Florida Tepid Toward Bush, Rubio runs (Public Policy Polling)

Florida Tepid Toward Bush, Rubio runs (Public Policy Polling)

Floridians aren’t very excited about the prospect of either Jeb Bush or Marco Rubio running for President, and Hillary Clinton leads the entire field of potential GOP candidates in the state.

Only 37% of Florida voters think Jeb Bush should run for President, to 52% who say they think he shouldn’t. The numbers for Marco Rubio on that front are almost identical- 35% say he should run to 51% who believe he should sit it out. The lack of enthusiasm for either Bush or Rubio making a White House bid is at least partially a function of their not being terribly popular. 45% of voters approve of the job Rubio is doing as a Senator to 40% who disapprove. Bush’s favorability numbers are similar with 45% giving him good marks to 42% with a negative opinion. Their numbers aren’t bad but they aren’t that impressive either.

Hillary Clinton has leads of 2-8 points over all of the potential GOP contenders in the state. Rubio comes the closest at just a 48/46 deficit and Bush is down by a similar margin at 47/44. Rand Paul trails by 4 at 46/42, Mike Huckabee’s down 5 at 49/44, Chris Christie and Ted Cruz each trail by 7 at 48/41 and 49/42 respectively, and Ben Carson (49/41), Rick Perry (50/42), and Scott Walker (49/41) all lag Clinton by 8 points.

Bush leads the Republican field in the state with 25% to 17% for Walker, 15% for Rubio, 12% for Carson, 7% for Huckabee, 6% for Cruz, 4% each for Christie and Paul, and 3% for Perry. Since PPP last did a Presidential poll in Florida last June, Bush has dropped by 5 points while Walker has seen his support increase by 10. Also seeing their stock decline in Florida are Paul whose support is down from 11% in June, Cruz who was previously at 9%, and Christie who was previously at 8%. Florida makes yet another state where Christie is under water with GOP primary voters- 35% rate him favorably to 40% with a negative view.

Even in his home state Bush lags a little bit with voters identifying themselves as ‘very conservative,’ trailing with 19% to Walker’s 23%. But he has a commanding lead with moderates, getting 33% to only 10% for Walker, that’s enough to help give him his overall advantage.

On the Democratic side Hillary Clinton remains dominant with 58% to 14% for Joe Biden, 10% for Elizabeth Warren, 3% for Bernie Sanders, 2% for Martin O’Malley, and 1% for Jim Webb. Clinton is polling over 50% with liberals, moderates, men, women, whites, African Americans, and voters within every age group.

Amongst Friends, Clinton Discusses Urban Renewal (Newsweek)

March 24, 2015

At the very hour when Texas Sen. Ted Cruz became the first candidate to formally confess his 2016 Presidential aspirations from the Jerry Falwell-founded Liberty University, the leading likely Democratic applicant for that same job was attending a different tent revival. Hillary Clinton was on a panel at the Center for American Progress, a progressive think tank helmed by longtime Clinton stalwart John Podesta who will likely take a leave his post soon to direct a presidential campaign.

In what was likely to be one of her last public events before her expected April announcement, Mrs. Clinton in that most Clintonian of fora—the roundtable discussion—discussed the needs of American cities. She gave a seven-minute speech and then stayed for an hour and half more, nodding and listening (another Clintonian gesture) to union leaders, businesspeople and two rising young Democratic political stars including HUD Secretary Julian Castro--who has been mentioned as a possible Hillary veep. )

Among the topics covered: the tale of two cities of Pittsburgh and Detroit, both blighted and failing at the same time, one now in bankruptcy and the other listed as one of the finest places to live in America; what to do about crumbling infrastructure, and how one STEM job in a tech alley spawns five more.

Almost everyone in the room agreed on and mentioned the need to demolish the “silo”—the four-letter word du jour in government and management-speak these days referring to fiefdoms within organizations that don’t collaborate.

Mrs. Clinton reminded the room that as the junior Senator from New York, she didn’t just represent booming New York City, but more economically troubled urban centers like Binghamton, Buffalo and Syracuse. She made three points in her three-minute presentation. She suggested that she’d do “a mapping” of cities crumbling infrastructure needs; do more in terms of “human infrastructure” with pre-K and job training; and encourage social mobility which is akin to encouraging kindness—easier said than done.

