Post by cjm on Oct 29, 2016 19:29:46 GMT
Clinton mentions little about longest held job: corporate lawyer
Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton has campaigned on a largely populist message about helping the underclass in which she and surrogates frequently refer to her post-law school job working for the Children’s Defense Fund.
However, Clinton later worked for 15 years as a corporate litigator at the Rose Law Firm in Arkansas’s capital, longer than any other position in or out of government
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One of her first assignments as a corporate lawyer, in fact, landed her far from her roots. She helped overturn a ballot measure that increased electric rates for businesses and lowered them for the poor, according to The Wall Street Journal.
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Clinton has touted her work at the Children’s Defense Fund from the early stages of campaign in June 2015, to her nomination acceptance speech this summer at the Democratic National Convention, through her second 2016 president debate, against Republican nominee Donald Trump.
“You know, right out of law school I went to work for the Children's Defense Fund,” Clinton said in the Oct. 10 debate. “I started off as a young lawyer working against discrimination against African-American children in schools and in the criminal justice system. I worked to make sure that kids with disabilities could get a public education, something that I care very much about.”
Yet Clinton’s work later at the Rose law firm -- from the mid-1970s through the 1980s while husband Bill Clinton was Arkansas’ attorney general and governor -- is hardly ever mentioned on the campaign trail.
Bill Clinton, also a former U.S. president, at the Democratic convention mentioned his wife’s work at the defense fund but skipped past her Rose tenure.
And until August, that part of Hillary Clinton’s career wasn’t even mentioned on her campaign’s official biography, according to The Journal.
It illustrates a pattern apparent through Clinton’s career and into this year’s presidential campaign: She emphasizes different roles for different audiences.
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Clinton’s years at the firm included some controversy.
For one, the roots of the Whitewater affair reach back to her years at Rose when her husband was serving as governor.
The firm and Mrs. Clinton represented a failed savings-and-loan association run by James McDougal, the Clintons’ partner in the Whitewater real-estate investment, in a matter before state regulators. Whitewater dogged the Clintons throughout Bill Clinton’s presidency, though neither of them was ever charged.
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Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton has campaigned on a largely populist message about helping the underclass in which she and surrogates frequently refer to her post-law school job working for the Children’s Defense Fund.
However, Clinton later worked for 15 years as a corporate litigator at the Rose Law Firm in Arkansas’s capital, longer than any other position in or out of government
...
One of her first assignments as a corporate lawyer, in fact, landed her far from her roots. She helped overturn a ballot measure that increased electric rates for businesses and lowered them for the poor, according to The Wall Street Journal.
...
Clinton has touted her work at the Children’s Defense Fund from the early stages of campaign in June 2015, to her nomination acceptance speech this summer at the Democratic National Convention, through her second 2016 president debate, against Republican nominee Donald Trump.
“You know, right out of law school I went to work for the Children's Defense Fund,” Clinton said in the Oct. 10 debate. “I started off as a young lawyer working against discrimination against African-American children in schools and in the criminal justice system. I worked to make sure that kids with disabilities could get a public education, something that I care very much about.”
Yet Clinton’s work later at the Rose law firm -- from the mid-1970s through the 1980s while husband Bill Clinton was Arkansas’ attorney general and governor -- is hardly ever mentioned on the campaign trail.
Bill Clinton, also a former U.S. president, at the Democratic convention mentioned his wife’s work at the defense fund but skipped past her Rose tenure.
And until August, that part of Hillary Clinton’s career wasn’t even mentioned on her campaign’s official biography, according to The Journal.
It illustrates a pattern apparent through Clinton’s career and into this year’s presidential campaign: She emphasizes different roles for different audiences.
...
Clinton’s years at the firm included some controversy.
For one, the roots of the Whitewater affair reach back to her years at Rose when her husband was serving as governor.
The firm and Mrs. Clinton represented a failed savings-and-loan association run by James McDougal, the Clintons’ partner in the Whitewater real-estate investment, in a matter before state regulators. Whitewater dogged the Clintons throughout Bill Clinton’s presidency, though neither of them was ever charged.
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