In Pennsylvania, Clinton plays up her local ties — as she did for the N.Y. primary

[riversedge]

Source: washington post




In Pennsylvania, Clinton plays up her local ties — as she did for the N.Y. primary


https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/in-pennsylvania-clinton-plays-up-her-local-ties--just-like-she-did-in-ny-last-week/2016/04/23/b46de446-08ef-11e6-a12f-ea5aed7958dc_story.html




The former secretary of state visits key states in her quest to become the Democratic nominee for president.


By Anne Gearan April 23 at 10:50 AM


SCRANTON, Pa. — If all politics is local, Hillary Clinton is hoping she can be a local in more than one place. After a blowout victory in New York and a relentless focus on her hometown credentials there, Clinton is now playing up her ties to delegate-rich Pennsylvania.

Her father, born and reared in Scranton, “thought it was God’s country,” Clinton said Friday. “We went there every single year.”

She ended a busy day Friday with a raucous nighttime rally attended by 1,200 people — ....................

“It just brings back a flood of the best memories and the best people,” Clinton said at the rally. “This place has a lot of not just memories, but special meaning to me, and the thing I want you to know more than anything else is I will work my heart out for the people who live in Northeastern Pennsylvania,” she said. “I will be a good partner because we have work to do.”......................

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At nearly every stop in the state this week, Clinton was accompanied by local, state or nationally elected Democrats, a show of institutional Democratic Party support that stands in implicit contrast to Sanders.

“I say, ‘Welcome home,’ because Secretary Clinton has Northeastern Pennsylvania blood running in her veins,” Scranton Mayor Bill Courtright (D) said at the start of Friday’s Scranton rally, as supporters held aloft a sign reading “Clinton Country.”

Sen. Robert P. Casey Jr. (D-Pa.), who also stumped for Clinton on Wednesday in Philadelphia, told the Scranton crowd that Clinton “has the character, the experience, the record” to be president.

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[TheCowsCameHome]

1. Did she claim Connecticut ties today, too?

Really? I wonder why not?

And here in Scranton, Pennsylvania - "Welcome Home" - yeah, right.............. see you again in 8 years, or whenever you're back pandering for votes.

[riversedge]

8. Bernie panders for the Catholic vote by going to Rome. Seems pandering is A-OK!

[TheCowsCameHome]

10. Yes, the Pope votes in US primaries all the time.

[beastie boy]

21. Bernie's pandering to the pope was synchronous to his pandering to American Catholics.

As if you didn't know...

[IronLionZion]

29. Conservatives don't like this pope

he's a bit too socialist for them.

[MyNameGoesHere]

30. Catholics do. but you're not that dumb

I know you're just pretending.

[Feeling the Bern]

15. Yes, being invited to speak by the pope is pandering. You HRC people can spin anything.

Go, Goldwater Girl! Go former Walmart Exec Board Member. Go supporter of DADT/DOMA and the Iraq War.

[beastie boy]

22. The pope didn't invite him. This is beyond obvious. You BS people can spin anything.

Go gun freak! Go clueless demagogue! Go Robin "taking $27 each from the poor and giving hundreds of millions to big media" Hood in reverse!

[Feeling the Bern]

23. Okay. . .evidence of that? And gun freak? D- rating from the NRA.

I will not get into a flame war with you. You can support a Goldwater Girl and a former Wal-mart Exec Board member, you hve to look yourself in the mirror and justify being a progressive and a liberal.

[beastie boy]

25. Funny that you mention a mirror. I just put one to your face, and you didn't like what you saw.

Mission accomplished.

It is easy to be a bomb thrower, but it serves no purpose except self-gratification. Your post does nothing but slap labels on your targets: from Hillary's Goldwater girl to your self-righteous lecturing on my shameful refusal to fit your stereotypes.

Trading barbs is furthest from my mind. You can open your eyes and see that the accusations I threw at Bernie are just as (il)legitimate as yours towards Hillary.

Or you can keep throwing bombs. I am used to it coming from BS worshipers, and I will not respond any further.

