The postponed fundraisers are an issue for Hillary Clinton who is struggling to match Bernie Sanders’ powerful grassroots fundraising. | AP Photo
Clinton postpones another financial-services fundraiser
Under fire from Sanders, she delays events hosted by leaders of BlackRock, Bain Capital affiliate.
NEW YORK -- Hillary Clinton has postponed another fundraiser with financial services executives amid heavy criticism from rival Bernie Sanders that she is too close to Wall Street.
Clinton will no longer attend an event in Boston scheduled for Friday that was to be hosted by Jonathan Lavine, managing director of Bain Capital affiliate Sankaty Advisors, sources close to the matter said.
The event has not been canceled but will now be held sometime after the New Hampshire primary, which takes place Feb. 9. It is the second such postponement in the last two weeks. The Clinton campaign last week said a New York City event that was set for Thursday with executives from investment management firm BlackRock would now be held Feb. 16th.
The postponements come after Vermont senator Sanders ripped Clinton last week for leaving Iowa to attend a fundraiser in Philadelphia with financial services executives that featured a live performance with Bon Jovi.
“My opponent is not in Iowa tonight. She is raising money from a Philadelphia investment firm,” Sanders said last week in Iowa. “Frankly, I'd rather be here with you."
Sanders went on to very nearly beat Clinton in Iowa and holds a large lead in New Hampshire polls. Clinton has struggled the entire campaign with attacks from Sanders on others on the left for her heavy fundraising from Wall Street and well-paid speeches from the likes of Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley.
The campaign has fired back that President Barack Obama raised millions from the financial industry in 2008 before pushing through the Dodd-Frank financial reform law in 2010. They also claim she has the toughest Wall Street reform proposals even though they do not echo Sanders’s call to pre-emptively break up the nation’s largest banks. Clinton has focused on targeting risk in the banking system rather than size.
The postponed fundraisers are an issue for Clinton who is struggling to match Sanders’ powerful grassroots fundraising. The Clinton campaign had $38 million in cash on hand at the end of 2015, according to a recent filing, compared to $28 million for Sanders. But Sanders continues to raise money at a rapid pace from small donors while Clinton is much more reliant of larger donors, many of whom have already given the maximum amount allowed by law. So she will have to keep holding big ticket events after New Hampshire to continue to keep up with Sanders.
“She’s going to keep doing them it’s just a question of timing,” one Clinton bundler said Wednesday. “It’s not like she’s going to get any brownie points if she stops doing them.”
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14 More People Face Federal Indictment In 2014 Bundy Ranch Standoff
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The defendants were each charged with one count of conspiracy to commit an offense against the United States and conspiracy to impede or injure a federal officer, in addition to at least one count of using and carrying a firearm in relation to a crime of violence, assault on a federal officer, threatening a federal law enforcement officer, obstruction of the due administration of justice, interference with interstate commerce by extortion and interstate travel in aid of extortion.
Jerry DeLemus, the co-chair of Veterans for Trump in New Hampshire who was arrested by FBI agents earlier in the day, was named as a defendant in the indictment.
In 2014, Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy invited hundreds of followers, many of them armed, to his ranch to push back against federal officers who were impounding his cattle after he refused to pay grazing fees. The Nevada incident resurfaced in headlines this year when Bundy's sons, Ammon and Ryan Bundy, organized a standoff of their own at a federal wildlife refuge in rural Oregon.
Cliven, Ammon, and Ryan Bundy, along with Ryan Payne and Peter Santilli, were all indicted on similar charges last month.
Here's who was indicted:
Read the indictment below: [CLICK ON LINK TO READ THE INDICTMENT]
Jerry DeLemus, the co-chair of Veterans for Trump in New Hampshire who was arrested by FBI agents earlier in the day, was named as a defendant in the indictment.
In 2014, Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy invited hundreds of followers, many of them armed, to his ranch to push back against federal officers who were impounding his cattle after he refused to pay grazing fees. The Nevada incident resurfaced in headlines this year when Bundy's sons, Ammon and Ryan Bundy, organized a standoff of their own at a federal wildlife refuge in rural Oregon.
Cliven, Ammon, and Ryan Bundy, along with Ryan Payne and Peter Santilli, were all indicted on similar charges last month.
Here's who was indicted:
Melvin D. Bundy, 41, of Round Mountain, NevadaDavid H. Bundy, 39, of Delta, UtahBrian D. Cavalier, 44, of BunkervilleBlaine Cooper, 36, of Humboldt, ArizonaGerald A. DeLemus, 61, of Rochester, New HampshireEric J. Parker, 32, of Hailey, IdahoO. Scott Drexler, 44, of Challis, IdahoRichard R. Lovelien, 52, of Westville, OklahomaSteven A. Stewart, 36, of HaileyTodd C. Engel, 48, of Boundary County, IdahoGregory P. Burleson, 52, of PhoenixJoseph D. O’Shaughnessy, 43, of Cottonwood, ArizonaMicah L. McGuire, 31, of Chandler, ArizonaJason D. Woods, 30, of Chandler, Arizona
Read the indictment below: [CLICK ON LINK TO READ THE INDICTMENT]
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/doj-charges-14-nevada-standoff
Congressional Republicans panicked over their re-election bids under a Trump ticket
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Congressional Republicans are preparing to be left with no good options if Donald Trump clinches the GOP nomination. Election strategies and message discipline will be thrown out the window as candidates are forced to answer for every one of Trump's wacky, degrading, racist, sexist, xenophobic musings, reports Morning Consult.
In whispered conversations with their own political strategists and party leaders, Republicans running for Congress find themselves stuck between two unpalatable options, should Trump become the nominee: They can support him and risk alienating voters offended by his most egregious insults, or publicly break with him, and risk angering the thousands of Trump backers in their home district.“Does your candidate disavow [Trump] openly and earn the wrath of these voters, or ignore and potentially have the press or others call [him] out,” said one Republican strategist, who asked for anonymity to discuss internal deliberations.
Meanwhile, Democrats are wasting no time in capitalizing on the GOP's impossible dilemma. In Arizona, for instance, Sen. John McCain's Democratic challenger Ann Kirkpatrick jumped into the ring this week with a video slamming McCain's commitment to vote for Trump "no matter what."
Catch the video below.
http://m.dailykos.com/stories/2016/3/3/1495144/-Congressional-Republicans-panicked-over-their-reelection-bids-under-a-Trump-ticket?detail=email
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