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*​**Correct The Record Wednesday October 29, 2014 Afternoon Roundup:*

*Tweets:*

*Correct The Record* @CorrectRecord: In @NationalJournal
<https://twitter.com/nationaljournal> @SenGillibrand
<https://twitter.com/SenGillibrand> says @HillaryClinton
<https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton> is "the strongest candidate the
Democrats could field."
http://www.nationaljournal.com/politics/kirsten-gillibrand-it-s-vital-that-a-woman-becomes-president-in-2016-20141028
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<http://t.co/zOXLmm38Cf> [10/28/14, 5:42 p.m. EDT
<https://twitter.com/CorrectRecord/status/527213764479700992>]

*Correct The Record* @CorrectRecord: .@SenGillibrand
<https://twitter.com/SenGillibrand>: "I am very hopeful that [
@HillaryClinton <https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton>] will decide to run."
http://www.nationaljournal.com/politics/kirsten-gillibrand-it-s-vital-that-a-woman-becomes-president-in-2016-20141028
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<http://t.co/Kd5EBbQK0H> [10/28/14, 5:40 p.m. EDT
<https://twitter.com/CorrectRecord/status/527213339932626944>]

*Correct The Record* @CorrectRecord: .@HillaryClinton
<https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton> launched Connect 2022 to make energy
more economically viable throughout our hemisphere #HRC365
<https://twitter.com/hashtag/HRC365?src=hash>
http://correctrecord.org/hillary-clinton-fueling-americas-energy-future/ …
<http://t.co/aPIqKGj3yR> [10/28/14, 3:31 p.m. EDT
<https://twitter.com/CorrectRecord/status/527180760482988033>]

*Headlines:*

*MSNBC: “Why Hillary Clinton attracts so many early attacks”
<http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/hillary-clinton-has-gaffe-problem-the-target-her-back?cid=eml_mda_20141029>*

"Every presidential candidate will face manufactured controversy, but
usually not before the previous election has concluded. Republicans are
understandably calculating that Clinton will be her party’s next nominee,
so they’re getting a jump-start on 2016’s battles in 2014."

*Washington Post blog: Post Politics: “Battle of the former secretaries of
state”
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2014/10/29/battle-of-the-former-secretaries-of-state/>*

“The [Sec. Condoleezza Rice- Joni Ernst] endorsement comes the same day
Rep. Bruce Braley, Ernst's Democratic opponent, is planning to campaign
with another former secretary of state: Hillary Clinton.”

*The Daily Beast: “What Brazil’s Dilma Rousseff Can Teach Hillary Clinton”
<http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/10/29/what-brazil-s-dilma-rousseff-can-teach-hillary-clinton.html>*

[Subtitle:] "Rousseff won reelection as Brazil’s president because she
championed economic policies that protected and advanced the economic
security of women and children, not investors and markets"

*The Hill blog: Briefing Room: “Commerce Sec responds to Clinton: ‘Yes,
private sector creates jobs’”
<http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/222170-commerce-sec-responds-to-clinton-yes-private-sector-creates>*

“Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker offered a counterpoint to former
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s remarks on jobs last week.”

*The Hill: “Iowa not ready to crown Hillary”
<http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/222185-iowa-not-ready-to-crown-hillary>*

“Many Democrats in the first-in-the-nation caucus state who rejected
Hillary Clinton seven years ago say they’re keeping their options open and
aren’t quite ready to crown the former secretary of state in 2016.”

*Huffington Post: “Rand Paul Mocks Hillary Clinton Over Jobs Remark”
<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/29/rand-paul-hillary-clinton-jobs_n_6067732.html>*

“Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) wasted no time turning a Hillary Clinton remark
about jobs into a laugh line on the campaign trail.”

*CBS Los Angeles: “Bill Clinton To Rally For Democrats At Oxnard College”
<http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2014/10/29/bill-clinton-to-rally-democratic-voters-in-oxnard/>*

 “Clinton will be on hand at Oxnard College to help bolster support for
Democrats in three local races: Rep. Raul Ruiz of Palm Desert, Rep. Julia
Brownley of Westlake Village, and Redlands Mayor Pete Aguilar, who is
running for the 31st Congressional District seat in San Bernardino County.”

