Bernie and Hillary PREP For NEW YORK CLASH

[Segami]

"...On Monday, de Blasio appeared to scoff at a comment made by Clinton senior strategist Joel Benenson, who told reporters on a conference call that he expected Sanders to campaign “like a Brooklynite,” in contrast to Clinton, who would campaign in New York like a senator. “I assume the phrase campaigning like a Brooklynite is a compliment,” de Blasio said at a news conference, the latest in a series of off-message moments from the mayor whose personal beliefs seem to mirror those of Sanders more than those of the candidate he ultimately endorsed..."

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“You’ll see all three Clintons, as well as surrogates, aggressively campaigning throughout the state,” said Clinton spokeswoman Karen Finney. Clinton is beginning the push on Wednesday, with an organizing event at the Apollo Theater in Harlem. Sanders operatives said they were trying to get him to town as early as Thursday. The Clinton campaign has held more than a dozen organizing events across the state over the past week to sign up volunteers, and it created a dozen “campus teams” at colleges and universities, a campaign aide said. Clinton also plans to stage a greatest hits tour of her work here as senator. “You’re going to hear from the wives and husbands of firefighters and police officers who know what she did around Zadroga,” said former City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, who sits on Clinton’s New York leadership council, referring to legislation passed in Congress that provides aid to sick 9/11 first responders and their families.

In recent weeks, Clinton has been shifting to a general election message with hefty speeches on the Supreme Court and foreign policy. But the competitive race in New York will thrust her right back into the domestic issues that have dominated the primary. Clinton operatives said the campaign plans to make a big push on gun safety issues in the city. Meanwhile, Sanders operatives said they will highlight his blanket opposition to fracking, which New York banned in 2015; continue his anti-Wall Street crusade; and play up his fight for a $15 minimum wage, which Clinton has not backed nationally. Sanders aides said they also plan to dispatch high profile African-American surrogates like Harry Belafonte, Cornel West, Spike Lee and Erica Garner — the daughter of Eric Garner, who was killed in an illegal police chokehold while selling loose cigarettes in Staten Island in 2014 — to campaign for them. And they said they have been focusing on Latino outreach in New York City.

Sanders, the son of Jewish immigrants who grew up in a tenement in Brooklyn, is also hoping to undercut Clinton’s New York ties — his staffers casually point out that New York is technically Clinton’s third and adopted home state, and there is a grass-roots movement here ready to support him. But the days of Clinton being accused of carpetbagging and donning a Yankees cap for political convenience have been replaced with memories of her standing up for her New York in the wake of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, local Democrats said.

“New York is Clinton country,” said Democratic strategist Hank Sheinkopf, who is unaffiliated with either campaign. “But if she slips in New York by not winning big, Secretary Clinton will have lots to explain to Democrats, and Republicans will have a great day.”

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Clinton is pulling in all her old allies to help win the local fight. American Federation of Teachers president Randi Weingarten, a former president of New York’s local teachers union branch, spent the past week talking to her own members and leaders in Albany and the Hudson Valley about the stakes of the election. New York State United Teachers, the United Federation of Teachers' state affiliate, is planning to open nine offices across the state for phone banking and canvassing. “The issue in New York is that people just assume because they know her they assume that she’ll be fine,” said Weingarten. “The New York campaign is a reminder that the person who was our senator is the person who’s running for president. It’s a reminder of that person who had great compassion and for the first responders on 9/11; the person who did whatever she could to rebuild infrastructure in Buffalo; the person who fought to lower class size and fought to not have testing be front and center in education. That is the person who is running.” To counter the powerful UFT and all of the state’s elected officials who will be backing Clinton, Sanders is counting on the Amalgamated Transit Union and the Communication Workers of America to help him mobilize voters.


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http://www.politico.com/story/2016/03/bernie-and-hillary-prep-for-new-york-clash-221321

[AgerolanAmerican]

1. It's on!

Like Donkey Kong!

[Segami]

2. GAME ON NEW YORK!!

This is a Main Event and Bernie needs to get his A team on the ground. For this debate, Bernie needs to reach out to smart progressive New Yorkers like Zephyr Teachout to help him fine tune & target all the State hot button issues that will resonate with New Yorkers . This is an important debate and the Sanders campaign can't be parroting the same stump speech points.....Bernie needs to target and shape his messaging around the needs of struggling New Yorkers which includes social and economic local & state issues.

[MrMickeysMom]

3. I'm pretty sure the sure and steady message will connect...

... As you know, Segami, there are only so many ways one could try to blend in. Like, Clinton "blends"!

[Karma13612]

4. Agree. And NY is a big big state that goes waaaaay

Beyond the westchester county northern boarder.

There are a lot of struggling areas with high unemployment rates and drug addiction and poor health care choices.

[PonyUp]

5. I bet Hillary's been practicing her Brooklyn Bernie accent. nt

[Aerows]

6. What the damn difference does any of this make

if the voters keep getting gamed?

It's theater if the results are pre-ordained due to election fraud.

I'm disgusted.