Clinton throws her hat into the ring.
Mrs. Clinton remains in New York today where she'll take part in an event
sponsored by the cable channel VH1 about preserving music programs in city
schools.
The "Save the Music" event in Harlem's PS 72 will also be attended by
Schools Chancellor Rudy Crew and the singer Jewel.
-PLAYING OPRAH: Hillary Rodham Clinton, with Rep. Maurice Hinchey, talks
to workers in Binghamton. AP (Metro) -BACK IN TOWN: Hillary Rodham
Clinton arrives for a fund-raiser in the Village last night. -Elizabeth Lippman
(Sports Extra & Late City Final)
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