Hillary Clinton Launches Onward Together

On Monday, Hillary Clinton announced her next project: a political group called Onward Together. Clinton announced Onward Together on Twitter and in an email blast to her supporters. In the email, Clinton said, “From the Women’s March to airports across the country where communities are welcoming immigrants and refugees to town hall meetings in every community, Americans are speaking out like never before. I believe more fiercely than ever that citizen engagement at every level is central to a strong and vibrant democracy.”

Visiting the website for Onward Together allows supporters to sign up for updates, donate, and read the mission of the newly created group. The mission statement is below:

Onward Together is dedicated to advancing the vision that earned nearly 66 million votes in the last election. By encouraging people to organize, get involved, and run for office, Onward Together will advance progressive values and work to build a brighter future for generations to come.

Citizen engagement at every level is central to a strong and vibrant democracy. In recent months, we’ve seen what’s possible when people come together to resist bullying, hate, falsehoods, and divisiveness, and stand up for a fairer, more inclusive America.

From the Women’s March to airports where communities are welcoming immigrants and refugees to town hall meetings in every community, Americans are speaking up and speaking out like never before.

The challenges we face as a country are real. But there’s no telling what we can achieve if we approach the fights ahead with the passion and determination we feel today, and bring that energy into 2017, 2018, 2020, and beyond.

Onward!

Visit onwardtogether.org to sign up for updates and donate.

We're launching Onward Together to encourage people to get involved, organize, and even run for office. https://t.co/8exooosvZ5

— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) May 15, 2017

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News Source: Politico

Electors Ask for Intelligence Briefing Before Vote

Serious questions about Russia's involvement in the US election deserve answers. pic.twitter.com/3OV5Q5TO3R

— John Podesta (@johnpodesta) December 12, 2016

A bipartisan group of electors from the Electoral College have asked for an intelligence briefing following revelations from the CIA that Russia may have influenced the election. In a letter to James Clapper, the Director of National Intelligence, the electors expressed their concern and asked that all of the electors be briefed by the intelligence community before they cast their ballots later this month. The chairman of Hillary Clinton’s campaign, John Podesta, said that he and the campaign supports the electors being briefed. In a statement, he said, “The bipartisan electors’ letter raises very grave issues involving our national security. Electors have a solemn responsibility under the Constitution and we support their efforts to have their questions addressed. Each day that month, our campaign decried the interference of Russia in our campaign and its evident goal of hurting our campaign to aid Donald Trump. Despite our protestations, this matter did not receive the attention it deserved by the media in the campaign. We now know that the CIA has determined Russia’s interference in our elections was for the purpose of electing Donald Trump. This should distress every American.”

This post will be updated as we learn more.

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News Source: The Washington Post, Politico

HFA Supports Bipartisan Efforts to Extend Voting Hours in Durham County

Hillary for America Campaign Manager Robby Mook released the following statement in support of bipartisan efforts to extend voting hours in Durham County, NC:

“The Durham County Board of Elections — made up of two Republicans and one Democrat — has agreed that voting hours must be extended due to technical problems that occurred earlier today. We are urging the North Carolina Board of Elections to heed this bipartisan call and approve this urgent measure so that every voter can have their voice heard. Especially in light of the fact that Durham County had limited early voting sites, we have to ensure that voters have equal access to the ballot box.”

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Hillary Clinton Statement on Las Vegas Trump Hotel Labor Law Violations

After an announcement by the National Labor Relations Board that the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas was violating the National Labor Relations Act by refusing to bargain with the Culinary Workers Union after hotel employees voted to join the union last year, Hillary Clinton issued the following statement:

“Donald Trump likes to brag about his skills as a negotiator—but yesterday, he had to be ordered by the National Labor Relations Board to stop breaking the law, respect his workers’ fundamental rights to organize and bargain collectively, and come to the table. It’s appalling, but it’s not surprising. This is a man who personally signed a contract with a union-busting firm to try to stop UNITE HERE and the Culinary Workers’ Union from organizing in the first place, and engaged in a months-long intimidation campaign to bully his workers against voting to form a union.

I was proud to visit workers on the picket line at the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas, and even prouder when they overcame Donald Trump’s intimidation campaign and were officially certified as a union earlier this year. I believe that when unions are strong, families are strong—and when families are strong, America is strong. And I will always stand with workers in protecting their rights to organize, bargain collectively, be safe on the job and retire with dignity, and if I am elected President, workers will always have a seat at the table and a champion in the White House.”

