Hillary Clinton upsets children by bailing on speech at Boys & Girls Club

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Between 30 and 35 kids age 5-13 were told they would meet the presidential candidate, but she never showed
Children wrote her letters, painted signs, drew pictures and even decorated the door of a bathroom for her with a giant gold dressing-room star
'There were tears, they were really looking forward to it,' a Boys & Girls Club representative said
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By David Martosko, Us Political Editor For Dailymail.com

Published: 18:15 EST, 18 September 2015 | Updated: 23:35 EST, 18 September 2015

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Hillary Clinton left some young fans upset Thursday in New Hampshire after she canceled a planned appearance at a Boys & Girls Club location in Laconia, New Hampshire.

Between 30 to 35 children who participate in the club's programs, all of them between 5 and13 years old, waited, and waited, and waited.

They had written letters to the former secretary of state and devised questions to ask her. They drew her pictures and painted welcome signs. They even decorated the door of a bathroom to make it look like a dressing room – complete with a giant gold star.

Organizers and parents had told them they would be able to meet the Democratic presidential candidate.

It never happened.

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CRUSHED: 8-year-old Landon Bormes said after Hillary Clinton canceled her Boys & GIrls Club visit that 'I kind of felt a little bit sad because I was looking forward to it for all day today'

A STAR IS (NOT) BORN: The disappointed children had dressed up a bathroom to look like a dressing room for Hillary, complete with a dressing-room gold star

Clinton was in Laconia to speak at a public forum about drug addiction. But instead of meeting the kids, her campaign whisked her off to a separate speaking engagement at a different Boys & Girls Club location in Concord, 30 miles away.

A New Hampshire TV news station reported that the change of plans left some Laconia kids in tears and made some parents furious.

Landon Bormes, an 8-year-old boy, said the news made him 'kind of angry and mad at the same time.'

'And I kind of felt a little bit sad because I was looking forward to it for all day today.'

'Mostly,' the boy said, 'what I wanted to do was maybe, um, like – maybe for her to write her name on a piece of paper for me, to show everybody, that I actually met her.'

Landon's dad Michael told NH1 that the inconsiderate move was doubly surprising given the child-centered messaging in Clinton's latest campaign ad.

The spot focuses on Clinton's granddaughter Charlotte.

'UNACCEPTABLE': Landon's dad asked Hillary: 'You want to be the President of the United States? It starts with the youth. You couldn’t even live up to a promise that was made or told to these kids?'

'When I look at my new granddaughter, I think to myself, "We are going to do everything we can to make sure she has opportunities in life. But what about all the kids?'" Clinton says to open the ad.

'You should not have to be the grandchild of a former president to know that you can make it in America,' Clinton says on screen, recycling a message that has become a staple of her campaign stump speech.

Michael Bornes heaped scorn on Hillary for leaving his son high and dry.

'I think it’s unacceptable,' he said. 'You want to be the President of the United States? It starts with the youth. You couldn’t even live up to a promise that was made or told to these kids?'

Boys & Girls Club official Traci Tucker vented to NH1's reporter.

'It just didn’t happen,' she said. 'She ran out of time. There were tears, they were really looking forward to it. There were a bunch of kids that had decorated her little bathroom.'

NH1 reported that an unidentified member of Clinton's campaign staff was present at the Laconia Boys & Girls Club on Friday, but that he refused to talk with a reporter.

PRECIOUS ARTWORKS: The kids had drawn pictures for Clinton, written her letters and drafted questions to ask her

'A LIFE LESSON': Boys & Girls Club official Traci Tucker hinted that the kids have learned early how life is full of disappointment

'It was a life lesson, I guess,' Tucker told the station, 'that sometimes you look forward to things and they just don’t work out.'

'You might work hard to make sure you’re ready for it, and the other part might not come through. And that’s just it’s a bummer of a lesson to learn especially at this age, but it gave us a little something to talk about.'

The Clinton campaign said Friday that it intends to reschedule the visit on a future date when the candidate comes back to Laconia.