I stand with former Progressive Caucus chairman John Conyers, in his endorsement of Hillary Clinton

[DemocratSinceBirth]

I proudly with former Progressive Caucus chairman John Conyers, in his endorsement of Hillary Clinton:

The hard truth we must realize is that we have a long way to go to make equal opportunity a reality in America - whether we're talking job creation, reforming our criminal justice system or even providing safe drinking water.

We need leaders who care about all communities, that have credible plans for progress, and who have experience fighting hard battles. Hillary Clinton exemplifies that kind of leadership, and that's why I am proud to support her for president.

Earlier this month, Hillary Clinton came to Flint and she didn't mince words. She told the country that what's happening in Flint is immoral. And she's right. Sadly, Flint is far from an outlier. From Baltimore, Maryland to Richmond, California, to Denmark, South Carolina, there are many other "Flints" where the local government failed to meet its basic obligation to protect its citizens. Turning a blind eye to crumbling infrastructure that exposes children to lead poisoning is just wrong in a country like the United States.

Last week, Hillary announced the economic component of her "Breaking Every Barrier" Agenda, which demonstrates her commitment to improving impoverished communities. Her plan will break down the barriers that have held communities of color back and expand economic opportunities for all.

Hillary's plan would provide the funding and partnerships needed to modernize our outdated infrastructure by investing $50 billion in underserved communities that have been neglected for too long. This "Infrastructure for Opportunity" fund will create the kinds of good-paying jobs that support a thriving middle class.

Hillary also knows we need to reform our broken criminal justice system. In her first major policy speech of this campaign, she announced her plan to end the era of mass incarceration in this country that has broken up so many communities of color, repair the trust between law enforcement and the communities they serve, and ease the transition of ex-offenders back into society.

...

The agenda Hillary has put forward is a blueprint for real advancement. She has been at the forefront of the fight for justice her entire career and understands what is at stake. In order to build upon President Obama's progress, we simply cannot afford to have someone in the White House who takes us backward. Hillary is the only candidate with comprehensive policy plans that will get help to the communities that need it most and has the practical experience to get the job done.

As she showed us when she came to Flint, Hillary is committed to fighting for justice for all Americans, not just the wealthy few. That's the kind of leader - the kind of president - we all need and deserve. That's why I'm With Her.


read: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-conyers/realizing-the-path-to-equ_b_9368158.html

[Buzz Clik]

1. But we aren't giving Conyers full credit for his endorsement because, well, you know.

Let's compromise -- 3/5 endorsement.

[w4rma]

2. Placing identity wedge politics before fighting corruption. (nt)

[DemocratSinceBirth]

4. Now we are robbing African American congresspeople of agency.

Dear lord, where and when does this end and how?

[w4rma]

7. We all know that there is absolutely no advantage to African-Americans to voting for Clinton

over Sanders. It's bullshit propaganda to say otherwise. Quit insulting everyone's intelligence by pretending otherwise.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

8. Nothing but a forty year alliance

Nothing but a forty year alliance, albeit a complex one, like most political alliances, on one side, and a politician who left one of the most heterogeneous states in the nation for one of the most homogeneous ones to plant his political flag.

[w4rma]

11. 40 years, eh? 40 years ago, Hillary began her stint on the Walmart board of directors.

Interesting "40 year alliance".
http://www.progressivepress.net/hillary-clinton-was-a-wal-mart-director-for-6-years/

[DemocratSinceBirth]

13. Instead of going to a white shoes law firm

Instead of going to a white shoes law firm with her fancy Yale Law School degree Hillary Clinton became an observer for the ACLU to monitor Black Panthers trials, went to South Carolina to ensure juvenile offenders weren't housed with adult ones, and then went to Alabama to expose all white private academies that were set up to thwart desegregation orders. Her opponent ran for mayor of a small homogeneous city because he was looking for a job.

