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Clinton Staffers Drown Their Sorrows in Style at the Gramercy Park Hotel

Where: 2 Lexington Avenue [map], New York, NY, United States, 10010

June 4, 2008 at 10:50 AM | 1 Comment

Unless you've been living under a rock, you know by now that last night marked the end of the Democratic primaries and, effectively, the end Hillary Clinton's campaign (though she has yet to concede).

Clinton was in NYC addressing supporters at Baruch College at an "end-of-primaries celebration event" when the world received word that Obama had clinched the Democratic presidential nomination.

Afterward, according to Radar, Clinton campaign staffers headed over to the Gramercy Park Hotel to an end-of-primaries Clinton-funded afterparty. Up in the posh penthouse of Schrager's exclusive boutique property, Clinton staffers drowned their sorrows in expensive cocktails. Radar describes the scene:

"It's a sad night, for sure," [a staffer] sighed, as John Mellencamp's political rally staple, "This Is Our Country," blared away on the loudspeakers . . . "We put in a lot of hard work on this campaign, so it's tough to see it end like this." She paused to take a sip of her Chardonnay. "I guess it's time to look for a new job."

Well, we guess if you've gotta go, you might as well go out in style.

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