*Articles:*

*MSNBC: “Why Hillary Clinton attracts so many early attacks”
<http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/hillary-clinton-has-gaffe-problem-the-target-her-back?cid=eml_mda_20141029>*

By Alex Seitz-Wald

October 29, 2014 7:25 a.m. EDT

Hillary Clinton has a gaffe problem. But it’s not her words, it’s the
target on her back.

The former secretary of state is as prone to putting her foot in her mouth
as any other prominent political figure. But unlike any other potential
2016 presidential contender, the other party’s entire rhetorical arsenal is
already pointed at her, before she even has a campaign.

This week, 745 days before her name might appear on a general election
ballot, the GOP demonstrated its firepower.

On Friday, while campaigning for Massachusetts Democratic gubernatorial
candidate Martha Coakley with Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Clinton tripped over
her tongue by saying business don’t create jobs. “Don’t let anybody tell
you it’s corporations and businesses that create jobs,” Clinton said,
contradicting what she has written in several books and in her decades of
public service. By Monday, the gaffe had mushroomed into a full-blown
political controversy the likes of which haven’t been seen since 2012’s
infamous “you didn’t build that.”

Clinton meant to say that tax breaks for corporations and businesses don’t
create jobs, as she later explained. But Republicans saw the remark as
revealing Clinton’s inner leftist (she was campaigning with Warren, after
all) or at least as an attempt to pander to the base.

Talk of the gaffe dominated conservative blogs and broadcasts, as outside
groups piled on. Rush Limbaugh said Clinton was part of a “marauding band
aiming at every private sector business they can get their hands on.”
Reince Priebus, the chairman of the Republican National Committee, declared
Clinton to be bad at politics and “not ready for primetime.” Wall Streeters
reportedly quivered (never mind that Republicans’ previous attacks had
focused on Clinton’s wealth and coziness with big money elites).

Every presidential candidate will face manufactured controversy, but
usually not before the previous election has concluded. Republicans are
understandably calculating that Clinton will be her party’s next nominee,
so they’re getting a jump-start on 2016’s battles in 2014. There are
already teams of partisan researchers poring over every word she says, and
several super PACs committed exclusively to derailing her
expected-candidacy – not to mention plenty of reporters eager for a story.

Clinton has already been chased by a Republican squirrel, Photoshopped
using a walker and made several gaffes that will be filed away to haunt her
later.

For the next two years, Clinton will have to endure the kind of pressure
and scrutiny typically reserved for the homestretch of a presidential
campaign. Anything less than perfect will be a seen as a failure for her.
That raises the price of gaffes, and makes taking risks more dangerous.
While the book tour for her memoir, “Hard Choices,” was rife with missteps,
its notable that her ventures on the campaign trail for Democrats has been
mostly flawless – untilFriday.

Still, it’s nothing new for Clinton, who has spent the past 30 years in the
public eye, and often at the center of controversy.  But it’s that high
profile that attracts the early attacks.

*Washington Post blog: Post Politics: “Battle of the former secretaries of
state”
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2014/10/29/battle-of-the-former-secretaries-of-state/>*

By Sean Sullivan

October 29, 2014, 9:31 a.m. EDT

Former secretary of state Condoleezza Rice endorsed Republican Joni Ernst's
bid for U.S. Senate in IowaWednesday, making a rare entree into campaign
politics.

“Joni Ernst has dedicated her life to the service of others, bravely
leading troops in Iraq and safely bringing them home to Iowa. Now Iowans
have an opportunity to make her the first female combat veteran to ever
serve in the U.S. Senate," Rice said in a statement distributed by Ernst's
campaign.

The endorsement comes the same day Rep. Bruce Braley, Ernst's Democratic
opponent, is planning to campaign with another former secretary of state:
Hillary Clinton. Ernst and Braley are in a close race, polls show. The
outcome in Iowa could decide which party controls the Senate in 2015.

As The Post's Philip Rucker noted on Twitter, this is rare show of direct
candidate support from Rice. The only ad she has cut for a Senate candidate
is the one she did for Dan Sullivan (R) in Alaska. Sullivan is a former
State Department official.

