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riversedge's JournalBernie Sanders Trumpets Iowa Paper’s Praise. Unsaid? It Endorsed Hillary Clinton
Seems dishonesty and deceptions are what the Sanders camp is up to this last week.
12:54 pm ET By Nick Corasaniti
Bernie Sanders Trumpets Iowa Papers Praise. Unsaid? It Endorsed Hillary Clinton
http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2016/01/29/bernie-sanders-trumpets-iowa-papers-praise-unsaid-it-endorsed-hillary-clinton/?_r=0
The Des Moines Register has not endorsed Senator Bernie Sanders, but a new ad from his campaign that started running on Thursday in Iowa may lead viewers to think that it did.
The ad trumpets the endorsements Mr. Sanders has received: From postal workers to nurses, hes been endorsed for real change, a female narrator says.
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But sandwiched between The Nations endorsement and one from the The Daily Nonpareil, the local newspaper in Council Bluffs, Iowa, is a quotation from the states largest newspaper. The Des Moines Register calls him a man of courage and principle, the narrator says.
That praise did not come in an endorsement of Mr. Sanders, however. It came in The Registers editorial endorsing Mr. Sanderss rival, Hillary Clinton.
The editorial did shower Mr. Sanders with praise, but it came down in favor of Mrs. Clintons candidacy which even careful viewers would have no way of knowing.
2 amazing women fighting for Hillary Sen. @JeanneShaheen & @GloriaSteinem Jan 26 New Hamphire
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Hillary for NH ?@HillaryforNH 3h3 hours ago
"Hillary knows there's a connection among women's issues & life in general." -@GloriaSteinem in Hanover #ImWithHer
@HillaryforNH 4h4 hours ago
Rep. @snordgren23 introduces @GloriaSteinem to a packed room of seniors in Hanover! #603forHRC
Hillary for NH ?@HillaryforNH 4h4 hours ago
"Why I'm supporting @HillaryClinton for president" by @Lilly_Ledbetter: http://hrc.io/1P1Lvmm
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BREAKING-Pres Obama on msnbc now-Has New Plan for EQUAL PAY
Hillary in NH this past week -pics and tweets
Hillary has not forgotten NH--has folks working for her there.
Hillary for NH ?@HillaryforNH 10m10 minutes ago
Rep. @snordgren23 introduces @GloriaSteinem to a packed room of seniors in Hanover! #603forHRC
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Hillary for NH ?@HillaryforNH Jan 25
"@HillaryClinton believes in an America that includes ALL of us." -Sec. @JulianCastro in Manchester
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"The next President needs to be a President who understands how to create great opportunity." -@SecretaryCastro #ImWithHer #603forHRC
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Hillary HQ and 2 others Retweeted
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Brothers Castro @Castro4Congress & Sec. @JulianCastro at UNH for @HillaryClinton #twinning #603forHRC
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Equal pay litigant Lilly Ledbetter endorses Clinton
This is indeed an honor for Hillary. Congratulations.
Equal pay litigant Lilly Ledbetter endorses Clinton
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/01/29/equal-pay-litigant-lilly-ledbetter-endorses-clinton/
By Anne Gearan January 29 at 7:00 AM
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Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks to Annette Bebout, 73, during a town hall meeting in Newton, Iowa. (Melina Mara/The Washington Post)
DES MOINES, Iowa Hillary Clinton won the endorsement Friday of the woman behind federal legislation making it easier for women to challenge their employers over unequal pay.
Lilly Ledbetter, namesake of the first law President Obama signed in 2009, said Clinton is a "fierce and uncompromising champion for women, for basic fairness, and for opportunity for everyone."
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Ledbetter worked for Goodyear Tire and Rubber for nearly two decades before learning that, as a rare woman in a senior supervisor role, she was making between $500 and $1,500 less each month than male counterparts. She sued, but the Supreme Court ruled against her because she had missed a short legal window to file a challenge. The 2009 law allowed lower paid workers, who are often women, to bring claims long after their pay is set.
"I was being paid significantly less for the same job less than I deserved and less than my family needed," but didn't know it, Ledbetter wrote in an essay to be released by the Clinton campaign later Friday. A copy of Ledbetter's endorsement statement was provided by the Clinton campaign.
Clinton helped sponsor a law to negate the high court's ruling.
"Under this law, no one else will ever have to accept the gender discrimination I faced without the chance to challenge it in court," Ledbetter wrote...............
Hillary for NH ?@HillaryforNH 27m27 minutes ago
"Why I'm supporting @HillaryClinton for president" by @Lilly_Ledbetter: http://hrc.io/1P1Lvmm
Why Im supporting Hillary Clinton for president.
Jan 28, 2016 by Lilly Ledbetter
My story paved the way for the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. Together we can fulfill its promise.
When I became an overnight shift manager at the Goodyear plant in 1979, there werent many women on the job (and the few that didnt stay long). But I worked my way up, and in 1996, I even received the plants top performance award.
It wasnt until 19 years after Id started that I learned I was being paid less than my male colleagues.
One evening, I came into work early, checked my mail, and there it was: an anonymous note that listed my salary and the salaries of three men with the same title. I was being paid significantly less for the same jobless than I deserved and less than my family needed.
The easiest thing to do would have been to let it go. But thats not who I am.
I took my case all the way to the Supreme Court. But they ruled that, though I had clearly been discriminated against, I had filed my case too late to be compensated.
Luckily, we live in a country where, when the laws are wrong, we can do something about it.
