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Hillary Clintons secret weapon is Bernie Sanders colleagues -Tammy Baldwin & Al Franken http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2016/02/hillary-clinton-al-franken-friendship #p2
It is really a story of friendships. I watched this rally and Hillary was on fire as was the crowd.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/12511160891
Hillary Clintons Secret Weapon Is Bernie Sanders Colleagues
http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2016/02/hillary-clinton-al-franken-friendship
By Tim Murphy
Sat Feb. 6, 2016 10:35 PM EST
Hillary Clinton/Flickr
Sen Al Franken (D-Minn.) opened for Hillary Clinton Saturday night in Portsmouth with one very important message: she's good enough, she's smart enough, and doggone it, she's a Paul Wellstone progressive.
Clinton's final pitch to New Hampshire voters is as much about the people she surrounds herself with as it is the former secretary of state herself. On Friday, four woman senators were there to co-opt Bernie Sanders by arguing that the "revolution" America needs is electing the first woman. Stefany Shaheen, daughter of the New Hampshire senator, warmed up the crowd in Portsmouth by name-dropping celebrity backers Lena Dunham, Gloria Steinem, Abby Wambachproof she's not only experienced, but maybe cool. Franken was there to follow-up on a subject of intense debate over the last weekwhat it means to be a progressive.
"Let my clarify something: why they let a guy up here," Franken began, flanked by Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, Gov. Maggie Hassan, and the former secretary of state. He didn't waste any time invoking the legacy of the late Minnesota senator, a progressive icon who died in a plane crash in 2002 shortly before the midterm elections:
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I'm Al Franken, I'm a Senator from Minnesota, and I hold the seat that Paul Wellstone once held. And I can point to someone on this stage whom I wouldn't be senator from Minnesota [without], and that is Hillary Clinton. My first election was kind of close. I won by 312 votes. Hillary Clinton came twice for me, once in October and then I got a call from her the Sunday before the election, she said "I'm coming out." And we did a big rally in Duluth and got more than 312 votes at that rally, I gotta tell you. I'm a Paul Wellstone progressive. And let me tell you what that means: Paul said, "We all do better when we all do better." Now if I knew what a haiku was, I'd say that was a haiku. But evidently I'm told it isn't. But Paul knew that we all do better when we all do better.
He launched into a personal story of growing up middle-class in Minnesota. And then he returned again to why they let the guy up there.............................
@HillaryClinton: I think a progressive is someone who makes progress. We dont start by tearing down the progress weve made. #hillaryfornh #nhpolitics
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Hillary Clinton’s secret weapon is Bernie Sanders’ colleagues -Tammy Baldwin & Al Franken (Original Post)
riversedge
Feb 2016
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Cha
(297,322 posts)1. Damn she's good. Smart, Logical, and sane!
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?@MSNBC .@HillaryClinton defines what it means to be progressive at the #DemDebate. Watch live: http://on.msnbc.com/23L9d02
Sen Al Franken (D-Minn.) opened for Hillary Clinton Saturday night in Portsmouth with one very important message: she's good enough, she's smart enough, and doggone it, she's a Paul Wellstone progressive.
I'm Al Franken, I'm a Senator from Minnesota, and I hold the seat that Paul Wellstone once held. And I can point to someone on this stage whom I wouldn't be senator from Minnesota , and that is Hillary Clinton. My first election was kind of close. I won by 312 votes. Hillary Clinton came twice for me, once in October and then I got a call from her the Sunday before the election, she said "I'm coming out." And we did a big rally in Duluth and got more than 312 votes at that rally, I gotta tell you. I'm a Paul Wellstone progressive. And let me tell you what that means: Paul said, "We all do better when we all do better." Now if I knew what a haiku was, I'd say that was a haiku. But evidently I'm told it isn't. But Paul knew that we all do better when we all do better
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I'm Al Franken, I'm a Senator from Minnesota, and I hold the seat that Paul Wellstone once held. And I can point to someone on this stage whom I wouldn't be senator from Minnesota , and that is Hillary Clinton. My first election was kind of close. I won by 312 votes. Hillary Clinton came twice for me, once in October and then I got a call from her the Sunday before the election, she said "I'm coming out." And we did a big rally in Duluth and got more than 312 votes at that rally, I gotta tell you. I'm a Paul Wellstone progressive. And let me tell you what that means: Paul said, "We all do better when we all do better." Now if I knew what a haiku was, I'd say that was a haiku. But evidently I'm told it isn't. But Paul knew that we all do better when we all do better
Mahalo rivers! I remember something Paul Wellstone said.. he was asked why he was a Democrat... he said he preferred to do missionary work within the party. I miss him so much.
and I also made a post in gd-p--I will pm you
Cha
(297,322 posts)3. Brilliant post there, too, rivers.. like all of yours. Thank you!
Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)4. Hillary has earned these endorsements, people who have worked with
Hillary, they know her reputation of working in congress to get things accomplished. Just as in the Flint crisis, she investigated and acted. She knows how to advocate and she will continue.
GusBob
(7,286 posts)5. Thanks rivers for this post and all your posts
You are tireless and energetic in your support for our candidate
Finest kind
Stuckinthebush
(10,845 posts)6. Ditto!
3R rocks!
Floridanow
(74 posts)7. They are.
Part of the Establishment. Did you get Bernie's memo?😳😳😳😳😜😜😜
Gothmog
(145,321 posts)8. These are great supporters