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alp227

(32,023 posts)
Mon Aug 12, 2013, 05:28 PM Aug 2013

Obama’s upstate trip next week could include Buffalo

Source: Buffalo News

President Obama will take a two-day bus tour through upstate New York and Pennsylvania next week to discuss his economic plans for the middle class, and a source with knowledge of the trip told The Buffalo News that a Buffalo stop appears to be in the works.

The stops that the White House is eyeing for the bus tour are the Buffalo, Syracuse, Binghamton and Scranton, Pa., metro areas, the source said.

The White House confirmed that an upstate trip was in the works but did not provide details.

Read more: http://buffalonews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20130812/CITYANDREGION/130819723/1002

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Obama’s upstate trip next week could include Buffalo (Original Post) alp227 Aug 2013 OP
I hope they drive him by the fracking fields. n/t BlueToTheBone Aug 2013 #1
thanks alp Cha Aug 2013 #2
Syracuse! hedgehog Aug 2013 #3
tell him to watch out for this guy warrprayer Aug 2013 #4
He will see first hand that "Buffalo is a white collar town that thinks of itself as blue collar KurtNYC Aug 2013 #5

KurtNYC

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5. He will see first hand that "Buffalo is a white collar town that thinks of itself as blue collar
Tue Aug 13, 2013, 09:23 AM
Aug 2013

while Rochester is a blue collar town that thinks it is white collar."

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