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Clinton TV ad tells voters she's listening

Democrat to kick off canvassing effort targeting Hispanics in Southern Nevada




Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton on Friday unveiled a new television ad that will run in Nevada and South Carolina.

The 30-second ad, "Listen," is taken from her victory speech in New Hampshire last week, in which she said, "Over the last week, I listened to you, and in the process I found my own voice."


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  • Clinton returns to Las Vegas today for a 9:30 a.m. kickoff of a canvassing effort targeting Hispanic voters. Clinton will appear at the Sheet Metal Workers Hall for the event titled, "Juntos Con Hillary, Una Vida Mejor" -- together with Hillary, a better life.

    At 1 p.m., Clinton is scheduled to be in Reno for a discussion of housing foreclosures at a Mexican restaurant. High-profile Clinton surrogates are blanketing the state over the weekend, including former Ambassador Joe Wilson and his wife, former CIA agent Valerie Plame; Clinton's campaign chairman, Terry McAuliffe; and a crew of big-name Hispanic politicos including former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Henry Cisneros and Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa.

    As rival Barack Obama campaigned in Las Vegas on Friday, Clinton's supporters in Nevada held a conference call trying to make the case that Obama is a hypocrite for accepting the endorsement of the Culinary union when he had made negative statements about the gaming industry in Illinois.

    Former gaming executive Phil Satre and current Harrah's executive Jan Jones criticized statements Obama made saying he didn't think gaming was a good revenue base for government or a good economic development tool, and that he thought it could have deleterious effects on communities.

    Satre, Jones and former Nevada Gov. Bob Miller said Obama's views reflected a failure to understand an industry important to the Nevada economy and increasingly important nationwide.

    An Obama spokeswoman in Nevada said Clinton's supporters were "again distorting Barack Obama's record."

    Shannon Gilson noted that Obama has always said gaming should be regulated by the states and made the statements in question while a state senator in Illinois.

    "Obama has said that Nevada is a model for how states should regulate the gaming industry, and he applauds the success of the state in harnessing gaming as an engine of economic growth while cracking down on illegal activities," Gilson said. "He has made it clear that he believes there are potential moral and social costs to gambling if it's not properly regulated."

    Clinton also was endorsed recently by state Sen. Bob Coffin, D-Las Vegas, previously a supporter of Sen. Joe Biden, who quit the race after Iowa.

    After Biden departed, Coffin told the Review-Journal he wouldn't endorse another candidate. But after Clinton won in New Hampshire this week, Coffin said, he was on board with her because he believed in her readiness to lead the country.

    Contact reporter Molly Ball at mball@reviewjournal.com or (702) 387-2919.

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    GOD wrote on January 12, 2008 06:14 PM: Tim -- Most Hilary supporters can't read english... the tinfoil on their head gets in the way too... plus prison and drugs blurs their vision.


    tim wrote on January 12, 2008 03:16 PM: david can you not read? look below,i said either party that includes bush.interesting is why you cant read.


    Tom, Burbank wrote on January 12, 2008 03:14 PM: Listen to this, Shrillary: I'm an English-speaking American. Stop pandering. No amnesty. Walk through my neighborhood sometime and knock on my door; I'll give you an earful you won't need an interpeter to understand. Why are you hanging out with the degenerate Mayor of Lost Angeles (R.I.P.)? Is it because his philandering ways remind you of your business partner, er, I mean, husband? This divisive ethno-campaigning is saddening in the long term. If you want to find out what ordinary real Americans think, walk down the Strip while you're in Las Vegas.


    David Johann wrote on January 12, 2008 01:29 PM: "tim" asked "why is it that all the dems want to pander to illegals?"

    We see that "tim" did not ask the same question about the cons, including the Spanish speaking, neo-con Bush.

    Interesting.


    tim wrote on January 12, 2008 11:07 AM: david johann, i could care less why bush learned spanish. pandering to illegals by either party stinks, we are a nation of laws how is it one can condone the illegal invasion and yet expect no outrage is beyond me. how about we just obey the laws we feel like obaying,seems to work for some 12 million lawbreakers. more than 80 percent of americans agree this has to stop,legitimizing them doesnt change the fact.


    David Johann wrote on January 12, 2008 10:28 AM: "tim" wrote: "why is it that all the dems want to pander to illegals?"

    I don't know, "tim." Why is it that George W. Bush learned to speak Spanish?

    ''He doesn't try very hard to get the pronunciation the way native speakers speak,'' said Otto Santa Ana, a Chicano studies professor at the University of California with a doctorate in linguistics. ''But Latinos were very encouraged by him. Here is the president of the United States speaking Spanish, however haltingly. He's simply legitimizing what is so obvious to us that people cheer him. And they cheer him because he's acknowledging them as Americans.''

    http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9805E2DE133AF930A35755C0A9649C8B63


    David Johann wrote on January 12, 2008 10:23 AM: TMC wrote: " the Clintons surround themselves with the ethically challenged. . ."

    Let's have some fun and compare Bill Clinton's administration with that of the right wing darling, Ronald Wilson Reagan:

    Number of Clinton officials indicted or convicted in Whitewater, Travel Office, FBI files, Monica Lewinsky, Bruce Babbit, Michael Espy investigations: 0
    (Assistant Attorney-General Webster Hubbell was convicted of embezzlement, a crime he committed before joining Clinton Administration).

    Number of Reagan administration era convictions in the Iran-contra scandal: 14 (two overturned on appeal).
    Number of Reagan officials convicted for illegal lobbying: 2 (Michael Deaver; Lyn Nofziger, overturned on appeal).
    Number of Reagan officials convicted in Housing and Urban Development scandal: 16.

    Total number Reagan era convictions: 32 (29 if we subtract the 3 overturned cases).

    In addition, Bush-I [Reagan's vice-president who later became president] pardoned Reagan's Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger, indicted on 5 charges.

    Moreover, the record of actual convictions doesn't tell the whole story. Over 30 additional Reagan appointees resigned or were fired following charges of legal or ethical misconduct, including Secretary of Interior James Watt, Secretary of Interior Raymond Donovan, CIA Director William Casey and EPA Administrator Anne Burford. Many dozens more were investigated.

    http://www.geocities.com/thereaganyears/sleazefactor.htm


    Rogelio P. Viado wrote on January 12, 2008 10:20 AM: If Hillary Clinton or pro-amnesty politicians, Republicans, Democracts,
    or Independent, get elected president,
    illegals will get amnestied and people
    all over the world will rush to cross
    our borders because they will get amnestied. USA as a sovereign country
    will cease to exist.

    My fellow electors/U.S. citizens, please wake up. Don't be a Rip Van
    Winkle.


    GOD wrote on January 12, 2008 10:19 AM: HILLARY --- IF YOU ARE LISTENING --- GO AWAY AND CRAWL BACK UNDER THE BRIDGE YOU CAME FROM YOU UGLY TROLL!!!


    David Johann wrote on January 12, 2008 10:15 AM: "tim" wrote: "why is it that all the dems want to pander to illegals?"

    I don't know, "tim." Why is it that George W. Bush learned to speak Spanish?

    ''He doesn't try very hard to get the pronunciation the way native speakers speak,'' said Otto Santa Ana, a Chicano studies professor at the University of California with a doctorate in linguistics. ''But Latinos were very encouraged by him. Here is the president of the United States speaking Spanish, however haltingly. He's simply legitimizing what is so obvious to us that people cheer him. And they cheer him because he's acknowledging them as Americans.''

    http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9805E2DE133AF930A35755C0A9649C8B63


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