WE ARE SAVED! – AT 8:14 A.M. ET:  Hillary Clinton, moving toward a summer announcement of her candidacy for queen, is making a decision on where to place the royal headquarters.   My town has apparently been saved.  From The Hill: 

Hillary Clinton is focused on housing her 2016 campaign headquarters in New York City — potentially in Brooklyn, which has emerged as a leading contender.

Insiders say Clinton aides are looking at Brooklyn as a possible location, and that an office in White Plains, near the Clintons’s Chappaqua, N.Y., home, has been all but ruled out.

Urgent Agenda is done here, in White Plains.  I am relieved that we are to be spared the burden of Hillary's headquarters.  I mean, how many mink coats can you take in one day? 

For months, some in the Clinton universe thought that setting up the campaign in or around White Plains, a middle-class enclave with dozens of office parks, would be a good home for the former secretary of State’s second presidential campaign.

Well, I guess it would have been fun to zing her knowing she was only blocks away. 

But using Brooklyn for its headquarters could be a useful symbol for a campaign that hopes to win over young people and has already been attacked by Republicans as “old news.”

The borough is New York City’s most populous, and has had a renaissance over the last decade as many of its neighborhoods have been transformed. It is also one of the most ethnically diverse areas of the United States — another aspect Clinton’s team will want to highlight as it seeks to attract minority voters.

Have you heard that two-bedroom apartments in Brooklyn often go for $400,000 or more?  Yeah, real typical American town.

It would provide a stark contrast from the locale where Clinton based her 2008 presidential campaign: the Washington, D.C., suburb of Ballston, Va. Back then, Team Clinton was housed in a stodgy former Immigration and Naturalization Service building.

COMMENT:  No matter where she goes, she can't escape one place...Benghazi.

February 3, 2015