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*​**Correct The Record Thursday October 16, 2014 Afternoon Roundup:*

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*Headlines:*

*Associated Press, via WXYZ Detroit: “Hillary Clinton to campaign for
Michigan Democrats Schauer & Peters during Oakland University visit”
<http://www.wxyz.com/news/political/hillary-clinton-to-campaign-for-michigan-democrats-schauer-peters-during-oakland-university-visit>*

“Michigan Democrats hope to make the most of Hillary Rodham Clinton's visit
by dispatching her to a bellwether county to keep an open Senate seat and
upend the state's Republican governor.”

*Bloomberg: “Hollywood McCain Is Ready For Hillary Clinton”
<http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2014-10-16/hollywood-mccain-is-ready-for-hillary-clinton>*

“‘Game Change’ actress Sandy Bainum wrote a $25,000 check to the Ready for
Hillary PAC, one of the 38,000 donors who are financing the group that is
laying the foundation for Clinton to run for president in 2016.”

*AFP, via Business Insider: “John Kerry's Plane Just Broke Down ... Again”
<http://www.businessinsider.com/afp-kerrys-plane-grounded-...-again-2014-10>*

“Since taking up his post in February 2013, Kerry has flown some 566,000
miles (911,000 kilometres) around the globe and visited 55 countries --
many of them multiple times -- spending some 249 days on the road. He's
well on his way to overtaking his predecessor Hillary Clinton who flew just
short of a million miles in her four years in office, visiting a record 112
countries.”

*Time: “White House Works To Get Poor Parents to Speak More to Kids”
<http://time.com/3512967/white-house-works-to-get-poor-parents-to-speak-more-to-kids/>*

“A little over a year ago, Too Small to Fail was started with the goal of
getting more parents talking, singing, and reading to their kids starting
from birth. Studies have shown children born to higher-income families are
exposed to some 30 million more words than their counterparts on welfare
before the reach kindergarten.”

*Articles:*

*Associated Press, via WXYZ Detroit: “Hillary Clinton to campaign for
Michigan Democrats Schauer & Peters during Oakland University visit”
<http://www.wxyz.com/news/political/hillary-clinton-to-campaign-for-michigan-democrats-schauer-peters-during-oakland-university-visit>*

[No Writer Mentioned]

October 16, 2014, 8:45 a.m. EDT

Michigan Democrats hope to make the most of Hillary Rodham Clinton's visit
by dispatching her to a bellwether county to keep an open Senate seat and
upend the state's Republican governor.

Clinton on Thursday will campaign for Senate candidate Gary Peters and
gubernatorial candidate Mark Schauer in Oakland County in suburban Detroit.
It's not only an attempt to excite the base but also to persuade
middle-of-the-road voters in the swing county.

Gov. Rick Snyder won nearly 100,000 more votes there in 2010 than his
opponent. But two years later President Barack Obama had a 52,000-vote
advantage in the county, which benefited from the federal government's
rescue of the auto industry.

Clinton supported the bailout as a senator, and the loans remain a
political issue in Michigan even five years later.

*Bloomberg: “Hollywood McCain Is Ready For Hillary Clinton”
<http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2014-10-16/hollywood-mccain-is-ready-for-hillary-clinton>*

By Annie Linskey and Greg Giroux

October 16, 2014, 6:34 a.m. EDT

[Subtitle:] Actress Sandy Bainum gives to Ready For Hillary as Republican
Ben Carson draws more quarterly cash for the 2016 draft.

Hillary Clinton just got a vote of support from Cindy McCain — the
fictional version as played in a movie recounting the 2008 presidential
campaign.

“Game Change” actress Sandy Bainum wrote a $25,000 check to the Ready for
Hillary PAC, one of the 38,000 donors who are financing the group that is
laying the foundation for Clinton to run for president in 2016. Others
include ESPN executive Marie Donoghue, who cut a check for $25,000;
investment banker Roger Altman, who gave $20,000; and former diplomat
Stuart Eizenstat, who donated $1,000.

The fundraising factoids started rolling in Wednesday as political
committees large and small filed disclosure reports to the Federal Election
Commission that were due at midnight. By far, the most watched group is
Ready For Hillary. It's organized volunteers to cheer for the potential
candidate at multiple public events from Iowa to Kentucky and has a bus
with “Ready for Hillary” emblazoned on the side.

But it's not the best-funded for the 2014 third quarter. A group trying to
convince retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson, a Republican, to run for
president raised $3.3 million from July through September — the most of any
contender from either party.

Ready for Hillary collected $2 million. That's a slowdown in both cash flow
and donors from the group's last quarter, when it collected $2.5 million
from 43,000 people. The group has a self-imposed cap of $25,000.
Ninety-eight percent of the checks were for amounts less than $100,
according to spokesman Seth Bringman, which means the super-PAC can
continue to tap those supporters in coming fundraising pitches.

It's early to be looking at 2016 cash, though how prospective candidates
and groups raise and spend money can be telling. Former Arkansas Governor
Mike Huckabee, for example, spread his cash around to Republican
candidates, while Rick Santorum, the former Pennsylvania senator, hasn't
done much at all.

