Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton make a campaign stop in Dallas County Wednesday.
The former First Lady, U.S. Senator and Secretary of State stopped at the Adel Family Fun Center on her Get Out the Caucus tour.
It’s no surprise that Clinton chose that business as the location of her stop. She met owner and young entrepreneur Bryce Smith last April during a roundtable discussion in Iowa.
“I thanked her tremendously on that day and at the end of that she said she would love to stop by my small business and I said I would love that too, and obviously before Monday. And I get a call. I get all this last weekend and oh, she’s coming. Nothing motivates you more to clean a business than to have a potential next president stop at your business.”
Though he joked about the hundreds of attendees making Wednesday his busiest day since taking over the business last January, Smith also spent time during his introduction talking about how he felt she understood him and his desire to have the American dream.
Clinton spoke to the crowd for just under an hour, touching on several topics including higher minimum wages, wage equality and job creation.
“I want more jobs in infrastructure. Our roads, our bridges, our tunnels, our ports, our airports, our rail systems, you name it, we are behind. These are jobs that can’t be exported. They have to be done right here in the United States. I know there are lots of ways of doing it, I propose something called the National Infrastructure Bank because we just can’t rely on the Republicans in Congress. I guess they don’t drive on the roads, or cross the bridges, I don’t know where they get around to because they’re not seeing what I’m seeing and what a lot of you are seeing.”
Though Clinton did not take questions from the audience, she did also talk about climate change, the need for renewable energy, not raising taxes on the middle class, affordable health care and college and foreign affairs.