Bill Clinton coming to Stroudsburg, Lehigh Valley, on Wednesday

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Former President Bill Clinton, campaigning for his wife, Democratic presidential hopeful, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., speaks at a 'Solutions for America' rally on Friday, March 7, 2008, in Media, Pa.ASSOCIATED PRESS

Former President Bill Clinton will make a campaign stop for his wife, presidential candidate Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., at Stroudsburg High School on Wednesday.

The event, part of the Clinton campaign's "Solutions for America" tour, is scheduled from 6 to 9 p.m., according to a press release. The rally will take place in the school gymnasium and is open to the public.

Ronnie Byrd, the Clinton campaign's Monroe County chairman, said the former president will also address a smaller gathering of local Democratic officials and other VIPs at the school just before the rally.

"We're looking forward to the former president coming to the area," Byrd said. "It's going to be a grand event. Now we just need to put the word out."

Stroudsburg Area School District Superintendent John Toleno said the Clinton campaign reached out to the district at about noon on Monday.

Toleno said the campaign was looking at both the high school and East Stroudsburg University as possible locations for the event. The campaign scouted both locations and settled on the high school.

The school gym seats about 1,000 people, Toleno said.

The former president is also scheduled to make three other stops in eastern Pennsylvania on Wednesday.

Clinton will attend a rally at the Hotel Bethlehem Grand Ballroom on Main Street in Bethlehem scheduled for 11:45 a.m. and an event at Muhlenberg College's Memorial Hall on Chew Street in Allentown scheduled for 1:15 p.m., according to a press release.

He will then travel to Wilkes-Barre for a 3:45 p.m. rally at James M. Coughlin Junior/Senior High School on North Washington Street.

During the campaign, Bill Clinton has been criticized for appearing to invoke race in his criticism of Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., his wife’s chief rival for the Democratic nomination. Bill Clinton compared the Illinois senator’s win in South Carolina’s Jan. 26 primary to Jesse Jackson’s victories there in 1984 and 1988. A Wall Street Journal-NBC News poll last Thursday showed that 45 percent of voters have a negative view of him, compared to 42 percent with a positive view, the first time in five years that more voters have viewed him unfavorably than favorably.

In an interview with ABC’s “Good Morning America,” on Monday, the former president dismissed those criticisms, blaming the media for giving him a “bum rap.”

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