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News Source: Politico

Statement on Trump’s Foreign Business Entanglements

In response to new reporting from the Wall Street Journal on Donald Trump’s dangerous and unprecedented foreign business entanglements, Hillary for America deputy communications director Christina Reynolds issued the following statement:

“Donald Trump has business all around the world, and while he has failed to disclose full details of his business record, what we know is truly disturbing. The idea of a President Trump trying to negotiate with foreign leaders while having his business at stake is simply unacceptable and raises real questions about how he would handle matters of national security. This is just one more reason why he cannot be president.”

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

KEY POINT: “Those whom Ivanka Trump, Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump have worked with abroad include: the family of a developer in India who is a ruling-party politician, an Azerbaijani government minister’s son and a media company that became the Turkish president’s outlet of choice during the July 15 coup attempt.

No recent president has had a portfolio of international business interests as extensive as Mr. Trump’s—or as great a level of business engagement on his behalf by offspring, who have also played a role in his campaign.”

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News Source: The Wall Street Journal

The Choice is Clear: Hillary Will Fight For Women While Trump Belittles and Bullies Them

Hillary Clinton has been breaking new  ground and fighting for women her entire career. Before she made history becoming the first female nominee of a major party for president, Hillary led the U.S delegation to the U.N Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, where she proclaimed that “women’s rights are human rights.” As a senator from New York, she championed the Paycheck Fairness Act to help close the pay gap between women and men.

As President, Hillary will build on her record of fighting for women because although there has been tremendous strides when it comes to expanding opportunities for women there’s still much more work to be done. Donald Trump, however, has a very different record — he has spent his life, and this campaign, demeaning women.

Throughout this campaign, we’ve seen many examples of Trump’s alarming words and deeds towards women like his revolting comments on a bus caught on tape, his repeated behavior insulting and degrading women who stood up to him, his bragging about walking in on nude pageant contestants, some of whom were apparently under aged, his jokes objectifying women, and more.

It’s clear Trump’s dangerous proposals would take us backwards.  Over the course of the campaign, we’ve watched Trump dismiss women in the workplace and say that women who choose to have abortions should be “punished.”

Trump’s policies on women and dangerous rhetoric  have demonstrated he is unfit to be President of the United States. With one week left of the presidential campaign, here is a recap of  Trump’s history of belittling and bullying women:

MISOGYNISTIC AND OFFENSIVE RHETORIC

Trump has talked disparagingly about women — calling them pigs and rating their bodies on a 1 to 10 scale.  From his revolting nicknames to his lewd comments, Trump’s rhetoric about women is inexcusable.

• Trump: referred to a pageant contestant as “Miss Piggy” and “Miss Housekeeping,” and then doubled down years later saying “she gained a massive amount of weight.”
• Trump on Carly Fiorina: “Look at that face! … Would anyone vote for that? Can you imagine that, the face of our next president?!”
• Trump: “A person who is flat-chested is very hard to be a 10,” he told Howard Stern.
• Trump: “But whenever she sees me, she kisses my ass. She’s disgusting.”
• Trump: “There’s a lot of women out there that demand that the husband act like the wife.”
• Trump: “And when you’re a star, they let you do it. You can do anything.”
• Trump: “[I]t doesn’t really matter what [the media] write as long as you’ve got a young and beautiful piece of ass
• Trump: It is “rare” that women are both “very beautiful” and have high IQs
• Trump: “Did you see that woman? She had an amazing body, but a schoolmarm’s face”
• Trump on women:  “You have to treat ‘em like shit.’”
• Trump on Hillary Clinton: “Do you think she looks presidential? I don’t think so”

WRONG ON WOMEN IN THE WORKPLACE

Donald Trump has a long history of demeaning women in the workplace and has said that “putting a wife to work is a very dangerous thing” – so it’s no surprise that he has a bad record when it comes to hiring women and supporting equal pay.

• Trump’s campaign staff was 75 percent men.
• Trump’s campaign paid women less than men.
• When Trump was asked why his campaign paid women less than men, he replied that in his business salaries were based on “talent.”
• Trump’s public companies have had very few women in senior roles: only 6 of 59 of Trump’s casino executives were women.
• Trump to a young women asking about equal pay: “You’re going to make the same if you do as good a job”
• Trump on what employing mothers can mean for a business: “She’s not giving one hundred percent, she’s giving me eighty-four percent”
• Trump said pregnancy was an “inconvenience” for employers
• Trump called a working mother “disgusting” for requesting a break to go pump breast milk
• Trump claimed to offer childcare for his employees, but it was actually a program for resort guests

WRONG ON REPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM

Donald Trump opposes basic reproductive rights and even said he believes women should be subject to “punishment” for having an abortion.