Labor leaders Randi Weingarten (American Federation of Teachers) and Lee Saunders (AFSCME) joined Mrs. Clinton for the panel which guaranteed a less-than-combative session. They discussed public-private partnerships, job training and, yes, tearing down “silos” to revitalize urban areas like Detroit.

“There is a tragedy going on in our urban centers,” said Saunders. His union of 1.6 million government employees is a reliable power base for Clinton is also under heavy assault in states with Republican governors .

Mrs. Clinton praised the Clinton Global Foundation twice which is not entirely shocking. CGI was “the convenor,” she said, for a large job training program run by the AFT that Mrs. Clinton said “retrofit tens of thousands of people to do jobs.” She also praised the CGI’s “Job One” program for aiming at youth unemployment. Mrs. Clinton announced the program last June, which procured commitments from 16 businesses like Microsoft, J.P. Morgan and Gap to mentor, train and hire out-of-work youth.

Mrs. Clinton’s celebrity was almost dimmed for a minute by Compton Mayor Aja Brown, the youngest mayor in America,. Aformer urban planner, she gave a succinct recounting of how she’d hosted 50 gang members and coaxed them to make peace, dropping the city’s legendary crime rate by 40 percent, and shuttering rent-by-the-hour motels that are a den of underage prostitution.

After Brown spoke, Mrs. Clinton suggested the California mayor might be back in Washington holding higher office. “Mayor, don’t be surprised if you get a call. And maybe we will start not too far from here, in a beautiful domed building.”

“I love sessions like this,” Clinton said in her concluding statement. “It’s nice to get back into an evidence-based discussion about what works and to try to learn from examples that can teach us all a lot of lessons.” She mentioned, en passant, the need to end “unproductive discussions” in “ideological bunkers.”

With that, the participants and presumptive front running Democrat filed out of her liberal silo and back into the pigpen of American politics.

Citizens United files new lawsuit for Clinton records (Politico)

March 24, 2015

The conservative group Citizens United filed its second lawsuit in a little over a week Tuesday, heading to court to demand photos, videos and hotel bills of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s travels during her four years as America’s top diplomat.

The lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Washington (and posted here) complains that the State Department has taken no action for months on separate requests the advocacy group filed for all official photos of Clinton, all videos State made of her and for hotel invoices and other records relating to 10 foreign trips she took as secretary from 2010 through 2012.

A State Department spokesperson declined to comment on the newly-filed suit.

Last week, Citizens United filed suit seeking emails and other correspondence between top aides to Clinton and consulting firm Teneo, which was founded by one of President Bill Clinton’s top aides, as well as correspondence relating to the Clinton Foundation.

The conservative group was already suing State in yet another case over a failure to respond to a request for manifests of travelers on Clinton’s official trips. Earlier this month, a judge set deadlines for the agency to begin rolling disclosures of records responsive to that request, but she did not rule that any specific information must be disclosed.

Clinton, who’s expected to announce a presidential bid in the next couple of weeks, is currently enmeshed in a controversy about her decision to use only a private email account during her tenure as secretary. She said she did so for convenience, but the practice may have put thousands of emails beyond the reach of Freedom of Information Act requests.

In December, Clinton turned over 55,000 pages of emails from that account to the State Department at its request. State spokespeople have said the agency is processing those messages for release under FOIA rules. Officials have predicted that process will take several months but have not committed to a specific deadline.

Hillary Clinton Moved Her Head, According To Crack Campaign Reporters (Huffington Post)

By Jason Linkins

March 24, 2015

Huffington Post

Presumptive Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton was a featured guest Monday at the Center for American Progress’ “Expanding Opportunity in America’s Urban Areas” conference in Washington. According to the liberal think tank’s website, the event “[brought] together a small group of public, private, philanthropic, and nonprofit leaders to discuss challenges that our metropolitan regions face, as well as emerging solutions, laying the foundation for a vision of a thriving urban America that supports national prosperity.”

