Showing posts with label Clinton Endorsements. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Clinton Endorsements. Show all posts

Tuesday, January 29, 2008

Hillary Clinton Endorsements....

  • Total Endorsements 1/15/08 through 1/29/08 = 15
  • American Nurses Association
  • Kimora Lee Simmons
  • Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell
  • Connecticut Attorney General Blumenthal
  • State Senator Stephanie Takis (D-CO)
  • United Farm Workers
  • CA Assembly member Felipe Fuentes
  • Former Indiana Governor Joe Kernan
  • CA State Senator Alex Padilla
  • Reverend Dr. Calvin O. Butts, III
  • Kansas City Star Endorses
  • Former Pueblo Congressman Ray Kogovsek
  • AFT Connecticut
  • Richardson Colorado Campaign Co-Chairs, Superdelegate, and Steering Committee
  • Michael Adler
  • Former U.S. Representative Butler Derrick (D-SC)
  • Labor Rights' Leader and Activist Richard Chavez
  • 6 States represented by these endorsements

Source:http://www.hillaryclinton.com

Sunday, January 27, 2008

Rev. Dr. Calvin Butts, III Endorses Hillary Clinton After Non Profit Receives $1 million in Earmarks in December 2007 Spending Bill

  • The day before Martin Luther King Day Hillary Clinton received an endorsement from Rev. Dr. Calvin Butts, III of the Abyssinian Baptist Church of Harlem.
  • The Abyssinian Baptist Church of Harlem is reported to be one of the oldest black churches in the United States.
  • CNS News.com reports that in December Senator Clinton, New York Senator Charles Schumer and New York Representative Charles Rangel obtained an earmark in the $555 billion spending bill that was passed awarding over $1 million to Abyssinian Development Corporation, a community development non-profit associated with the church.
  • According to the group Citizens Against Government Waste "The New York Sun linked $123 million worth of earmarks championed by Sens. Hillary Clinton and Charles Schumer (both D-N.Y.) to the senators’ campaign contributors.[37]"