"From solarizing schools to teaching students to code, the members of this Action Network are working hard to ensure that these storms don’t leave our children and young people behind" —@HillaryClinton#IdeasIntoAction
Having an amazing day touring @ClintonGlobal sites in Puerto Rico. Started the day with @chefjoseandres at a Plow to Plate farm, one of many made possible through José's energy & ingenuity and a CGI commitment. pic.twitter.com/LqFFvQKGeY
Through a grant from José, Franco and Natalia Medina were able to invest in a USDA-grade cleaning station, freezer, and storage unit for their farm. Now they can expand to selling produce to restaurants and grocery stores.
Hurricane Maria decimated trees and ecosystems in Puerto Rico. Para La Naturaleza's nurseries have made a CGI commitment to plant 750,000 trees in seven years. The team here has already grown 120,000 seedlings and planted 30,000 trees. pic.twitter.com/QR1T5cvtxR
In Puerto Rico for CGI’s 5th Action Network meeting with @BillClinton. Kicked off the week by going to see @Lin_Manuel & the incredible cast of Hamilton perform to benefit the hurricane recovery efforts.
The Park Ridge Heritage Committee recently completed its wall of local, historic milestones with an inscription recognizing Hillary Clinton. The milestones surround the Campfire Girls Fountain at Park Ridge's Hodges Park. (Jennifer Johnson/Pioneer Press)
Jennifer Johnson
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With the addition of an inscription recognizing the local roots of former senator, secretary of state, presidential candidate and first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, the Park Ridge Heritage Committee has completed its wall of local, historic milestones.
The Heritage Committee announced on Jan. 25 that it had completed its Milestones of History project at Hodges Park with the addition of a block noting Park Ridge native Clinton’s 2016 candidacy for president.
The inscription on the granite stone, which is one of 34 surrounding the park’s Campfire Girls Fountain, also identifies Clinton as U.S. secretary of state, U.S. senator, first lady of the United States and a 1965 graduate of Maine South High School.
It is the last stone in the series to be inscribed. Read more >>>>
I am so proud of the impact the Clinton Foundation has made. When I ran for president, this top-rated global charity was dragged into a political mud fight. In the two years since, people with an axe to grind have continued to try to undermine its work by attacking them and making false accusations. But the Foundation has continued to help people across America and around the world, undeterred by these baseless assaults.
I’m inspired by this steadfast dedication to improve lives. There are real issues in society needing attention that the people of the Clinton Foundation work hard to solve every day. Despite the attacks, they are staying focused on what really matters. Join with me in resisting the vitriol. Sign up today and get involved in work that matters.
For the past 18 years, the Clinton Foundation has dramatically and demonstrably helped millions of people around the world by working with partners to improve lives, from making HIV/AIDS treatment available across the developing world and helping children in America’s schools get healthier meals to working with faith leaders across America to help stem the scourge of opioid abuse.
Today, the Foundation’s work continues to improve lives by working with partners and providing programs that create economic opportunity, improve public health, and inspire civic engagement and service.
Next week, I will have the opportunity to join Bill and more than 500 partners from business, government, and the philanthropic community as we convene in Puerto Rico for the CGI Action Network on Post-Disaster Recovery. Together, we are helping Puerto Rico and communities across the Caribbean to build back better after the devastating 2017 hurricanes; we’re providing resources, practical solutions, and technical assistance that is making a real difference. This work is important and we need your help. Add your name and get involved.
Making a difference in people’s lives takes hard work, leadership, and resources. Now more than ever, we need your support to help the Clinton Foundation continue its impact. Join us and together we can continue to help change lives.
Sincerely,
Hillary
Despite the MAGAnetic promise of a major presidential announcement hanging over the nation, women and supportive men hit the streets for the third year in fair and foul weather for the third year in a row in major cities and small towns across the U.S. and in Canada, too!
Thanks to everyone who came out to be a part of the Pittsburgh #WomensMarch2019 today. Great to see such a strong organized labor presence at the march. Workers' rights are women's rights. pic.twitter.com/Gxli5xxuML
It’s 11a.m. and the Phoenix #WomensMarch2019 has taken to the streets. Demonstrators are rallying behind Indigenous women how are leading the march on Jefferson Street. The banners read “Honor Indigenous Women” and “Rise Stand with Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women” pic.twitter.com/Ab0khkUhvr
Hillary Clinton hit stepped out in Manhattan to take in a Broadway show with friends and family Thursday night.
The ex-New York Senator was spotted at The Ferryman along with her daughter Chelsea, son-in-law Marc Mezvinsky, Barry Diller, chairman and senior executive with media and internet corporation IAC and Annette de la Renta, socialite and widow of fashion designer Oscar de la Renta.
Hillary Clinton hit stepped out in Manhattan to take in a Broadway show with friends and family Thursday night. From left to right, Annette de la Renta, Barry Diller and Clinton.
Rather than stay in to watch President Donald Trump's prime-time address to the nation about what he's been calling the crisis on the border, Bill and Hillary Clinton enjoyed a date night on Broadway instead.
The former commander-in-chief and the former secretary of state attended a star-studded premiere of the new play Choir Boy, which tells the story of a gifted gay black teen at an all-male prep school.
The Clintons were all smiles as they posed up with their 'Playbill' booklet at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre on West 47th Street Tuesday night.
