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Hillary participated in a town hall hosted  by Zerlina Maxwell on Sirius XM on Monday.

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Beautycon Media curated the first digital content creator Town Hall with Hillary Clinton at NeueHouse Los Angeles this evening.  Questions came from the audience and from texts. Earlier in the day, Hillary unveiled her technology and innovation agenda in Denver.

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Hillary held a live town hall on Good Morning America today. The Coffee with the Candidates spot was occupied by the Dem frontrunner and questions came from the panel, the studio audience, a few outside locations, and from social media.

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Asked about Donald Trump’s latest nickname for her, she said she is not going to respond to his personal attacks.

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Regarding Bernie Sanders, she will leave it up to him to decide what his campaign will do.  Even though Bernie’s supporters do not support her now she will continue to support them.  She will keep talking about her agenda.

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Speech transcripts: This is a new standard. When everybody releases theirs,  she will release hers.  Meanwhile, it is the tax returns that are the standard, and Sanders should release his.

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1994 Crime bill: She pointed out that Sanders voted for that bill. She will divert people away from the criminal justice system; provide second chance opportunities; restore voting rights.

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What would she say to people who don’t trust her?  When she gets a job everyone says she does it well.  President Obama trusted her. Stephanopoulos asked where she thinks this comes from, and Hillary said it’s a long term thing. People are fine with her and praise her when she is doing a job, but as soon as she runs for a job, they attack.

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Greatest political regret.  Iraq War vote.

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Marijuana question.  She would have to study a bill before signing on but is interested in what is happening where it is legal. Recommends acquire evidence and make decisions based on that.

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Pay gap: Laws permit people to be fired when they try to get information about their comparative pay.  Those need to be addressed. Young women start out in parity and the disparity grows over years.

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Which Hillary came closest?  There’s a little bit of truth in all of them and the history of the hairstyle is like an archeological dig.

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Learning from the skits:  She is not a natural politician and it doesn’t make good TV but gets good feedback from the impressions. Loved playing Val the Bartender and may bring her back.

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#TBT: 1988 GMA appearance: Was about fighting sexism and pay inequality in law practice. Is campaigning on breaking barriers – so many barriers.

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Has been using hot sauce since 1992 to boost her immune system.  Has a collection.

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Bill’s most annoying habit. Reading himself to sleep.  Since he’s asleep bed, she has to get up and turn out his light.

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My take: The audiences at these events are politically active. That is clear. (Did I not see Jennifer McCann there?  She is everywhere!) Also, questions are screened. That’s how the questions get up on the screen so quickly.  So have these people simply not been paying attention? She has answered these same questions ad infinitum and really never gets a new question.

Every audience, full of activists, comes up with the same questions. I bet Jennifer submitted a question.  I bet it was about plans for disabilities in the workplace – something like that.  Why do the producers keep pulling the same old questions out of the hat and not give Hillary a chance to answer new ones? I have a feeling there were better questions in that audience. Questions with answers a lot of voters have not heard her answer before. How the heck is Hillary supposed to explain the people who do not find her “trustworthy?”  That is a question for them, not for her. Why does that one keep coming up?  That’s just me.

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Hillary, in a bit of a “media sandwich” between last night’s contentious CNN debate and this evening’s Fox News town hall, continued campaigning like the trouper she is in Michigan.  She was in Grand Rapids this morning.

U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton looks at a computer screen during a campaign stop at Atomic Object company in Grand Rapids, Michigan, March 7, 2016. REUTERS/Carlos Barria

U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton looks at a computer screen during a campaign stop at Atomic Object company in Grand Rapids, Michigan, March 7, 2016. REUTERS/Carlos Barria

U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton listens during a campaign stop at Atomic Object company in Grand Rapids, Michigan, March 7, 2016. REUTERS/Carlos Barria

U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton listens during a campaign stop at Atomic Object company in Grand Rapids, Michigan, March 7, 2016. REUTERS/Carlos Barria

U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks to employees during a campaign stop at Atomic Object company in Grand Rapids, Michigan, March 7, 2016. REUTERS/Carlos Barria

U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks to employees during a campaign stop at Atomic Object company in Grand Rapids, Michigan, March 7, 2016. REUTERS/Carlos Barria

