Hillary Clinton talks jobs, small business during campaign stop in Hatfield Township

Kim Weimer / Photojournalist

Hillary Clinton and Tim Kaine make a campaign stop in Hatfield Township

Hilllary Clinton and Tim Kaine greet supporters Friday, July 29, 2016, at Rodon/K’Nex in Hatfield Township on their first stop of a weekend bus tour focusing on plans to create jobs and help America’s small business.

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Kim Weimer / Photojournalist

Hillary Clinton and Tim Kaine make a campaign stop in Hatfield Township

Hilllary Clinton speaks to supporters Friday, July 29, 2016, at Rodon/K’Nex in Hatfield Township on her first stop of a weekend bus tour focusing on plans to create jobs and help America’s small business.

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Crissa Shoemaker DeBree / Staff

Young Hillary Clinton supporter

Six-week-old Isabelle Sharp, of Hatboro, snoozes prior to Hillary Clinton’s appearance at K’NEX in Hatfield Township Friday on July 29, 2016. Isabelle’s mother, Emily Finegold-Sharp, said she wanted her daughter “to see the first female president of the United States (and) be inspired.”

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Posted: Friday, July 29, 2016 7:00 pm

Hillary Clinton talks jobs, small business during campaign stop in Hatfield TownshipBy Crissa Shoemaker DeBree, staff writerThe Intelligencer

Posted on Jul 29, 2016

by Crissa Shoemaker

Hillary Clinton brought her presidential campaign to Hatfield Township on Friday, the first stop on a weekend bus tour focusing on plans to create jobs and help America’s small businesses.

Fresh off the Democratic National Convention, Clinton and running mate Tim Kaine, accompanied by former President Bill Clinton and Kaine’s wife, Anne Holton, spoke before a few hundred cheering supporters at the Rodon Group in Hatfield Township, a family-owned plastics manufacturer best known for making K’NEX construction toys.

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Crissa Shoemaker DeBree: 215-345-3186; email: cshoemaker@calkins.com; Twitter: @CrissaShoemaker