Clinton comes to Minneapolis to lay out more detailed plan to defeat ISIL
Source: Star Tribune
Clinton comes to Minneapolis to lay out more detailed plan to defeat ISIL
The presidential candidate speaks Tuesday in Minneapolis as state wrestles with terrorism recruitment, radicalization.
By Allison Sherry Star Tribune
December 14, 2015 — 8:01pm
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Hillary Clinton, who spoke Monday in New York, will be at the University of Minnesota on Tuesday to detail her strategy to combat Islamic terrorism.
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Clinton will present her plan in Minneapolis as the state struggles with terrorism recruitment, including the recent arrest of another Minnesotan accused of preparing to join and fight with ISIL.
The former secretary of state is expected to draw a stark contrast between her own plans and those of Republican front-runner and business mogul Donald Trump, who earlier this month called for a ban on Muslims entering the United States.
In previous speeches, including one just last week in Iowa, Clinton has said she hopes to enlist help from Muslims — both in the United States and across the world — in defeating “radical jihadists and the hateful ideology that they represent.”
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“We should be supporting them, not scapegoating them,” Clinton said at a forum in December. “But at the same time, none of us can close our eyes to the fact that we do face enemies who use Islam to justify slaughtering innocent people. We have to stop them and we will. Radical jihadists, like so many adversaries in our history, underestimate the strength of our national character.”
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...................Clinton’s team says she plans on using her platform while in Minnesota to go into more detail outlining her specific strategy to confront the threat of domestic radicalization and foreign-inspired terrorist attacks inside the United States................
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Released earlier--but Hillary has lots of support in Minnesota.. She and her team are organizing a 50 state strategy--
https://www.minnpost.com/eric-black-ink/2015/10/hillary-clinton-releases-star-studded-list-minnesota-backers
By Eric Black | 10/05/15
Hillary Clinton releases star-studded list of Minnesota backers
REUTERS/Joshua Roberts
Hillary Clinton speaking to supporters at the Human Rights Campaign Breakfast in Washington, D.C. on Saturday.
The Hillary Clinton campaign this morning released the names of what it calls its Minnesota Leadership Council, a politically star-studded roster that starts with both of Minnesota's U.S. senators, Gov. Mark Dayton and his lieutenant governors from both his first and second terms, and the mayors of both Minneapolis and St. Paul.
Of the five DFLers in Minnesota's delegation to the U.S. House, only one, Tim Walz, is on the list. The top two leaders of the DFL in the state House of Representatives signed up, plus six other DFL state reps and seven state senators, the chair of the state DFL Party organization plus other officials of the party, some union leaders, some college campus organizers and — notably — well-known (and deep-pocketed) political donors Vance Opperman and Dean Phillips.
Some of the names are folks who have long been publicly supporting Clinton's bid, some are new. I'll append the best-known names at the bottom, but it's an impressive list of present and former elected officials, and big names in campaign finance circles.
According to this story in today's New York Times, the release is part of a group of such lists in what the campaign calls "crucial March states," including many, like Minnesota, that use caucuses rather than primaries to choose their delegates to the national nominating convention. Minnesota's caucuses are set for March 1, which is also "Super Tuesday."
Here are the best-known names on the Minnesota list:
U.S. Sens Amy Klobuchar and Al Franken, Gov. Mark Dayton, current and immediate past Lt. Govs. Tina Smith, and Yvonne Prettner-Solon,.............
Mrs. Clinton, anticipating opposition from the left wing of the Democratic Party, which views such measures as infringing on civil rights, said at the forum in Washington: “You are going to hear all the familiar complaints: ‘freedom of speech.’ ”
Those familiar complaints about "freedom of speech" and "privacy" and "human rights" don't stand a chance with all those scary Muslims on the loose!
