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Months before Hillary Rodham Clinton started delivering Democratic primary voters a liberal-minded message about a “stacked deck” in favor of the wealthy and the need for criminal-justice reform, she met quietly at Esca, a Mario Batali restaurant in Midtown Manhattan, with four powerful labor leaders.
There, in February, she treated representatives of the biggest teachers’, service employees’ and government workers’ unions to a seafood dinner and a lengthy discussion of policy issues. Her meaning was unmistakable: She wanted them to feel like an important part of her coming campaign.
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That is because he was publicly amplifying, however obliquely, an argument that liberals have made to Mrs. Clinton and her team more bluntly in private: They do not wish to see the likes of Robert E. Rubin and Lawrence H. Summers, both former treasury secretaries to Bill Clinton, become fixtures in her circle.
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Mrs. Clinton faces even more intense pressure to confront income inequality and make clear she is not beholden to the business-friendly policies preferred by some of her contributors. While aligning herself with the left on cultural issues like immigration and same-sex marriage, she has so far been less explicit on economic policies — avoiding taking a position, for example, on a controversial trade pact with Pacific Rim countries.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/02/us/politics/hillary-clinton-welcomes-the-democratic-left-but-is-pressured-to-take-progressive-stands.html
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antigop
(12,778 posts)Union leaders vow they won’t be taken for granted in 2016.
Frustrated by President Barack Obama and wary of Hillary Clinton’s perceived closeness to Wall Street, several leading figures in organized labor are resisting falling in line early behind the former secretary of state as the inevitable Democratic presidential nominee.
Top officials at AFL-CIO are pressing its affiliates to hold off on an endorsement and make the eventual nominee earn their support and spell out a clear agenda. The strategy is designed to maximize labor’s strength after years of waning clout and ensure a focus on strengthening the middle class, but it could provide an opening for a candidate running to Clinton’s left to make a play for union support.
“We do have a process in place, which says before anybody endorses, we’ll talk to the candidates,” AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka said in an interview. That could postpone an endorsement until the second half of 2015, he said.
“The big question we want to know is, ‘What’s the agenda?’” added Trumka. “We don’t want to hear that people have a message about correcting the economy — we want to know that they have an agenda for correcting the economy. If we get the same economic (plan) no matter who the president is, you get the same results.”
antigop
(12,778 posts)When Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton flew to New Delhi to meet with Indian business leaders in 2005, she offered a blunt assessment of the loss of American jobs across the Pacific. "There is no way to legislate against reality," she declared. "Outsourcing will continue. . . . We are not against all outsourcing; we are not in favor of putting up fences."
So which outsourcing IS she against? And who is "we"? The DLC/Third Way/Corporate Dems?
There are many reasons she lost in 2008. This was one of them.
djean111
(14,255 posts)Looks like the usual fucking bogus Sophie's choice is being offered - social issues OR economic issues. Her donors don't care about the social issues, because they don't cost much. And so it goes.
nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)And I will leave it at that.
