Saturday, April 19, 2008

Boston Globe blog article

QUAKERTOWN, Pa. -- Gretchen Baer spent four months pimping her ride, and she created a beauty: The Hillcar, a 1989 Toyota Corolla refashioned into a roving shrine to Hillary Clinton.

Baer, a 45-year-old artist and waitress from Bisbee, Ariz., parked the thing outside Bill Clinton's campaign stops today north of Philadelphia. She plans to drive it around Pennsylvania to draw attention to Clinton ahead of Tuesday's primary. It's a stunt one expects more on Elm Street in Manchester, N.H. than on the backroads of the Keystone State, but such is the nature of the 2008 campaign.

"It works," said Baer, who studied at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design. "It's just another way to get people to think about Hillary."

She was certainly drawing attention -- voters streaming out of the campaign events were stopping to ogle, and shoot photos. Baer also used the car in Arizona and Texas, where, coincidentally or not, Clinton won primaries. For symbolism's sake, Baer better hope the Hillcar -- rickety enough that she had to ship it out here -- keeps running through Tuesday. A stall would not be the imagery she's going for.

9 comments:

KCmustang said...

i am all giddy for you. This is sooo cool! Lets see you can be googled, you are in newspapers, magazines, museums and art gallaries... what is that called a Living Legend?....i see your name in history books....or maybe that book you were going to start??? hmmm

thanks for bloggin! xo

Judy from Texas in Arizona said...

Absolutely! Gretchen is now a living legend! And we know her! Wow, aren't we lucky dogs! So proud of you!!! Thanks to Kate for going with you and finding places to stay. I'll bake you TWO funny cakes when you return!!!

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