• Trump on whether women should be punished for having abortions: “There has to be some form of punishment”
• Trump would appoint Supreme Court justices who would overturn Roe v. Wade “automatically” if he’s elected
• Trump called for shutting down the government to defund Planned Parenthood
• Trump called requiring contraceptive coverage in the Affordable Care Act “very bad.”

MINIMIZING PROBLEM OF SEXUAL HARASSMENT

Trump’s preferred way of talking about women appears to extend into the Trump Organization as well, spurring a raft of discrimination and harassment lawsuits against Trump and his companies.

• At least 20 lawsuits accused Trump and his companies of discriminating against women, ignoring sexual harassment or participating in harassment
• Two former Trump employees allege they were fired after complaining about harassment at work
• One former Trump employee says she was fired for complainingabout discrimination after she became pregnant
• Trump suggested women who were sexually harassed should find another job
• On sexual assault in the military, Trump said “what did these geniuses expect when they put men and women together”

UNDER FIRE FOR SEXUAL MISCONDUCT

Trump has bragged about sexually assaulting women and suggests that his determination of whether or not a woman is worth assaulting is based on their attractiveness.

• Trump bragged about sexually assaulting women
• Trump claimed to be the victim but multiple women say Trump’s words match his behavior
• Twelve women have publicly accused Trump of sexual assault
• Trump said the sexual assault described on tape was just “locker room talk“
• Trump lashed out at women accusing him of sexual assault and said his accusers were not attractive enough to assault
• Trump said his accusers were “sick” and coming forward for fame or money
• Trump promised to sue his accusers

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HFA Releases Series of Ads as Election Nears

On Tuesday, Hillary for America released a series of ads targeting Donald Trump a week before the election on November 8th. The first three ads feature Republicans and one former Trump supporter who have vowed to support Hillary Clinton in light of Trump’s comments about women. The final video highlights a number of comment Trump has made about women over the decades. Next is a video titled “27 million Strong” about how the Latino immigrants in the United States can send Trump a message on election day. The ad is being released in both English and Spanish. Then, the Briefing has a video called “The Trump Effect” which looks at how Trump’s divisive statements affect Americans. Then, an ad that encourages African American voters to get out and reject Trump’s divisive platform. Next is an ad titled “We are America” and outlines the dangers a Trump presidency would present to the American democracy. Then, the next video features Katy Perry’s song Roar and outlines a number of reasons to vote for Clinton. The next video imagines what life in America will be like after a year of a Trump presidency. The final ad is a radio ad talking about Trump’s history of demeaning African Americans. Watch the videos below.

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HFA Statement on Report Exposing Trump’s Secret Line of Communication to Russia

In response to a new report from Slate showing that the Trump Organization has a secret server registered to Trump Tower that has been covertly communicating with Russia, Hillary for America Senior Policy Adviser Jake Sullivan released the following statement Monday:

“This could be the most direct link yet between Donald Trump and Moscow. Computer scientists have apparently uncovered a covert server linking the Trump Organization to a Russian-based bank.

This secret hotline may be the key to unlocking the mystery of Trump’s ties to Russia. It certainly seems the Trump Organization felt it had something to hide, given that it apparently took steps to conceal the link when it was discovered by journalists.

This line of communication may help explain Trump’s bizarre adoration of Vladimir Putin and endorsement of so many pro-Kremlin positions throughout this campaign. It raises even more troubling questions in light of Russia’s masterminding of hacking efforts that are clearly intended to hurt Hillary Clinton’s campaign. We can only assume that federal authorities will now explore this direct connection between Trump and Russia as part of their existing probe into Russia’s meddling in our elections.”

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News Source: Slate

Bipartisan Group of Former DOJ Officials Raise Concerns Over Comey’s Breach Of Protocol

Sunday, as reported by the Associated Press, a group of nearly 100 former federal prosecutors and high-ranking DOJ officials from both Democratic and Republican administrations, including former AG Eric Holder and former Deputy AG Larry Thompson, issued the following joint letter expressing serious concerns over FBI Director Comey’s departure from long-standing department protocols:

As former federal prosecutors and high-ranking officials of the U.S. Department of Justice, we know that the impartiality and nonpartisanship of the United States justice system makes it exceptional throughout the world.  To maintain fairness and neutrality, federal law enforcement officials must exercise discipline whenever they make public statements in connection with an ongoing investigation.  Often, evidence uncovered during the course of an investigative inquiry is incomplete, misleading or even incorrect, and releasing such information before all of the facts are known and tested in a court of law can unfairly prejudice individuals and undermine the public’s faith in the integrity of our legal process.

