Hillary Clinton signals break with past in Iowa call to end 'uncontrolled money' [View all]

[Surya Gayatri]

Former US secretary of state holds first campaign event of presidential bid and reveals determination to distance herself from association with the super-rich.


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 Clinton’s image.

“Verify Concern – Determine Related Symptoms – Analyze,” the note said. “Isolate – Correct.”

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.