Sunday, June 12, 2016

What will Sanders ask of HRC re campaign finance reform?

According to a Reuters article today (copied and pasted below), when Sanders meets with Clinton on Tuesday, he will be asking for commitments relative to progressive taxation, a right to healthcare, and free university education. In this, it is unclear what Sanders is thinking about the battle against a few billionaires controlling the country.

The campaign finance reform movement is going to have to evaluate what Sanders ultimately asks of Clinton, and decide how the strategy and efforts of the movement in connection with the 2016 elections should be affected by what Sanders seeks, and gets, from Clinton.

As indicated in What this grassroot is doing today, I have been sending to users of the #FeelTheBern hashtag this tweet:
To those in Sanders movement: Please consider doing this http://2016candidatesdeclarations.blogspot.com/2016/05/to-berniecrats.html.
Perhaps I need to tweet to Trump supporters, with a link to Dear Mr. Trump.

In May, Professor Lessig levied harsh criticism on Hillary Clinton’s defense for accepting large contributions during an Ask Me Anything session Professor Lessig held. He said Clinton "should have focused the problem on the Congress and not the presidency." http://progressivearmy.com/2016/05/17/lessig-clintons-defense-for-accepting-big-money-is-deadly/

Professor Lessig should weigh in on this situation of how to react to what Sanders asks of Clinton on Tuesday.

Reuters article:

Jun 12th 2016 2:12PM
WASHINGTON, June 12 (Reuters) - U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders said he will meet with his rival Hillary Clinton on Tuesday to press her to embrace his progressive agenda, saying he wants to know what she will stand for if she becomes president.
Speaking on ABC's "This Week" program on Sunday, Sanders did not concede he had lost the Democratic presidential nomination to Clinton, who is leading in Democratic primaries and is the party's presumed nominee.
Sanders said he and Clinton would discuss "if she wins, what kind of administration she will have."
"What I need to see (is) a commitment that there will be progressive taxation," he said, saying corporations and billionaires should pay higher tax rates.
He repeated his stance that he would do "everything I can" to ensure Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee, will not become president.
Sanders said he wanted to see Clinton embrace his view that healthcare should be a universal right in America and public universities should offer education for free.
"Will she go as far as I would like her to go? No, she won't," he said. "But I think millions of people want to understand and see is what kind of commitment she has to addressing the real crises in the country." (Reporting by Jason Lange; Editing by Alistair Bell)

No comments:

Post a Comment