Keeping Up with Hillary Clinton

Hillary's two events this week, an appearance at the annual Chicago House Speaker Series Event and the keynote at the closing of the ASTA convention in Miami today,  were rather cloaked and shrouded.  Reports were issued  but no pictures and no video clips.  We are accustomed to seeing a few stealth twitpics issuing from events like these, but this was all I found, and now I see why - as will you from the articles below.

Hillary Clinton honors Chicago House during annual speakers series

by Bill Pritchard

Chicago, IL — Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton was treated to a warm reception Wednesday from attendees at the fifth annual Chicago House Speakers Series Luncheon at the Chicago Hilton, 720 S. Michigan Ave.

Chicago House's Jeremy Hilborn with Hillary Clinton credit :: facebook

"We all have our own obligation to find ways to serve," Clinton told the crowd of nearly 2,000 people gathered in the Chicago Hilton's beautiful International Ballroom.

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"There's still so much that needs to be done," Clinton added.
The Annual Speaker Series, which originated from a desire to raise awareness and education around the key issues of HIV/AIDS and homelessness, has featured great minds in philanthropy, business, entertainment and politics, including former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, award-winning actor Whoopi Goldberg and designer Kenneth Cole.
In its inaugural year in 2009, the organization welcomed President Bill Clinton to kick off what has now become its largest and most impactful annual fundraising event. 
On Wednesday, Clinton joked the crowd was bigger than the turnout for her husband, who drew about 950 guests.

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This morning in Miami, there was this.

POLITICS

In Miami speech, Hillary Clinton mum on 2016 presidential ambitions

FILE-- Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is shown in this Jan. 23, 2013, file photo on Capitol Hill in Washington.

MANDEL NGAN / AFP/Getty Images

By Marc Caputo

mcaputo@MiamiHerald.com

Hillary Clinton quietly slipped into Miami on Thursday to address a travel agents convention in a speech in which the former secretary of state said little about troubles abroad or the future ambitions of the likely presidential-race frontrunner.

When the event moderator asked what it would take for the United States to elect its first female leader, Clinton was quick with a joke.

“Well, it’ll take a crazy person,” she said, drawing laughs from the crowd at the American Society of Travel Agents’ global convention.

“I hope we break that final glass ceiling,” she said, adding nothing about her plans.

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Clinton’s speech was tightly stage-managed.

At one point, a member of the audience, Andrew Rothberg, had his Galaxy Note II smartphone taken from him by security, which removed his picture of Clinton onstage and then gave his device back in front of a Miami Herald reporter in the auditorium stands.

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Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/09/19/3637261/in-miami-speech-hillary-clinton.html#storylink=cpy

Now we know why there were no twitpics.  It is not clear where this edict originated, but it is more likely to have come from the event management than from Hillary who never shies away from the camera (which loves her) and has no reason to.

As for future events,  a few new items arose this week.  We knew she would be holding a fundraiser at the house in Georgetown on September 30 for Terry McAuliffe. A second has been added to be held in New York City on October 15.  No venue has been announced, but it will make for a rather busy day for our girl who will keynote the closing of the National Association of Convenience Stores Show 2013 in Atlanta that day and will be honored with the Elton John Foundation's Founder's Award in New York City on the same date.

Hillary Clinton to do second event for Terry McAuliffe

McAuliffe and Clinton are longtime friends. | AP Photo

By MAGGIE HABERMAN

Hillary Clinton, who’s hosting a fundraiser for Virginia Democratic gubernatorial hopeful Terry McAuliffe later this month, will host a second event for the candidate in October, POLITICO has learned.

Clinton will host a second fundraiser on Oct. 15 in New York City, with a private reception costing $25,000 per couple, two sources said.

It wasn’t immediately clear where the event will be held.

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Her west coast events in November include an award from the International Medical Corps  at a gala fundraiser in Santa Monica on November 8,  an appearance at the National Association of Realtors convention at the Moscone Center in San Francisco on November 9, and a Millennium Network Event, a Clinton Foundation fundraiser, which Hillary will co-host with Chelsea also on November 9 in San Francisco.  

A new L.A. area event was added to the packed schedule as announced today.   The Mexican American Leadership Initiative (MALI) will be honoring Hillary with an award at USC on November 8.

MALI Awards Brunch Honoring Hillary Rodham Clinton

November 09, 2013 - Los Angeles, CA

Former Senator and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton will be honored by the Mexican American Leadership Initiative (MALI) of the U.S.-Mexico Foundation at its Awards Brunch in Los Angeles on Saturday, November 9, 2013. Join Hillary and her fellow former Secretaries Henry Cisneros (HUD) and Carlos Gutierrez (Commerce), as well as ImpreMedia CEO and La Opinión Publisher Monica Lozano, in supporting MALI and the Foundation's mission of fostering constructive partnerships between the societies of the United States and Mexico.
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Those honors and awards just keep on coming,  and no one is more deserving than our Hillary.  Congratulations, Mme. Secretary!

**Updated with Video** Secretary Clinton's Remarks at the U.S.-Mexico Foundation's Mexican American Leadership Initiative Reception

Remarks at the U.S.-Mexico Foundation's Mexican American Leadership Initiative Reception

Remarks

Hillary Rodham Clinton
Secretary of State

Washington, DC

May 16, 2011

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Welcome. This is a very exciting day for me, and I hope for all of you, because we are welcoming you here to the State Department on the eve of the first-ever Mexican American Leadership Initiative Conference. And I am so proud to see so many of you from across our country who have decided that this is such an important endeavor. And I want to congratulate the founders of the Mexican American Leadership Initiative and the U.S. Mexico Foundation for creating such an exciting group. We’re delighted to have the ambassador here. Arturo, welcome. Thank you for coming. (Applause.)

