"Clinton targets young voters with new fundraising group"

[Ino]

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-clinton-youngpeople-idUSKCN0XI2TB?feedType=RSS&feedName=politicsNews

Dubbed "for45" - for Clinton as the 45th president of the United States - the group will offer associate level membership for as low as $250, according to an invitation seen by Reuters for an April 25 Philadelphia event.
(snip)
The group includes two other tiers, according to an information sheet seen by a "member" level with minimum fundraising of $2,500 and an "advisor" level for raising at least $10,000.
(snip)
The formation of the group underscores the challenge facing the former secretary of state in winning over the young people who have helped power Sanders' run. Younger voters are a critical voting block and source of financing should she win the Democratic nomination for the Nov. 8 presidential election.
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"Anything that spurs people to get involved financially, it just builds more ownership in the campaign," he said.

So she's "targeting" young people... for their votes and money. Not a word about what she has to offer them. I dunno... is this really what they think is "winning over the young people"??

[notadmblnd]

29. Yeah, kids are going to give her money for the privilege of talking her up

PT Barnum was right.

[Raster]

2. "...builds more ownership in the campaign..."

[Art_from_Ark]

18. What's that even supposed to mean?

[notadmblnd]

34. It might mean that they get an authentic certificate of membership and a special decoder ring

which will reveal when utilized "Drink Ovaltine"

[Art_from_Ark]

35. Wow! Sounds like a super deal!

Where can I sign up?!

[think]

3. Not the Onion

[riderinthestorm]

4. I'm not kidding Maddi! Send that $1 right now!

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/hillary-clinton/12150600/ImNotKiddingMaddi-trends-after-Hillary-Clinton-sends-email-asking-for-a-dollar-after-New-Hampshire-vote.html

[northernsouthern]

30. Some of the pics were funny.

I posted the ones in better taste, the Jesse one was a bit borderline for me, since Jesse's character is not the most PC.

[Art_from_Ark]

37. Lots of "Maddis" were more than happy to oblige

[Trajan]

5. Hey ... To hell with college, a prosperous future, and a pleasant retirement

Fuck all that ... But here is a picture of Bill and I, at the White House with the bankers and billionaire industrialists who are SO so pleased you sent that money!

[CentralCoaster]

6. This desperation, coming from the inevitable one, why? I thought she won this last Tuesday?

.

[jmg257]

7. LOL! "get involved financially, it just builds more ownership" Yeah someones getting powned alright.

Maybe she can go hoover up all those dollars in front of Clooneys.



$$ $$

[frylock]

38. Sounds like a pyramid scheme.

[PowerToThePeople]

8. good luck with that.

[k8conant]

9. "Golden" level = $225,000 ???

or "Golden Sax" but that would be $1,225,000 and include Bill

[winter is coming]

10. Given how off-target the "abuela" campaign was,

I'm expecting "for 45" to appeal more to 45-year-olds than to young people.

[astrophuss42]

33. This.

My first thought was for45andundervotes.

[noretreatnosurrender]

11. And the David Brock Brigade

is out there attacking the young people they supposedly want to appeal to with this message?

[Hoyt]

12. Should be obvious. Health care, preserve SS, environment, Supreme Court, education,

higher taxes on wealthy, significantly increased minimum wage, worldwide economic development, and hell of a lot more. I don't think young people are as obtuse/gullible as Sanders' supporters think.

[vintx]

15. I just gotta ask...

when you say "worldwide economic development", are you referring to shit like the TPP?

[Hoyt]

16. I'm referring to importance of worldwide development. I'm not a Nationalist, America First type.

Are you?

[vintx]

17. Nice dodge, not unexpected. And the environment? You talking about so-called "clean" coal? nt

[Hoyt]

19. She'll expand Paris Accord. Sanders will yell at sky. You didn't answer my question.

[think]

28. Bernie is for FAIR trade that emphasizes protecting the rights of workers to unionize w/out fear of

being murdered...

AFL-CIO’s Trumka: USTR Told Us Murder Isn’t A Violation Under U.S. Trade Deals

WASHINGTON — Defenders of the White House push for sweeping trade deals argue they include tough enforcement of labor standards. But a top union leader scoffed at such claims Tuesday, revealing that administration officials have said privately that they don’t consider even the killings of labor organizers to be violations of those pacts.

Richard Trumka, the president of the AFL-CIO, testified to that claim at a Senate Finance Committee hearing on legislation to grant President Barack Obama so-called fast-track authority to cut at least two new enormous trade agreements with Pacific Rim nations and the European Union. It appears to be the first time anyone has revealed such a stance on the part of a U.S. government that has been touting its efforts to improve wages and working conditions among its trading partners, relying in part on trade agreements.

But Trumka charged that the labor standards included in those trade deals are poorly enforced, and that before he would back the White House’s push for the Trans-Pacific Partnership or the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, he wanted to see tougher labor provisions that could be enforced.

“When you say, ‘Oh these are some standards, they’re better than no standards,’ we were told by by the [United States Trade Representative] general counsel that murdering a trade unionist doesn’t violate these standards, that perpetuating violence against a trade unionist doesn’t violate these agreements,” Trumka said, directing his remarks to Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.), who backs the deals.

Trumka pointed specifically to the Colombia trade pact that was signed in 2006, but passed by Congress in 2011. Trumka said that even after the Obama administration crafted an agreement to tighten labor protections four years ago, some 105 labor organizers have been killed, and more than 1,300 have been threatened with death.

Read more:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/04/22/fast-track-trade_n_7113412.html

[angrychair]

21. Yea...ok

I'll go see if any of my kids 18-20 year old friends have $10,000 to drop on her campaign

Back....nope. Nothing.

Yep, the best way to get in touch with young people is to ask them for thousands of dollars.

[Hoyt]

22. They'll get the benefits whether or not the pay a couple of hundred. Besides, she

isn't going to turn down a dollar. So pay what you can, that's what I'll do.

[onecaliberal]

13. This is hillarious.

[EmperorHasNoClothes]

14. That's the way to win them over! Ask them for money!!

Absolutely. Clueless.

[slipslidingaway]

20. No way would I vote for her, my son reiterated to me tonight, he'll love this new strategy! nt

[Eugene]

23. :facepalm:

"...associate level membership for as low as $250, ..."

Who are the young people she is trying to reach?

I accept that Hillary Clinton is our likely nominee and I'm trying really hard to believe.
But this is a misfire.

[Warren DeMontague]

24. Debbie Wasserman Schultz can explain that granny is going to prison for using medical marijuana?

So maybe 'the young people' will get the extra room?

[BernieforPres2016]

25. Only $250 to be an "associate level member"?

Those uniformed young people are going to be standing in line for that offer.

Could these grifters possibly be more oblivious?

[grasswire]

26. HAHAHAHA

Geniuses.

They want young people (already alienated from HRC) to pay to join her club house??

[Generic Other]

27. from minimum wage earners?

Kids with college loans so high they eat ramen every day? How clueless can you get?

[Art_from_Ark]

31. When you can get $250,000 for a single speech,

then $250 is chicken feed.

[northernsouthern]

32. This can not be true?

Wow, it is so out of touch. Why would people buy in to some deal like they were paying her off. It reeks of people used to lobbyist. This is the very reason they are voting against her.

[demwing]

36. This isn't a primary campaign, it's a marketing campaign

why am I surprised?