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NWCorona

(8,541 posts)
Sat Mar 12, 2016, 05:01 PM Mar 2016

Which Side Are You On, Hillary?

“We’ve got to stand up for unions,” Hillary Clinton declared in her closing statement during the Democratic debate in Milwaukee last month. The line offered the labor-friendly audience a comforting rebuke to Gov. Scott Walker’s relentless attacks on Wisconsin’s unions. It generated passionate applause.

But Mrs. Clinton’s show of support contrasted with her long indifference to the concerns of organized labor. The results of Michigan’s primary last week highlighted this problem; exit polls showed that Mrs. Clinton narrowly lost union households to Senator Bernie Sanders. Over all, nearly 60 percent of Democratic voters thought free-trade agreements, which Mrs. Clinton has generally supported, caused job losses. Mr. Sanders won a majority of those voters, too, which raises the possibility of further upsets on Tuesday in primaries in Illinois and Ohio, where opposition to free-trade pacts is strong."



I'm so hoping for another upset!

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/03/13/opinion/campaign-stops/which-side-are-you-on-hillary.html?_r=0&referer=http://www.bing.com/news/search?q=hillary+clinton&FORM=HDRSC4

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Which Side Are You On, Hillary? (Original Post) NWCorona Mar 2016 OP
K & R AzDar Mar 2016 #1
I remember when she was on Wal-Mart's side IllinoisLabour Mar 2016 #2
Me too! NWCorona Mar 2016 #3
She belongs to a very exclusive club. HooptieWagon Mar 2016 #4
Nope! We sure aren't NWCorona Mar 2016 #5
I'm never sure what Hillary is for or against bigwillq Mar 2016 #6
It's only what she says to the Lower Classes that changes not her positions. She tells Goldman-Sachs rhett o rick Mar 2016 #7
 

IllinoisLabour

(86 posts)
2. I remember when she was on Wal-Mart's side
Sat Mar 12, 2016, 05:03 PM
Mar 2016

Or rather, on their board. Tells me all I need to know about her stance on the workers' right to organize.

 

bigwillq

(72,790 posts)
6. I'm never sure what Hillary is for or against
Sat Mar 12, 2016, 05:11 PM
Mar 2016

it seems like it changes daily.

Yes, Hillary has supported some good things, but she seems to change her platform on the reg depending on what state is voting next. Hillary seems to only do and say things that might benefit her and her campaign.

 

rhett o rick

(55,981 posts)
7. It's only what she says to the Lower Classes that changes not her positions. She tells Goldman-Sachs
Sat Mar 12, 2016, 05:37 PM
Mar 2016

and the others that she speaks to behind locked doors the real truth as to what her positions are and we wouldn't like them.

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