For this reason, Justice Department officials are instructed to refrain from commenting publicly on the existence, let alone the substance, of pending investigative matters, except in exceptional circumstances and with explicit approval from the Department of Justice officials responsible for ultimate supervision of the matter.  They are also instructed to exercise heightened restraint near the time of a primary or general election because, as official guidance from the Department instructs, public comment on a pending investigative matter may affect the electoral process and create the appearance of political interference in the fair administration of justice.

It is out of our respect for such settled tenets of the United States Department of Justice that we are moved to express our concern with the recent letter issued by FBI Director James Comey to eight Congressional Committees.  Many of us have worked with Director Comey; all of us respect him.  But his unprecedented decision to publicly comment on evidence in what may be an ongoing inquiry just eleven days before a presidential election leaves us both astonished and perplexed. We cannot recall a prior instance where a senior Justice Department official—Republican or Democrat—has, on the eve of a major election, issued a public statement where the mere disclosure of information may impact the election’s outcome, yet the official acknowledges the information to be examined may not be significant or new.

Director Comey’s letter is inconsistent with prevailing Department policy, and it breaks with longstanding practices followed by officials of both parties during past elections.  Moreover, setting aside whether Director Comey’s original statements in July were warranted, by failing to responsibly supplement the public record with any substantive, explanatory information, his letter begs the question that further commentary was necessary.  For example, the letter provides no details regarding the content, source or recipient of the material; whether the newly-discovered evidence contains any classified or confidential information; whether the information duplicates material previously reviewed by the FBI; or even “whether or not [the] material may be significant.”

Perhaps most troubling to us is the precedent set by this departure from the Department’s widely-respected, non-partisan traditions.  The admonitions that warn officials against making public statements during election periods have helped to maintain the independence and integrity of both the Department’s important work and public confidence in the hardworking men and women who conduct themselves in a nonpartisan manner.

We believe that adherence to longstanding Justice Department guidelines is the best practice when considering public statements on investigative matters.  We do not question Director Comey’s motives. However, the fact remains that the Director’s disclosure has invited considerable, uninformed public speculation about the significance of newly-discovered material just days before a national election.  For this reason, we believe the American people deserve all the facts, and fairness dictates releasing information that provides a full and complete picture regarding the material at issue.

Signatories:

• Eric H. Holder, former Attorney General of the United States
• Stuart M. Gerson, former Acting Attorney General of the United States, former Assistant Attorney General
• Donald B. Ayer, former Deputy Attorney General of the United States
• James M. Cole, former Deputy Attorney General of the United States
• Jamie S. Gorelick, former Deputy Attorney General of the United States
• Gary G. Grindler, former Acting Deputy Attorney General of the United States
• Larry D. Thompson, former Deputy Attorney General of the United States
• David W. Ogden, former Deputy Attorney General of the United States
• Wayne A. Budd, former Associate Attorney General of the United States, former U.S. Attorney for the District of Massachusetts
• Tony West, former Associate Attorney General of the United States
• Neal Kumar Katyal, former Acting Solicitor General of the United States
• Lanny A. Breuer, former Assistant Attorney General, Criminal Division
• Christine A. Varney, former Assistant Attorney General, Antitrust Division

• Lourdes Baird, former U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California
• Paul Coggins, former U.S. Attorney for Northern District of Texas
• Jenny Durkan, former U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Washington
• Melinda L. Haag, former U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of California
• Timothy Heaphy, former U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Virginia
• Scott R. Lassar, former U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois
• Michael D. McKay, former U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Washington
• Harry Litman, former U.S. Attorney for Western District of Pennsylvania
• Neil H. MacBride, former U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia
• Bill Nettles, former U.S. Attorney for the District of South Carolina
• Timothy Q. Purdon, former U.S. Attorney for the District of North Dakota
• Donald Stern, former U.S. Attorney for Massachusetts
• Anne M. Tompkins, former U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina
• Elkan Abramowitz, former Chief of the Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York

