August 27, 2016

Chelsea Clinton May Remain on Foundation Board | Trump's Very Racy 'Apprentice' Contract

August 27, 2016/ Anne Enke

Chelsea Clinton Cleans Up Her Parents' Mess Vanity Fair

Conflicts of interest are a constant job risk for all politicians. For the Clintons, we're looking a four decades of a determined effort to paint the couple as nothing more than self-promotional carpetbaggers. The latest alleged scandal -- one that has received major push back from pundits and from mhyself - surrounding the Clinton Foundation has no evidence of actual wrongdoing. Still, the Clintons understand that perception is reality in politics, and what to do about the Clinton Foundation is at the top of their to do list.

The Wall Street Journal reports that daughter Chelsea Clinton is planning to stay on the foundation board if her mom wins the presidency. In this role she will "steward the implementation of changes," including "new fundraising policies."

Related: AP Writers Stephen Braun & Elizabeth Sullivan Do Total Hatchet Job On Longtime Clinton Friend Dr. Muhammad Yunus AOC Hillary Clinton News

Donald Trump's 'Apprentices' Had to Agree to Go Nude The Daily Beast

If you thought 'The Apprentice' was about winning in Donald Trump's corporate world, you might wonder why contestants had to agree to a series of "off and invasive demands regarding sex, nudity, and food consumption." Writer Olivia Muzzi has reviewed a copy of the NBC contract signed by contestants, who had to agree to be filmed "whether I am clothed, partially clothed or naked, whether I am aware or unaware of such videotaping, filming or recording."

The contract also required that contestants undergo screening for “HIV, Hepatitis B, Hepatitis C, HPV, syphilis, chlamydia, gonorrhea, and herpes,” according to the contract.

The contract -- again this is an NBC contract -- required contestants to accept “that Producer may impose one or more Series Rules regarding the type of sexual activity, if any, that participants will be permitted to engage in.”

And, the contract states, “I further acknowledge and understand that the film, tape, audio and other recordings that will be made of me in connection with the Series might in other circumstances be considered a serious invasion of my privacy.”

WOW! Call me speechless. ~ Anne

Trump on undocumented immigrants: 'We are going to get rid of the criminals' Washington Post

Donald Trump's loud voice bellowed across the corn fields of Iowa Saturday, as the Republican presidential candidate vowed to flex his immigration muscle by removing undocumented criminals “within one hour” of taking office. As always, there's no plan of how Trump would actually both undocumented criminals and the millions of other undocumented immigrants living in the United States.

"We are going to get rid of the criminals and it's going to happen within one hour after I take office, we start, okay?" Trump said during a campaign event in Des Moines on Saturday. "We're going to bring them back where they came from. In this task, we will always err on the side of protecting the American people. We will use immigration law to prevent crimes."

Donald Trump Sparks Backlash With Tweet About Death of Dwyane Wade's Cousin Fortune

Donald Trump sparked outrage on Saturday when he used the shooting death of basketball star Dwyane Wade’s cousin as a reason black voters will support his presidential campaign.

Nykea Aldridge was fatally shot in Chicago on Friday afternoon while pushing her baby in a stroller. The 32-year-old mother of four was walking to register her children for school.

“Dwayne Wade’s cousin was just shot and killed walking her baby in Chicago. Just what I have been saying. African-Americans will VOTE TRUMP!” As if Trump didn't upset people enough, he spelled Wade's name incorrectly. The orange mop deleted his original tweet and reposted, changing only the spelling of Wade's name.

'Mostly True': Clinton's Claim About the 'Trump' Effect and Bullying Politifact

Teachers surveyed by the Southern Poverty Law Center study reported an increase in bullying and harassment, particularly involving anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim sentiments. Many of these teachers, unsolicited, cited Trump’s campaign rhetoric and the accompanying discourse as the likely reason for this behavior.

The term Trump Effect is a product of the survey’s authors. And the survey is unscientific because it's based on anecdotal reports. But experts in bullying told us the Southern Poverty Law Center’s survey and their sense of current trends in schools supports Clinton’s point.

Hillary Clinton Headlines August 27, 2016

Early Voting Dictates a New Clinton Campaign Structure Bloomberg Politics

Breitbart: 'Radical,' 'dangerous' and headed your way Politico

GOP plots early wake-up call for Clinton Politico

What Donald Trump Knew About Undocumented Workers at His Signature Tower TIME

Trump fights breaking out across college campuses Politico

Is This the Way to Get Rid of the Ridiculous Health Conspiracy Theories? Politico

Trump Doctor Wrote Health Letter in Just 5 Minutes While Limo Waited NBC News

Hillary Clinton crushes the competition on the airwaves USA Today

GOP Plots Early Wake-Up Call for Clinton Politico

Trump campaign chief Steve Bannon is registered voter at vacant Florida home The Guardian

Dr. Drew' show canceled days after host's negative speculation about Hillary Clinton's health The Washington Post

June 18, 2016

Hillary Clinton Has New Grandson Aidan Clinton Mezvinsky.