Here's a look at some of the groups likely to be active as 2016
presidential season approaches.

* America Rising: Republicans are far from sorting out their field, but
they do have an opposition research team digging up nuggets that Democrats
would prefer stay buried. The group's super-PAC raised $190,000 this
quarter — mostly from a $100,000 contribution from Restore Our Future, the
super-PAC that supported Republican Mitt Romney's presidential bid in 2012.

* Martin O'Malley: Democrat O'Malley, Maryland's soon to be ex-governor,
raised about $710,000 during the quarter when the receipts from his two
political organizations are combined. Checks included $25,000 from Florida
Crystals Corporation, a West Palm Beach sugar company that is closely held.
He also rounded up a $10,000 gift from Richard Holland of Omaha, Neb. — one
of Warren Buffett's early investors. Holland was in the front row at a
recent state party fundraiser that O'Malley headlined in July and gushed
about how much he enjoyed the governor's speech as he left the event.

* Elizabeth Warren: Senator Warren of Massachusetts has disavowed the
super-PAC that is pushing her to run for president in 2016 and it shows:
The Ready For Warren PAC brought in $60,000 this quarter, and that includes
in-kind donations. The biggest backer so far is Daniel Buk, a Washington
political consultant who gave $25,000 to the effort. Warren's leadership
committee, PAC for a Level Playing Field, raised $557,000 in the third
quarter and donated $146,400 to Democratic candidates and committees where
Senate elections could determine partisan control of the chamber after the Nov.
4 midterm elections.

* Ben Carson: The committee promoting Carson, a Republican doctor, to run
for president raised an eye-popping $3.3 million in the third quarter —
besting Ready for Hillary for a second quarter in a row. The retired
neurosurgeon is a conservative darling taking top spots in polls, as the
Bloomberg Politics/Des Moines Register Iowa Poll showed this week and
colleague Phil Mattingly recently reported. Much of the cash came from
donors who gave less than $200. The larger chunks of change included
$10,000 from fellow doctor Robert G. Burlingame from Texas and $30,000 from
Harry Bettis, an Idaho rancher.

* Marco Rubio: Senator Marco Rubio raised almost $1.5 million for his Rubio
Victory Committee. Notable contributions include $1,000 from the Ohio Gun
Collectors Association, which is far afield from his Florida constituency
but in a prime swing presidential state.

* Mike Huckabee: The Huck-PAC saw nearly $1 million in contributions this
quarter, from mostly small donors giving hundreds of dollars. The former
Arkansas governor was fairly generous with his committee's cash, donating
$1,000 to Republican Mike Rounds of South Dakota, who is locked in an
unexpectedly tight Senate contest. Other top-tier Senate races where he
contributed to the Republican contender include Kansas, Georgia, Alaska and
North Carolina.

* Rand Paul: Just under $500,000 in checks came in the door for Paul's
Kentucky's Victory Fund. That includes $5,000 from Goldman Sachs' political
action committee and $5,000 from Koch Industries. Straddling Wall Street
and the Tea Party base is a strategic aim that could set Paul apart from
what's shaping up to be a crowded primary field.

* Rick Perry: Texas Governor Perry's federal PAC raised $181,000 from
donors including Shaun McCutcheon, an Alabama businessman who was on the
winning side of a Supreme Court campaign-finance case earlier this year.
RickPAC, which Perry formed in August, donated to 13 Iowa Republican
candidates, including Joni Ernst, a state senator in a close race with
Democratic Representative Bruce Braley for the U.S. Senate seat of retiring
Democrat Tom Harkin. Iowa's caucuses traditionally kick off the
presidential nominating contests.

* Rick Santorum: Santorum's federal committee pulled in about $15,000 this
quarter — entirely from renting out his list of political supporters.

*AFP, via Business Insider: “John Kerry's Plane Just Broke Down ... Again”
<http://www.businessinsider.com/afp-kerrys-plane-grounded-...-again-2014-10>*

[No Writer Mentioned]

October 16, 2014, 4:35 a.m. EDT

Globe-trotting top US diplomat John Kerry was left hoofing it back on a
commercial flight from Vienna Thursday, after his ageing Air Force plane
broke down for the fourth time this year.

After marathon talks on Iran's nuclear programme in the Austrian capital
Wednesday, Kerry's party of more than 40 State Department staff and
journalists were checking out of their hotel rooms before dawn Thursday when
the news came that his Boeing 757 needed unspecified repairs -- again.

Since taking up his post in February 2013, Kerry has flown some 566,000
miles (911,000 kilometres) around the globe and visited 55 countries --
many of them multiple times -- spending some 249 days on the road.

He's well on his way to overtaking his predecessor Hillary Clinton who flew
just short of a million miles in her four years in office, visiting a
record 112 countries.

But despite a normally well-planned, slick logistical operation to move
Kerry and his posse of staff, security agents and the travelling press as
he jumps from country to country, he has been beset this year by a
frustrating number of glitches.

