Democrats are eager to hold onto their decisive advantage among such voters, and argue blacks and Hispanics will ultimately reject Bush because of his support for policies that include repealing Obama’s health care overhaul, opposing a federal minimum wage and his record of tax cuts in Florida.
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When it was his turn to speak, Bush did not respond to Clinton’s attack, using his speech to offer a message of unity.
Bush’s remarks on common core, by the way, are similar in one key respect to those from one of his main rivals for the GOP nomination, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker. “And you can not seriously talk about the right to rise and support laws that deny the right to vote”, Clinton said. On Twitter, Tim Miller, Bush’s communications director, called it a “Clintonesque move to pass over chance to unite in favor of a false cheap shot”.
“Too often we see a mismatch between what some candidates say in venues like this, and what they actually do when they’re elected”, Clinton said. Bush did not mention the names of victims such as Tamir Rice, Eric Garner, Sandra Bland and others.
Republicans said the financial disclosures aren’t almost as important to voters as her lack of transparency on another batch of files: Her emails from her time as secretary of State.
Clinton received a standing ovation after she addressed the majority African-American audience at the NUL conference, where she talked about the importance of combating racial inequality and injustice in America.
Bush told the crowd that as governor in Florida from 1999 to 2007, he ordered the removal of the Confederate battle flag from the state capitol, raised the number of black judges and tripled the state’s hiring of minority-owned businesses.
“This is not just about statistics, as damning as they can be”, Clinton said.
While Florida is Bush’s home state, Clinton clearly had the home-court advantage Friday.
The Urban League, formerly the National League on Urban Conditions Among Negroes, exists to advocate on behalf of African Americans who face discrimination, particularly in the realm of business.
Other million dollar donors included Republican mega-financier Al Hoffman, the founder and former chairman of WCI Communities Inc.; hedge fund billionaire Louis M. Bacon; Raul Rodriguez, president of Miami-based Clinical Medical Services, Inc.; and Hushang Ansary, a former Iranian ambassador to the United States whose wife, Shahla Ansary, also gave $1 million.
But Hillary Clinton did in her speech about an hour and a half before Bush spoke. But he spoke indirectly about those incidents.
“You can’t serve all the people unless you represent all the people“, Bush said. He later apologized, saying he did not “mean to be insensitive” to the “depth of feeling that all of us should be attaching to this issue”. That happens one person at a time. Several weeks ago, her husband Bill and Jeb’s brother George W posed on the cover of Time magazine as “the most surprising couple in politics”.
And he did make a reference to the continuing legacy of racism in America, which Clinton discussed extensively.
“When President Obama says that ‘For too long, we’ve been blind to the way past injustices continue to shape the present, ‘ he is speaking the truth”, Bush said to applause.
The Super PAC, now that Bush is an official candidate, is barred from coordinating with the campaign, but Bush’s favorite longtime strategist and top political adviser, Mike Murphy, is working for the Super PAC, not the campaign. In 2012, Romney was booed at the annual conference of the NAACP after sharply criticizing the president.
With its $103 million haul, the Super PAC has smashed the fundraising totals of every other candidate, making Bush the clear leader in the money race, though not the polls, for the November 2016 election.
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SCHOOL SEGREGATION, PRISONS AND VOTING RIGHTS: “A lot of people don’t realize that our schools are more segregated than in 1968 or even African-Americans are sentenced to longer prison terms than white people for the same crimes”.
