CONCORD, N.H. — Senator Hillary Clinton is getting some help from one of her old home states. Richard Zussman tells us Arkansans are traveling across the country to New Hampshire to help the former first lady.
State Representative Gregg Reep and North Little Rock mayor Patrick Hayes have taken a break from politics at home in Arkansas to travel over 1,400 miles to pick up politics up north.
Reep and Hayes belong to a group called the Arkansas Travellers. They are two of the 74 members here in New Hampshire to campaign for Clinton in her bid to become President. Reep says even though Clinton’s been gone from the state since leaving for the White House, she’s still very much an Arkansan.
[“We’ve had dealings with her for 20 to 30 years. We know her as a person, as an individual, as a mother. Of course she was our first lady both in Arkansas and nationally and now as New York Senator.” Reep]
Many of this year’s Arkansas Travellers have been to New Hampshire before. They were here in 1992 to knock on doors for Clinton’s husband, the former president, Bill Clinton. Mayor Hayes was one of the Travellers in New Hampshire in 1992.
[“We’ve gotten to know each other over the years. The Travellers have come over the last 24 hours. Some drove, mostly flew. We’re here and we’re excited. And looking forward to five more days until Tuesday.” Hayes]
Tuesday is Primary Day in New Hampshire. It is also Hayes’ 61st birthday. And he says there wouldn’t be a better present than a Clinton victory in New Hampshire.
For FM 89 News, I’m Richard Zussman in Nashua, New Hampshire.
(Richard Zussman, a broadcast journalism graduate student, is covering the New Hamphire primary for KUAR Radio in Arkansas.)
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