June 5, 2016

Conflict of interest: Sanders assails Clinton over Foundation

Conflict of interest: Sanders assails Clinton over Foundation

Bernie Sanders has largely been silent in the debate about the Clinton Foundation’s ties to foreign governments – including some with poor human rights records. But in the final week of the primary season against Hillary Clinton, the Vermont senator finally unleashed a few jabs on the issue.

“If you asked me about the Clinton Foundation, do I have a problem when a sitting secretary of state and a foundation run by her husband collects many millions of dollars from foreign governments, governments which are dictatorships … yeah I do,” Sanders said in an interview Sunday morning on CNN’s “State of the Union.”


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June 5, 2016

‘Invisible Women’ for Hillary

http://bluenationreview.com/invisible-women-for-hillary/

By Ginger McKnight-Chavers
June 5, 2016

“I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.” I have thought of this quote from Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man often during this election season.

As an African American woman who supports Hillary Clinton, I regularly feel invisible. The media, the pundits, the pollsters and the other candidates refuse to see me.

Women (who make up over 60% of registered voters) and minorities are disregarded as if we are unimportant to the candidates’ platforms or the outcome of the race, and as if we don’t recall the genesis of these smears.



Between working, learning, raising families, caregiving, bettering our communities, and engaging in the real world around us, we don’t have the time or the patience to waste precious energy on fighting incessant harassment as the cost of participation.

The “saying nothing, talking loud” crowd (to paraphrase Earth Wind & Fire) may attempt to silence us. But we won’t remain invisible forever....

June 5, 2016

Andrew, dude bro, not a good use of Dem. registration data...

shannonwoodward ?@shannonwoodward

June 5, 2016

Here’s where Hillary Clinton is giving her nomination victory speech on Tuesday night

Here’s where Hillary Clinton is giving her nomination victory speech on Tuesday night

By Bill Palmer | June 4, 2016 |

Hillary Clinton will officially clinch the Democratic Party 2016 nomination for President on Tuesday June 7th when the polls close in New Jersey, whether she wins the state or not, based on proportional delegates — but she won’t be giving her victory speech there. She’ll also be looking to win the California primary later that night, but she won’t be speaking from the west coast either. Instead, Hillary has revealed an intriguing home base for the evening....

http://www.dailynewsbin.com/news/heres-where-hillary-clinton-is-giving-her-nomination-clinching-speech-on-tuesday-night/24922/

June 5, 2016

Updated delegate totals...with VI

June 4, 2016

JUNE 8, 2008 - HRC Ends Campaign with Clear Call to Elect Obama. NYT

Clinton Ends Campaign With Clear Call to Elect Obama

By ADAM NAGOURNEY and MARK LEIBOVICHJUNE 8, 2008



WASHINGTON — Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton brought her campaign for the White House to an end on Saturday with a rousing farewell to thousands of supporters here and an emotional and unequivocal call for her voters to get behind Senator Barack Obama, the man who defeated her for the Democratic nomination.

For 28 minutes, standing alone on a stage in the historic National Building Museum, Mrs. Clinton spoke not only about the importance of electing Mr. Obama, but also about the extent to which her campaign was a milestone for women. She urged women who had supported her — who had turned out at her headquarters, flocked to her rallies and poured into the polls to vote for her — not to take the wrong lesson from her loss.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/08/us/politics/08dems.html

June 4, 2016

Sen. Elizabeth Warren: 'I don't believe in super-delegates'

So much for Bernie's plan to flip the SDs

June 4, 2016

Hillary Clinton to Offer Plan on Paying College Tuition Without Needing Loans

I like Hillary's plan. Her plan offers aid to people who are already struggling with repaying student loans, parent with children in college and millenials, who are just starting college. Plus...Her plan is sure to garner a large amount of bi-partisan support. Republicans struggle with student loans and rising tuition, too.

Ney York Times

By PATRICK HEALY
AUG. 10, 2015

Under the plan, which was outlined by Clinton advisers on Sunday, about $175 billion in grants would go to states that guarantee that students would not have to take out loans to cover tuition at four-year public colleges and universities. In return for the money, states would have to end budget cuts to increase spending over time on higher education, while also working to slow the growth of tuition, though the plan does not require states to cap it.

Mrs. Clinton would pay for the plan by capping the value of itemized deductions that wealthy families can take on their tax returns. The tax and spending elements of her proposal would need support from Congress — a tall order, since it is now run by Republicans — while the plan’s goals would depend on support from state governors and legislators, more and more of whom have been Republicans recently....

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/10/us/politics/hillary-clinton-to-offer-plan-on-paying-college-tuition-without-needing-loans.html?_r=0

June 4, 2016

Flotus like a Butterfly, Sting Like a Bee....

Was searching for something else and ran across this. Have I mentioned how much I love the First Lady, lately...?

June 4, 2016

Poignant words from President Obama's Statement...