*The Daily Beast: “What Brazil’s Dilma Rousseff Can Teach Hillary Clinton”
<http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/10/29/what-brazil-s-dilma-rousseff-can-teach-hillary-clinton.html>*

By Heather Arnet

October 29, 2014

[Subtitle:] Rousseff won reelection as Brazil’s president because she
championed economic policies that protected and advanced the economic
security of women and children, not investors and markets

On Sunday, Dilma Rousseff won re-election to continue her service as
president of the fifth largest country in the world. As Brazil’s first
female president fought for re-election one thing was clear, the economy
would be the focus of the race. As Americans head into November’s mid-term
elections and prepare to begin a new presidential campaign cycle, it would
be wise to look to Brazil to see the impact that economic divides and
gender can have on elections.

Ronald Reagan famously coined the phrase, “Are you better off now then you
were four years ago?” For millions of Brazilians the answer is a resounding
yes. But from the coverage of the Brazilian presidential race in the U.S.
and European media you could easily have had the impression that Brazil was
teetering on the edge of economic collapse. How could an economy, which
resulted in lifting 40 million people out of poverty and into the middle
class, and with historically low unemployment figures,be considered a
troubled economy? It all depends on whose economic interests define your
perspective.

Last year, while filming the documentary “Madame Presidenta: Why Not U.S.?”
I interviewed Lilian, a single mother living in a Rio de Janeiro favela.
Because of Brazil’s economic subsidy program for low-income mothers and
families (Bolsa Familia), Lilian was able to have a steady income. For the
first time her children reliably received healthcare and consistently went
to school. Lilian and her friend opened a small business, and Lilian’s face
glowed with pride as she told me about her daughter, who was going to
college to become a psychologist. Lilian said all of these things were
nearly impossible to even dream about just a decade earlier.

As other nations fell into recession and declared strict austerity
measures, cutting social services, education, healthcare, and government
jobs, Brazil invested in all of these. In addition to expanding Brazil’s
economic subsidy program, Rousseff also led efforts to successfully pass
legislation mandating that income from national oil and energy reserves be
reinvested in expanding education and healthcare opportunities for the poor.

But investing in the people of Brazil meant that there were less profits
for international investors. The one percent in Brazil and the one percent
internationally were still making profits on their Brazilian holdings,
because the Brazilian economy was still growing. But they were not making
enough profits, as the rate of growth had slowed as Brazil invested in the
welfare of its own people. And so the elites demanded that it was time for
change.

It was striking to see that nearly all media coverage of this year’s
Brazilian presidential election focused on how the “markets” and
“investors” were strongly behind Rousseff’s fiscal conservative competitor
Aecio Neves. And how investor confidence would fall drastically each time
Rousseff rose in the polls. These same articles would cite in the sixth or
seventh paragraph that while it was true that tens of millions of families
were lifted out of poverty by Rousseff and her party’s economic policies,
broad national growth and inflation had suffered under Rousseff. What the
articles failed to mention was that it is only the extremely rich who were
not benefiting from these policies.

And so how is it that Rousseff still managed to eek out a win, when both
media coverage and investors strongly were against her? Because in Brazil,
voting is mandatory. When the poor have equitable access to voting, they
have the ability to vote to support their own economic interests. And in
Brazil, like in most countries, women make up the majority of those voters.

U.S. and European media attempted to position Maria Silva (who was Dilma’s
closest competitor going into the first round of the election) as a
“change” candidate. But Silva fell in the polls once it became clear that
as an evangelical she had pledged to roll back gay rights, family planning
and birth control access which Dilma’s party had expanded. In Brazil these
are not considered “social” issues. The people of Brazil recognize these as
core economic issues. Increased access to affordable birth control has
strengthened the economic security of communities. Increased access to
reproductive healthcare has resulted in better maternal and infant health
outcomes. Increased rights for members of the LGBTQ community have resulted
in more physical and economic security for these families. The millions of
people who have benefited from these policies were not looking to elect a
“change” candidate to strip these rights away.

