Labor Union Plans to Address Trade With Clinton at Silver Spring Summit

But the Washington Post had an interesting piece overnight highlighting the degree to which Hillary Clinton is pursuing her own course.

Mark Glaze, a longtime advocate who until recently oversaw ex- New York mayor Michael Bloomberg’s gun-control efforts, argued that Hillary Clinton should embrace her husband’s record.

In the wake of the recent mass shootings throughout the country, Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton has taken the unusual step of elevating the discussion about gun control to the center of her campaign. At a moment when the left wing of the Democratic Party is flexing its muscles-and flocking to the rallies of her socialist challenger, Bernie Sanders-she will stick with the liberal populism that has dominated the opening months of her campaign, contrasting the good times on Wall Street and corporate boardrooms with the wage stagnation of the middle class.

Not only gun control measures, but Clinton’s speech also elaborate on topics she has already introduced.

Barack Obama promised not to come after guns in 2008, John Kerry’s campaign released a photo of him on a bird hunt in 2004, and Salon reported that Al Gore “decided to quiet his criticism of the NRA and mute his support for gun control to build support in battleground states like Ohio, Pennsylvania and Michigan where support for gun rights runs high [in] 2000″. Butler is a political consultant who has worked for the campaigns of several Democrats, including Sen.

In Clinton’s approach to the economy, more Americans would share in the prosperity and avoid the boom-and-bust cycles of Wall Street that have led to economic turbulence of the past decade. She is well aware that younger Republican candidates like Marco Rubio and Scott Walker hope to frame 2016 as a choice between the future and the past. Economic success is better measured by how much incomes rise for middle-class people, she will say, rather than any arbitrary growth target. That’s transformed into, “We’re coming after you, whether you try to work with us or not”.

“Knowing how hard we tried in 2012 to get [Republican nominee Mitt] Romney or Obama to say something about guns”, she said, “it is a changed world now when Hillary and other candidates are making it a part of their stump”. Clinton repeated the defense she and her husband have made since the 1990s: any charges are old news.

Clinton will say that laws and the tax codes reward financial trading too generously, while undervaluing other industries, such as construction and manufacturing.

Clinton, however, is trying something different.

Lisa Sheffer adds: “Overall, I like her as a candidate”. On Monday, she will praise both of them, but she will also launch a crusade to persuade the middle class that she can produce the lasting prosperity that has eluded her predecessors.