Now, I have said many times before that this is a labor of love for me. I remember very well the first time I was in South Texas in 1972 to register Latino voters and I made a lifelong friend there, Raul Yzaguirre – (applause) – who is now our ambassador to the Dominican Republic. And for many of you who have been part of the struggle for economic opportunity and inclusion, this is an exciting time to recognize all of the progress that has been made and to look for ways through this initiative that we can work together with our neighbors and our friends and, in many instances, family members in Mexico.

This is an independent organization, but I am proud to have been part of the initial conversation about MALI’s creation. I remember last spring talking with Foreign Secretary Patricia Espinosa from Mexico about the special role that ethnic communities play in the countries of their parents and grandparents here in the United States. Obviously, we know many examples of that around our country. And with one billion in trade and one million people crossing the border every single day – not to mention all of the friends and relatives who stay in constant touch – this was a very powerful force that had yet to be tapped. And so I started thinking and talking to some of you here about what we could do. Is there a model that we could perhaps look to?

And it turns out that a lot of you were thinking the same way. I know that a lot of the people I’ve relied on over so many years as friends and counselor – Jose Villarreal, Maria Echaveste, David Ayon and others – were thinking themselves as well: What could we do? Is there a role for Mexican Americans to be working with counterparts in Mexico on a range of important issues?

And so I know that Jose, Maria, David, and others spent a year talking to so many of you in Los Angeles, in Chicago, Dallas, San Antonio, Washington, New York, and hearing time and time again how everyone wanted to figure out a way to do more to help Mexico meet its challenges.

So what started out as an informal discussion evolved into an informal task force and soon gained the support of the U.S.-Mexico Foundation. And I’m very grateful for that, because I think that if you look at the powerful combination of the U.S.-Mexico Foundation and now this initiative, you can see real strength. This has been something that we’ve discussed in the State Department. Of course, Arturo Valenzuela, our assistant secretary for the Western Hemisphere, and so many of us saw this as a great opportunity.

Now, as you define your agenda, let me just mention a couple of the issues. One, we are working to try to support Mexico in its courageous struggle against the drug traffickers. And as Jose said, we know responsibility lies on both sides of the border. It’s a shared responsibility for a shared challenge. And we need to keep our border open so that people can move back and forth for all kinds of reasons, but we also have to help the Mexican Government and the Mexican people find security and justice.

So we’re working together, and other countries in the hemisphere are working with us to share about best practices for prosecutors, for police officers, for judges, how to track criminals, drugs, arms, and money. So this is an important aspect of our relationship government-to-government, but we’re not just about that because what we really believe is in building strong communities, communities that are able to provide opportunities for their people, particularly their young people. And we have got to deepen our relationship with civil society on both sides of the border. There’s a lot of good cross-border work already happening, but we think MALI’s focus on strengthening civil society and institutions and creating opportunities for young people are exactly the right priorities, and we’re very supportive of the ideas that you will be coming up with.

Now, more broadly, the State Department wants to help diaspora communities connect with countries around the world. We want to be a convener, a catalyst, and a collaborator – and we hope that MALI can be an example for other countries as well. And we’re going to be featuring MALI at the Global Diaspora Forum that starts here at the State Department this week.

When I was thinking about this, I really had so much of a sense that the time was right, that there was an opportunity here that might not have been here 5, 10, 15, 20 years ago but is here now. And therefore, we have to seize this moment. This is the moment for us to step up and figure out ways we can really better connect and can provide all kinds of support for our friends in Mexico.

And so I want to thank very much the U.S.-Mexico Foundation. I want to thank Jim Polsfut and Martha Smith de Rangel, and everyone who is part of it. I want to thank all the sponsors who are supporting this event and working with the organizations. And I want to thank David Ayón, Maria Echeveste, Raul Hinojosa, Raul Rodriguez, and Victor Arias for everything you’ve done to get this off the ground.

It is an exciting venture, and I would imagine that there are more ideas than there are people in this room. And this room is named for Benjamin Franklin, who is right up there over the fireplace. And Benjamin Franklin was an ideas man. He came up with lots of good ideas, one of which was understanding electricity, which I thought was pretty amazing. (Laughter.) So this is an electric moment, and in honor of all of you, I want to commit myself personally and our Department to assist you and work with you closely in the days, weeks, months, and years ahead.

And with that, it is now my pleasure to give the floor to the director of our Global Partnerships Initiative, who has put together the Diaspora Forum, Kris Balderston. And at this Diaspora Forum, you will have an opportunity to interact with people who have been involved for years with their country of origin or their parents’ ancestral home. And there’s a lot to show for it – people who are deeply involved in education and health care or housing. We know about the, literally, billions of dollars of remittances that flow across our border. How better can we invest in the people of Mexico so they can make a better life for themselves if they so choose, right where they come from?

So we’re going to be looking at a lot of good ideas, and we invite each and every one of you to come with your ideas, because that’s what this is about. It’s about generating good ideas that will make a difference to broaden and deepen our relationship, not only – in fact, I would say least of all at the government-to-government relationship. That’s important, but what’s really significant are building those ties and connections between the people of our two countries.

Thank you all so much for being part of this exciting new venture. (Applause.)