Opinion: “Hillaryland” explored

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‘Never have so many women operated at such a high level in one campaign, working with a discipline and a loyalty and a legendary secrecy rarely seen at this level of American politics.’

The campaign, of course, is Hillary Clinton’s. And the sentence above is drawn from today’s Washington Post article that explores the network of female aides and advisors that the frontrunner in the Democratic presidential race has wired together over the years.

Some of the women have been the subject of separate pieces before, such as Patti Solis Doyle, the 41-year-old daughter of Mexican immigrants who first worked for Clinton in 1991 and now serves as her campaign’s chief of staff.

But the Post story provides a useful overview of the group and how it operates, as well as glimpses of some of those who presumably would play a key role in a Clinton administration. Plus, it has details such as these: ‘They have a personal connection virtually nonexistent among professional male colleagues. Even rarer: the weekly yoga class at the campaign’s (Virginia) headquarters).’

-- Don Frederick