• David B. Anders, former Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York
• Jodi L. Avergun, former Section Chief, U.S. Department of Justice Criminal Division
• Marion Bachrach, former Chief of General Crimes, U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York
• Richard Ben-Veniste, former Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and former Assistant Watergate Prosecutor
• Shay Bilchik, former Director, U.S. Department of Justice Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention
• David M. Buckner, former Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida
• Alex Busansky, former prosecutor, U.S. Department of Justice Civil Rights Division
• Helen V. Cantwell, former Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York
• Sandra Cavazos, former Assistant US Attorney for the Northern District of California and the Eastern District of New York
• Charles E. Clayman, former Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York
• Joel M. Cohen, former Chief of the Business and Securities Fraud Division, U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York
• Leo P. Cunningham, former Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of California
• Bert Deixler, former Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California
• Keir Dougall, former Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York
• Ira M. Feinberg, former Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York
• Cary M. Feldman, former Assistant U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia
• Martin Flumenbaum, former Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York
• Stuart L. Gasner, former Assistant U.S. Attorney for the District of Hawaii
• Douglas F. Gansler, former Assistant U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, and former Attorney General of Maryland
• Faith Gay, former Deputy Chief of the Special Prosecutions and Civil Rights Divisions, U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York
• Gerald Greenberg, former Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida
• Fred Hafetz, former Chief of the Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York
• John Heuston, former Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California
• Michele Hirshman, former Chief of the General Crimes and Public Corruption Units, U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York
• Sydney Hoffmann, former Assistant U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia
• June M. Jeffries, former Assistant U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia
• Marcia Jensen, former Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of California
• John Joseph, former Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
• Nancy Kestenbaum, former Chief of General Crimes, U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York
• David V. Kirby, former Chief of the Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Vermont
• Barbara E. Kittay, former prosecutor, U.S. Department of Justice, Criminal Division, and former Assistant U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia
• David S. Krakoff, former Assistant U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia
• Larry H. Krantz, former Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York
• Miriam Krinsky, former Chief of General Crimes, U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California
• Laurie Levenson, former Assistant U.S. Attorney, Central District of California
• Tim Lewis, former Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Pennsylvania, and former federal judge on the Third Circuit Court of Appeals
• Lori Lightfoot, former Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois
• Debra Long-Doyle, former Assistant U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia
• Carl H. Loewenson, Jr., former Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York
• Jeffrey Marcus, former Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida
• Richard Marmaro, former Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California
• Douglass B. Maynard, former Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York
• Seth Miles, former Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida
• Amy Millard, former Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York
• Curtis B. Miner, dormer Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida
• Cynthia Monaco, former Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York
• Martin Perschetz, Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York
• Elliot R. Peters, former Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York
• Karen A. Popp, former Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York
• Jeff Rabkin, former Assistant U.S Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, and for the Northern District of California
• Daniel L. Rashbaum, former Assistant U.S. Attorney Southern District of Florida
• Alicia Strohl Resnicoff, former Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
• David H. Resnicoff, former Assistant U.S. Attorney, Eastern District of Pennsylvania
• Lawrence Robbins, former Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York
• Frank A. Rothermel, former U.S. Department of Justice Civil Fraud Prosecutor
• Lee Rubin, former prosecutor, U.S. Department of Justice Civil Rights Division, and former Assistant U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia
• Betty Santangelo, former Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York
• John Savarese, former Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York
• Richard L. Scheff, former Chief of the Corruption and Labor Divisions, U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
• William Schwartz, former Deputy Chief of the Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York
• John Siffert, former Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York
• David Sklansky, former Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California
• Matthew E. Sloan, former Assistant U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia and the Central District of California
• Judge Mike Snipes, former Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas
• Stephen R. Spivack, former Assistant U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia
• Jeremy H. Temkin, former Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York
• Eric Tirschwell, former Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York
• Michael Tremonte, former Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York
• Amy Walsh, former Chief of the Business and Securities Fraud Division, U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York
• Richard D. Weinberg, former Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York
• Peter Zeidenberg, former Assistant U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, and U.S. Department of Justice Public Integrity Section
• Lawrence J. Zweifach, former Chief of the Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York

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News Source: The Briefing

Hillary Clinton Statement on Diwali

As people around the world prepare to celebrate Diwali, the festival of lights, Hillary Clinton issued the following statement:

“On Sunday, nearly a billion Hindus, Jains, Sikhs, and Buddhists around the world—including more than two million Americans—will celebrate Diwali, the festival of lights.  For members of these faiths, lighting the lamp (the diya) is a reminder that light prevails over darkness, knowledge over ignorance, and good over evil.

Here in the United States, it is a tribute to the Indian American community that Diwali is celebrated with such beauty and joy. Regardless of our personal faith, Diwali reminds us that diversity is one of our greatest strengths as a nation, that light prevails over darkness, and that dharma—righteousness or goodness—must guide us toward a better tomorrow.  If I have the honor of serving as president, I will be committed to building an Administration that reflects such diversity, including continuing White House celebrations of Diwali.

To those of you celebrating this joyous occasion, I wish you and your loved ones a Happy Diwali and Saal Mubarak.”

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