Hillary Rodham Clinton was ready with a quip after a woman threw a shoe at her as she took the stage for a Las Vegas speech.
Security
at the Mandalay Bay casino resort ushered out the woman, who is now in
federal custody after the incident at the Institute of Scrap Recycling
Industries meeting.
"My goodness, I didn't know that solid waste
management was so controversial," Clinton said. "Thank goodness she
didn't play softball like I did."
Clinton dodged the object, which sailed past her head.
Mark
Carpenter, a spokesman for the recycling institute, said the woman was
not affiliated with the organization nor credentialed for the event.
"Our
staff denied her access before she later rushed past security,"
Carpenter said in a statement. "An ISRI staffer then stopped her as she
approached the stage. She was then handed over to law enforcement."
Jerry Simms, the outgoing chairman of the recycling institute, offered a "deepest apology for that crude interruption."
The
organization represents more than 1,700 companies that process, broker
and industrially consume metals, paper, plastics, glass, rubber,
electronics and textiles. Both Clinton and Apple co-founder Steve
Wozniak spoke at the meeting.
Clinton, who has said she's thinking
about running for president in 2016, has been making paid speeches and
is finishing a new book about her State Department days that will be
released June 10. She's on a three-state swing of the West Coast.
The Clinton incident evokes a 2008 event in which an Iraqi journalist threw shoes at President George W. Bush in Baghdad.
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