U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton shakes hands with employees as she visits Atomic Object company during a campaign stop in Grand Rapids, Michigan, March 7, 2016. REUTERS/Carlos Barria

U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton shakes hands with employees as she visits Atomic Object company during a campaign stop in Grand Rapids, Michigan, March 7, 2016. REUTERS/Carlos Barria

U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton talks to employees as she visits Atomic Object company during a campaign stop in Grand Rapids, Michigan, March 7, 2016. REUTERS/Carlos Barria

U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton talks to employees as she visits Atomic Object company during a campaign stop in Grand Rapids, Michigan, March 7, 2016. REUTERS/Carlos Barria

U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton visits Atomic Object company during a campaign stop in Grand Rapids, Michigan, March 7, 2016. REUTERS/Carlos Barria

U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton visits Atomic Object company during a campaign stop in Grand Rapids, Michigan, March 7, 2016. REUTERS/Carlos Barria

This is just my opinion:  I know a lot of people think the town hall format best suits Hillary, her style, and her ability to deliver her message.  I agree that Hillary shines in town hall settings, but I think the debates fulfill an important function.  Contrast is everything in a primary setting.  Saying that two (or more) candidates are “close” on issues and it’s all “just a coin toss” is way too facile.  The differences appear in stark relief on a debate stage, and they did last night.

Bernie Sanders offered anger and sympathy to the people of Flint.  Hillary Clinton sent an action team and immediately set forth to find actors to effect solutions.

Bernie smoldered, flared, fanned the flames of anger against the machine (translated: Wall St.) while Hillary was able to coolly explain how her actions served as a fire extinguisher against the financial and jobs crisis of ’08-’09.

Bernie’s slash-and-burn style is deeply rooted in his 60s radical past.  Hillary’s sober solutions reflect her history of listening – to parents of kids not in school when she was a young lawyer, to folks lacking medical insurance as FLOTUS, to injured and ill first responders as NY Senator, to civil and women’s associations across the globe as secretary of state, and to citizens of every age across the nation as presidential candidate – and then seeking ways of addressing the issues.  Nowhere is the difference between the alienated, angry young man and the methodical, engaged young woman starker than on the debate stage.

The original angry young man, Saul Alinsky, who wrote Rules for Radicals,  was sufficiently impressed by a young Hillary Rodham to have offered her a job.  She turned it down, put herself through Yale Law, and went to work solving problems one at a time from the inside.  The choice remains the same as it was in the 1960s: sweep everything away and start over (aka Revolution)  or make changes, often incrementally, from inside the system (aka “the establishment”).

Nowhere are the contrasts of the late 60s and early 70s starker than on a debate stage.  History lesson here:  changes did come about – from within.  Now, in the 21st century, more needs to be done.  We see, in side-by-side debates, who has the plans, the history, and the cool head to lead us forward.  Or, if you prefer, we can just knock it all down and begin again from scratch – essentially giant steps backward.
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Hillary appeared second due to a request from Senator Sanders that he appear first and Hillary’s agreement since she had completed a panel forum at Central Baptist Church only nine minutes before air time for this Town Hall.


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Once again the Bernie Sanders part of the Town Hall ignored foreign policy – except that he doesn’t like trade agreements.

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Goldman Sachs speeches: She will release them when the others, including Republicans,  do and asked why there is one standard for her and another for everybody else.

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Agrees that Guantanamo must be closed and hopes Congress works with President Obama on relocating the remaining prisoners.

Here are the questions in order.

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I was looking for an image or video clip from CNN to use as a reminder about tonight’s Town Hall.  To my dismay, on this page, what I found was a video entitled “Hillary steals back momentum from Bernie Sanders.”  I cannot embed the video.  See it here >>>>

At least as disconcerting as the title is the ticker at the bottom of the video.

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The message was reinforced when David Chalian also used the verb to steal earlier today when discussing Hillary’s decisive victory in Nevada.

Indeed!  Hillary has neither stolen nor hijacked anything.  She has won, fair and square, the caucuses in Iowa and Nevada along with a boatload of endorsements and Super Delegate votes.

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It is irresponsible and biased on the part of the media to use such language.  This panders to those in both parties who wish to paint Hillary as dishonest and untrustworthy.

