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3/13/2008 | Presidential Issues
Ferraro Steps Down From Clinton Campaign
ABC News
The Clinton campaign confirms Geraldine Ferraro has stepped down from her role on the finance committee of Sen. Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign after making racially charged remarks about Sen. Barack Obama. Ferraro notified Clinton by letter Wednesday that she would no longer serve on Clinton's finance committee as "Honorary New York Leadership Council Chair," reported the Associated Press. Ferraro notified Clinton by letter Wednesday that she would no longer serve on Clinton's finance committee as "Honorary New York Leadership Council Chair." The AP reported Ferraro wrote a letter to Clinton, saying: "Dear Hillary, I am stepping down from your finance committee so I can speak for myself and you can continue to speak for yourself about what's at stake in this campaign. The Obama campaign is attacking me to hurt you. I won't let that happen. Thank you for everything you've done and continue to do to make this a better world for my children and grandchildren. You have my deep admiration and respect, Gerry," read the letter, first reported by CNN.
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Clinton and Obama split over Florida and Michigan
International Herald Tribune
WASHINGTON: After a week of shadow-boxing, Senators Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama issued their clearest statements yet on how they would prefer to resolve the impasse over the disputed Florida and Michigan primaries. Not surprisingly, they staked out opposing and irreconcilable positions. Clinton, in an appearance before a Hispanic business group in Washington Wednesday morning, argued that the delegates should be seated based on the results of the Michigan and Florida primaries, which were held in January in violation of Democratic Party rules. Clinton won both contests by sizable margins and would narrow the delegate gap with Obama by about 60 delegates if the January results are honored, but the delegations have been barred because of the party rules violation. She now trails Obama by more than 100 pledged delegates, according to most counts. "The results of those primaries were fair and should be honored," she told the U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce here.
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Clinton's Pennsylvania Plan
The Wall Street Journal
In the six weeks leading up to the Pennsylvania primary, the Clinton campaign will blanket the commonwealth with events, recruit thousands of volunteers and throw strategic attacks at rival Sen. Barack Obama. What it will not do is mimic the tactics it used in Iowa -- flying the candidate around on a "Hill-A-Copter" that costs several thousand dollars a day to charter; spending more than $95,000 on sandwich platters for caucus-night parties; or paying an estimated $3,000 for 600 snow shovels and thousands of pounds of rock salt to clear sidewalks for caucus goers when the forecast didn't call for snow. Such expenses left the Clinton campaign hobbling into New Hampshire and led to Sen. Hillary Clinton's $5 million loan to her campaign in January. It has been just over two months since Sen. Clinton came in third in the Iowa caucus. The lessons the Clinton campaign took from its expensive and unsuccessful yearlong effort there have altered the fabric of the campaign. In no contest has that been more apparent than it will be in Pennsylvania, which gives the Democratic candidates the longest time to campaign in a single state since the run-up to Iowa.
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Re-vote picture clouds
Politico.Com
For a moment, it looked like party leaders were marching toward a Florida revote. But Obama's campaign signaled today that the mechanics would be an obstacle, and Florida's congressional delegation just took a hard line against a re-vote in a joint statement: Washington, DC – The Members of Florida’s Democratic Delegation in the U.S. House of Representatives issued the following statement regarding the seating of Florida’s delegates at the DNC National Convention this August. “We are committed to working with the DNC, the Florida State Democratic party, our Democratic leaders in Florida, and our two candidates to reach an expedited solution that ensures our 210 delegates are seated. “Our House delegation is opposed to a mail-in campaign or any redo of any kind.”
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Obama: 'If I am not ready, how is it that you think I should be such a great vice president?'
Politico.com
COLUMBUS, Miss -- Sen. Barack Obama delivered an animated rebuke today of suggestions from the Clintons in recent days that he could run as her vice president. “Now first of all with all due respect, with all due respect," he said here during a town hall meeting. "I won twice as many states as Sen. Clinton. I won more of the popular vote than Sen. Clinton. I have more delegates than Sen. Clinton. So I don’t’ know how someone in second place can offer the vice presidency to someone in first place. If I was in second place I could understand but I am in first place right now. He referenced comments from Bill Clinton in 1992 that his “most important criteria” for vice president was that person must be ready to be commander in chief. “They have been spending the last two or three weeks” arguing that he is not ready to be commander in chief, Obama said. “I don’t understand. If I am not ready, how is it that you think I should be such a great vice president?” Obama asked the crowd, which gave him a standing ovation during his defense. “I don’t understand.”