Former Secretary of State and 2016 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton joined New York Governor Andrew Cuomo to call for the codification of abortion rights into New York state law and promote the Reproductive Health Act at a rally held at Barnard’s Diana Center on Monday morning.
In past years, the issue of abortion rights has seen significant opposition by State Senate Republicans in New York, who lost majority control of the chamber in midterm elections in November. Currently, in-state abortion laws—written three years before the landmark Roe v. Wade Supreme Court case—prohibit abortions after 24 weeks unless necessary to save the woman’s life. Roe v. Wade, which has faced greater scrutiny by increasingly conservative federal courts, upholds a woman's right to terminate her pregnancy by abortion before the third trimester.
Through the proposed RHA, abortion would be decriminalized and put into public health law—a step expected to occur during the legislative session starting this Wednesday. Cuomo also announced that he will be proposing a state constitutional amendment to enshrine rights granted by Roe v. Wade into the New York State Constitution. Read more >>>>
Tonight, Donald Trump plans to give a live address from the Oval Office -- using the full force of the presidential bully pulpit -- to try and sell his border wall by lying to the American people that there's a crisis at our southern border. Lying and subverting is not a new tactic, but this is a new low for this administration.
The only border crisis we’re really facing is the inhumane detention of kids that has already lead to the deaths of two children: Jakelin Caal Maquin and Felipe Gómez Alonzo, who were just seven and eight years old. Right now, do something to fight back against the administration’s hateful rhetoric and harmful policies -- donate directly to the organizations helping to reunite and provide support to families seeking asylum at the border: Donate now
Any contribution you make today will be split equally between Asylum Seeker Advocacy Project, Families Belong Together, Florence Immigrant and Refugee Rights Project, Human Rights First, Kids in Need of Defense (KIND), La Union del Pueblo Entero (LUPE), Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services (RAICES), Texas Civil Rights Project, United We Dream Action, and Women's Refugee Commission.
Together, this team can make a real difference for families seeking safety and a better life while Trump takes up airtime with his ridiculous claims.
Thank you,
Hillary
In the excitement of the historic 116th Congress being sworn in, this story from last week slipped under the radar. Aspiring Democratic candidates for 2020 are quietly meeting with Hillary Clinton.
Hillary Clinton in 2016.Photographer: Daniel Acker
Hillary Clinton, the former U.S. Secretary of State and 2016 Democratic presidential nominee, is meeting with prospective Democratic candidates for the 2020 race, with top-tier contenders seeking her endorsement, according to multiplereports.
Clinton has met with Senators Cory Booker and Elizabeth Warren, as well as with Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper and Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, Axios and CNN reported. CNN also reported Senator Kamala Harris has met with the former first lady. There are plans for meetings with others.
The quiet race to win Hillary Clinton’s endorsement
Photo: Astrid Stawiarz/Getty Images for Glamour
Several possible 2020 candidates have sought advice from Hillary
Clinton, and she has meetings scheduled with additional hopefuls. Between the lines: Clinton has discussed the next
presidential race with Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Sen. Cory Booker, Colorado
Gov. John Hickenlooper and L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti, according to a
longtime Clinton confidant.
I’m told this has been going on
for months and will continue, since Clinton will talk to any Democrat
who wants to talk. (Plus, she sees people incidentally all the time.)
“A bunch have picked her brain,” a longtime Clinton confidant said.
“Hillary wants Trump gone,” the confidant said. “She doesn’t know who’s best able to beat him, but she knows about grueling nomination fights.”
The potential candidates “know tens of millions of Democrats love Hillary and want her to try again.”
“The savvy ones know she’s the most valuable endorser in the party not named Obama.”
Nick Merrill,
Clinton’s spokesman, told me: “I won’t comment on private discussions
she’s had except to say that she’s more than happy to talk to anyone
considering a run about the challenges (as well as the great things)
that go with it, and lessons learned on what to watch for in this next
cycle (aside from Vladimir).”
You can take this whatever way you want. It is rich with potential motivations and implications. Candidates may be seeking an endorsement, advice, or both.
Here's what I think. The candidates touching base with her are doing so out of an abundance of respect for Hillary and to assure, before they make a move, that she will not run. They would not want to step on her toes.
I also think that this new role puts Hillary beyond any primary endorsements. I think those going to her know this.
Hillary is emerging as the sensei of the 2020 Democratic candidates. As she said multiple times last year, she is not and will not be running. I suppose that will not discourage a Hillary or Bust movement that could include draft Hillary, convince Hillary, and write-in Hillary campaigns, but be advised: anything of that nature will likely be related to foreign/Russian interference and intended to divide the Democratic Party and the vote. The best advice, always, is to follow Hillary's lead. Right now she is quietly meeting with potential Democratic candidates, one of whom may become a presumptive nominee in about 18 months. At that point, she will endorse and very probably campaign her heart out. That is the Hillary we know.
(Page note: It took six days into 2019 for 2020 Primaries and the 2020 Election to have tags and categories here. Pretty much what I had predicted.)
Hillary and Bill Clinton attended a dinner last night honoring Nancy Pelosi. According to this article, the dinner was held at the Italian Embassy, and Tony Bennett was
there to serenade his pal with his classic tribute to San Francisco.
