Nick Reynolds

nreynolds@ithacajournal.com | @IJCityWatch

We can't make this stuff up; we really can't.

The address of the Ithaca field office of the Bernie Sanders presidential campaign is 609 W. Clinton St.

Yes. Clinton Street.

The Clinton West Plaza, to be exact. The plaza, where the campaign is headquartered, is named for the street on which it sits.

Clinton Street is named after Dewitt Clinton, governor of New York state at the time Tompkins County and Ithaca were founded. The street has no liberal ties — this governor, after all, was a member of what is considered the first iteration of the Republican Party — and in Ithaca, at the time, naming streets after past governors of New York was common practice.

Today, the connotations of the Clinton name take on something a little different. Namely, the moniker of the candidate Sanders finds himself up against this primary season.

It's not the first example of Clinton appropriation by Sanders. As some may recall, the presidential candidate was for a brief while a popular professor of sociology at Hamilton College, located in — you guessed it — Clinton, New York.

Campaign workers at the Sanders Ithaca office acknowledged the coincidence but said it is an unintended, if hilarious, stroke of irony. The site was selected because it's spacious and a great location, with ample parking and right off state Route 13.

"We'll set up anywhere," Sanders supporter and volunteer Bernie Fetterly said. "Anywhere and everywhere. Even on Clinton Street."

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