Thread: Clinton touts fiscal responsibility in California stop

Clinton touts fiscal responsibility in California stop
01/22/08 18:46:40



Presidential hopeful Hillary Rodham Clinton said the economy is beginning to slide into recession and that it's time for the United States to reduce its dependence on foreign lenders.

Speaking to a raucous group of supporters on Tuesday in this heavily Hispanic farming town on the central coast, the New York senator tried to energize this key Democratic constituency before the state's Feb. 5 primary.

With red-shirted United Farm Worker union members behind her, Clinton gave a downbeat assessment of the economy and said she would bring fiscal responsibility back to the White House.

"We know that the economy is beginning to slide into recession," Clinton said, adding that it was time to "get back our fiscal sovereignty, so that we are not dependent on all this foreign money."

Clinton, who has been leading in California polls, held up the endorsement from the storied labor union begun by Cesar Chavez, as a "sign of our mutual commitment to make it clear that we are problem solvers."

But her call for tighter security on the border elicited mostly silence from the crowd, including the dozens of UFW union members in attendance.

Clinton and her chief rival, Illinois Sen. Barack Obama, have been battling for endorsements from the Hispanic community in California. Hispanics account for about one in four Democratic voters and their support is crucial to winning Democratic primaries in the state.

Clinton got the UFW endorsement despite her opposition to giving drivers licenses to illegal immigrants, an idea that both the union and Obama support.

UFW President Arturo Rodriguez said the union unanimously supported Clinton because of her experience and her work on behalf of immigration reform. A co-founder of the union, Dolores Huerta, has been campaigning for Clinton in California for months.

Speaking for the Obama campaign, State Sen. Dean Florez, a Central Valley Democrat, said he was surprised that the union went with Clinton over Obama, given its support over the years for progressive Democrats, beginning with Robert F. Kennedy.

Florez said he hoped Hispanics would come to know Obama better in the coming days, as he campaigns more in California.

"I think they're going to see this is somebody we have more in common with, just from a personal perspective," Florez said. "This is the progressive candidate in the race."

Clinton's appearance at Hartnell Community College Tuesday afternoon was billed as a town hall meeting, but she did most of the talking. After a 40-minute stump speech on the economy, health care and education, she took only a handful of questions.

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With red-shirted United Farm Worker union members behind her, Clinton gave a downbeat assessment of the economy and said she would bring fiscal responsibility back to the White House.

Does she even know the meaning of redshirts? She grows dumber every day!

You can't have fiscal responsibility when you're giving BILLIONS of dollars away to people who have not paid for them, aka illegal aliens!!!

Fiscal responsibility. Our country is bankrupt so let's bring in 40 million criminals with diseases we can't even imagine to fill our welfare rolls. Let's pay their medical bills, let's buy their homes.

Disenchanted Americans don't vote anymore, but a criminal immigrant that can live out his or her life on the American taxpayer's back will sure make it to the polls. Hillary is not crazy, she and her husband are right up there with Dick Cheney on evil. They are plain and simple, evil to the core.

Originally Posted by miguelina

With red-shirted United Farm Worker union members behind her, Clinton gave a downbeat assessment of the economy and said she would bring fiscal responsibility back to the White House.

Does she even know the meaning of redshirts? She grows dumber every day!

You can't have fiscal responsibility when you're giving BILLIONS of dollars away to people who have not paid for them, aka illegal aliens!!!

I always forget, do the scraps wear blue and the nortenos red? I know the nortenos co-opted the UFW symbol.