Just stumbled across this gem:
November 13, 2007
Student given question to ask Clinton: I wasn't only one
GRINNELL, Iowa (CNN) — The college student who says she was told what question to ask at one of Sen. Hillary Clinton's campaign events told CNN Monday that she wasn't the only one at the event who was a plant and said "voters have the right to know what really happened."
In an exclusive interview with CNN, Muriel Gallo-Chasanoff, a 19-year-old sophomore at Grinnell College in Iowa — whose story in her campus newspaper has now been widely circulated — said that giving anyone specific questions to ask is "dishonest," and the whole incident has given her a negative outlook on politics.
Gallo-Chasanoff, an undecided voter, said what happened was really pretty simple: she says a senior Clinton staffer asked if she'd like to ask the senator a question after an energy speech she gave in Newton, Iowa, on November 6.
"I sort of thought about it, and I said 'Yeah, can I ask how her energy plan compares to the other candidates' energy plans?'" Gallo-Chasanoff said.
"'I don't think that’s a good idea," the staffer said, according to Gallo-Chasanoff, "because I don’t know how familiar she is with their plans."
He then opened a binder to a page that, according to Gallo-Chasanoff, had about eight questions on it.
"The top one was planned specifically for a college student," she added. " It said 'college student' in brackets and then the question."
Topping that sheet of paper was the following: "As a young person, I'm worried about the long-term effects of global warming. How does your plan combat climate change?"
And while she said she would have rather used her own question, Gallo-Chasanoff said she generally didn't have a problem asking the campaign's because she "likes to be agreeable," adding that since she told the staffer she'd ask their pre-typed question she "didn't want to go back on [her] word."
Clinton campaign spokesman Mo Eliethee has said in a statement responding to the initial college newspaper article that the senator "did not know which questioners she was calling on during the event."
Gallo-Chasanoff wasn't so sure.
"I don’t know whether Hillary knew what my question was going to be, but it seemed like she knew to call on me because there were so many people, and…I was the only college student in that area," she said.
In their statement, the campaign also added, "On this occasion a member of our staff did discuss a possible question about Senator Clinton's energy plan at a forum…This is not standard policy and will not be repeated again.”
Gallo-Chasanoff may have some doubts about that one, as well
"After the event," she said, "I heard another man…talking about the question he asked, and he said that the campaign had asked him to ask that question."
The man she references prefaced his question by saying that it probably didn't have anything to do with energy, and then posed the following: "I wonder what you propose to do to create jobs for the middle class person such as here in Newton where we lost Maytag."
A Maytag factory in Newton recently closed, forcing hundreds of people out of their jobs.
During the course of the late night interview on Grinnell's campus, Gallo-Chasanoff also told CNN that the day before the school's newspaper 'Scarlet and Black' printed the story, she wanted the reporter to inform the campaign out of courtesy to let them know it would be published.
She said the "head of publicity for the campaign"—a man whose name she could not recall–had no factual disputes with the story, but she added that a Clinton intern spoke to her to say the campaign requests she "not talk about" the story to any more media outlets and that if she did she should inform a staffer.
"I'm not under any real obligation to do that, and I haven't talked to [the campaign] anymore," Gallo-Chasanoff said, adding that she also doesn't plan to.
"If what I do is come and just be totally truthful, then that’s all anyone can ask of me, and that’s all I can ask of myself. So I'll feel good with what I've done. I'll feel like I've done the right thing."
Asked if this experience makes her less likely to support Clinton's presidential bid, Gallo-Chasanoff said, "I think she has a lot to offer, but I—this experience makes me look at her campaign a little bit differently."
"The question and answer sessions—especially in Iowa–are really important. That’s where the voters get to…have like a real genuine conversation with this politician who could be representing them."
While she acknowledged "its possible that all campaigns do these kind of tactics," she said it still doesn't make it right.
"Personally I want to know that I have someone who's honest representing me."
Calls placed to representatives from the Clinton campaign late Monday night were not immediately returned.
Gallo-Chasanoff's story comes at a time when a second person has also come forward with a similar one. Geoffrey Mitchell of Hamilton, Illinois—on the Iowa border—told CNN the Clinton campaign also wanted him to ask a certain question at an Iowa event back in April.
"He asked me if I would ask Sen. Clinton about ways she was going to confront the president on the war in Iraq, specifically war funding," said Geoffrey Mitchell, a supporter of Sen. Barack Obama. "I told him it was not a question I felt comfortable with."
No questions were taken at the event. Clinton spokesman Mo Elleithee said this incident was different than what happened with Gallo-Chasanoff in Newton. Eleithee said the staffer "bumped into someone he marginally knew" and during a conversation with Mitchell, "Iraq came up." Elleithee denied the campaign tried to plant him as a friendly questioner in the audience.
Mitchell said he had never met the staffer before the event.
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November 13, 2007
Student given question to ask Clinton: I wasn't only one
GRINNELL, Iowa (CNN) — The college student who says she was told what question to ask at one of Sen. Hillary Clinton's campaign events told CNN Monday that she wasn't the only one at the event who was a plant and said "voters have the right to know what really happened."
