The Mariachi Divas, an all-female pan-Hispanic music ensemble, had them dancing in the aisles before Hillary Rodham Clinton's rally at Cal State Los Angeles this morning. But the group was unceremoniously shown the door when the political program began.
"Thank you! You were awesome!" said a young Clinton volunteer, escorting the group, decked out in rhinestone-studded costumes and toting guitars and fiddles, out a set of double doors.
"But we want to see her," a member protested.
"There's no room. You can listen outside. Thank you!" said the Clintonista, pointing to a crowd listening on loudspeakers outside in the chilly quad.
Another member turned to a reporter and said incredulously, "They're kicking us out!"
For the record, there was plenty of room in the gym -- a dozen feet of open floor ringing the crowd on main floor. A Clinton staffer said there were concerns that the room, already packed with several thousand enthusiastic supporters, many of the Latinas, was already at capacity.
-- Glenn Thrush in Los Angeles