Taxes have become the latest flashpoint in the race for the Democratic nomination, with Clinton charging that Sanders supports raising taxes to pay for his plans and the Vermont senator responding that the former secretary of state is not being realistic with her proposals. The truth is Hillary Clinton and all of us in the Congress did all we could to try to rebuild NY City after that devastating attack.
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Union leadership evaluated the candidates on their positions as well as “who can win in a general election”, Henry said, adding that “she’s (Clinton) willing to use executive authority to change the lives of working people who are working their hearts out in poverty jobs”.
“When we were attacked, where were we attacked?” “I did spend a whole lot of time and effort to rebuild. It was good for the economy, and it was a way to rebuke the terrorists who had attacked our country”.
O’Malley used a few of the harshest criticism he’s had for Clinton, calling the comments “disgraceful”. Clinton spokesman Brian Fallon said Monday it was “outrageous” to suggest she was trying to politicize the 9/11 attacks and people were trying to “make political mischief” with her remarks. It’s also been one of Sanders’ largest contributors over his careers. Clinton’s campaign has raised about $7.3 million from the finance and insurance industry, according to Crowdpac.com, a nonpartisan political research company.
Sanders’s supporters don’t trust her to follow through with her plan given her donor base, but again, given the state of Congress her donor base is the last thing standing between a Democratic president and Wall Street reform.
The official said Clinton dedicated herself to rebuilding Wall Street after the terrorist attacks, but clarified the allegiance has no bearing on whether the presidential candidate would crack down on financial institutions if elected president. Her family’s charitable organization, the Clinton Foundation, has also received financial support from Wall Street investment banks. On at least three occasions, as Clinton and Sanders sparred back and forth on the issues of the minimum wage, immigration and background checks for gun purchasers, when the moderators called on O’Malley he was able to draw on the fact that as governor of Maryland he had addressed all of those issues with bipartisan support– requiring background checks, passing the DREAM (Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors) Act and raising the minimum wage.
“And the truth is, that is how she feels”, said O’Malley, the third major Democratic candidate seeking the White House.
“Look she doesn’t have to mask it. It is what it is”.
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Despite Bernie’s history of supporting labor, many large unions are flocking to Hillary. It was repealed in 1999 when Bill Clinton was in office.
