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Thursday, 31 May 2007 23:48

Bizarre Incident Delayed the Sacramento Fund Raising Dinner of Presidential Candidate Hilary Clinton

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slide25Last night a bizarre incident delayed the Sacramento fund raising dinner of Presidential candidate Hilary Clinton while the Sacramento County bomb squad investigated a coffin brought to the area by anti-war protestors. Anti-war activists Virginia and Stephen Pearcy, who made headlines in February 2005 for hanging an effigy of a soldier on their Land Park area home, brought a flag draped coffin as a protest against the U.S. involvement in Iraq. Shortly before 6 p.m. Thursday, the Secret Service began to conduct a sweep of the area and asked to look inside the coffin. Pearcy refused, stating that they had no probable cause to do so.
slide27 This prompted the Secret Service to call in local law enforcement and the bomb squad. Former State Treasurer Phil Angelides along with about 120 other guests set to attend the fundraiser had to wait several hours before being ushered through a neighbor's backyard to get to the event. Around 9 p.m., the all clear was given by the bomb squad, and the motorcade carrying Senator Clinton arrived at the event. The $500 to $4600 per person campaign fundraiser was being held at the home of real estate developer Eleni Tsakopoulos-Kounalakis and Markos Kounalakis. Clinton attended a campaign stop in Silicon Valley Thursday, in which she outlined an ambitious "innovation agenda." An effort she said would create more high-paying jobs and maintain U.S. dominance in the technology sector.
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