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Related: About this forumOPINION: Our country's future is brighter under a Sanders presidency
By ENRIQUE E. FIGUEROA
I was a political appointee in the second Clinton administration. It was an honor and privilege to serve our country in such a senior position, and I forever will be thankful and loyal to President Bill Clinton.
I was a supporter of Hillary Clinton in 2008, as well as during the beginning of 2015, but I no longer can be her supporter. Why? Integrity, money, electability and Sen. Bernie Sanders. This has been a quite difficult decision for me, but it is the right decision, and one that I hope others make as well.
"I don't like her, I don't trust her, but I got to vote for her," is what I hear from my good friends and fellow Clinton voters. Until now, I felt I had to vote for her because of my loyalty to her husband and to the "establishment" that I was a part of during my service in our nation's capital, but given that I champion integrity to my students, I cannot do what my fellow voters may do.
I was a supporter of Hillary Clinton in 2008, as well as during the beginning of 2015, but I no longer can be her supporter. Why? Integrity, money, electability and Sen. Bernie Sanders. This has been a quite difficult decision for me, but it is the right decision, and one that I hope others make as well.
"I don't like her, I don't trust her, but I got to vote for her," is what I hear from my good friends and fellow Clinton voters. Until now, I felt I had to vote for her because of my loyalty to her husband and to the "establishment" that I was a part of during my service in our nation's capital, but given that I champion integrity to my students, I cannot do what my fellow voters may do.
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OPINION: Our country's future is brighter under a Sanders presidency (Original Post)
noretreatnosurrender
Apr 2016
OP
No Rocket Science Required Here... Exponentially Worse Under The Clinton Banner One Would Think?
CorporatistNation
Apr 2016
#6
noretreatnosurrender
(1,890 posts)1. More from this piece
Finally, it should be clear that the Latino vote is not disproportionately in Clinton's camp, even though the media may want us to believe such an assertion. Large numbers of Latinos supported Sanders in Nevada, Colorado, Michigan, Illinois and Arizona.
So, it is with some trepidation out of respect and some fear from my good friends and Clinton supporters that I wrote this piece, but it is one that I had to write. Our country's future is brighter under a Sanders' presidency
So, it is with some trepidation out of respect and some fear from my good friends and Clinton supporters that I wrote this piece, but it is one that I had to write. Our country's future is brighter under a Sanders' presidency
Enrique E. Figueroa, Ph.D. is associate professor and director of the Roberto Hernandez Center at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
Uncle Joe
(58,386 posts)2. Kicked and recommended.
Thanks for the thread, noretreatnosurrender.
noretreatnosurrender
(1,890 posts)3. You are welcome
It was a nice piece wasn't it?
Uncle Joe
(58,386 posts)4. It was an excellent piece.
Peace to you, noretreatnosurrender.
noretreatnosurrender
(1,890 posts)5. And to you
CorporatistNation
(2,546 posts)6. No Rocket Science Required Here... Exponentially Worse Under The Clinton Banner One Would Think?
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CharlotteVale
(2,717 posts)7. K&R