Clinton’s participation in the event offers a hint as to what her own economic policy priorities might be, and to whom she might turn for help in crafting a presidential platform. As Bloomberg’s Melinda Henneberger put it: “For the many progressives who wonder where exactly Clinton stands on a number of issues, including trade, Wall Street reform and how she’d address income inequality, inspiring the feeling that they are being heard as she’s still sketching out the policy particulars of her expected presidential run is no small thing.”

Except it was a small thing, at least to Henneberger, who used the better part of her word count to inform readers that Clinton successfully made gestures and said some things, including fairly uncontroversial remarks about how the middle class is good and kids should be able to go to school and stuff. Per Henneberger, Clinton “nodded vigorously” and “took copious notes” and did so “with great enthusiasm.” And like, you also had to listen to the notes she wasn’t playing: “In a way, the message [Clinton’s] body language sent was perfect: I’m here. I’m listening more than I’m talking. And I am even willing to go to school.”

Yes, in a way. In another way, there was this whole policy conversation going on about how to improve urban economies. Henneberger caught snatches of this conversation and arranged them in a pastiche. Here’s a taste:

When [Clinton] did speak on Monday, she talked about investing in infrastructure, including human infrastructure. Among the most pressing questions, she said, are, “What do we do to better equip our people to be able to take the jobs? And how do we keep middle-class families in cities where they want to stay? They don’t want to leave, but they’re being priced out.”

Several unconnected instances of Clinton dialogue follow. In a way, the message that Henneberg’s report sends is perfect: “I was here. I listened more than I talked. And I did the bare minimum to prove that to my credulous editor.”

Clinton’s remarks accounted for just a few minutes of the hourlong session, in which multiple politicians, advocates and policymakers offered their thoughts on how to address the (very important, and very daunting!) problems that face American cities. One of the more interesting points, and one that came up again and again, was that many of the assembled experts see urban economic renewal as something that begins at the local level -- something conceived among community stakeholders, municipal and regional governments, and private or philanthropic investors. In other words, Monday’s roundtable was no festival of top-down, let-the-federal-government-take-the-lead policy ideas. So one might wonder: How, exactly, would Hillary Clinton, or any other president, facilitate this sort of change from the Oval Office?

I mean, when I say “one” might wonder, it’s shorthand for “one substantively invested in a presidential election.” But probably what most people want out of their political coverage is an Instagram video of Hillary Clinton nodding her head. Good news, then, because that’s what The New York Times’ official Hillary Clinton chronicler, Amy Chozick, got out of the session.

If you’re into the whole “policy ideas that could affect people’s lives” side of this story, the Center for American Progress has listed a bunch here, along with links to other reports they’ve written that deal more specifically with things like lessening the burden of people with criminal records as they move back into the productive economy, facilitating the establishment of “anchor institutions” in underserved communities, clearing out some of the regulatory impediments to infrastructure construction and expanding access to credit among distressed consumers.

But, if you prefer, here once again is that crackerjack video of Clinton nodding, because with 21st-century political coverage, you are there.

Hillary Clinton seeks clean slate with press (Politico)

By Dylan Byers

March 24, 2015

Politico

Weeks after being dogged by accusations of secrecy, Hillary Clinton told journalists Monday that she wanted “a new relationship with the press.”

Speaking at a dinner in honor of veteran Washington Post correspondent Dan Balz, the all-but-certain presidential contender acknowledged that her “relationship with the press has been at times, shall we say, complicated.”

But Clinton said she was “all about new beginnings.... A new grandchild. A new hairstyle. A new email account. A new relationship with the press. No more secrecy, no more zone of privacy … After all what good did that do for me?”

Clinton has spent nearly three decades in the public eye, the great majority of which have been notably contentious. Her most recent dismissal of the media’s obsession with her private email account seemed to portend another antagonistic spell in Clinton-press relations.

In an appeal to journalists, Clinton praised Robin Toner, the former New York Times correspondent and namesake of the evening’s prize, saying we need “more Robin Toners” to “get us out of the echo chambers we all inhabit.”

“We need more than ever smart, fair-minded journalists,” she said.

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