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Clinton Revises Remark on Women in Miss.
Breitbart.com
HATTIESBURG, Miss. (AP) - Democratic presidential contender Hillary Rodham Clinton tried to backpedal Friday from comments she made in October suggesting Mississippi was a backward place for women's progress. Speaking to radio station WJZD-FM in Gulfport, Miss., the former first lady said the comments she made about the state in the run up to the Iowa caucuses "were not exactly what I said," even though they came directly from an interview she gave to the Des Moines Register in October. Clinton was on a campaign swing through Mississippi before Tuesday's Democratic presidential primary. The newspaper quoted the New York senator discussing Iowa and Mississippi being the only states that have never elected a woman governor or sent a woman to Congress. "How can Iowa be ranked with Mississippi? That's not what I see. That's not the quality. That's not the communitarianism; that's not the openness I see in Iowa," Hillary Clinton told the newspaper then—a remark that prompted immediate criticism from Mississippi Republicans. Mississippi voters have elected several women to statewide office including two lieutenant governors, but no governor or member of Congress.
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Democrat Wins Hastert's Seat in Illinois
My Way News
CHICAGO (AP) - Nearly two years after taking control of Congress, the Democrats have claimed another prize by capturing former GOP House Speaker Dennis Hastert's seat - a development that Republicans say is not a harbinger of things to come. The longtime Republican district fell to the Democrats Saturday when wealthy scientist and businessman Bill Foster snatched the seat in a closely watched special election. While Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Chairman Chris Van Hollen predicted Foster's win would send out a "political shock wave," Republicans were quick to downplay its significance. "The one thing 2008 has shown is that one election in one state does not prove a trend," National Republican Congressional Committee spokeswoman Karen Hanretty said in a statement. Republicans had been hoping to hold on to the district that President Bush easily carried in 2004 with 55 percent of the vote. The district runs from Chicago's far western suburbs to almost the Mississippi River.
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Archivists block release of Clinton papers
USA Today
LITTLE ROCK — Federal archivists at the Clinton Presidential Library are blocking the release of hundreds of pages of White House papers on pardons that the former president approved, including clemency for fugitive commodities trader Marc Rich. That archivists' decision, based on guidance provided by Bill Clinton that restricts the disclosure of advice he received from aides, prevents public scrutiny of documents that would shed light on how he decided which pardons to approve from among hundreds of requests. Clinton's legal agent declined the option of reviewing and releasing the documents that were withheld, said the archivists, who work for the federal government, not the Clintons. The decision to withhold much of the requested material could provide fodder for critics who say that the former president and his wife, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, now seeking the Democratic presidential nomination, have been unwilling to fully release documents to public scrutiny.
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Study: Illegal immigration costs border counties millions
KVOA News
PHOENIX (AP) - A new study concludes that law enforcement and criminal prosecutions linked to illegal immigration is costing Arizona border counties millions of dollars a year. The study says the battle over illegal immigration is also diverting money from parks, libraries and other law-enforcement efforts. University of Arizona and San Diego State University researchers say in the four border counties in Arizona, costs increased 39% to $26.6 million in fiscal 2006. The study was commissioned by the U.S.-Mexico Border Counties Coalition, a non-profit group of border-county officials.
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Obama says it is 'premature to talk about a joint ticket'
Politico
Speaking to reporters on his plane before leaving San Antonio for Chicago, Sen. Barack Obama hinted at taking a tougher line against Clinton in the coming weeks, telling reporters that she must back up her experience argument with details, my colleague Carrie Budoff Brown reports. "I hope people start asking is what exactly is this foreign experience she is claiming," he said. "Was she handling crises during this period of time? I haven’t seen any evidence that she is more equipped to handle a crisis. "She made the experience argument and her ability to handle a crisis, so I think it is important to examine that claim and not just allow her to assert it," he added. "She has made the argument that she is thoroughly vetted. If the suggestion is somehow that on issue of ethics or disclosure or transparency that she is somehow going to have a better record than I have or could (better) withstand Republican attack, then that should be tested." "I believe I am in a much stronger position to run against Republicans," he said.
