Clinton Releases First Campaign Ads

Hillary Rodham Clinton’s campaign released two campaign ads that will begin airing in key battleground states, New Hampshire and Iowa. Both ads focus on family and what she learned about family values from her mother, Dorothy. The ads are more personal in nature and show how Clinton was inspired by her mother’s story to seek public office. In the ad she says, “When I think about why I’m doing this I think about my mother Dorothy. She was abandoned by her parents at the age of eight, sent from Chicago to LA to live with grandparents who didn’t want her. But people showed her kindness, gave her a chance.”

Both ads are included in this post.

New Source: Hillary for America YouTube, Time

How to Access Clinton’s FOIA Emails

The release of Hillary Rodham Clinton’s emails during her tenure as Secretary of State has certainly made headlines, and Clinton has said on several occasions that she wants the emails available to the public in the interest of transparency. News organizations release quotes from a few of her emails, but many average Americans have asked how they can read the emails from home. Since the release of the emails is part of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), all the emails are being posted to the State Department’s FOIA website. To access the emails that have been released so far, follow the steps below:

1. Go to http://foia.state.gov/Search
2. Type “Hillary Clinton” in the Search Terms field
3. You will get results with a mix of emails and other documents
4. Click on the arrow next to the “Posted Date” column header and select “Sort Descending” so that the recently released documents show first
5. Click the title of the document in the “Subject” field to open a PDF copy

As of this posting, the search yields 3,445 emails and documents, and this number is going to continue to grow. The State Department will release batches of Clinton’s emails at the end of each month through the end of 2015. A total of 30,490 were turned over to the State Department, so this is going to be a long process.

News Source: State Department, The Washington Post