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Post by Logan on Mar 7, 2016 2:55:53 GMT -6
Flint, Michigan — Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton said Sunday that rival Bernie Sanders’ “one issue” opposition to Wall Street banks caused him to vote against the funding source of the 2009 auto bailout credited with averting an economic depression in Michigan. Appearing on a debate stage in Flint, the birthplace of General Motors, Clinton said Sanders’ opposition to the Troubled Asset Relief Program to aid banks during the financial crisis also was a vote against the eventual funding source of the taxpayer rescue of GM and Chrysler. “I voted to save the auto industry. He voted against the money that ended up saving auto industry,” said Clinton, a former U.S. senator from New York. Sanders, an independent Vermont senator, appeared caught off guard by Clinton using his vote against TARP to portray him as an opponent of the auto bailout. He publicly supported the auto bailout bill at the time but rejected the $700 billion TARP in an October 2008 vote. Read more: www.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/elections/2016/03/06/clinton-joins-call-snyder-resign/81419030/ |
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Post by Logan on Mar 7, 2016 2:58:50 GMT -6
The article in the Detroit Free Press: Hillary Clinton hits Bernie Sanders on auto rescue vote in Flint debateFLINT – With Michigan issues consuming much of the back and forth in a spirited debate Sunday night between the Democratic presidential candidates, Hillary Clinton surprised rival Bernie Sanders by accusing him of failing to support the 2009 auto rescue and joined him in calling for Republican Gov. Rick Snyder to resign or be recalled as a result of the Flint water crisis. Even as Sanders, a U.S. senator from Vermont, gamely leveled his own accusations against Clinton for past support of trade deals and welfare reform accomplished in the 1990s when her husband was president, Clinton battled back, raising the issue of a key vote on a bill in early 2009 that, if passed, could have limited funding available for the rescue of General Motors and Chrysler. “If everybody had voted as he did I believe the auto industry would have collapsed,” said Clinton, who as a U.S. senator from New York at the time voted along with Michigan’s senators to ensure the funding was available. “You were either for saving the auto industry or you were against it.” Sanders seemed shocked by the suggestion since the month before he had voted in favor of an auto rescue plan that failed in the Senate and explained that his vote was more about stopping corporate welfare for failed Wall Street financial institutions under the Troubled Asset Relief Program. But the auto bailout was part of TARP and, at the time, then-President-elect Barack Obama urged support for TARP. Read more: www.freep.com/story/news/2016/03/06/clinton-hits-sanders-auto-rescue-vote-flint-debate/81422798/ |
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Post by Logan on Mar 7, 2016 3:00:30 GMT -6
The AP article: Clinton, Sanders tangle on economy in Democratic debateFLINT, Mich. (AP) — Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders tangled aggressively on economic issues in a Democratic presidential debate over trade, Wall Street influence and more. Clinton accused him of turning his back on the auto industry and Sanders countered in the Sunday night debate that Clinton's friends on Wall Street had "destroyed this economy." It was a marked change in tone for the two Democrats, signaling Sanders' increasingly difficult effort to slow the momentum of the party's front-runner. Both candidates frequently interrupted one another and accused each other of misrepresenting their records. "Let's have some facts instead of some rhetoric for a change," Clinton snapped at Sanders at one point. Read more: bigstory.ap.org/article/91cdaae34c3c4587942c5e7677c69235/clinton-sanders-tangle-economy-democratic-debate |
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Post by Logan on Mar 7, 2016 3:02:15 GMT -6
UPI article:
Race, economy on table for Clinton, SandersFLINT, Mich., March 6 (UPI) -- In the opening minutes of Sunday night's Democratic debate between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders in this Michigan city where tap water is tainted with lead, both candidates called on the state's governor to resign. From there, the candidates continued to spar over gun control, race relations and economic policy during their seventh debate of the presidential campaign. In opening statements during the Flint, Mich. debate, the former secretary of state and Vermont's senior senator agreed, Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder should resign or face a recall election after his administration was found to have covered up potential problems with Flint's municipal water supply, even in the face of massive public outcry over foul odors and health problems as a result. "I have to tell you, what I heard and what I saw literally shattered me and it was beyond belief children in Flint, Mich., in the United States of America, in the year 2016, are being poisoned. That is clearly not what this country should be about," Sanders said in his opening statement. Read more: www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2016/03/06/Race-economy-on-table-for-Clinton-Sanders/1491457308170/?spt=hts&or=1 |
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