The Internet buzzed about Hillary Clinton on Tuesday after a New Hampshire town hall meeting, with right-wingers and a few journalists speculating that a 9-year-old boy who asked Clinton a question about gender pay equity might have been coached.

'My mother, over there, is complaining that she does not get much more money than my father,' young Relic Reilly asked the former secretary of state.

'My mother is an engineer, I meant, teacher. My father is the engineer. And I think that my mother is working more harder than my ... I think my mother is working much harder, is working more harder than my father and she deserves to have more money, like, get more money, than my father. Because she's taking care of children and I just don't think it's fair.'

Relic's mother Bita Reilly, according to her LinkedIn profile, is a pre-K teacher at a cooperative preschool on the grounds of the tony Groton School, a co-ed boarding school in Groton, Massachusetts.

She told DailyMail.com via email that she and her son 'talked last night about what we would ask' if Clinton were to call on one of them. But she insisted that 'my son had his own question.'

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OUT OF THE MOUTHS OF BABES: Nine-year-old Relic Reilly posed a detailed scenario about gender pay equity to Hillary Clinton on Tuesday in New Hampshire, leading some to suspect that he was coached

MOM IS 'COMPLAINING': Relic Reilly told Clinton that his preschool-teacher mom Bita (left) resented earning less than his software-engineer dad Michael (right)

SKEPTICAL: Even an Associated Press reporter seemed incredulous about the likelihood that the boy asked his question without being prepped ahead of time

CUE THE LAUGHTER: Clinton laughed uproariously at the boy's comments, saying, 'Oh, that is really so sweet!'

'I said I wanted to ask about her plans in early childhood education in general,' she recalled. 'My son, Relic, asked me why I would not ask Hillary about teachers not getting paid enough (he also mentioned his own teacher while talking with me).'

'And then I told him "Why don't you ask this question yourself?"'

Relic felt a little bad that he embarrassed me as an example of his and said he wished he had talked about his own teacher instead. As I mentioned, if I had a chance I would ask totally another question as a preschool teacher, but my son had his own question.

'I see children in different dimensions of emotional, social, intellectual and physical which need to develop and get ready to hold the future in their hands,' she writes in a self-descriptive statement on LinkedIn.

'I respect the strong bond between young children and their families and would like to gain enough trust from the families to be confident leaving their children with me.'

Her Twitter account contains only one tweet, a note from 2012 announcing that she was preparing to take Relic and his twin brother, then just 6 years old, to a protest against Mitt Romney, who was the Republican presidential nominee.

'Getting Ready to go to Boston with my sons and their signs "Romney, Release Your Return" and "Romney, What Are You Hiding?"' the tweet read.

Romney was at the time facing pressure to release his personal income tax returns, in the face of unproven claims from Nevada Democratic Sen. Harry Reid that he had paid no taxes at all.

OCCUPY CHILDHOOD: Bita Reilly took her then-6-year-old twin boys to an anti-Mitt Romney protest in 2012 and beamed about it on Twitter

'LYNCHED': Michael Reilly asked his followers on Google+ whether Republican Rep. Jason Chaffetz should be censured, impeached or 'lynched' for what he claimed was a lie during a Capitol Hill hearing

THE FAMILY THAT PROTESTS TOGETHER ... Mrs. Reilly (right) has taken her boys to anti-Republican protests in the past

Relic's father Michael is a software engineer for BT Conferencing, a British videoconferencing service whose U.S. headquarters is in a Boston suburb.

His Google+ feed is peppered with anti-Republican rants including an October 2, 2015 poll he constructed – in which no one voted – asking what should happen to the House Oversight Committee's GOP chairman Jason Chaffetz as a consequence of displaying an anti-Planned Parenthood graphic during a hearing.

The options for Chaffetz included 'empeached' [sic], 'censured' and 'lynched.'

A more recent post, from Dec. 15, noted that Mr. Reilly was '[w]atching the best comedy of the month! #GOPDEBATE'

Mr. Reilly could not be reached on Tuesday.

Moments after their son asked his question on Tuesday, Associated Press reporter Ken Thomas tweeted his amazement that '[t]he kids who go to Hillary Clinton town halls certainly know a lot about pay equity issues.'

That was a subtler jab than the ones conservative activists threw.

'Sorry your mom's exploiting you, kid,' tweeted syndicated columnist Ben Shapiro.

PREACHING TO THE CHOIR: Clinton spoke at the campaign town hall meeting at South Church in Portsmouth, New Hampshire on Tuesday

SNARK: Right-wingers and columnists like Ben Shapiro couldn't contain their sarcasm

'Did the kid at least get paid Screen Actors Guild scale for this?' snarked conservative activist Michael Freeman.

Another right-winger on Twitter sniped that 'if it's one thing that unstaged children with legit questions know... it's pay equality issues. Such a joke.'

A Clinton spokesman did not respond on Tuesday afternoon to a question about whether or not the campaign had arranged in advance for the boy to ask a question.

But Mrs. Reilly told DailyMail.com that there was no set-up.

'We did not talk with anybody from Hillary campaign before and even after the town-hall meeting,' she said.

Clinton took the boy's query in stride, turning an intra-family pay squabble between a preschool teacher and a software engineer into a soliloquy about equal pay for equal work and salary 'transparency' in the workplace.

'Look, I do think equal pay for equal work is still a problem,' she said. 'And I think the Paycheck Fairness Act, which I supported every year it came up when I was in the Senate, is really important to try to open up the pay arena to more transparency.'

'Because right now if you are doing a job and you ask how much somebody else makes, you can be fired or retaliated against. And how are we ever gonna know that we get fair pay for, you know, not just women – although that's the biggest discrepancy – but particularly people who are in, you know, positions where it's hard to ask for more because of their working conditions.'

'I think that we still have problems,' she said in closing, 'and if you deny those problems you are denying the fastest way to increase incomes in America. And that is to make sure women are paid what they deserve in the job that they do.'