At Little Rock reunion, travelers for Clintons recall wrangling votes [View all]

Arkansas' Democratic Party luminaries and political junkies filled the first floor of the Butler Center for Arkansas Studies on Friday evening, swapping tales from a shared history as people reminisced on Bill Clinton's successful presidential campaigns.

The event was the second time that many members of the Arkansas Travelers, a group of longtime supporters of the Clintons, have all gotten together, said Sheila Galbraith Bronfman, who heads the Travelers.

In 1991, she and Skip Rutherford -- now the dean of the University of Arkansas Clinton School of Public Service -- approached Bill Clinton about how to deploy hundreds of his friends and admirers. They were doctors, lawyers, and housewives who wanted to campaign but couldn't take a year off, Bronfman said.

So they traveled, on their own dime, to hand out pamphlets, ring doorbells and yell "like banshees" in 26 states, Bronfman said.

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