Foter / Gage SkidmoreIn a speech yesterday, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton called for an additional $250 billion in federal infrastructure spending over five years, as well as $25 billion to fund a federally run infrastructure bank, saying that the proposed spending would serve as a “down payment” on the country’s future.
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One email suggests concern about whether Clinton’s public statements after the attacks wrongly placed responsibility on a controversial anti-Islam video that sparked protests in other Muslim countries.
Clinton held an event Monday evening inside a Capitol Hill hotel with 13 of the Senate’s 14 female Democrats, making Warren’s absence particularly glaring.
Clinton has said she never sent or received material marked classified via her personal e-mail account – and her campaign has noted that information is frequently upgraded to classified after the fact. For Democrats, they were Clinton and Bernie Sanders.
The senator is still not ready to make an endorsement, Warren allies say, though she has indicated she will do so before the Democratic contest is over. “And I can tell you this. And it is something that is going to require a lot of cooperation”, Clinton said.
The latest release of Hillary Clinton’s private emails show her, as secretary of state, dealing with the complicated politics of the Arab Spring, fending off questions about her role in the deadly 2012 Benghazi attacks and attempting to navigate an intensifying conflict between Israel and the Palestinians.
“Just like all of us, she still puts her pant suits on one leg at a time”, said Washington’s Murray, winning laughs from the other women. “You looked real”, he added.
If this strikes you as implausible – the Democratic equivalent of the no-tax-hike pledge Republican candidates regularly impose on themselves – we agree.
That email, originally between the State Department’s spokesperson and a New York Times reporter, but ultimately forwarded to Clinton, involved discussions about what the paper was planning to release from among Wikileaks-published documents. And as she needs to clear her head once she leaves office, why not walk a dog?! Barbara Mikulski, who pointed out that women first gained the right to vote in 1920.
But as Warren’s colleagues spoke, she was out of sight and out of mind. “Anybody that thinks they can influence me on that ground doesn’t know me very well”.
She also expresses her grief at the loss of two American diplomats, U.S. Ambassador to Libya Chris Stevens and Sean Smith, an information management officer.
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The Vermont senator’s tour of the King Center in Atlanta came as he has repeatedly tried to paint his message of income inequality as the logical extension of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s rhetoric, most recently echoing King as he sought to explain his self-identification as a democratic socialist.
