Hillary Clinton: Blasts Trump At Rainbow PUSH International Women’s Luncheon Chicago
Hillary had a busy day Monday. She will accomplish somethings regarding gun regulation. Yes she will
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Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, followed by Rev. Jessie Jackson, arrives to speak at a Rainbow PUSH Women’s International Luncheon at the Hyatt McCormick in Chicago, Monday, June 27, 2016. (Andrew Harnik/Associated Press)
Jun 27, 2016
By Mary L. Datcher
............... Hillary Clinton was the keynote speaker at the convention’s International Women’s Luncheon where..................................
.............Arriving from a special rally in Cincinnati with VP prospect, Senator Elizabeth Warren–Clinton was introduced by both Mrs. Jacqueline Jackson and Rev. Jesse Jackson, Sr. to a standing ovation. With an audience filled with supporters from faith, community, business leaders as well as educators and public officials–the former First Lady of the United States stood confidently at the podium addressing the audience.
Clinton covered the importance of healthcare but she also mentioned her March trip to Chicago’s far South Side at Kids Off the Block in the Roseland community. She recalled, “Rev. Jackson and I went down to the memorial of lost lives of young people taken by gun violence. It started out as a way to honor those lives lost; children–young people and teenagers. I’ve had the great honor of getting to know and work with the mothers who have lost children to gun violence,” said Clinton.
She acknowledged Annette Nance-Holt, mother of slain Chicago teen–Blair Holt who was shot and killed on a Chicago public bus in 2009. Clinton commended the Democratic Congressional Representatives who fought for gun control last week on Capitol Hill, disrupting the session with a sit-in. She says, “America is still mourning.”
Without missing a beat, the Democratic Presidential candidate, highlighted the most recent deadly attack at a Orlando nightclub, the one-year anniversary of the Charleston church massacre and the many lives lost at Sandy Hook Elementary School four years ago.
The ongoing violence that has taken hold of Chicago has reached national heights as she mentions the sixty-four people shot over the Memorial Day weekend. But, her voice elevates a notch as Clinton addresses the elephant in the room–Donald Trump.
“We’re up against a man with dangerous, incoherent ideas. He is for the white supremacists, he mocks people with disabilities. He says he wants to ban an entire religion, he wants to get rid of gun free zones around the schools, let more countries have nuclear weapons, default on our national debt, turn back the clock on marriage equality. He doesn’t think we need to raise the minimum wage. I can go on and on.”.....................