[w4rma]

17. Board of directors for Walmart is about the most money making thing she could do for herself.

Don't pretend that sitting on the Walmart board of directors is anything but cashing in. And lets not forget that under the Clintons' free trade policies and low wage policies, Walmart soon became one of the largest corporations in the world. She paid the Waltons back BIG TIME from her lofty political position.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

19. They wanted a woman on their board and since she was the First Lady of Arkansas her selection made

They wanted a woman on their board and since she was the First Lady of Arkansas her selection made sense and the Wal Mart of the 80s is not the same corporate behemoth that it is today, and during her tenure their she argued they hire more women and be more environmentally conscious.

We are straying far from the topic... You suggested Mr. Confers was supporting Hillary out of some sort of false consciousness...Maybe him and his constituents just aren't into the Vermont independent, Occam's Razor!

Board of directors for Walmart is about the most money making thing she could do for herself.

That's absurd, ergo:

But Nordstrom opposed its employees sitting on a competitor’s board, so Wal-Mart turned instead to the 39-year-old Mrs. Clinton. They offered her about $15,000 a year for her time, generally four meetings a year.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/20/us/politics/20walmart.html

A Yale Law School grad in the late 80s/early 90s was capable of earning a lot more than $15,000.00.

[w4rma]

22. They wanted to governor of Arkansas in their pocket. It's that simple. (nt)

[DemocratSinceBirth]

23. That's...

That's as plausible as your assertion that the going rate for a Yale Law School grad in the late 80/early 90s was fifteen thousand dollars.

[w4rma]

24. Quit lying for the woman. You can't actually believe what you just said.

And, honestly, it makes both you and her look bad to everyone who knows better.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

26. Now, you are depriving me of agency.

Quit lying for the woman. You can't actually believe what you just said

Now, you are depriving me of agency. This philosopher king gig sounds great. How can a plebeian like me get one?

[w4rma]

28. You are more than welcome to "use your agency" to lie for that woman.

And I am going to use my agency to counter your lies for that woman.

Btw, my primary issues are democracy and anti-corruption.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

30. It's too late, you already deprived me of it, ergo.

You are more than welcome to "use your agency" to lie for that woman.

It's too late, you already deprived me of it, ergo:

Quit lying for the woman. You can't actually believe what you just said

BTW, you are confounding opinions for facts.

[w4rma]

34. Keep lying. Lie. Lie and continue to lie. But, folks are sick of it and that's why she needs to be

stopped, now, by Democrats, not by the enthusiastic anti-Clinton/pro-Trump Republicans.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

35. Hmmm

Keep lying. Lie. Lie and continue to lie. But, folks are sick of it and that's why she needs to be
stopped, now, by Democrats, not by the enthusiastic anti-Clinton/pro-Trump Republicans.

So, now am I a liar who lacks agency because I dare to disagree with you?

[w4rma]

37. Whatever. You mistake twisting my words as some form of debate for you to "win". (nt)

[DemocratSinceBirth]

38. I am content to let dispassionate readers judge.

[w4rma]

40. Yup. I never debate to flip my opponents' views. I debate to expose my opponents' true views. (nt)

[treestar]

41. and they can clearly see what is going on in that exchange?

That woman? SMH.

[w4rma]

44. I could have used the phrase: "that corporatist" or "that propagandist" or "that authoritarian".

But, I am not trying to get in the mud with simple name calling.

[treestar]

18. if that's evil on the face of it, you've written off a lot of people

how large does the corporation have to be to be automatically corrupt? And how far down in the hierarchy do you have to be before you aren't? I'm assuming the greeters and workers in the stores are OK, but how high before you are automatically bad?

This kind of thing gets us nowhere with most voters.

[w4rma]

25. Walmart is only the largest welfare queen, outside of the defense industry, in America.

They pay their workers the bare minimum by law. They let tax payers make up the difference so that they can *eat*. And they lobby to ship everyone's middle class jobs to China.

Defending Walmart to Democratic voters is about the worst idea ever if you are trying to defend Hillary, treestar.

Hillary needs to lose this primary. Because for this environment of fed up with corruption people, she is out of place and time.

