While not mentioning Bush by name, Clinton echoed the former Florida governor’s slogan in saying that people “can’t rise if their governor makes it harder for them to get a college education”.
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Right to Rise, in a statement, said it “takes a conservative approach to FEC rules and we are in full compliance with all applicable laws and regulations”.
Still, beneath the avowed high-mindedness is a cold reality: had Bush criticized Clinton before this audience, he would have risked getting booed.
“The real test of a candidate’s commitment is not whether we come to speak [at your convention]”, Clinton said.
But when Jeb Bush and Hillary Clinton arrived at the Urban League conference in Ft Lauderdale on Friday – the first time they have shared a stage since 2013 – only one participant was itching for a fight.
Retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson, a Republican, along with Democratic candidates Sen.
In 1992, Bill Clinton defeated President George H.W. Bush with 43 percent of the popular vote.
He received polite applause from the audience throughout, with a few more animated responses, such as when he noted that as governor he helped remove the Confederate symbol from the Florida state flag and “put it in a museum, where it belongs”. Instead, he called for rebuilding trust in “America’s vital institutions”. “I honestly don’t know what her successes are”. The inspector general of the U.S… “This should be a guiding principle”. Furthermore, the proportion of African Americans in Florida universities fell even as the African American population in the state grew by 7 percent.
And she had fans already committed to her candidacy. And after the Charleston shooting, Clinton said that the United States’ struggle with racism is “far from finished”.
“I want you to hold me accountable and I particularly want to be held accountable by young people”, she said.
Republican presidential candidates, consequently, have fared poorly among minorities in the past two elections.
“There are now literally 100 people financing the bulk of our presidential elections”, said Craig Holman, a government affairs lobbyist with Public Citizen, which advocates for consumers before Congress, the executive branch and the courts.
But he emphasized that his economic plan, which focuses on boosting the gross domestic product, would prove more beneficial to inner urban communities than those pushed by Democrats, which are rooted in restructuring the economy to move more of the country’s wealth to the middle class.
Clinton’s team has also engaged the activists behind Black Lives Matter.
“While the actual number of murders did rise, the murder rate has actually declined. One police officer at a time”. “And they get it right a lot of times, too”.
When Bush reached the lectern, declaring, “I believe in the right to rise in this country”, the scent of political gunpowder was still in the air. Bush is among a small slew of 2016 candidates who have portrayed themselves as White House hopefuls able to woo nontraditional Republican voters.
On Cuba, Bush has been one of the most vocal critics of Obama’s decision to reestablish diplomatic relationships after decades of silence between Havana and Washington.
Bush’s outreach to the black community following his unsuccessful run for governor in 1994 wound up winning him 14 percent of the black vote four years later, when he won his first term.
But each had something to prove in what ultimately became a de facto debate before the National Urban League’s convention in Bush’s home state.
One of those mistakes that perhaps Bush reflected on was his comment on the campaign trail that year that he would do “probably nothing” for the black community if he were to be elected.
I look forward to meeting you in South Florida.
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Although the first presidential caucuses and primaries are more than six months away, the Urban League event kicks off an important 10-day period in the 2016 race.
