In Everett WA, Hillary Clinton pledges pursuit of job creation

EVERETT — Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton campaigned at the Machinists hall in Everett Tuesday, pledging to pursue policies to create jobs and boost exports while protecting and preserving the rights of organized labor.

Clinton, the former U.S. Secretary of State and frontrunner for the party nomination, also stressed the critical importance of the Export-Import Bank to the continued vitality of the aerospace industry and thousands of machinists in Washington.

“It’s the lifeblood that makes it possible to export around the world,” she told a cheering crowd. “I’m going to be the biggest champion of the Export-Import Bank.”

Several hundred people squeezed into the hall of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers District Lodge 751 for the half-hour speech in which she also touched on plans for making college affordable, lowering the costs of health care and defeating the “nefarious” forces of ISIS.

She voiced support of an initiative to raise the state’s minimum wage and vowed that equal pay for equal work will become as political reality in her presidency, which elicited one of the loudest roars of her talk.

And she closed with an appeal and a promise to be a president who will strive to unite the nation.

“I want us to come together as a nation again,” she said. “That doesn’t mean we aren’t going to have differences. But I will do whatever I can to find common ground to unite us.”

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