There are enough insults coming from candidates without the media chiming in with negative terms. Donald Trump has called Hillary evil.  Yesterday, this header from the New York Times:

Bernie Sanders Accuses Hillary Clinton of Copying His Message

Is there anybody who seriously thinks Hillary Clinton has ever entertained the impulse to copy anything?  Off of anybody?  From whom would she copy?  When you know your material, the concept of copying from the ill-prepared is not only unthinkable and counter-productive; it is a joke!

Meanwhile, we continue to search for a cohesive foreign policy from the Sanders camp.

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton looks towards North Korea as US Secretary of Defense stands by as they visit the dimilitary zone that divides North and South Korea on July 21, 2010. AFP PHOTO/Paul J. Richards (Photo credit should read PAUL J. RICHARDS/AFP/Getty Images)

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton looks towards North Korea as US Secretary of Defense stands by as they visit the dimilitary [sic] zone that divides North and South Korea on July 21, 2010. AFP PHOTO/Paul J. Richards (Photo credit should read PAUL J. RICHARDS/AFP/Getty Images)

Campaigns are messy.  As secretary of state, Hillary always reminded friends and partners new to the system that democracy is messy. But things needn’t be dirty.  To suggest that something untoward happened in fair races is unacceptable. It is bad enough that candidates hurl insults. When the media joins in with implications of wrongdoing, a line is crossed.

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Hillary will face off against Bernie Sanders again tonight in a Town Hall in South Carolina that will air on CNN with Chris Cuomo moderating.

Show Hillary that you have her back.  Chip in what you can>>>>

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If it had been a soccer match, Twitter might have exploded with tweets of “Own Goal!”   At the MSNBC/Telemundo Town Hall last night, Bernie Sanders scored one for Hillary Clinton’s incrementalism. Here is the exchange.

QUESTION: (SPEAKING SPANISH)

Yes, my question to you, sir, if you become the president of the United States, what would you do about the bars my husband — I’m an American citizen, my girl is an American citizen. My husband was here 18 years. I tried to bring him out of shadows, how you said, and I petitioned him.

And they gave him a 10-year bar. He has been in Mexico doing his 10 years, six years now we’ve been separated. My little girl was in kindergarten when he left, the one in the…

QUESTION: The other one was in middle school and now she’s going to graduate high school this year and her dad is not here to see that.

What would you do to bring my husband home?

SANDERS: I’ll tell you what I would do. What you just described is unacceptable, and should not be happening.

My immigration policy is to unite families, not to divide families. When I was here in Las Vegas a couple of months ago I heard a story. A young man who was in the United States military. While he was in the United States military his wife was deported. Can you believe that?

QUESTION: (OFF MIKE) Yes. (INAUDIBLE…)

SANDERS: … Clearly those not the policies that I want to see, and I will change those policies.

QUESTION: How long — how long, when you get there, how long will it take to change those policies because I’ve been waiting six years…

SANDERS: … That I can’t tell you.

QUESTION: … Six years of my life.

SANDERS: I can’t, you know — we will use our executive office and power as much as we can. Hopefully we’ll have the cooperation of the United States congress.

QUESTION: Thank you.

The Great and Powerful Oz has spoken!  (Feel the burn, Bern?)

After leading hordes of hopeful Millennials along the Yellow Brick Road for months nurturing a belief system rooted in cultural revolution and promised instant gratification, the man behind the curtain was forced into a corner where he had to admit that he has no magic powers and change takes time.

Much of the Millennial discontent with Hillary Clinton’s complex platform lies in their impatience with her steadfast stance that we should not sweep away accomplishments of the past seven years in favor of an improbable chance of replacing them wholesale in a magical moment of fantastical bipartisan cooperation.  No matter your age, mental or chronological, Hillary Clinton speaks to you as an adult to an adult.  Reasonably.

As for accelerating movement on her plans, with her impressive collection of endorsements, Hillary was able to offer this last night.

I understand that somebody asked Senator Sanders a question because her husband was in Mexico — I don’t who asked that question. And I want to tell you, I will end the three and 10-year bar provision so that you do not have to face that ever again.

TODD: Let me follow up on something. I’ve asked you a few times about the prioritization of immigration reform.

CLINTON: Right.

