Transcript: Hillary Clinton interview with Carroll, Iowa, Daily Times Herald

[DeepModem Mom]

Hillary Clinton covered a wide swath of issues — many dealing specifically with rural economic development, opportunities for Iowa small towns — in a 23-minute interview with the Daily Times Herald Sunday afternoon.

Clinton, who logged more than a million miles of travel as secretary of state and represented the heavily rural New York state in the U.S. Senate, talked extensively about small-business opportunities in Iowa, the value of high-speed Internet and using rural cooperatives as an inspiration for similar structures to boost local economies.

She also considered — for the first time, according to her own account — the lack of rural representation on the U.S. Supreme Court.

On the political front, Clinton, discussed the potential of U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Massachusetts, serving as her running mate, and brushed aside any suggestions that lingering sexism would confound her White House ambitions.

Speaking with the Daily Times Herald in the library of Dr. Steven and Jill Kraus’s rural Carroll home, Clinton also addressed questions about abortion and the National Consumer Product Safety Commission’s work on head trauma.

Additionally, Clinton, a former first lady and a national figure since the early 1990s, discussed the changing nature of public life, of campaigning surrounded by thousands of cellphone cameras and “selfie”-seekers.

TRANSCRIPT:

Hillary Clinton: How are things going in Carroll these days?...

http://www.carrollspaper.com/Content/Default/Homepage-Rotating-Articles/Article/One-on-one-with-Hillary-Clinton/-3/449/20532

[yallerdawg]

1. Hillary nails it!

Daily Times Herald: A lot of the political chattering class and media almost seem to have a humility meter on you. If you deviate from it, they’ll pounce on it. Yet at the same time, you have Mr. Trump flying in here on a plane with his name emblazoned, “Trump,” and he seems to soar in the polls with each provocation or outrageous remark. Do you see any gender bias or sexism in that?

Hillary Clinton: Well, you know, Doug, I just accept the fact that there’s a double standard in politics, just like there is a double standard in life, and if I’m going to be in the arena, I just have to work extra hard to overcome whatever bias there still may exist, and not to shy away from what I believe, and what I will fight for, including women’s economic opportunities, and particularly equal pay for equal work. I feel really good about where the campaign is, but I know that I seem to be the object of a lot of attention coming from the other side of the aisle and other places out there.



...and other places 'out there'!

[DeepModem Mom]

2. Perfect answer! nt

[riversedge]

3. Thanks for posting this interview--great to get some

real information of how she is currently thinking about issues.

I think I saw one from her in NH--I will try to find it and post it.


http://www.carrollspaper.com/Content/Default/Homepage-Rotating-Articles/Article/One-on-one-with-Hillary-Clinton/-3/449/20532

.....Daily Times Herald: As you point out in your book “Hard Choices” you’ve logged extensive miles traveling the world. As you travel Iowa — today you came from Ames along Highway 30, saw the new casino going up and other things — as you’re driving and you recall some of these trips overseas, does it spark any ideas, Mrs. Secretary, in terms of potential trade opportunities or ideas for agriculture, links maybe that we’re not pursuing that you think we could.

Hillary Clinton: That’s a great question. When I was a senator from New York, as you may know, at that time the second-biggest industry in New York was agriculture. I think it’s dropped to three or four now, but it was mostly dairy and fruits and vegetables. We have a lot of small towns that are very reminiscent of what I see as I drive around Iowa.

I worked hard to create a system to help small businesses put their business on the Internet. This was back in 2001 to 2006, and we worked with eBay. We helped to build websites. We really worked to try to connect our small towns and businesses to the global marketplace. So I think there still is a great opportunity.

You have to get access to high-speed Internet, and we haven’t done that yet in most rural areas of our country. When I talk about infrastructure and the need to build, I’m talking not just about our physical infrastructure, but the need to get broadband as pervasive as we got electricity. As we all know, we didn’t leave electricity just to the utility companies. They were happy to wire towns and cities, but not so interested in going into rural areas where it was more expensive and the profit margin was very low. So we came up with rural electric cooperatives, and we did a lot that brought the power of the federal government to the local community by empowering entities to wire America.............

[OKNancy]

4. good read!

good interviewer too.