The 2 million members strong SEIU has endorsed Hillary Clinton for president.
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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) – Hillary Rodham Clinton’s campaign on Sunday defended her donations from Wall Street by saying she worked to help the financial sector rebuild after the September 11, 2001, attacks and sought to address the abuses that led to an economic crisis.
The Paris attacks loomed over the Democratic debate on Saturday evening.
“It’s outrageous to suggest that Senator Clinton of all people, who went to Ground Zero … that she of all people would politicize 9/11 is an outrageous notion”, Clinton campaign spokesman Brian Fallon said on a conference call with reporters. “Now maybe they’re dumb, but I don’t think so”.
Irritated by the accusation, Clinton jumped in, complaining that Sanders “has basically used his answer to impugn my integrity”, then pivoted to a novel defense of her actions – namely, casting her catering to Wall Street interests as an act of patriotism in the wake of the destruction of the World Trade Center. Kirsten Gillibrand, Clinton’s successor as NY senator, to provide 12 weeks of paid family and medical leave. The union is one of the top political spenders in the country, with a history of investing tens of millions of dollars on Democrats in presidential election cycles. “She did so early and often”.
“I was actually the only one on that debate stage on Saturday who will commit to raising your wages and not your taxes”, Clinton said at Mountain View College, a community college south of downtown Dallas. “I think we’re at war with jihadists”. But I like what you do. “I didn’t quite understand”.
The industry also supported her husband, former President Bill Clinton, during his two White House campaigns and backed her campaigns to serve NY in the Senate. The fast food workers held the latest in a series of nationwide strikes last week, and Clinton expressed her support for the protesters on Twitter. The former Secretary of State was forced to defend her role in the fight against the rise of ISIS during her time at the podium. Bernie Sanders and former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley support $15.
“No, I have not”, Sanders replied.
The way he and Clinton’s other Wall Street supporters see it, the connections that bind them are long, deep and nothing to be embarrassed about.
In less than three months people here will pick the democrat they believe should become the nominee for president.
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“Her effort to tug on Americans’ heartstrings instead of explaining her Wall Street ties – on a day that the scars of 9/11 were exposed anew – was at best botched rhetoric”, the New York Times wrote on Monday morning.
