Tim Kaine Delivers Economic Speech in Detroit

Tim Kaine delivered a speech on the economy today in Detroit, Michigan. During his remarks, Kaine focused heavily and Hillary Clinton’s platform and her plans to create new jobs and combat poverty. He outlined three major policy points that will directly take on poverty including:

• Raising incomes by increasing the minimum wage, investing in impoverished communities, creating new jobs by investing in clean energy and infrastructure, and increasing the child care tax credit
• Ensure the safety of communities and homes by fighting discriminatory and predatory lending, ensuring people have access to clean water and live in areas with clean air, and enacting common sense gun control measures
• Improve early childhood education by expanding pre-school and Head Start programs

Kaine said that fighting poverty is important to Clinton and himself adding, “Fighting poverty is a growth strategy. It’s a competitive strategy, but it’s also a moral responsibility and it’s going to be a defining mission of a Clinton Kaine administration. Here in this country, there are still people on the side of the road and they’re asking for help … The question before us on this election, do we just walk on by or do we go over and try and help. We’re not a nation of people who just walk on by. Hillary Clinton and I, we don’t walk on by. We reach out, we help, because we know, that we’re all neighbors.” Watch a video of Kaine’s speech below.

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News Source: Michigan Radio, Lansing State Journal

Chelsea, Michelle Kwan Campaign for Hillary

Awesome launch of #AAPIforHillary in AZ! Special thx to @MichelleWKwan & @lisachangadveja for the #Hillary2016 💖 pic.twitter.com/LBvxn4OdEU

— JunelleCaveroHarnal (@JunelleJunelle) March 10, 2016

On Thursday, Chelsea Clinton returned to the campaign trial for Hillary Clinton. She attended an event in Jacksonville, Florida focused on early childhood education. During the event, she said that Hillary had a plan to expand head start and preschool programs across the country. She said, “It’s so important we invest in and nurture the spirits and the brains of the children around us.” At the close of the event, Chelsea took questions from the crowd, both the adults and children. A video from the event will be added when/if available.

In Seattle, Washington, Olympic Figure Skater Michelle Kwan was on the campaign trail for Hillary as well. She has attended events for Hillary for America in the past, and today she attended two fundraisers. The first was an event hosted by Debadutta Dash. The second fundraiser was hosted by Mimi Gan and Everett Billingsea, Former Ambassador Gary Locke, Virginia Anderson, and Martha Choe.

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News Source: The Florida Time-Union, Action News Jacksonville

Clinton Unveils Agricultural Agenda in Iowa

Today, Hillary Rodham Clinton returned to Ankeny, Iowa to discuss her plan to support rural, agricultural America. After being introduced by U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack at the Des Moines Area Community College, Clinton unveiled her plan that includes investments in rural areas including focusing on rural transportation, streamlining the process for community banks, investment in water and broadband infrastructure, and improving Agriculture Department grant programs. Other facets of the plan includes raising the production of agricultural products and making the product more profitable for farmers, promoting a use of clean energy and renewable energy sources, and expanding opportunities for those in rural communities by expanding Head Start, affordable education, and affordable healthcare.

A full video from today’s speech is available on C-SPAN.

Following the event, Clinton answered questions from reporters where she discussed her use of a private email server during her tenure as Secretary of State. She expressed regret and said that she believes in transparency. She said, “I know people have raised questions about my email use as secretary of state, and I understand why. I get it. So here’s what I want the American people to know: My use of personal email was allowed by the State Department. It clearly wasn’t the best choice. I should’ve used two emails: one personal, one for work. I take responsibility for that decision, and I want to be as transparent as possible, which is why I turned over 55,000 pages, why I’ve turned over my server, why I’ve agreed to — in fact, been asking to — and have finally gotten a date to testify before a congressional committee in October. I’m confident that this process will prove that I never sent, nor received, any email that was marked classified.

A video from Clinton’s press conference is available on C-SPAN and is available below.

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UPDATE (9/22): Added video from press conference.

News Source: Des Moines Register, Time, The New York Times (2)