Hillary Clinton stops in Clinton, Iowa
“We were raised a certain way here”.
The American Federation of Teachers, a group that has long supported Clinton, also backed the former secretary of state in July. “He’s a teacher. He takes his mother to work with him”, she said at the Iowa Jefferson-Jackson dinner in October.
Clinton’s allies have defended her stance. Even as she promises greater regulation of hedge funds and private equity firms, liberals deride her for refusing to support reinstatement of the Glass-Steagall Act, a law that separated commercial and investment banks until its repeal under President Bill Clinton.
Clinton Communications Director Jennifer Palmieri told reporters “the most important moment” for the campaign during last week’s second Democratic debate was when the three discussed taxing the middle class and to expect Clinton to discuss the issue more fully in the coming days. Her primary intention is to alleviate a few expenses of people who care for their elders.
It was a tough sell for a political candidate: rainy, chilly and the distraction of Saturday college football games.
About 400 people attended and Clinton told them her husband is a “fanatic” football fan who’s been following the Iowa Hawkeye’s winning season.
Brenda Jenkins, a volunteer at Royal Missionary Baptist church, said she thought Sanders was “warmly received” at her church, and that she liked “everything he promised to do for America”.
Meanwhile, Clinton said she’s willing to split apart big financial institutions if necessary. “A lot of my Democratic friends feel that way about Hillary and Wall Street. These are major concerns”. She also proposes to make sure fines for corporate wrongdoing hit executive bonuses, and to pursue criminal prosecutions when justified.
Sanders, the only Jewish candidate in the 2016 presidential race, bowed his head and prayed, and occasionally tapped his foot and clapped to the gospel music, before addressing the congregations.
“Caregiving can be a win-win for the family and for our overall health system”, the Clinton campaign said in a white paper. This summer, Clinton hosted a roundtable with home health-care workers represented by the Service Employees worldwide Union, promising to focus on the often overlooked vocation. Bernie Sanders of Vermont and former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley. Bernie Sanders of promoting programs that she says would raise taxes on middle-class families, including his plan for a single-payer health system based on Medicare. Clinton’s campaign says the plan would cost $10 billion over 10 years and would be paid for through other revenue increases. “You have to go to where the people are and in SC and many communities across the country, the people are in the church”, marketing crusade spokeswoman Symone Sanders stated. “Now we’re ready to say, this is a new time”, Jones said. “She connected two things, 9/11 and her ties to Wall Street, that I didn’t like her sewing together”. Sanders momentum nationally appears to have stalled, Selzer said.