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riversedge

(70,186 posts)
Wed Mar 4, 2015, 02:42 AM Mar 2015

Clinton avoids e-mail flap in EMILY's List speech

Source: AP




Clinton avoids e-mail flap in EMILY's List speech
Fredreka Schouten, USA TODAY 1:15 a.m. EST March 4, 2015


(there is a short video clip at website)
Hillary Rodham Clinton spoke to the 30th anniversary gala of EMILY's List on Tuesday night. She didn't mention the controversy involving her use of a personal email account while she was Secretary of State. (March 4) AP
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WASHINGTON -- Hillary Rodham Clinton urged Democratic activists Tuesday to recommit to electing more women to public office, but avoided the e-mail controversy surrounding her own likely campaign to become the nation's first female president.

In a speech to mark the 30th anniversary of EMILY's List, Clinton sounded economic themes familiar from her recent public appearances — denouncing the gaps in income between the wealthy and working poor and calling for paid sick days and family leave.

"When any parent is shortchanged," she said, "our economy is shortchanged."

In a nearly 30-minute speech, however, she did not address the flap that erupted over news that she conducted government business on e-mail solely through a personal account during her tenure as secretary of State.......

Read more: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2015/03/03/hillary-clinton-emilys-list-state-department-e-mail-women/24331007/



I kinda wished she might have said something. Not sure right now.
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Clinton avoids e-mail flap in EMILY's List speech (Original Post) riversedge Mar 2015 OP
She did drop a big Hint about runnning though...Watch live.... riversedge Mar 2015 #1
The forum was not the right place for that issue. It would have been a distraction still_one Mar 2015 #2
Of course, she avoided talking about it. Major Hogwash Mar 2015 #3
It was a great speech. n/t Adrahil Mar 2015 #4
Not that I'm the biggest Hillary fan but..... wolfie001 Mar 2015 #5

riversedge

(70,186 posts)
1. She did drop a big Hint about runnning though...Watch live....
Wed Mar 4, 2015, 02:50 AM
Mar 2015

YUP!




Watch LIVE: Hillary Clinton addresses Emily’s List gala


BY News Desk March 3, 2015 at 7:00 PM EST

Fresh off of allegations she may have illegally used a personal email account during her tenure as Secretary of State, likely 2016 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton will address the Emily’s List 30th Anniversary Gala at 8 pm ET. Emily’s List is a political action committee dedicated to supporting pro-abortion rights women for democratic office....


http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/watch-live-hillary-clinton-addresses-emilys-list-gala/

Major Hogwash

(17,656 posts)
3. Of course, she avoided talking about it.
Wed Mar 4, 2015, 04:44 AM
Mar 2015

She's going to have to testify under oath to Congress about it later.

wolfie001

(2,227 posts)
5. Not that I'm the biggest Hillary fan but.....
Wed Mar 4, 2015, 12:31 PM
Mar 2015

.....the "e-mail flap" is total bullshit. Sorry if the trollers have to do a bit of reading and brain work to get to the truth. Boo hoo.

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