2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forum"Clinton targets young voters with new fundraising group"
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-clinton-youngpeople-idUSKCN0XI2TB?feedType=RSS&feedName=politicsNews(snip)
The group includes two other tiers, according to an information sheet seen by a "member" level with minimum fundraising of $2,500 and an "advisor" level for raising at least $10,000.
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The formation of the group underscores the challenge facing the former secretary of state in winning over the young people who have helped power Sanders' run. Younger voters are a critical voting block and source of financing should she win the Democratic nomination for the Nov. 8 presidential election.
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"Anything that spurs people to get involved financially, it just builds more ownership in the campaign," he said.
So she's "targeting" young people... for their votes and money. Not a word about what she has to offer them. I dunno... is this really what they think is "winning over the young people"??
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notadmblnd
(23,720 posts)PT Barnum was right.
Raster
(20,998 posts)Art_from_Ark
(27,247 posts)notadmblnd
(23,720 posts)which will reveal when utilized "Drink Ovaltine"
Art_from_Ark
(27,247 posts)Where can I sign up?!
think
(11,641 posts)riderinthestorm
(23,272 posts)northernsouthern
(1,511 posts)I posted the ones in better taste, the Jesse one was a bit borderline for me, since Jesse's character is not the most PC.
Art_from_Ark
(27,247 posts)Trajan
(19,089 posts)Fuck all that ... But here is a picture of Bill and I, at the White House with the bankers and billionaire industrialists who are SO so pleased you sent that money!
CentralCoaster
(1,163 posts).
jmg257
(11,996 posts)Maybe she can go hoover up all those dollars in front of Clooneys.
$$ $$
frylock
(34,825 posts)PowerToThePeople
(9,610 posts)k8conant
(3,030 posts)or "Golden Sax" but that would be $1,225,000 and include Bill
winter is coming
(11,785 posts)I'm expecting "for 45" to appeal more to 45-year-olds than to young people.
astrophuss42
(290 posts)My first thought was for45andundervotes.
noretreatnosurrender
(1,890 posts)is out there attacking the young people they supposedly want to appeal to with this message?
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)higher taxes on wealthy, significantly increased minimum wage, worldwide economic development, and hell of a lot more. I don't think young people are as obtuse/gullible as Sanders' supporters think.
vintx
(1,748 posts)when you say "worldwide economic development", are you referring to shit like the TPP?
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)Are you?
vintx
(1,748 posts)Hoyt
(54,770 posts)think
(11,641 posts)being murdered...
WASHINGTON Defenders of the White House push for sweeping trade deals argue they include tough enforcement of labor standards. But a top union leader scoffed at such claims Tuesday, revealing that administration officials have said privately that they dont consider even the killings of labor organizers to be violations of those pacts.
Richard Trumka, the president of the AFL-CIO, testified to that claim at a Senate Finance Committee hearing on legislation to grant President Barack Obama so-called fast-track authority to cut at least two new enormous trade agreements with Pacific Rim nations and the European Union. It appears to be the first time anyone has revealed such a stance on the part of a U.S. government that has been touting its efforts to improve wages and working conditions among its trading partners, relying in part on trade agreements.
But Trumka charged that the labor standards included in those trade deals are poorly enforced, and that before he would back the White Houses push for the Trans-Pacific Partnership or the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, he wanted to see tougher labor provisions that could be enforced.
When you say, Oh these are some standards, theyre better than no standards, we were told by by the [United States Trade Representative] general counsel that murdering a trade unionist doesnt violate these standards, that perpetuating violence against a trade unionist doesnt violate these agreements, Trumka said, directing his remarks to Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.), who backs the deals.
Trumka pointed specifically to the Colombia trade pact that was signed in 2006, but passed by Congress in 2011. Trumka said that even after the Obama administration crafted an agreement to tighten labor protections four years ago, some 105 labor organizers have been killed, and more than 1,300 have been threatened with death.
Read more:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/04/22/fast-track-trade_n_7113412.html
I'll go see if any of my kids 18-20 year old friends have $10,000 to drop on her campaign
Back....nope. Nothing.
Yep, the best way to get in touch with young people is to ask them for thousands of dollars.
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)isn't going to turn down a dollar. So pay what you can, that's what I'll do.
onecaliberal
(32,864 posts)EmperorHasNoClothes
(4,797 posts)Absolutely. Clueless.
slipslidingaway
(21,210 posts)Eugene
(61,900 posts)"...associate level membership for as low as $250, ..."
Who are the young people she is trying to reach?
I accept that Hillary Clinton is our likely nominee and I'm trying really hard to believe.
But this is a misfire.
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)So maybe 'the young people' will get the extra room?
BernieforPres2016
(3,017 posts)Those uniformed young people are going to be standing in line for that offer.
Could these grifters possibly be more oblivious?
grasswire
(50,130 posts)Geniuses.
They want young people (already alienated from HRC) to pay to join her club house??
Generic Other
(28,979 posts)Kids with college loans so high they eat ramen every day? How clueless can you get?
Art_from_Ark
(27,247 posts)then $250 is chicken feed.
northernsouthern
(1,511 posts)Wow, it is so out of touch. Why would people buy in to some deal like they were paying her off. It reeks of people used to lobbyist. This is the very reason they are voting against her.
demwing
(16,916 posts)why am I surprised?