Seven years ago today, President Obama signed his first bill into law: the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, which makes it easier to challenge wage discrimination in court. It was an important step toward equal pay for women, and an important victory for the increasing number of American households where women are the primary breadwinner. Under this law, no one else will ever have to accept the gender discrimination I faced without the chance to challenge it in court.
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But this isnt just my story. Its the story of women working full time across this country who, despite new protections, are on average still earning just 78 cents for every dollar a man earnswith women of color often being shortchanged even more. Thats money their families are losing out on.
Our next president can either build on the progress weve made and go even furtheror dismiss this important issue. Women across this country need more than rhetoric; they need actionthey need a fighter in the White House.
I firmly believe Hillary Clinton will be that fighter.
Hillary has spent decades fighting to advance womens rights and economic opportunities. We fought side by side to pass the Lilly Ledbetter Act, which she co-sponsored in the United States Senate, and she has been a tireless champion for the Paycheck Fairness Actlegislation that would go even further to address the pay gap. And shes put issues like equal pay, affordable child care, paid leave, and reproductive rights front and center in her campaign.
Hillary understands that these issues cant be dismissed or pushed to the sidelines. Theyre not just social issuestheyre fundamental to our countrys economic future, and they are at the heart of everything shes fighting for on this campaign. For Hillary, this is about more than politicsits personal. She just gets it, plain and simple.
Of all the candidates in this race, she is the one we can count on to be a fierce and uncompromising champion for women, for basic fairness, and for opportunity for everyone. Shes not just a steadfast supporter of issues that affect womens lives; shes someone who has been there. She doesnt just say the right things; she does the right things. And when it comes to finally closing the gender pay gap once and for all, that will make a world of difference.
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Johnny Ray Hodge ?@jrh4hill Jan 19
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Advocacy Groups Call Foul on Sanders Campaign in Iowa, Nevada
Source: newsweek
Advocacy Groups Call Foul on Sanders Campaign in Iowa, Nevada
By Emily Cadei On 1/28/16 at 6:22 PM
Senator Bernie Sanders has built his insurgent presidential bid around being Mr. Clean, but several outside groups are now accusing his campaign of playing dirty.
Sanderss campaign in Iowa has included League of Conservation Voters and AARP logos in recent mailers its sent to prospective caucusgoers, a subtle effort to tie himself to those groups, if not implying an endorsement. But neither group has backed him. The AARP, which represents retirees, does not endorse candidates, and the League of Conservative Voters, an environmental advocacy group, is supporting Sanderss Democratic foe, Hillary Clinton.
And now news has broken of what is potentially an even more bald-faced deception, in Nevada, where Sanders supporters have reportedly been posing as members of Las Vegass powerful Culinary Workers Union Local 226 to try to rally labor support ahead of the states Democratic caucuses on February 20.
For a candidate who has boasted about not taking money from billionaires and never running a negative political ad in his life, the moves raise questions about the iconoclastic Vermont lawmakers campaign just days before the make-or-break Iowa caucuses......................
Read more: http://www.newsweek.com/sanders-complaints-iowa-nevada-420806
U.S. Senate race: Russ Feingold leads Ron Johnson 50-37 percent.
Molly Beck ?@MollyBeck 4h4 hours ago
U.S. Senate race: Russ Feingold leads Ron Johnson 50-37 percent. #wipolitics #mulawpoll
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Sanders tries to bolster position against gun law he previously supported
Source: cnn
By David Wright and Eric Bradner, CNN
Updated 12:55 PM ET, Thu January 28, 2016 | Video Source: CNN
Washington (CNN)Bernie Sanders will co-sponsor a bill to repeal legal protections for the firearm industry that he'd supported a decade ago, taking another step to undo the political damage of that vote and smooth over his relationship with gun
According to a release from the Brady Campaign, Sanders will co-sponsor the repeal of the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act, which protects gun manufacturers in lawsuits involving shootings. Sanders had voted in favor of the protections while in the Senate and has up to this point resisted reversing course on the issue.
The Brady Campaign says that Sanders decided to support the legislation "hours after meeting with Brady activists," and that his staff also met with victims of gun violence.
For Sanders, it's all an effort to undo the damage of a 2005 vote for a bill that protected gun manufacturers from lawsuits when their firearms are used in crimes. Then-New York Sen. Hillary Clinton opposed that bill, and has repeatedly pointed to Sanders' vote as evidence he was aligned with the National Rifle Association........
Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2016/01/28/politics/bernie-sanders-gun-law-reversal/?iid=ob_lockedrail_topeditorial&iref=obinsite
Golly gee--Sanders is evolving.
Major Nevada union accuses Sanders aides of posing as union members
Source: cnn
Major Nevada union accuses Sanders aides of posing as union members
By Dan Merica, CNN
Updated 3:47 PM ET, Thu January 28, 2016 | Video Source: CNN
Now Playing Sanders: Where was...
Des Moines, Iowa (CNN)Nevada's powerful Culinary Union on Thursday accused Bernie Sanders' campaign staffers of posing as union workers in an attempt to gain access to their members, a charge the Sanders campaign denies.
Union representatives said Thursday that multiple members of their union have reported Sanders' campaign staffers of "attempting and gaining access to employee dining rooms at Las Vegas Strip properties."
"We are disappointed and offended," said Geoconda Arguello-Kline, the union's secretary-treasurer. "It's completely inappropriate for any campaign to attempt to mislead Culinary Union members, especially at their place of work.".....................
Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2016/01/28/politics/bernie-sanders-union-nevada-culinary-union/index.html
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