Post by Logan on Apr 5, 2016 5:12:29 GMT -6
Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton came to Cohoes High School on Monday to deliver a version of her stump speech touched with references for the regional and state audience — including a promise to work to improve water infrastructure so that communities like Hoosick Falls have systems that are "clean and pure."
It was one of several mentions of her commitment to national clean-water infrastructure — an issue familiar to Cohoes residents, whose neighbor across the Hudson, the city of Troy, has suffered serious breakdowns in its decaying water system in recent months. Hoosick Falls, meanwhile, has dealt with the even more serious problem of industrial contamination of its water supply.
The speech in the high school gym — where the scoreboard read "45-45," a nod to supporters' hopes that Clinton will win election as the 45th president — capped a whirlwind visit to the Capital Region by the candidate two weeks before New York's April 19 presidential primary.
Clinton, who represented New York for eight years in the U.S. Senate, was joined on stage in Cohoes by the woman appointed to replace her in the chamber: U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand. She said Clinton was one of the three female mentors who shaped her career — the others being her mother and her grandmother, Polly Noonan, a power in Albany Mayor Erastus Corning 2nd's decades-long administration.
Read more: www.timesunion.com/local/article/Hillary-Clinton-heads-to-Cohoes-7226300.php
It was one of several mentions of her commitment to national clean-water infrastructure — an issue familiar to Cohoes residents, whose neighbor across the Hudson, the city of Troy, has suffered serious breakdowns in its decaying water system in recent months. Hoosick Falls, meanwhile, has dealt with the even more serious problem of industrial contamination of its water supply.
The speech in the high school gym — where the scoreboard read "45-45," a nod to supporters' hopes that Clinton will win election as the 45th president — capped a whirlwind visit to the Capital Region by the candidate two weeks before New York's April 19 presidential primary.
Clinton, who represented New York for eight years in the U.S. Senate, was joined on stage in Cohoes by the woman appointed to replace her in the chamber: U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand. She said Clinton was one of the three female mentors who shaped her career — the others being her mother and her grandmother, Polly Noonan, a power in Albany Mayor Erastus Corning 2nd's decades-long administration.
Read more: www.timesunion.com/local/article/Hillary-Clinton-heads-to-Cohoes-7226300.php