Gender received little mention in coverage of the Brazilian presidential
election when the top two candidates were women. But with Silva out of the
race gender politics reappeared. In fact much of the rhetoric around Aecio
Neves positioned him as a patriarch who could control Brazil’s economy and
redirect it from Rousseff’s maternal welfare state.  During the last
presidential debate, Neves went so far to refer to Rousseff as “flighty.”
The backlash from female voters was felt immediately in the polls. Female
voters quickly criticized Neves for using sexist language to attack a woman
who once was a Marxist guerilla who had been arrested and tortured for her
commitment to democracy and an economist who had served as a cabinet
minister and as Brazil’s first female president. It seems Brazilian voters
could abide most of the mud slinging that occurred at the debates, but
chauvinism was where they drew the line.

As we approach 2016, and as Hillary Clinton, Elizabeth Warren, and others
consider running to become this country’s first female president, each of
these women would be wise to take a page out of Rousseff’s playbook.
Already Warren has been leading the charge against economic inequity. Her
biting criticism of the banking industry and market conditions, which
support the interests of the very rich at the expense of the nation’s most
vulnerable, have been receiving standing ovations wherever she goes. If
Hillary Clinton is eyeing another attempt at the presidency she needs to
develop an economic agenda that incorporates these themes and responds to
this call to arms with a detailed plan for action.

As outspoken as Warren has been as a champion for the middle class, Clinton
has been a consistent champion for women’s economic and physical security.
Her 1995 speech in Beijing, when she declared, “Women’s rights are human
rights” became the guiding mantra of the U.S. State Department during her
tenure. For the first time, the State Department created an office focused
on women’s international rights. By now it is common knowledge that as
Secretary of State, Clinton visited more countries and met with more heads
of state then any previous Secretary of State. But what is less known, and
which Clinton herself should amplify, is that in each of these countries
she demanded to meet with women’s movement leaders and to make women’s
economic and physical security an item for discussion in every diplomatic
agenda.

Women – candidates, pundits, PACs, and voters – are poised to have a
tremendous impact in the results of this year’s mid-term elections. If this
country is on the verge of electing its first female president, the
economic interests of women and their families should take center stage.
Dilma Rousseff was not elected or re-elected because she was a woman. But
to win she needed women to strongly support her. To earn their votes she
championed economic policies that protected and advanced the economic
security of women and children, not investors and markets. Women have been
the majority of the U.S. voting base for some time. But now it is time for
them to put their interests in the forefront for the sake of the nation.

*The Hill blog: Briefing Room: “Commerce Sec responds to Clinton: ‘Yes,
private sector creates jobs’”
<http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/222170-commerce-sec-responds-to-clinton-yes-private-sector-creates>*

By Julian Hattem

October 29, 2014, 9:28 a.m. EDT

Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker offered a counterpoint to former
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s remarks on jobs last week.

“Yes, the private sector creates jobs,” Pritzker said on Wednesday at the
Washington Ideas Forum.

“Our job is to set the conditions so the private sector can create jobs,”
she added, explaining the role of the Commerce Department. “What we’re
focused on and what we’re working on is making sure there’s good
infrastructure in this country, making sure there’s a skilled workforce in
this country, making sure there’s a good environment for investment.”

Pritzker’s comment came after a question prompted by Clinton’s remarks at a
political rally in Massachusetts on Friday, in which she said: “Don’t let
anybody tell you that, you know, it’s corporations and businesses that
create jobs.”

Clinton walked back the comment this week, saying she “short-handed” the
point about limiting outsourcing and tax breaks for major corporations.

But conservative pundits quickly pounced on the remarks, calling it a
blatant attempt to appeal to backers of populist Sen. Elizabeth Warren
(D-Mass.).

Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus said that the
comments were a sign that Clinton is “not really good at politics.”

*The Hill: “Iowa not ready to crown Hillary”
<http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/222185-iowa-not-ready-to-crown-hillary>*

By Scott Wong

October 29, 2014, 10:34 a.m. EDT

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa — Will they ever love Hillary here?

Many Democrats in the first-in-the-nation caucus state who rejected Hillary
Clinton seven years ago say they’re keeping their options open and aren’t
quite ready to crown the former secretary of state in 2016.

Sure, there are plenty of Iowans eager to send the Clintons back to the
White House. And for months, Ready for Hillary, the outside group backing a
Clinton run, has been on the ground in the Hawkeye State, hiring staff,
recruiting volunteers and building excitement for what’s seen as her
inevitable candidacy.

Polls suggest she’s the clear favorite.