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Clinton wins Texas, Ohio; McCain cinches
Yahoo News
WASHINGTON - Hillary Rodham Clinton scored comeback primary wins in Ohio, Texas and Rhode Island Tuesday night, denting Barack Obama's delegate lead in a riveting Democratic presidential race. Arizona Sen. John McCain, an unflinching supporter of the war in Iraq, clinched the Republican nomination. Clinton's three triumphs ended a month of defeats for the former first lady, and she told jubilant supporters, "We're going on, we're going strong and we're going all the way." Obama won the Vermont primary, and sought to counter Clinton's claims that the night had been a race-altering event. "We have nearly the same delegate lead as we did this morning and we are on our way to winning this nomination," he told supporters in Texas. The two rivals also competed for support in caucuses in Texas that began 15 minutes after the state's primary polls closed.
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Huckabee Drops Out of Presidential Race
My Way News
IRVING, Texas (AP) - Mike Huckabee bowed to reality Tuesday and out of the Republican presidential race. "We kept the faith," he told his end-of-the-road rally Tuesday after John McCain clinched the nomination. "I'd rather lose an election than lose the principles that got me into politics in the first place." The genial conservative went out as he had campaigned all along, with a quip: "It's time for us to hit the reset button." Huckabee won the leadoff Iowa caucuses, making him a sudden but short-lived sensation, and then seven other states: Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Tennessee, West Virginia, Louisiana and Kansas. Meantime, McCain piled up big victories on his way to winning the prize on Tuesday night. The writing was on the wall for weeks, but the former Arkansas governor hung on until McCain secured the necessary delegates.
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Study: Illegal immigration costs border counties millions
KVOA News
PHOENIX (AP) - A new study concludes that law enforcement and criminal prosecutions linked to illegal immigration is costing Arizona border counties millions of dollars a year. The study says the battle over illegal immigration is also diverting money from parks, libraries and other law-enforcement efforts. University of Arizona and San Diego State University researchers say in the four border counties in Arizona, costs increased 39% to $26.6 million in fiscal 2006. The study was commissioned by the U.S.-Mexico Border Counties Coalition, a non-profit group of border-county officials.
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Delegate Math Could Cloud Results
My Way
WASHINGTON (AP) - Tuesday's contests could go a long way toward determining both nominees for president - once the delegates are calculated. But for the Democrats, that could get complicated. Sen. Barack Obama goes into the contests with a 110-delegate lead over Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, according to the latest Associated Press tally. There are 370 Democratic delegates at stake in four states, but the party's system of awarding delegates proportionally will make it tough for either candidate to post big gains. The biggest prize is Texas, with 193 delegates, where the Democrats will have a primary and a caucus. The primary will determine 126 delegates, based on voting in 31 individual state Senate districts. The caucuses will determine 67 delegates. They will be awarded based on the statewide results of the caucuses, which will be held after the primary polls close. The two-step system increases the possibility that the primary winner might not win the most delegates to the party's national convention this summer.
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McCain Clinches GOP Nomination
My Way News
WASHINGTON (AP) - John McCain clinched the Republican presidential nomination Tuesday, an extraordinary comeback for a candidate whose White House hopes were dashed eight years ago and whose second bid was left for dead eight months ago. "The most important race begins," he said in an Associated Press interview. According to the AP count, the four-term Arizona senator surpassed the requisite 1,191 GOP delegates as voters in Ohio, Vermont, Rhode Island and Texas put him over the threshold. The triumph came one month after his Super Tuesday coast-to-coast victories gave him an insurmountable lead in the delegate hunt and forced his chief rival, Mitt Romney, to drop out of the race. "It's a very humbling thing," McCain said of finally clinching the nomination. McCain was heading to the White House on Wednesday for lunch with President Bush - and an endorsement. The two will make a joint statement afterward.