June 18, 2016/ Anne Enke

Clintons Welcome New Grandbaby

Chelsea Clinton and husband Marc Mevinsky have announced the birth of a son named Aidan Clinton Mezvinsky. Hillary Clinton had no public events on Thursday or Friday, and none scheduled this weekend.

Hillary Clinton frequently mentions her granddaughter, Charlotte, at campaign stops, often saying, "FaceTime was invented for grandparents."

At an event in Santa Barbara, California, earlier this month, she said becoming a grandparent is "truly like falling in love all over again — nothing like it."

Bill and Hillary Clinton issues a statement saying: "We are all over the moom as Chelsea and Marc welcome Charlotte's little brother to the world and grateful for our many blessings. Chelsea and Aidan are both doing well and enjoying this very special time together."

Chelsea Clinton is vice chair of the Clinton Foundation , a nonprofit started by her father in his post-presidency life.

Sanders loses convention leverage Politico

The bad news bear is settling in over the Bernie Sanders campaign. Any leverage that Bernie might have is based on respect and a belief that he prioritizes the Democratic party over himself. Like Trump, Bernie seems to believe that his popularity will keep him in the limelight as a powerbroker. Every day that ticks by without a Clinton endorsement weakens his influence, as other progressives rally around Hillary. Let the next couple weeks be an education lesson in how politics is played on the big stage. There's ego and rigid thinking, and then there's poise and a connection to the big picture village. ~ Anne

Enough Bernie, Enough: Sanders Needs to Hang It Up New York Daily News

After decisively losing the nomination of a party that was never his political home, Bernie Sanders is revealing egotism of practically Trumpian proportions.

Sanders insists that he deserves powerful sway over the Democratic Party and Hillary Clinton, whom he savaged during the campaign as an “unqualified” stooge of Wall Street.

As they say at closing time: Bernie, you don’t have to go home, but you can’t stay here.

Bernie Sanders Does Not Concede Democratic Nomination to Hillary Clinton TIME

Sanders charts a risky path by deciding not to concede. He may anger party leaders as well as the base of the Democratic Party, who will begin to see him as an obstruction to Clinton despite his significant loss, and denying the first woman major-party nominee in the country the full claim to that title.

Clinton Condemns Attack on British MP as a Violent Act of Political Intolerance Politico

A terrible assassination occurred yesterday in Britain with the shooting and stabbing death of British MP Jo Cox. I'm distressed now to read that Cox has been the subject of a three-month barrage of hate for her positions 1) on supporting immigration of Syrian refugees into Britain and her town in Yorkshire and 2) wanting Britain to stay in the EU. While campaigning was suspended today, the Brexit vote happens in about a week.

I wrote about the truly gifted achievements of this young woman with so much heart. You can read about Jo Cox at in my yesterday article. I had no doubt that Hillary would make a strong statement, and I'm researching to see if Jo Cox's work at the Gates Foundation and Oxfam brought her to the Clinton Foundation. Hillary's quote follows.

"It is critical that the United States and Britain, two of the world's oldest and greatest democracies, stand together against hatred and violence. This is how we must honor Jo Cox -- by rejecting bigotry in all its forms, and instead embracing, as she always did, everything that binds us together," Clinton said on Thursday.

Former Rep. Gabby Giffords, who suffered a gunshot wound to the head in a 2011 assassination attempt, said she was “sickened” to receive news of Cox's murder.

“Absolutely sickened to hear of the assassination of Jo Cox. She was young, courageous, and hardworking. A rising star, mother, and wife,” she tweeted.

Giffords, who is now a prominent gun safety advocate, added that the attack on Cox as well as the one she endured "represent the importance of a democracy connected to its citizens."

Bernie Sanders Goes AWOL on Guns Filibuster by Goldie Taylor The Daily Beast

{Quote}: "Notwithstanding his track record on gun control, his absence was curious, given that his seat in the Senate is safe. He is—by any measure—in the final stretch of a decades-long political career. It’s difficult to imagine any political strategist worth their salt advising Sanders against going to the Capitol Wednesday night. Doing so would have been political malpractice.

Sanders stands at a critical juncture. Right now, as the DNC convention looms, he and his team of advisors should be coalescing their support and deepening points of leverage if he wants establishment types and Hillary Clinton’s forces to go along with some of his proposals. As a Democrat, especially one who just mounted a campaign for the presidency, he must make sure that his colleagues know they can count on his voice and his action in the fight.