Hillary Clinton: I Befriended the Maid

2008 presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton wowed the crowd at a pre-nomination breakfast in Buffalo Wednesday morning with a story about how she had befriended the maid who cleans her hotel room.

With just hours to go before she accepts the nomination for a second term as New York's junior senator, Clinton huddled with party faithful in a downstairs banquet room at Buffalo's convention center.

The former first lady recalled how, during her first Senate run, she began staying in a downtown hotel when she traveled to Buffalo - claiming that as time went by she and the maid became good friends.

According to the West New York Media Network, while Clinton recounted her friendship with the unnamed cleaning lady, the assembled Democrats became so quiet "you could hear a pin drop."

During her last trip to Buffalo before the election, Mrs. Clinton said the maid approached her and offered a good luck campaign gift.

It was a snow globe of the city, which the maid handed over with the words: "Mrs. Clinton, don’t forget Buffalo."

According to WNY Media, the breakfast crowd "went wild as the Senator said, 'I won’t . . . I’ll do everything I can to help Buffalo.'"