Leaders from the union “collectively agreed that the best choice for our union was to endorse Clinton”, said SEIU worldwide President Mary Kay Henry. “Let’s be frank here”. But Clinton ended up defending her past record, such as her Senate vote for the invasion of Iraq, more than saying what she would do in response to the latest ISIS barbarism, and then she awkwardly tied her support from Wall Street into the rebuilding that took place after 9/11. “Our agenda is the most progressive in terms of demanding that Wall Street, large corporations and the wealthy finally start paying their fair share of taxes”, he said.
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“I represented NY, and I represented NY on 9/11 when we were attacked”. Clinton formally kicked off her campaign at New York’s Roosevelt Island last spring in a speech that touched on her “four fights”, a reference to the “four freedoms” Roosevelt laid out in 1941.
Joined by her husband, former President Bill Clinton, at a fall barbecue, the front-runner said Sunday that middle-class families “need a raise, not a tax increase” and she was the lone Democrat in the debate to commit to raising wages “and not your taxes”. Bernie Sanders put Clinton on the defensive when he said Wall Street had been the major contributor to her campaigns. “So, yes, I did know people…” “I had a lot of folks give me donations from all kinds of backgrounds say, ‘I don’t agree with you on everything”. I like how you stand up.
The Vermont senator stuck to his line that he wasn’t interested in Clinton’s emails, after appearing more combative in recent interviews, but Clinton alluded to the second debate’s more combative tone in her closing remarks.
The Post said reporters following Hillary and the race as a blow-by-blow contest-such at Politico.com, the Economist, CNN, the Des Moines Register, and Wall Street Journal-all said her response was the most unscripted moment of the campaign so far and will come back to haunt her. “That’s what it is”.
Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta told reporters that Clinton’s ‘integrity was impugned and what she was saying was that she was proud to represent the state of NY, to help rebuild lower Manhattan’.
The exchange highlighted one of Sanders’ main critiques of Clinton: That she has maintained close ties to Wall Street executives during her political career and would be less forceful in policing the risky behavior of financial firms that Sanders says led to the economic downturn in 2008 and 2009. He says Clinton supports a system that “props up private insurance companies and pharmaceutical companies” which have given money to her campaign.
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“Hillary Clinton had a disastrous night, shirking blame for her failed foreign policy’s role in creating ISIS and attempting to spin away her blatant hypocrisy by invoking the attacks of 9/11”, said Charlie Szold, spokesman for the Iowa GOP. “And for the sake of our economy, they must, the major banks must be broken up”.
