Hillary Clinton in New Haven to draw attention to working families

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Source: fox61.com





Hillary Clinton in New Haven to draw attention to working families

http://fox61.com/2016/04/23/hillary-clinton-campaigns-in-new-haven-for-working-families-issues/

Posted 12:00 PM, April 23, 2016,


by Samantha Schoenfeld, Updated at 04:56pm, April 23, 2016



NEW HAVEN – Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton campaigned in New Haven on Saturday. At a round-table event, she discussed ways to raise wages, promote early childhood education and reduce the pay gap between men and women with some of New Haven’s working families.


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Clinton heard workers describe their struggles with employers, home foreclosure and low wages. Clinton said it was “way past time that we have a raise in the nationwide minimum wage” of $7.25 an hour and said the nation should support cities and states like New York and California “that are willing to put a higher floor under low-wage workers.”

On Sunday, she’ll also hold a public “get out the vote” rally in the University of Bridgeport’s Harvey Hubbell Gymnasium, which anyone can attend. That event begins at 2:15 p.m., and doors open at 12:15. You can RSVP here.

Clinton was here on Thursday as well. She held a gun violence discussion at the Wilson-Gray YMCA in Hartford in front of a crowd of about 300. On stage she was joined by a panel of locals touched by gun violence, including two people whose loved ones were killed in the Sandy Hook tragedy: Erica Smegielski, wholost her mother Dawn Hochsprung, the principal of Sandy Hook Elementary; and Nelba Marquz-Green, whose daughter Ana Grace was one of the first-graders killed. There were also three other people who have been impacted by gun violence in Connecticut, including a former gang member, a high school teacher who created the anti-gun group Mothers Demand Action, and a woman whose son was killed.

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[SusanLarson]

1. Psssst

Anyone making $225,000 from the big banks for a short speech, probably doesn't understand the issues real Americans face, much less actually give a damn about them...

[bigwillq]

3. This

But, to be fair, most politicians, of any party, care little about the average folk.

[BlueMTexpat]

5. And how's that meme a-workin' for ya?

Just keep on repeating it all you want. The majority of Dems aren't buying your insinuations.

It took Hillary a long political career as First Lady of Arkansas, First Lady of the US, US Senator from NY State and US Secretary of State before she was offered such speaking fees. If you had the same or similar experience, qualifications and intelligence, perhaps you would receive the same offers too. Sheesh and sour grapes to you!

There are men who command much higher fees for less, btw. But that's another subject.

[redixdoragon]

8. All you're saying is that "she earned it"

I mean we hear that CEOs who make 1500x the salary of their lowest paid worker have "earnd it"

And you spoke of her positions and titles. Not how connected she is with those of us who maybe get $12,000 to $20,000 a year to live on.

No doubt she has been First Lady of Arkansas. First lady of the US. US Senator. These are titles and achievements. They are not acts of compassion.

[BlueMTexpat]

10. If you really are interested in

Hillary's acts of compassion, please get ready to spend a LONG time reading about them. Not merely by reading my response, but by doing some objective research with an open mind.

Hillary was in Scranton, PA yesterday - a community where her grandfather was a mill worker, where her father was born and raised, and where she was even baptized among other connections. Scranton PA is not generally known as a "posh" area and there are likely many there who earn the salaries you mention, if that. In Illinois where she was actually born, although her family retained its ties to Scranton, Hillary also spent some of her teen years baby-sitting (for free) for children of immigrants so that their parents could earn the means to lift their families out of poverty. That was only the beginning of a life filled with actual acts of compassion.

You dismiss her "titles and achievements" callously, without thinking at all about how hard she had to work to earn these titles and what she accomplished for the most vulnerable among us both before and after earning them. You also seem to dismiss how her accomplishments have not only inspired but enabled others - not only in the US, but around the world and have helped to raise consciousness for women's issues around the world.

There is good reason why Hillary is consistently one of the most admired women in the world - and this despite a literal tsunami of slime thrown at her by RW GOPers for at least a quarter century - and gleefully repeated on sites like DU by those who profess to be Dems.

She is literally the best qualified candidate for President in 2016 - in every way. She may be the best qualified candidate for President ever - or at least in my seven-decade+ lifetime.

[Wilms]

2. Whose attention is she trying to draw?

[BlueMTexpat]

4. I honestly do not know how she is

still standing and talking coherently.

Running for US President - unless you're a GOPer who just says anything off the top of his head without any concern whatsoever that it be factual and is never held to account for it anyway - is an ordeal somewhat like the Twelve Labors of Hercules.

But Hillary is showing us that a woman can perform those labors every bit as well as Hercules ever could.

[TheCowsCameHome]

6. Hs she claimed CT roots yet?

[left-of-center2012]

7. Connecticut is like a 2nd home to Hillary

[McKim]

9. Glad She Discovered Working Families

I am glad that she has finally discovered working families, or formerly working families. For months all we heard about from her was how she was going to help the middle class. And it looks like she got the message about the loud jet set silk suits and flashy expensive jewelry. She looks almost down home, who knew? I am so cynical about her. I do not trust her. I wish I could.

[Bonobo]

11. Breaking news. LOL.

I can remember when DU's "Latest Breaking News" was a way to scan for important news.

You really need to keep your stuff in LBN. We know what you're doing and it is NOT making DU a better place.

I suspect few readers of LBN are appreciative of your umm, efforts.