Hillary Clinton
Related: About this forumWhat did Hillary do right after winning Nevada? Headed to Texas to defend voting rights.
HOUSTON Fresh off her victory in Nevada, Hillary Clinton told a Texas crowd late Saturday that she wants to take on the states law requiring photo ID to vote.
Here in Texas and in state after state, [Republicans are] doing everything they can to stop black people, Latinos, poor people, young people and people with disabilities from voting, Clinton said. It is a blast from the Jim Crow past.
Clinton spoke to a crowd of about 2,000 people in a gymnasium at Texas Southern University, a historically black university in Houston. She touched on many racial disparity issues, like poverty and poor water quality in Flint, Mich.
Lets imagine together a world where no child grows up in the shadow of discrimination or the specter of deportation, Clinton said.
http://trailblazersblog.dallasnews.com/2016/02/at-hbcu-in-houston-hillary-clinton-hits-republicans-over-voting-rights.html/
SunSeeker
(51,571 posts)mcar
(42,334 posts)NOT! Go Hillary!
what is with those jackpine radicals...can't figure if they are from england, canada, vermont or they are a ted cruz bunch GO HRC 2016
sheshe2
(83,791 posts)After 8 years with Hillary, then there is Julian.
Imagine.
Obama Clinton Castro.
Black Female Hispanic.
No wonder heads are exploding!
dlwickham
(3,316 posts)boom!
sheshe2
(83,791 posts)Imagine 24 straight years of Democrats holding the White House. Democrats reigning Supreme in the court. Be still my heart.
fleabiscuit
(4,542 posts)George II
(67,782 posts).....left before the caucuses closed (because she thought she lost!), to thank her supporters and those who voted for her, and THEN she left for Texas to defend voting rights. She was in Houston in time to attend a rally of her Texas supporters.
Contrary to popular opinion (around here, not anywhere else), she truly appreciates the effort of the thousands of people who are working night and day to get her elected for ALL the people.
It's a trait that I've appreciated in her since the 1990s.
SunSeeker
(51,571 posts)Cha
(297,314 posts)"A line of excited Clinton supporters began to form outside the event more than five hours beforeshe was set to speak.
Melisa Vila, a 19-year-old student studying architectural engineering at the University of Texas at Austin, left the states capital at 7:30 Saturday morning to ensure she could see Clinton speak. She was fifth in line.
Shes been a huge inspiration throughout my life, Vila said.
She was worried about studying for a test on Tuesday, but said she had to make the time to see Clinton. Shes my hero.
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But Vila said she was supporting Clinton because she was the most experienced candidate for the job. It was a reason echoed by other supporters in line
Shes been everywhere, said Ezekiel Nwajiaku, whos been in Houston for 19 years. I dont know where Sanders has been.
These students at Texas Southern University have it exactly right. Gracias for this report from Texas right after Hillary won Nevada!
UtahLib
(3,179 posts)Bangbangdem
(140 posts)I am a Sanders supporter. Good for her to go make a meaningful jump after the caucus! What many Bernie supporters miss is that Hillary would make a good president. The whole Kissenger thing gives me such pause, though. The guy is a mass murdering maniac. Don't get her sometimes. But, to be sure, if she is our nominee, she's got my support. The game is afoot!