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Showing Original Post only (View all)Hillary Clinton signals break with past in Iowa call to end 'uncontrolled money' [View all]
Former US secretary of state holds first campaign event of presidential bid and reveals determination to distance herself from association with the super-rich.![](http://i.guim.co.uk/media/w-700/h--/q-95/9d1c55a365cc7bd1b1f2645f7d3a1a8d62f1c631/0_51_3159_1894/1000.jpg)
Hillary Clinton talks with reporters as she campaigns for the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination at Kirkwood Community College in Monticello, Iowa. Photograph: Rick Wilking/Reuters
Hillary Clinton said campaign finance reform would be a central plank of her presidential bid on Tuesday, revealing a determination to reinvent her political profile as a more humble, populist figure for the 2016 election.
Clinton used a visit to an Iowa college her first scheduled appearance as a candidate to say that reforming a dysfunctional system of US political funding would be one of four pillars in her run for the White House.
It was a bold stance from Clinton, who has long courted the support of Wall Street hedge funds and is widely expected to benefit from the most expensively financed campaign in US presidential history.
Clinton later told reporters she wanted to get the uncontrolled money out of politics again.
A thin yellow rope separated the cameras from a backdrop of oily car parts and hydraulic lifts. On a nearby white board were instructions about automotive repair that could just as well have been a campaign memo about the renovation of Clintons image.
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http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/apr/14/hillary-clinton-political-finance-reform-2016-iowa
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This will resonate. I hope and trust that she means it.
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Hillary Clinton signals break with past in Iowa call to end 'uncontrolled money' [View all]
Surya Gayatri
Apr 2015
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Hillary called for an end to "untraceable" money in politics...essentially the Disclose Act
stuffmatters
Apr 2015
#46
No, it's really not. She's been running for years. She has said NOTHING of substance and
cali
Apr 2015
#9
Agree, and I think her meeting only with small groups of handpicked people is foolish
peacebird
Apr 2015
#20
It is really stunning. Her site has tabs to donate and to volunteer, but not one single tab
morningfog
Apr 2015
#30
So she wants everyone else to take the principled stand she isn't taking herself?
Nuclear Unicorn
Apr 2015
#19
She called for a Constitutional amendment to block the money, call me cynical, but that is
peacebird
Apr 2015
#12
"she needs to continue to collect her pile from wherever she can find it."
Nuclear Unicorn
Apr 2015
#34
Yup, it takes far too much money to run for national office, that's for sure.
Surya Gayatri
Apr 2015
#43
Well if she said it then let's ask her how she proposes to end this corruption.
YOHABLO
Apr 2015
#51
blah blah blah says the lady who charges $300,000 an hour to talk about how special she is
whereisjustice
Apr 2015
#55
Will she send back the contributions she received from the corporations as a gesture of sincerity?
Tierra_y_Libertad
Apr 2015
#58