[UPDATE] Less than 24 hours before Hillary Clinton is scheduled to arrive, the presidential candidate's campaign has confirmed she will convene a conversation about women, families, and the economy at the restaurant Jill's Place on Santa Barbara Street. Before that, at 1:45 p.m., Clinton will be in Oxnard at Hueneme High School.
[UPDATE] With just 24 hours before Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton is scheduled to blow into town, local party big wigs remain in the dark — and a little exasperated — they still don’t know what kind of event Clinton’s national campaign organizers hope to hold, where, and what kind of a crowd to organize for. With Clinton running neck-and-neck in the polls with her Democratic Party challenger, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, Clinton is blazing a catch-up trail across the state, inhaling the fumes of the Sanders’ now famous Red Bull campaign that took place last week. (Clinton, however, enjoys a substantial lead in recent polls when respondents are restricted to likely voters.)
Among the local political cognoscenti, a lot more is known about what isn’t going to happen than what is. After Clinton and her plane are said to land in Santa Barbara about 3 p.m. Saturday, word is that a rally and small press event will be held. To date, none of the high-ranking Democratic electeds who have endorsed Secretary Clinton know what that actually means.