Congressional Hispanic Caucus Endorses Hillary Clinton

[JaneyVee]

http://www.cnn.com/2016/02/29/politics/hillary-clinton-congressional-hispanic-caucus-endorsement/index.html

[auntpurl]

1. That is great news!

Thanks for posting.

[MaggieD]

2. Excellent

[Gregorian]

3. So once again, Hillary gets the board room votes, but not the people's vote.

Hillary is an opportunist. Keep that in mind when you vote for her.

[frazzled]

5. Does the Congressional Hispanic caucus really equate

to the corporate boardroom? It seems like this is an insult to the people--the voters--who have chosen these men and women to represent their interests in the US Congress.

For a campaign that claims to be "of the people," a whole lot of people are being thrown under the bus lately. Or does "the people" mean only those people dedicated to a single individual (Bernie Sanders)?

[tk2kewl]

6. it is a PAC

Congressional Hispanic Caucus PAC

see this post for who funds the PAC and then decide if they represent the people or the board room
http://www.democraticunderground.com/12511343988

[frazzled]

9. So what? All but one member of the Hispanic Caucus have individually endorsed

The sole member of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus backing Sanders is Arizona Rep. Raul Grijalva, one of just four members of Congress standing behind the Vermont senator.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/02/congressional-hispanic-caucus-pac-backs-clinton-219946#ixzz41aEi87s7

Almost every member of Congress maintains what is known as a "Leadership PAC," including Bernie Sanders, who maintains the "Progressive Voters of America" PAC.

https://www.opensecrets.org/pacs/industry.php?txt=Q03&cycle=2012

The CHC BOLD PAC is the same thing: it uses contributions to help elect Hispanic members to Congress.
http://boldpac.com/#section-about
Here are its stats at Open Secrets https://www.opensecrets.org/pacs/lookup2.php?strID=C00365536

It has way less money than the National Nurses United Super PAC endorsing Sanders: https://www.opensecrets.org/pacs/lookup2.php?strID=C00490375

[lunamagica]

7. Is this a joke? She's over 100k votes ahead of Sanders

[tk2kewl]

4. The Congressional Hispanic Caucus *PAC*

[lunamagica]

8. K&R. YEEESSSS!