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May 19, 2016

Hillary and Bill Clinton Made $6.7 Million From Speeches in 2015

Hillary and Bill Clinton raked in a combined $6.725 million in paid speeches in 2015, a decrease from the year before, according to a personal financial disclosure form released late Tuesday night.

As a presidential candidate, Clinton has come under fire for paid speeches she gave, particularly to big banks and Wall Street, after leaving the State Department. Her Democratic opponent, Bernie Sanders, and his supporters have called on her to release the transcripts of these speeches, which she has thus far refused to do.

Hillary and Bill Clinton raked in a combined $6.725 million in paid speeches in 2015, a decrease from the year before, according to a personal financial disclosure form released late Tuesday night.

As a presidential candidate, Clinton has come under fire for paid speeches she gave, particularly to big banks and Wall Street, after leaving the State Department. Her Democratic opponent, Bernie Sanders, and his supporters have called on her to release the transcripts of these speeches, which she has thus far refused to do.
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http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/hillary-bill-clinton-made-67-million-speeches-2015/story?id=39184952
May 19, 2016

Noam Chomsky speaks on "Clinton's Vision" - 1993


https://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=MCeichuaPqQ&t=9m30s

Event was held in December, 1993 in Washington D.C..

Chomsky talks about Bill Clinton, capitalism, and human rights. Chomsky starts at 9:30 .
May 19, 2016

Bernie Sanders endorses California marijuana initiative


Bernie Sanders, who said last week that he had not yet studied a California measure to legalize marijuana for recreational use, on Wednesday endorsed the initiative.

“I do not live in California,” the Vermont senator told supporters at a rally here. “But if I lived in California, I would vote ‘yes’ to legalize marijuana.”

http://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article78477117.html

May 19, 2016

NPR public editor rejects reports of violence at Nevada convention

Elizabeth Jensen Ombudsman/Public Editor

Fact-Checking NPR's Reports On Vegas 'Violence'


Donovan and I disagree on this; "violence," which NPR more often uses to describe events in war zones, seems too strong a term to me based on the evidence I have seen so far. And the politics team's own decision to avoid the word "thrown" renders this online-only introduction to Keith's piece misleading, unless other eyewitnesses come forward to clarify the events: "Sen. Bernie Sanders is answering for violence at the Nevada Democratic Party's state convention, where his supporters threw chairs and hurled obscenities as Hillary Clinton claimed the most delegates."
http://www.npr.org/sections/ombudsman/2016/05/18/478579787/fact-checking-nprs-reports-on-vegas-violence
May 19, 2016

Nina Turner: There was no violence at Nevada convention | Ed Schultz Show

There was no violence in Nevada convention. I was there 8 hours – Nina Turner



https://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=OYaR4X2KDmk

May 19, 2016

Hillary Clinton's policies have killed hundreds of thousands of people.


Her supporters are outraged about the shocking violence of a flipped over chair.
May 19, 2016

Trump beats Clinton by 3 points in new poll

Source: The Hill

Donald Trump edges out Hillary Clinton by 3 percentage points in a hypothetical general election match-up, according to a new Fox News poll.

Trump has 45 percent support, while Clinton trails with 42, putting just within the poll's margin of error.

Clinton rival Bernie Sanders, meanwhile, leads Trump 46 to 42, according to the same poll.

The presumptive GOP nominee is buoyed by his support among whites, leading Clinton 55 to 31 percent. That margin grows among whites without a college degree, 61 percent of whom favor Trump, while just 24 percent back Clinton.

Read more: http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/fox-news-poll-bernie-sanders-donald-trump-hillary-clinton

May 19, 2016

Clinton surrogate Ed Rendell: There are "more ugly women in America than attractive women"



A Hillary Clinton surrogate said Donald Trump’s controversial remarks regarding women will hurt him in November because "there are probably more ugly women in America than attractive women."

Ed Rendell, the former governor of Pennsylvania, is the chairman of the Philadelphia 2016 Host Committee for this July’s Democratic National Convention.
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“For every one he’ll lose 1 1/2, two Republican women. Trump’s comments like ‘You can’t be a 10 if you’re flat-chested,’ that’ll come back to haunt him,” Rendell said in the interview. “There are probably more ugly women in America than attractive women. People take that stuff personally.”
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link:
http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/280375-clinton-surrogate-on-trump-more-ugly-women-in-america
May 18, 2016

Bernie should decline speaking at the national convention

He sucks with teleprompters. It will be horrible.

It also would signal that while he supports the nominee he isn't really too gung ho about it.

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