But as Clinton returns to Iowa Wednesday for the second time in two months
– this time to stump with Democratic Senate hopeful Bruce Braley –
Democrats throughout the state say they’re still sizing up the field of
possible candidates.

“New blood” is a popular refrain. Several said they hope to draft another
woman, Elizabeth Warren, the Massachusetts senator and favorite of
progressives, into the race. And two-term Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley’s
recent visits to the state have caught the attention of some grassroots
activists.

“I’ve yet to make up my mind and I don’t like the idea of political
dynasties,” Tom O’Donnell, 55, a former science reporter and editor, said
at a Braley rally near Des Moines before heading out with his wife and son
to canvass neighborhoods.

“Largely, she’s ahead on name recognition and her good record as secretary
of state,” he said. “But O’Malley has been here and worked hard for
candidates I’ve liked and that automatically makes me want to know more
about him.”

Candice Jakes, 25, a Texas native who now lives in Iowa, attended a rally
this week with Vice President Biden and Braley in the Quad Cities area. But
she said she doesn’t fall in either the Biden or Hillary camps.

“I like Hillary, but I’m keeping an open mind and see what people have to
say in case a particular candidate impressed me,” said Jakes, who described
herself as a moderate Democrat. “I don’t have a favorite yet at all.”

Clinton is the latest in a parade of presidential aspirants who have
descended on Iowa this week to boost House and Senate candidates in
Tuesday’s midterm election, from Gov. Chris Christie (R-N.J.) and Sen.
Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) to Biden.  The former first lady will rally with
Braley, a current congressman, at a union hall here in Cedar Rapids before
the duo head to a second event in Davenport. Then, Bill Clinton comes to
nearby Waterloo on Saturday to headline Braley’s annual Bruce, Blues & BBQ
fundraiser.

The Clintons were last in Iowa in September for retiring Democratic Sen.
Tom Harkin’s final steak fry. It was the first time Hillary Clinton had set
foot in the state since January 2008, when she finished a humiliating third
place in the Iowa caucuses behind Barack Obama and another one of her
Senate colleagues, John Edwards of North Carolina.

Months before her horrible finish, Clinton's campaign staffers had clashed
over whether she should pull out of Iowa given her poor poll numbers.
Clinton’s deputy campaign manager, in a memo that was leaked to The New
York Times, argued that those valuable days on campaign trail and millions
of dollars would be better spent in other early primary states like New
Hampshire.

In his successful 1992 race, Bill Clinton had skipped the state, ceding it
to Harkin, the popular Iowa senator who was running against him in the
primary.

But Hillary stayed – and lost big.

This time, no one is suggesting Clinton should skip Iowa and decamp to more
favorable territory. She’s dominating in the polls: A recent Bloomberg
News/Des Moines Register survey of Iowa caucus-goers showed Clinton with 53
percent; Warren was a distant second with 10 percent. And many Democrats
simply blanked when asked whom they might back as an alternative to Clinton.

“I think she needs to come back,” said Karen Schulte, 57, who was taking in
the World Series game Tuesday night with her husband, Steve, at The Irish
Democrat, a Cedar Rapids bar and grill adorned with Kennedy, Carter and FDR
campaign posters, a black and white photo of Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley
at the ’68 Democratic convention, and a yellowing newspaper front page from
the day after Nixon resigned.

“I think there were positive things about Hillary,” she added. “I would be
fine with Hillary, but I think that competition is good. I mean Obama came
from basically nowhere. So did Bill Clinton. But they proved themselves. I
would entertain Hillary, but if the Democrats can show up with someone
that’s equally knowledgeable on world affairs, we need to have that.”

The conversation also centered on politics at the bar at Jethro's BBQ 'n
Bacon Bacon in West Des Moines, where a couple and their two friends could
be overheard discussing a new show playing on an overhead flatscreen TV:
“Madam Secretary.”

“It’s based on Hillary Clinton,” one said.

All four backed Obama over Clinton during the 2008 primary. And a man in
the group, who would only give his name as Don, said he was still bothered
by some of Bill Clinton’s racially tinged attacks on Obama before the South
Carolina primary six years ago.

