Hillary Clinton Jokes ‘I Don’t Have Horns’
Tickets for the evening reception at the home of City National Bank Chairman and CEO Russell Goldsmith and his wife Karen are $2,700, according to an invitation obtained by City News Service.
“As far as I know, no (presidential) candidate has stated a position (with regard to South Carolina)”.
The billionaire investor will again appear at another fundraiser for Mrs. Clinton in Los Angeles on January 7 based on the schedule sent to her supporters.
He will also join Clinton at a private fundraiser. The tax would impose a 30% rate in federal taxes on anyone making more than a million dollars a year after charitable donations.
In her primary campaign against Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, Clinton has pushed back against concerns among some liberals that her time in the Senate representing NY left her too close to Wall Street bankers – a notion that Buffett’s appearance was aimed at allaying. He said, “You will never hear those figures I just recited about income and tax rates at a Republican debate”. I would go out and raise money for her. I’d be delighted to do that. Buffett, who often talks about how he pays a lower tax rate than his secretary, spurred President Barack Obama to introduce the “Buffett Rule” in 2011 but it has yet to be enacted.
“What he brings to the table is that he’s one of the few highly-respected business people who average people view as one of them”, said Marc Lasry, a NY hedge fund manager and Democratic donor, in an interview.
“First thing you can tell them, as best as you can tell looking under the lights, I don’t have horns”, Clinton quipped to an audience of roughly 800 people inside the Sokol Auditorium in Omaha, Nebraska.
Nebraska won’t hold its Democratic caucus until March 5, but there’s still a good reason to campaign there now – which former Sen.
In her second bid to win the United States presidency, Mrs Clinton has pledged to reverse the worsening trend of economic inequality, pitching herself as a champion of the American middle class in her campaign.