Clinton Campaign Defends Wall Street Ties

“If she thinks $1.38 a week is just too much to spend, let her explain that to the people of Iowa”.

Sanders spokesman Michael Briggs said the campaign was “gratified that hundreds of thousands of workers are part of the growing grassroots movement supporting Bernie’s campaign to help working families”.

Labor unions are closing ranks around Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign.

Kefauver said the SEIU’s endorsement also provides Clinton money, organizational infrastructure and volunteers. “So if I said to you, ‘Well, you’re not going to pay Blue Cross $12,000 a year but you’re going to pay $10,000 more in taxes, ‘ are you going to be crying? No”.

Is it fair to ask Clinton, who would be the nation’s first female president, to unilaterally disarm in fundraising and campaign spending against well-heeled conservative organizations, many of which were formed largely in opposition to her mere existence as a public figure? Democratic Socialist candidate Bernie Sanders criticized Clinton’s vote to authorize military action in Iraq, maintaining that the move “unraveled” the Middle East region, the Christian Science Monitor reports. “That’s what his campaign is all about”. Sanders’ campaign shot back Tuesday that her approach to health care was all about her financial donors. She held a large event with union members in which she talked in detail about the particular challenges faced by the healthcare and child care workers SEIU represents and how she would confront them. Some local SEIU chapters had urged the board not to endorse Clinton, warning she was a status quo candidate. The deal is vehemently opposed by most labor groups.

“I appreciate the hard work that President Obama and his team put into this process and recognize the strides they made”.

“I represented NY, and I represented NY on 9/11, when we were attacked”, she began, likely already raising a few eyebrows in the audience.

Labor unions were delighted by Clinton’s announcement. Sanders essentially said those firms expect a return on their investment, and he was exactly right.

The exchange highlighted one of Sanders’ main critiques of Clinton: That she has maintained close ties to Wall Street executives during her political career and would be less forceful in policing the risky behavior of financial firms that Sanders says led to the economic downturn in 2008 and 2009. The same vetting and identification concerns have been voiced in reference to the millions of illegal immigrants who have streamed across the Mexican border, perhaps one of the reasons support for both Donald Trump and Ted Cruz’s illegal immigration policies continue to garner increased poll numbers for the GOP candidates.