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Clinton scores vital wins in Texas, Ohio
USA Today
CINCINNATI — Hillary Rodham Clinton scored vital wins in the Texas and Ohio primaries Tuesday night, the Associated Press projected, swinging momentum back to her presidential campaign and assuring that her battle with Barack Obama for the Democratic nomination would continue. Clinton also won Rhode Island's primary, while Obama won Vermont. Results from a separate Texas Democratic caucus, where a third of the state's Democratic delegates will be allocated, were being calculated early Wednesday. Her wins broke a 12-election winning streak for Obama, but because of the Democratic Party's method of allocating delegates to the party convention, it appeared early Wednesday she could not make a major dent in Obama's delegate lead. Still, the wins assured that the close battle between Clinton and Obama for the nomination would continue, with the April 22 Pennsylvania primary likely to be the next major battleground. "You know what they say: As Ohio goes, so goes the nation. Well, this nation is coming back, and so is this campaign," Clinton said at a post-election rally in Columbus, Ohio. "We're going on, we're going strong and we're going all the way."
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Clinton scores vital wins in Texas, Ohio
USA Today
CINCINNATI — Hillary Rodham Clinton scored vital wins in the Texas and Ohio primaries Tuesday night, the Associated Press projected, swinging momentum back to her presidential campaign and assuring that her battle with Barack Obama for the Democratic nomination would continue. Clinton also won Rhode Island's primary, while Obama won Vermont. Results from a separate Texas Democratic caucus, where a third of the state's Democratic delegates will be allocated, were being calculated early Wednesday. Her wins broke a 12-election winning streak for Obama, but because of the Democratic Party's method of allocating delegates to the party convention, it appeared early Wednesday she could not make a major dent in Obama's delegate lead. Still, the wins assured that the close battle between Clinton and Obama for the nomination would continue, with the April 22 Pennsylvania primary likely to be the next major battleground. "You know what they say: As Ohio goes, so goes the nation. Well, this nation is coming back, and so is this campaign," Clinton said at a post-election rally in Columbus, Ohio. "We're going on, we're going strong and we're going all the way."
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Clinton battles Obama's momentum
Los Angeles Times
SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS -- Hillary Rodham Clinton, once seen as a lock for the Democratic nomination, battled Saturday into possibly the last weekend of her presidential campaign, struggling to reverse a tide of money and momentum that has turned dramatically toward Barack Obama. The New York senator stormed across Texas, questioning Obama's readiness to lead, particularly on national security issues. "You are, in effect, hiring the next president," Clinton told supporters at a rally at a San Antonio high school. "What you've got to decide is: Who do you want to hire?"
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Stumping for Clinton, Steinem Says McCain's P.O.W. Cred Is Overrated
The New York Observer
AUSTIN, Texas—Feminist icon Gloria Steinem took to the stump on Hillary Clinton’s behalf here last night and quickly proved that she has lost none of her taste for provocation. From the stage, the 73-year-old seemed to denigrate the importance of John McCain’s time as a prisoner of war in Vietnam. In an interview with the Observer afterward, she suggested that Barack Obama benefits—and Clinton suffers—because Americans view racism more seriously than sexism. Steinem also told the crowd that one reason to back Clinton was because “she actually enjoys conflict.” And she claimed that if Clinton’s experience as First Lady were taken seriously in relation to her White House bid, people might “finally admit that, say, being a secretary is the best way to learn your boss’s job and take it over.” Steinem raised McCain’s Vietnam imprisonment as she sought to highlight an alleged gender-based media bias against Clinton. “Suppose John McCain had been Joan McCain and Joan McCain had got captured, shot down and been a POW for eight years. [The media would ask], ‘What did you do wrong to get captured? What terrible things did you do while you were there as a captive for eight years?’” Steinem said, to laughter from the audience. McCain was, in fact, a prisoner of war for around five-and-a-half years, during which time he was tortured repeatedly. Referring to his time in captivity, Steinem said with bewilderment, “I mean, hello? This is supposed to be a qualification to be president? I don’t think so.” Steinem’s broader argument was that the media and the political world are too admiring of militarism in all its guises.
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Clinton Won't Release Taxes Soon
My Way
CLEVELAND (AP) - Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton says she won't release her tax returns until she has the Democratic presidential nomination in hand, and not before tax filing time comes in mid-April. Clinton argued for openness Tuesday night during her latest debate with Democratic rival Barack Obama. "I will release my tax returns," Clinton said during the debate. "I have consistently said I will do that once I become the nominee, or even earlier." Pressed about the timing of releasing her tax returns, campaign aides were more reticent Wednesday, indicating that Clinton would not release the sensitive financial data during a hotly contested primary, but only at tax filing time.
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