“I lost something for her based on some things that they did in that
election against Obama,” said Don, who’s lived with his wife in Des Moines
for the past 30 years. “I would like to see younger Democratic blood, new
blood,” though he added that he would get behind her candidacy if the GOP
puts up a strong candidate.

But other Obama ’08 backers are already committing to Clinton. Paul Milton,
62, who is African American, said he voted for Obama last time because he
wanted to see the first black president. Now he wants to help put the first
woman in the White House.

“Hillary is my lady. I’m kinda rootin’ for her,” Milton, who retired from a
traffic-lights manufacturing company, said as he waited to see Biden and
Braley at a minor league ballpark in Davenport. “Joe is cool but I want to
see a lady up here for a change. I want to see change.”

*Huffington Post: “Rand Paul Mocks Hillary Clinton Over Jobs Remark”
<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/29/rand-paul-hillary-clinton-jobs_n_6067732.html>*

By Igor Bobic

October 29, 2014, 10:46 a.m. EDT

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) wasted no time turning a Hillary Clinton remark
about jobs into a laugh line on the campaign trail.

Republicans seized on the remark last week when, in a speech denouncing
"trickle down" economics, the former secretary of state said, "Don't let
anybody tell you that it's corporations and businesses that create jobs."
Three days later, however, Clinton was back on the trail to take another
stab at an argument popularized by progressive Sen. Elizabeth Warren
(D-Mass.).

"Let me be absolutely clear about what I've been saying for a couple of
decades: Our economy grows when businesses and entrepreneurs create
good-paying jobs here in an America where workers and families are
empowered to build from the bottom up and the middle out -- not when we
hand out tax breaks for corporations that outsource jobs or stash their
profits overseas," she said.

But one quote was enough for Paul, who, like Clinton, has been making moves
toward a future presidential run.

Addressing supporters of vulnerable Sen. Pat Roberts (R-Kan.) in Wichita on
Tuesday, the Kentucky Republican likened the remark to President Barack
Obama's "You didn't build that" comment that Republicans eventually turned
into a theme at the 2012 presidential nominating convention. Like Clinton,
Obama was laying out the progressive case that businesses owe some of their
success to the efforts of government.

"The president says, you didn't build that, it just sort of happened," Paul
said, according to BuzzFeed. "The plane just sort of came into being
because it was a public road and a public library."

"Hillary Clinton comes up and she says, 'Businesses don't create jobs.'
Anybody here think businesses don't create jobs?" Paul added. "I'm here
today to endorse Pat Roberts and [Kansas Gov.] Sam Brownback, because you
know what? They know that businesses do create jobs, and I hope you know
that too."

Paul again tested the attack at another Roberts campaign stop in Overland
Park, telling an adoring crowd, "Hillary Clinton says, 'Well, businesses
don't create jobs.' Anybody believe that?"

This isn't the first time Paul has turned his sights on Clinton. He rarely
delivers a speech without turning her record on the Benghazi terror
attacks, Libya, Iraq or climate change into a punch line. But it could be
the opening salvo of a future line of attack -- one that failed for GOP
presidential candidate Mitt Romney in 2012 -- should Clinton decide to run
for president.

*CBS Los Angeles: “Bill Clinton To Rally For Democrats At Oxnard College”
<http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2014/10/29/bill-clinton-to-rally-democratic-voters-in-oxnard/>*

[No Writer Mentioned]

October 29, 2014, 8:40 a.m. EDT

Former President Bill Clinton was set to urge Democratic voters to head to
the voting booth next week at a rallyWednesday in Oxnard.

Clinton will be on hand at Oxnard College to help bolster support for
Democrats in three local races: Rep. Raul Ruiz of Palm Desert, Rep. Julia
Brownley of Westlake Village, and Redlands Mayor Pete Aguilar, who is
running for the 31st Congressional District seat in San Bernardino County.

At the “Get Out The Vote” rally, Clinton is expected to address the
importance of voting for “advocates of the middle class like Brownley,
Ruiz, and Aguilar.”

His visit comes after House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, and House
Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Bakersfield, stopped by the district to
stump for Ruiz’s Republican challenger, Assemblyman Brian Nestande.

Former Secretary of State and potential 2016 presidential candidate Hillary
Clinton was in the Southland last week for a Democratic fundraiser in
Brentwood.