Posted by DEAN SKIP RUTHERFORD – “Kids for Hillary” founder David Helfenbein is featured in today’s New York Times. David is a friend of the Clinton School, having spent time here working on a project for his University of Pennsylvania history professor David Eisenhower. Eisenhower, who is also a friend, is the grandson of President Dwight D. Eisenhower.
Helfenbein, a senior at Penn, first met Senator Clinton when he was 13-years-old, and has worked for her campaigns since. The Chappaqua, N.Y., native now does advance work for the senator’s presidential campaign. Click here for the Times story. Here is an excerpt:
He met Mrs. Clinton in March 2000, when she came to visit the middle school that he attended. Even at 13, David Helfenbein was no political novice. He had been involved in student government since fifth grade, was class president in sixth grade and school vice president in seventh grade.
“I think I took a year off in eighth grade,” Mr. Helfenbein said, before noting that he held a school office every year after that. By his senior year, he was president of Horace Greeley High School.
When Mrs. Clinton visited his middle school, he was determined to meet her. He asked the principal for permission to speak at the event, a naturalization ceremony for new citizens. He was assigned one sentence, but managed to welcome Mrs. Clinton from the podium, and tell her, “You really do light up the room.” Later, he talked his way into a reception for Mrs. Clinton, where he offered to work on her Senate campaign.
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