“People can’t rise if they can’t afford health care”, Clinton said at the National Urban League’s annual conference in Fort Lauderdale, alluding to Right to Rise, the super-PAC backing Bush’s candidacy.
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“No more career politicians in Congress”.
“I don’t think you can credibly say that everyone has a right to rise, and say you’re for phasing out Medicare or for repealing Obamacare. You can not seriously talk about the right to rise and support laws that deny the right to vote”, she said.
Bush shared the expertise his son George K. Bush, who’s now 39, had when he and his Hispanic teammates traveled north to Ocala, Florida, to play in a baseball recreation. Bush’s administration purged the voter rolls and shortened early-voting hours, two measures that disproportionately harm African-People. Now, the 2016 Democratic candidates are looking to galvanize those same voters to turn out to the polls next year.
The comments mark Clinton’s most extended attacks on Bush since the race began, and came just minutes before the former Florida governor was set to take the stage.
“The Urban League deserved better today”, she said. “The Republicans definitely need to reach out to the black community better”.
“I do know that there are unjust limitations to alternative and upward mobility on this nation”, Bush informed the principally black viewers of greater than 500 individuals. “Our expenditures for six months of… fundraising costs and fundraising events are minimal given the scale of our support from donors who have been drawn to Governor Bush’s conservative record of reform”.
That report included taking down the Accomplice battle flag from the Florida Capitol in 2001 – an “straightforward name”, Bush stated.
Clinton’s rivals, Vermont Sen.
“Belief in our very important establishments is at historic lows”. The US Sugar Corporation Charitable Trust donated $505,000-possibly a first for charities, which are generally excluded from involving themselves in politics.
“That happens”, he said, “one person at a time”.
That progress had been promised to Cuba for 50 years, she added, and the time had come to acknowledge that the US could no longer wait “for a failed policy to bear fruit”.
Bush’s campaign quickly fired back, with a spokesman calling it a “Clintonesque move to pass over [A]chance to unite in favor of a false cheap shot on Twitter”.
Clinton won over the audience by acknowledging her failures with the black constituency in recent years and in doing so, emboldened the audience with her speech Friday morning at the Broward County Convention Center in Ft. I’m committed to being your partner.
And she or he had some followers within the crowd.
“They would be feisty”, she said of the prospective nominees. “I honestly don’t know what her successes are”. The only other GOP presidential candidate scheduled to appear is its only black candidate, retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson. He decried wealthy elites, particularly billionaires’ ability to write multimillion-dollar checks to political campaigns.
“The willingness to be held accountable was what really struck me“, Kalima said. “That’s oligarchy”. Bernie Sanders and former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley – forcefully and personally confronted those issues and the national protest that has resulted.
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Overall, they’ve made $141 million since 2007. But she also showed the methodical, issues-based approach aides say she has honed in three decades of public life. Even after some uncomfortable interactions with the robust Black Lives Matter protest movement, the former secretary of State projected a level of empathy and authenticity the other candidates had difficulty matching. In his first Spanish-language television network interview since launching his 2016 presidential campaign, Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush fielded a wide range of questions, from the upcoming GOP debate to Donald Trump, from Latin American foreign policy to his taste in music, and whether he had ever experienced discrimination.
