Will Hillary Clinton Push Fellow Democratic Supporters To Oppose The TPP?

[Omaha Steve]

http://nhlabornews.com/2016/01/will-hillary-clinton-push-fellow-democratic-supporters-to-oppose-the-tpp/

Will Clinton Spend Some Of Her Newly Acquired Political Capitol To Do What Is Right For Working Families?

By Matt Murray | January 27, 2016


Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton speaks at the 2015 IAM National Staff Conference in New York, NY. (Photo: Bill Burke/Page One Photography)


Yesterday, the Bernie Sanders campaign hit Hillary Clinton on her newly adopted position opposing the Trans-Pacific Partnership. If Clinton wants to prove that she is as whole-heartedly against the TPP as she claims, there is something she can do to prove it and would generate more grassroots labor support for her Presidential campaign.

For years now Sanders has been speaking out against these so-called free trade agreements that have led to the offshoring of jobs and the decline of the middle class.

“You are looking at a senator and former congressman who has led the effort since his first day in Congress back in the early 1990s against disastrous trade agreements like NAFTA, CAFTA, PNTR with China and today against the TPP,” said Sanders. “My record on trade is very, very different than Secretary Clinton’s. I am glad that after talking about how good the TPP would be, finally, under great pressure, she decided to oppose it. But I think it is a real area of disagreement.”

It is a fact that before Sanders officially jumped into the race Clinton was on the fence about the TPP, refusing to officially take any position on it. As Secretary of State, Clinton had some roll in negotiating this multi-national trade agreement.

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[Bernblu]

1. She already said she wouldn't lobby against TPP

[joshcryer]

3. Really? That's interesting.

I was wondering if she was just letting it die rather than actually saying she wouldn't fight it. Do you have a link to that? That'd be a moment of clarity with regards to honesty on her behalf.

[cali]

2. She'll find some pretext, say it's all fixed now and fabulous

And become its biggest champion.