In an exclusive interview with CNN, Muriel Gallo-Chasanoff, a 19-year-old sophomore at Grinnell College in Iowa — whose story in her campus newspaper has now been widely circulated — said that giving anyone specific questions to ask is "dishonest," and the whole incident has given her a negative outlook on politics.
Gallo-Chasanoff, an undecided voter, said what happened was really pretty simple: she says a senior Clinton staffer asked if she'd like to ask the senator a question after an energy speech she gave in Newton, Iowa, on November 6.
"I sort of thought about it, and I said 'Yeah, can I ask how her energy plan compares to the other candidates' energy plans?'" Gallo-Chasanoff said.
"'I don't think that’s a good idea," the staffer said, according to Gallo-Chasanoff, "because I don’t know how familiar she is with their plans."
He then opened a binder to a page that, according to Gallo-Chasanoff, had about eight questions on it.
"The top one was planned specifically for a college student," she added. " It said 'college student' in brackets and then the question."
Topping that sheet of paper was the following: "As a young person, I'm worried about the long-term effects of global warming. How does your plan combat climate change?"
And while she said she would have rather used her own question, Gallo-Chasanoff said she generally didn't have a problem asking the campaign's because she "likes to be agreeable," adding that since she told the staffer she'd ask their pre-typed question she "didn't want to go back on [her] word."
Clinton campaign spokesman Mo Eliethee has said in a statement responding to the initial college newspaper article that the senator "did not know which questioners she was calling on during the event."
Gallo-Chasanoff wasn't so sure.
"I don’t know whether Hillary knew what my question was going to be, but it seemed like she knew to call on me because there were so many people, and…I was the only college student in that area," she said.
In their statement, the campaign also added, "On this occasion a member of our staff did discuss a possible question about Senator Clinton's energy plan at a forum…This is not standard policy and will not be repeated again.”
Gallo-Chasanoff may have some doubts about that one, as well
"After the event," she said, "I heard another man…talking about the question he asked, and he said that the campaign had asked him to ask that question."
The man she references prefaced his question by saying that it probably didn't have anything to do with energy, and then posed the following: "I wonder what you propose to do to create jobs for the middle class person such as here in Newton where we lost Maytag."
A Maytag factory in Newton recently closed, forcing hundreds of people out of their jobs.
During the course of the late night interview on Grinnell's campus, Gallo-Chasanoff also told CNN that the day before the school's newspaper 'Scarlet and Black' printed the story, she wanted the reporter to inform the campaign out of courtesy to let them know it would be published.
She said the "head of publicity for the campaign"—a man whose name she could not recall–had no factual disputes with the story, but she added that a Clinton intern spoke to her to say the campaign requests she "not talk about" the story to any more media outlets and that if she did she should inform a staffer.
"I'm not under any real obligation to do that, and I haven't talked to [the campaign] anymore," Gallo-Chasanoff said, adding that she also doesn't plan to.
"If what I do is come and just be totally truthful, then that’s all anyone can ask of me, and that’s all I can ask of myself. So I'll feel good with what I've done. I'll feel like I've done the right thing."
Asked if this experience makes her less likely to support Clinton's presidential bid, Gallo-Chasanoff said, "I think she has a lot to offer, but I—this experience makes me look at her campaign a little bit differently."
"The question and answer sessions—especially in Iowa–are really important. That’s where the voters get to…have like a real genuine conversation with this politician who could be representing them."
While she acknowledged "its possible that all campaigns do these kind of tactics," she said it still doesn't make it right.
"Personally I want to know that I have someone who's honest representing me."
Calls placed to representatives from the Clinton campaign late Monday night were not immediately returned.
Gallo-Chasanoff's story comes at a time when a second person has also come forward with a similar one. Geoffrey Mitchell of Hamilton, Illinois—on the Iowa border—told CNN the Clinton campaign also wanted him to ask a certain question at an Iowa event back in April.
"He asked me if I would ask Sen. Clinton about ways she was going to confront the president on the war in Iraq, specifically war funding," said Geoffrey Mitchell, a supporter of Sen. Barack Obama. "I told him it was not a question I felt comfortable with."
No questions were taken at the event. Clinton spokesman Mo Elleithee said this incident was different than what happened with Gallo-Chasanoff in Newton. Eleithee said the staffer "bumped into someone he marginally knew" and during a conversation with Mitchell, "Iraq came up." Elleithee denied the campaign tried to plant him as a friendly questioner in the audience.
Mitchell said he had never met the staffer before the event.
Related: Obama: We don't plant questions
Related: Democratic rivals respond to Clinton's planted question
some depending on how dire the environmental needs are discovered to be. I sure wouldn't put my plan on the line to be dissected with every change, especially this early, would you? Imagine everything you say being dissected? If you change your mind on anything, God forbid, then folks are standing by ready to publically call you a :lie:.
This whiny 19 year old in her exclusive interview with CNN will not change my mind. They need to find a scoop bad!!!
Must be. 
Didn't he deliver the keynote address at the last democratic convention??? Isn't this your party? Are the Clintons the only politicians you know?