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Stinky The Clown

(67,856 posts)
Thu Jan 4, 2018, 09:17 PM Jan 2018

What is the button/brooch Jill Wine-Banks is wearing today?

She is the blond woman who was a Watergate prosecutor and is now an MSNBC talking head.

She is wearing a large button or brooch that is a yellow school bus with brightly colored windows. It has an inscription on it that I can't read. Does anyone know what it is?

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Stinky The Clown

(67,856 posts)
2. Wow! Great sleuthing! Thanks!
Thu Jan 4, 2018, 09:54 PM
Jan 2018

Did the source site say what it means? Is that the name of a school, maybe?

 

Hoyt

(54,770 posts)
3. Best I can figure, it's an area of Seattle Washington and there is at least an elementary school
Thu Jan 4, 2018, 10:07 PM
Jan 2018

named Rainier View.

I have seen that lady on MSNBC often, and wondered who she is. Your OP spurred me to look it up and I ran across the brooches/pins. She has a bunch of cool ones.

nolabear

(42,019 posts)
5. Yep, Rainier View Elementary, in Federal Way.
Thu Jan 4, 2018, 10:11 PM
Jan 2018

I edited because I'd mislocated it. Federal Way is south of Seattle. I used to work at an agency there when I first started doing therapy. It's one of the less gentrified areas. I didn't know she had a Seattle connection. It's probably a little creepy to be stalked via a pin but it's media life I suppose. And heck, I'm clearly chipping in.

Stinky The Clown

(67,856 posts)
6. I agree. It is likely for the school given the motif.
Thu Jan 4, 2018, 10:14 PM
Jan 2018

I'm wondering if she has some connection to the school. I can't find anything about it, or even about where she lives.

VOX

(22,976 posts)
7. As Jill Wine-Banks is to pins, so John Heilemann is to eyewear.
Thu Jan 4, 2018, 10:16 PM
Jan 2018

He seems to have a different pair of eyeglasses for every day of the month.

He also has a Wu-Tang Clan logo decal affixed to his laptop.

Stinky The Clown

(67,856 posts)
8. Lots of similar place names.
Thu Jan 4, 2018, 10:21 PM
Jan 2018

There are two elementary schools with the name, too. One in Seattle's Rainier View and one a few miles south, in the south end of Federal Way.

Debbo

(4 posts)
12. Pins
Thu Jan 4, 2018, 11:02 PM
Jan 2018

I often look at the TV brooches/pins and lapel pins and thought it was just me. Thanks for these updates! Jill Wine-Banks just tweeted why she wore it: Jill Wine-Banks (@JillWineBanks) Tweeted:
Today on @craigmelvin on #MSNBC at noon CT and @allinwithchris at 7 pm CT I'm wearing a bus pin because everyone is throwing everyone under the bus. Bannon, 45, Jr, Jared and Ivanka. #JillsPins #PinGang https://t.co/I7OyGGPT0M


?ref_src=twcamp%5Eshare%7Ctwsrc%5Em5%7Ctwgr%5Eemail%7Ctwcon%5E7046%7Ctwterm%5E2

Rhiannon12866

(207,516 posts)
13. Great find! I'll have to look more closely from now on!
Fri Jan 5, 2018, 01:23 AM
Jan 2018

And welcome to DU! It's great to have you with us!

Debbo

(4 posts)
17. Thank you! And..
Sat Jan 6, 2018, 01:59 AM
Jan 2018

.more on Jill's pins...follow #JillsPins. Today was the puzzle pin. Like Madeleine Albright, who also spoke through her pins.

Vinca

(50,352 posts)
15. I wondered about that, too. I always look for her pins.
Fri Jan 5, 2018, 07:39 AM
Jan 2018

In honor of throwing people under the bus . . . great sense of humor.

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