TODD: And when I’m talked about — asked you about your first 100 days priorities, you’ve mentioned a lot of issues, and you haven’t put immigration reform first. And some immigration reform advocates are concerned that if you don’t put it first, that the same thing that happened in ’07, the same thing in ’10 — how do you prevent that if you don’t make it first? As you know these legislative lifts are hard? And the concern is if it’s not first, it may not happen. What do you say?

CLINTON: Well, when we both had a chance to vote on comprehensive immigration reform in 2007, the bill that Senator Ted Kennedy championed, I voted for it; Senator Sanders voted against it. So I know how important it is to put together a coalition.

If I’m fortunate enough to get the Democratic nomination, I will immediately begin working on the priority legislation that I want the Congress deal with right away, and immigration reform will be among those issues.

Now for me the way that Congress works, and I think my friend Congresswoman Marcia Fudge is here somewhere.

CLINTON: There she is. Thank you.

The way that the Congress works, there are a bunch of committees, and the committees have different jurisdiction. So if you’re dealing with immigration reform you go to one committee, if you’re dealing with equal pay for women you go to a different committee.

So what I want do is get my priority legislation ready to go, begin working even with Democrats in the Congress during the general election. I also want to do that for nominations, because I want to get the judges I want to appoint, I want to get the other important officials appointed.

So I’m not going to waste a minute. That’s why I want to get this nomination as quickly as possible so I can gets to work on being your president.

 

This essay by Dolores Huerta is well worth a read and a share >>>>

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The reception for Hillary at this town hall was enormous.  That is a great sign. Hillary was very passionate (in hot pink!).  She talked about getting her programs and plans in gear even during and before the general election.

I won’t try to go through all the questions and answers here.  I will say that Hillary was forceful and prepared for the questions.   She always had a way to drive the ball further down the field than a simple answer to each question.  The answers each had an addendum.  She took almost every answer – maybe every answer – beyond the answer.

Her minimum wage answer was important. She said she supports a federal minimum wage and also states raising their minimum wage beyond the federal.  She also declared that social security will never be privatized on her watch,  This is immensely important.  We don’t need our social security riding on the markets.

One thing I am so glad she said: “… maybe it’s that Sen. Sanders wasn’t really a Democrat until he decided to run for president.”  It’s about time we took off the gloves on this matter.

Hillary was surprised when it seemed to be over so quickly, and then, as usual, she was mobbed.

Conclusion?  She was on fire, fierce, and impassioned.  The audience responded very positively to her.  Terrific performance!

Go here for the MSNBC/Telemundo Town Hall >>>>

Go here for the complete transcript >>>>

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Hillary was at the top of her game this evening. She was authentic, direct, honest, and very relaxed, open, and  flexible.  No she cannot promise she will never ever use military intervention, but she will always pursue diplomatic solutions first.  If your daughters feel the Bern, good for them for being interested and involved.   Maybe they can spend a little time learning about Hillary’s history.  End of life issues – yes she will study the issues and the results in communities where assisted suicide is permissible.  She gave a similar answer for medical marijuana.

She went Bernie Sanders one better by stating that she will not go after big banks alone but also after giant corporations that try to skirt the laws.

Is there a right-wing conspiracy?  The answer was more of a question:  Is it still a conspiracy if everybody knows about it?

Is she a progressive?  Rather that assigning or accepting labels, she laid out plans.

She hit every question out of the park.  They only have one team up there, and she hit them all over the Green Monster.

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VOLUNTEERIn the clarity of the morning, and after the post mortems last night and this morning, a few thoughts.

  1. I signed on to do grassroots social media and am committed to that.  So I think, as now there are added debates, we can use some acronyms. From now on, the Iraq War vote should be #IWV; Goldman Sachs Speeches should be #GSS; SuperPACS just #SPs.  It makes typing easier and conserves Twitter characters.
  2. We need to agree that name-calling is inappropriate and off the table. It is not allowed on elementary school playgrounds. There is nothing wrong with being a moderate.  The party is not named the Progressive Party.  It is the Democratic Party, and I do not see Hillary questioning Bernie’s Dem creds.  He needs to stop questioning her progressivism.  This needs to be about what you will do, how you will do it , and how you will finance it – not about labels.
  3. In a Town Hall format, the question should come up only once and then move on to other questions.  Once the moderator had raised the #IWV, there was no reason for that question again from the audience.

I say this in advance of the MSNBC debate tonight which is being “moderated” by two people whose “moderate” creds are questionable at best.

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