Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders. “It’s not natural for her”, Susie Tompkins Buell, the co-founder of Esprit and a close friend of the Clintons, told the newspaper.
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Wall Street has been the biggest contributor over many years to Clinton’s political campaigns and she supports the current system that protects the private insurance companies and pharmaceutical corporations that have given so much money. Roemer’s feedback crystallize a danger Clinton faces as she courts organized toil – a possible enthusiasm gap. Clinton picked up the endorsement of the International Association of Bridge, Structural, Ornamental and Reinforcing Ironworkers, a union that represents 120,000 ironworkers in North America.
While many workers and labor unions are fighting for a $15 an hour minimum-wage, Clinton said she would only support a base pay rate of $12.
If she does get the Dem’s nomination, the challenge for Hillary Clinton will be very different.
Texas Democrats have expressed hope that Clinton’s long history with the state political scene would ensure she does not ignore it on her path to the White House.
Clinton isn’t alone, as other presidential candidates have also been drawing attention to the role that drug makers play in the price of prescription drugs when they are purchased by consumers. “We are going to need everyone pulling in the same direction next fall”. Less than a year later, she backed the $700 billion bank stabilization plan, known as TARP, to bail out the industry in the midst of the financial crisis – a bill Sanders voted against. On a conference call with reporters the same day Clinton held her Dallas rally, Sanders campaign officials expressed confidence that his progressive record would ultimately trump Clinton’s deep ties to the state, which date back to her efforts in the 1970s to register voters in South Texas.
Although Sanders’s fundraising is still on the rise, Clinton still leads in fundraising, with almost double in campaign funds ($76.5 million compared to Sanders’s $41.3 million), as well as Super PAC support.
Under Sanders’ universal health care plan, 95 percent of the American people would see their incomes go up.
In Oregon, nine members of local 503 emailed the worldwide union’s executive board this month, asking them not to endorse yet, in what one union activist characterized as a “hail Mary pass” to stop a potential Clinton endorsement.
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While Bill Clinton draws on his charisma to win over potential donors, his wife applied what Post writers Matea Gold, Tom Hamburger and Anu Narayanswamy dubbed the former first lady’s “characteristic attentiveness”.
