Clinton campaign sends out $1,000+ fundraiser invites as part of her 'grassroots campaign'

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last updated 2 June 2015

A Hillary Clinton campaign email shared with The Intercept invites supporters to have a "Conversation with Hillary" — and tickets start at $1,000 a head. The email bills this elite function as part of Clinton's "grassroots campaign":

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Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.