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.

By skipping out on the filibuster on gun control, Sanders casted doubt on that. He cannot afford such questions now and neither can his movement."

Hillary Clinton Headlines June 18

Walking Away from the Revolution The Atlantic

Clinton campaign takes control of DNC CNN

Armitrage to back Clinton over Trump Politico

Rapper Vic Mensa slams Trump's post-Orlando rhetoric, calls for gun control CNN

New Evidence Donald Trump Didn't Pay Taxes The Daily Beast

Activists Gather to Seize on Sanders 'Moment' CNN

Sanders's revolution faces primary setback as MoveOn congratulates Clinton The Washington Post

Clinton wins endorsement of the AFL-CIO PBS

Hillary Clinton vows to end 'carried interest' loophole -- even if Congress won't VOX

Why doesn't Bernie Sanders know he's asking the DNC to do something it has no power to do? The Washington Post

Donald Trump just lost a lot of money Mother Jones

More Companies Opt to Sit Out Trump's Coronation in Cleveland Bloomberg Politics

Clinton’s Progressive Beacon Is a Former Goldman Sachs Banker and Bob Rubin Protégé Bloomberg Politics

May 31, 2016

If Bernie Wants To Be the Spoiler, Thousands of Progressive Leaders Will Tallk To His Supporters

May 31, 2016/ Anne Enke

Bernie Has To Unite the Party Behind Clinton -- or Someone Will Do It for Him Hillary HQ

Bernie says it's Hillary's job to unite Democrats behind her. There's only one thing wrong with Bernie's assumption that this is a party of two -- with him being the rogue opportunist. He can play the spoiler, dragging Hillary down at every opportunity, denying the math and threatening a floor fight at the convention because he is the real WINNER here. He can promise to overturn the popular vote, overturn the pledged delegates because he's going to win California by a landslide,

Bernie is a big talker and we're on record saying he has balls the size of Texas. Brass ones, too. Hardball.

The first time we saw Bernie take off his jacket and throw it into the crowd of adoring college supporters, we said "Oh no!" The second time, we knew the Cult of Bernie was building, and he was taking his rockstar status very seriously.

However, Sen. Sanders is about to get a reality check, because all these progressive groups AREN'T going to appreciate him willing to throw the nation to Trump and a Republican Congress. Sanders can say that Hillary must fly solo in an attempt to convince his supporters to vote for her.

Hillary Clinton will not be flying solo making her case to Berners.

He will find that even his adoring college women will get the Planned Parenthood message that they are one vote away from having their civil rights declared equal to that of a zygote. They are one vote away from Personhood Bills, and this has nothing to do with corporations and big money. The male majority Bernie Bros don't even know about Personhood bills, because they don't get pregnant and their Trump guy is on record saying men are not culpable in dealing with the legal problems around unplanned zygotes and unplanned pregnancies.

It's not only Planned Parenthood who will go to work on these young women, HWN will be deeply involved in giving them a real life education on what is about to go down.

Note that about 80% of those young women have already said they will vote for Hillary. And this is one result of a Trump victory -- having women's civil rights under the constitution no different than those of a 24-hr. old fertilized egg.

Senator Brass Balls is not the sole cult figure in this debate.

On the subject of unity . . .

"Bernie may think he’s a vital piece of the puzzle, but he’s not as important as he thinks. The number of people backing Bernie who will come to November and look at Hillary’s progressive campaign platform, who will hear the words of Barack Obama, Elizabeth Warren, Sherrod Brown, Tammy Baldwin, and every other progressive in Congress and in state governments advocating for Hillary and stay home or vote for a third party candidate is an insignificantly tiny sliver of a shred of a fraction of a measly minority. The number of voters who are going to hear organized labor, environmental groups, groups and individuals dedicated to fighting for racial justice, women’s rights, LGBTQ rights, disabled rights, voting rights, campaign finance reform all speaking with one voice in favor of Hillary Clinton and still believe that she’s no better than Trump are a meaningless pool of dead end voters who Bernie himself couldn’t have brought along anyways. Bernie is not the only voice in the progressive choir, and he’s not the loveliest voice in that choir either. His options are to be a leader or to let someone else lead."

That person will be President Obama for starters, a leader not willing to sell women down the proverbial toilet -- because he has two daughters, a great wife, and -- unlike Sanders -- this REALLY YUUGE Democrat rockstar would not consider selling women (and unions, and people of color, and voting rights and, and, and . . . ) into a big, black hole because he lost the Democratic primary fair and square.

It's a lot of big talk. But the Rock Star's true character is on the line. And he owns his actions fair and square. We are so over BS intimidation! The rally for Hillary will be breathtaking. ~ Anne writing for HillaryWomen News FB

Do Superdelegates Have A Purpose?

Why We Need Those 'Anti-Democratic' Superdelegates Politico

We're startled that Bernie supporter Jeff Greenfield is making a solid case for the superdelegates. To critics of the process, supporters have a one-word answer: Trump.

We could add the caucus system that is highly discriminatory in favor of passionate people with a lot of time on their hands. The recent non-delegate-awarding major win for Hillary in the popular vote primary in Washington vs Bernie crushing her in the caucus with 25% of the primary turnout. That's not the 'will of the people' in action in Washington state.

Contradictory to how his buddy Bernie frames the issue of 'superdeleates' as the establishment elite over-ruling the people (which they have never done and Hillary wins under every scenario including eliminating the superdelegates), Greenfield sees them as a final brake on a process careening out of control. This is a major evolution for Greenfield -- based on his TV appearances -- in the last two months.

"There are some circumstances where the “will of the voters”—often the will of a plurality of voters—may well put the party on the road to a massive political defeat. Further, it may result in the nomination of a candidate who violates the most fundamental beliefs of that party. Or whose temperament and character might put a dangerous, unfit person into the Oval Office. Under those circumstances, the existence of a bloc of superdelegates means the presence of an “emergency brake,” a last chance to avoid disaster. And while it may be “undemocratic” in the narrowest sense of that term, our political system is replete with “undemocratic” elements that have served us very well."