In August, the US secretary of state was forced to take a commercial
nine-hour flight back to Washington from Hawaii when the plane suffered
electrical problems after a trip which had seen him literally fly around
the globe.

Earlier this year, a new transponder had to be flown from the United States
to Switzerland when in the middle of international talks on the Syrian
conflict in January his aircraft was grounded.

And in London in March, a similar mechanical problem was hastily fixed --
after a few nerve-wrecking hours which saw his party anxiously checking for
flights home.

Kerry was Thursday flying back from a whirlwind six-day trip which saw him
first travel to Cairo for an international donor's conference for Gaza, and
then head to Paris for talks with his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov.

He had arrived in Vienna early Wednesday and went straight into talks with
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and EU foreign policy chief
Cathy Ashton on Iran's nuclear programme.

Zarif chuckled Thursday when he heard Kerry's plane was grounded due to
apparent mechanical issues. "So it is not just our planes," he told the
online news site al-Monitor.

*Time: “White House Works To Get Poor Parents to Speak More to Kids”
<http://time.com/3512967/white-house-works-to-get-poor-parents-to-speak-more-to-kids/>*

By Maya Rhodan

October 16, 2014, 12:11 p.m. EDT

[Subtitle:] By reading and talking to babies from birth, research has shown
kids can enter school better prepared for success

At UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital in Oakland, a new program is about to
get underway that serves a purpose near to both the Obama White House and
former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton care a great deal about.

Benioff is one of two locations where Too Small to Fail, a joint venture
between the Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation and Next
Generation, is launching a pilot program that will expand their efforts to
close the so-called word gap. A little over a year ago, Too Small to Fail
was started with the goal of getting more parents talking, singing, and
reading to their kids starting from birth. Studies have shown children born
to higher-income families are exposed to some 30 million more words than
their counterparts on welfare before the reach kindergarten.

About 73% of the families served by Benioff Children’s Hospital utilize
Medicaid, says the hospital’s President and CEO Dr. Bert Lubin, making it
the ideal setting to test the benefits of providing tools and support to
families and communities that encourage them to interact with their babies.
“It’s such a simple thing,” Lubin says . “The parents who are not talking,
singing and reading. They love their children, but they don’t know that not
doing it is something that really permanently effects the child.”

On Thursday, representatives from the Oakland program will be at the White
House sharing their stories with other community leaders, including the
Mayor of Providence, Rhode Island where a Bloomberg Philanthropies funded
program that records and tracks the words spoken to babies has been
underway for a little over a year. Too Small is joining with the White
House to use the nation’s most powerful bully pulpit to spread the message
that learning is important and support local communities working to get
their children and babies best prepared for school.

The White House will announce an investment to fund a research coalition to
build more research around the word gap. The federal government will also
be working with the tech community to get their input in the effort to
close the word gap. Some apps, like the Text4Baby mobile application, are
already in use, helping provide mothers with information on the development
of their child throughout pregnancy and infancy.

Over the next year at Benioff and around Oakland, parents will receive
books, clothing and reading materials from birth to remind them to get
chatty with their bundles of joy. They’ll be reminded of the benefits of
speaking to their kids on billboards and in advertisements, at
community-based programs and in churches. The hospital also plans to track
and record the development of babies who are being interacted with
regularly to gauge the benefits and encourage other cities to do the same.
“The reality is if we address this word gap, everyone is more likely to
stay in school, get a job afterwards and contribute to society,” Lubin
says. “The investment is small in terms of the impact it will have on our
society.”

Almost half of infants and toddlers come from low-income families and about
25% live in poverty, according to the National Center for Infants and
Toddlers. Though having enough food and shelter is extremely important to a
child’s health, cognitive development is equally important. Families play a
pivotal role in children’s early development, but only about 48% of parents
read to their kids every day. That lack of interaction is detrimental to
children who’s way out of poverty is through school. According to research
from Rice University, children from low income families heard about 30
million fewer words by age 4 than their high income peers. Kids from
working class families heard about 15 million fewer.

“This word gap turns into an achievement gap once children reach school,”
says Ann O’Leary, the director of the children and families program at Next
Generation.

Too Small to Fail’s first year was spent increasing public awareness on the
importance of closing the word gap. A partnership with Univision ensured
ads appeared in Spanish and English. The topic came up on television shows
including The Fosters and Orange is the New Black—this year, the issue is
expected to come up on more shows including Modern Family and Criminal
Minds. The American Academy of Pediatrics adopted a policy message that
speaks to the importance of early literacy. And last March, Tulsa became
the first city to launch a partnership with Too Small to Fail, similar to
what’s happening in Oakland.

O’Leary says reading and speaking to children should be as important as
brushing their teeth.“When you imagine that this is not an optional
activity, but that this is a must-do activity it becomes kind of shocking
that only half of families are doing this,” O’Leary says. “What if half
were only brushing their teeth? We think it’s just as urgent to get this
information out. These are not optional activities.”