[treestar]

27. But how big does the corporation have to be for its board to be automatically corrupt?

And how high in the supervisory chain must be person be to be corrupt. The board, the CEO. What about upper management that works directly for the CEO?

[w4rma]

29. Corrupt corporations can be small. The point is that under the Clintons, national law was changed

to help turn Walmart into the welfare queen that it is today, at the expense of all of those Americans rebelling against the pro-'free' trade, pro-Wall Street, anti-Main Street establishment, right now.

And that's why Clinton can't beat Trump. Trump may not believe what he says, but noone believes Clinton on the topic.

[treestar]

32. what law? Under "the Clintons?"

What Bill did is separate.

Still your original post takes for granted the board of a corporation must be corrupt. Now you are saying small ones could be.

Most of America does not think doing business and making money is corrupt. Therefore this stuff will get Bernie no votes. You're taking corruption for granted.

What national law was changed to give Walmart money? Please name the bill that was passed and signed by Bill Clinton.

[w4rma]

33. NAFTA, Welfare Reform, the decline of unions in the 90s. Etc. (nt)

[treestar]

39. seriously nothing more specific than that?

How do those make Walmart a welfare queen? Etc. is not specific enough at all to support your claim.

You were making it sound like Hillary and the Board specifically lobbied for a specific law that gave Walmart money or lowered its taxes or the like.

[w4rma]

42. The Revenge of the Lower Classes and the Rise of American Fascism | Chris Hedges

College-educated elites, on behalf of corporations, carried out the savage neoliberal assault on the working poor. Now they are being made to pay. Their duplicity—embodied in politicians such as Bill and Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama—succeeded for decades. These elites, many from East Coast Ivy League schools, spoke the language of values—civility, inclusivity, a condemnation of overt racism and bigotry, a concern for the middle class—while thrusting a knife into the back of the underclass for their corporate masters. This game has ended.
…
The Democrats are playing a very dangerous game by anointing Hillary Clinton as their presidential candidate. She epitomizes the double-dealing of the college-educated elites, those who speak the feel-your-pain language of ordinary men and women, who hold up the bible of political correctness, while selling out the poor and the working class to corporate power.
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/the_revenge_of_the_lower_classes_and_the_rise_of_american_fascism_20160302

[treestar]

46. this is no answer

what specific bill did President Bill Clinton sign that Walmart a benefit?

[giftedgirl77]

31. Maybe you shouldn't assume to know what others best interests are.

[w4rma]

36. That's a nice superficial, meaningless phrase, giftedgirl. (nt)

[Cali_Democrat]

47. So why are the vast majority of African Americans supporting Hillary over Bernie

in the states that have voted so far?

[w4rma]

49. Name recognition and well promoted smears. (nt)

[sufrommich]

6. What " identity wedge politics"? Did you even read Conyers endorsement? nt

[sufrommich]

3. John Conyers will help her in Michigan.

[NurseJackie]

5. A very strong and meaningful endorsement! Hillary and her campaign should be very proud ...

... to have his support. (It certainly means a lot to ME!)

Go, Hillary!

[Tom Rinaldo]

9. He's a good man. But I stand with the two current Progrssive Caucus Chairmen

U.S. Representatives Raúl Grijalva (D-AZ) and Keith Ellison (D-MN).

[JaneyVee]

10. K AND R!

[riversedge]

12. and a big Rec

[riversedge]

14. k and r

[SidDithers]

15. DU rec...

but why is there a picture of Super-Soul Al Green, with that Bill Withers song?



Sid

[treestar]

16. K and R

a good one!

[riversedge]

20. good to see it is getting wide circulation as an AP story...

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[mcar]

21. K&R

[Nanjeanne]

43. I Proudly Stand With Former Progressive Caucus Leader & Originating Member

BERNIE SANDERS.

[Svafa]

45. Cool. I stand with Rep. Ellison in his endorsement of Sanders. nt

[phleshdef]

48. I sit here with utter annoyance at the corny "I Stand With" posts.

You aren't standing with anyone. You are posting stuff on the Internet. Give yourself a high five!