“I saw that a few divisiveness could occur within the ranks with an endorsement one way or another”, said Betty Holladay, a 503 board member who proposed the resolution. “I don’t think they saw that as something appropriate to do, to mask her coziness and her closeness to Wall Street and all of the architects of the crash of 2008”.
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The union is already plotting how it can mobilize to help the Clinton campaign beat Sanders in the Iowa caucus.
President Clinton said he watched the second Democratic debate from a hotel, as he did with the first one in Las Vegas last month.
“So, I represented NY, and I represented NY on 9/11 when we were attacked”, said Clinton, fired up that Sanders would “impugn” her integrity, as she put it in her response.
Hillary Clinton drew a sharp contrast with Bernie Sanders on health care and taxes on Tuesday, telling a fired-up audience at a local community college that as president, she would not raise taxes on the middle class.
“We were attacked in downtown Manhattan where Wall Street is”. The union’s efforts have been instrumental in getting higher minimum wages in Los Angles, New York, San Francisco and Seattle. “It was good for the economy, and it was a way to rebuke the terrorists who had attacked our country”. After bursting onto the scene with rising poll numbers, Clinton has regained the upper hand and holds a comfortable lead in national polls, as well as state-wide polls outside of New Hampshire.
In a brief message posted on her official Twitter account, Clinton said “Thanks, @SEIU”. The SEIU’s embrace of Clinton is a major blow to Bernie Sanders.
Sanders said he applauded Clinton for “trying to rebuild that devastation”. Minutes later, the debate moderators displayed a tweet that suggested Clinton’s appeal to 9/11 was inappropriate. Texas Sen. Ted Cruz has raised $22 million and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush $21 million from donors working in the finance and insurance industry, according to Crowdpac.
The former Maryland governor, O’Malley, and former secretary of state, Clinton, spoke inside of an agricultural showroom at Iowa State Sunday afternoon. So far, though, it has made for uncomfortable headlines, putting both Clinton’s comments on 9/11 and Sanders’ broader attack on her Wall Street ties, in the spotlight.
Rubio said he was baffled by her refusal. That’s in large part because she does not support a re-imposition of the Glass-Steagall wall between traditional and investment banking. It was repealed in 1999 when Bill Clinton was in office.
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But Clinton and her advisers argue that Glass-Steagall would not have prevented the failure of large financial institutions, such as investment bank Lehman Brothers and insurer AIG, during the Great Recession.
