Hillary Clinton may have parked her Scooby van months ago, but her staffers are still taking the bus.
Even senior staffers of the Democratic presidential candidate’s campaign are traveling via bus from New York City to Washington, D.C., and beyond as Clinton stretches out in first class on commercial airplane flights, according to a report in the Washington Post.
“It’s become solidarity to take it,” said chairman of the Clinton campaign John Podesta, who was presumably previously accustomed to Air Force One at his White House post, of taking the bus.
“The expectation is that if you’re going to D.C., you’re supposed to take the bus,” explained press secretary Brian Fallon.
Rumor has it campaign manager Robby Mook, who describes himself as “really, really cheap,” is behind the bus-only travel direction, which is motivated in part by the desire to make Clinton’s campaign look less extravagant.
From the Post:
Clinton herself is also doing her part to seem less eager to drop the big bucks, flying commercial — in first class as her Secret Service agents loiter behind in coach — and even taking Amtrak. Low-wage workers would undoubtedly expect no less from their eventual “champion.”
The frugal mentality also extends to staffers’ communication devices. Members of Hillary’s campaign entourage are using their personal cellphones for business instead of being provided with work devices (personal phones, personal emails — sound familiar?).
