Large health care workers union backs Clinton

“Hillary Clinton has proven she will fight, deliver and win for working families”, SEIU global President Mary Kay Henry said in a statement.

Hillary Clinton drew a sharp contrast with Bernie Sanders on health care and taxes on Tuesday, telling a fired-up audience at a local community college that as president, she would not raise taxes on the middle class.

“I represented NY on 9/11 when we were attacked”.

However, Clinton on November 3 during two campaign stops in Iowa said she supports a nationwide $12-an-hour federal minimum wage. “We said, ‘Ok, let’s have a more moderate view, but let’s not tilt it. Let’s not get the deck stacked in favor of those who are at the top, ‘” Clinton said.

In the interview with Couric, Sanders continued to hit Clinton for her Wall Street financial connections and dismissed her 9/11 explanation. We were attacked in downtown Manhattan where Wall Street is.

“I did spend a whole lot of time and effort helping them rebuild”.

Clinton’s opponents in both parties jumped on that comment, which provoked immediate blowback on social media and a rebuke from The NY Times editorial board.

He had criticized her ties to Wall Street at the debate, but said Sunday simply that they had a “real area of disagreement” over how to regulate the industry.

Former House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank (D-Mass.) also defended Clinton’s donations from Wall Street.

“The fact is, Hillary Clinton … as I recall, most of her leading campaign contributors have in fact come from Wall Street”. Kirsten Gillibrand, Clinton’s successor as NY senator, to provide 12 weeks of paid family and medical leave. But if their apparent lack of enthusiasm for her is shared by large numbers of Democrats who, for whatever reason, don’t max out for Democratic candidates, that’s not a good sign for heavy Democratic turnout next year.

Elleithee is a former speechwriter for Clinton during her 2008 campaign and later went on to serve as the Democratic National Committee’s spokesman before leaving to spearhead the new Georgetown initiative.

The Service Employees worldwide Union adds momentum to Clinton’s bid to woo labor, a key Democratic constituency, as she seeks to build a coalition within her party and avert a damaging primary fight.

Offstage, however, Mr. Sanders has been taking his shots, and his barbs have gotten sharper.

Rand Wilson, a leader in Labor for Bernie, said in a recent conference call for Sanders’ labor supporters, “Some people on tonight’s call know that your union may have already made the endorsement for the other candidate”.