[Feeling the Bern]

28. Wow, pass that buck. Welcome to ignore!

[riversedge]

38. Living in the Bernie bubble does not allow the Truth to enter

[Feeling the Bern]

39. Another HRC person going into the ignore pit due to their projection.

[forest444]

35. Bernie was, of course, invited.

And moreover has always agreed with Pope Francis on on socioeconomic issues.

Nothing disingenuous about that - unlike Ms. Inevitable's recent "common touch" charm offensive.

[Beacool]

19. Her father, Hugh, was born in Scranton and attended Penn State.

Hugh's father was an English immigrant who worked for decades in a lace mill and his mother was the daughter of a coal miner. Hillary was baptized in Scranton. The family visited Scranton often and spent their summers in a cabin that the family still owns. Hillary's father is buried in Scranton and she visits his grave every time she passes through town.

I think that Hillary doesn't need to prove her PA bona fides to anybody. Your comment is ill informed and silly.

[LannyDeVaney]

33. Well, the mayor told her "Welcome Home" so take it up with him.

Or don't. It won't matter after Tuesday when she walks away with a(nother) victory.

Have a nice day.

[Thinkingabout]

2. I agree with Sen Casey, Hillary has the character, the exoerience, and the record to be president.

[whistler162]

4. Well Bernie as the character, the exoerience, and the Blu-Ray

to be President. Records are so yesterday.

[Geronimoe]

6. Casey thought otherwise

in 2008 when he endorsed Obama.

[Thinkingabout]

13. Is Obama running this year?

[sus453]

12. She does that the experience, but

what she lacks is a consistent set of principles and good judgment.

[Thinkingabout]

14. I question Sanders judgement, he isn't a purist.

[Skink]

3. Mob ties.

Of course.

[George II]

5. When in New Haven, I recognized most of the politicians she was traveling with - met many....

...in person over the years and a lot of them know me by first name.

[riversedge]

7. Oh nooooooz--you are part of the 'establishment'!!!

[George II]

9. Sorry, I am.........

........

But not ashamed one bit! Bernie and I grew up very close to each other - I remained in New York to work and help people, he fled. Now I'm in Connecticut.

[Pharaoh]

11. Wow!

She is from every state in the union!

[Feeling the Bern]

17. If there were a primary on Mars, she'd claim she was related to Marvin the Martian.

[Pharaoh]

18. She may even be from Uranus!

Who knows!

[Beacool]

27. Instead of making an ignorant comment, do some research.

Her father was born in Scranton and is buried there. The family spent their summers in the area, in a cabin that they still own.

[LannyDeVaney]

34. Ssshhh ...

let them have their tartar sauce.

[Beacool]

36. Apparently, it's easier for some to make an a$$ out of themselves instead

of doing their due diligence.

[First Speaker]

16. What pol doesn't behave like this...?

[PBass]

20. Every politician does this (looks for connections to the locals, which indeed she has).

Everything Hillary says and does is dissected under a microscope, and she's always held to a different standard.

[PatrynXX]

24. a Southernor pretending she's from the north

oh mittens... zzzzz totally in Bernie's backyard smh

[Beacool]

37. She's not originally from the South.

She was born and raised in Chicago and its suburbs. Her father and his family were from Scranton and the family still owns a cabin in the area. Her dad is buried in Scranton.

Next time, do some research. You know what they say about assuming.

[LuvLoogie]

26. Hillary is obviously connecting with more voters across the country.

She has developed relationships over the decades of her career. Most of her political support was developed before Twitter.

[hobbit709]

31. She really tries to be all things to all people without standing firm on anything.

Except to her Wall St. buddies.

[forest444]

40. That's the long and short of it, right there.

Everything else about her - as far as we know anyway - is secondary to this one existential problem she's created for herself.

No matter what we say here on progressive chat rooms, that's exactly what will end up keeping millions of Democratic-leaning voters at home in November.

Given the likely winner this November, we had better hope that Trump's rhetoric is just an act (like Hillary's is).

[ChairmanAgnostic]

32. Her 50 state solution? Claiming them as her home?

I prefer Dean's approach.