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Clinton makes Push for Hispanic
Support in Nevada
LAS
VEGAS (By Michael Martinez, Chicago
Tribune) January 14, 2008 —
Democratic presidential candidate
Hillary Clinton rallied Latino
voters and leaders Saturday and
sought to make a dent in the union
endorsements that so far have
heavily favored her rival Barack
Obama.
Clinton and several Latino leaders
chose the headquarters of the Sheet
Metal Workers Local 88 to say she
understands the growing Hispanic
community's political needs. Obama
is scheduled to announce Sunday his
lineup of supporting Latino leaders
in California.
"She can make it happen. We can make
it happen. You can make it happen.
That's the difference in this
election," said Henry Cisneros, a
former Cabinet member for President
Bill Clinton, Sen. Clinton's
husband. "Adelante, Hillary
Clinton!" he added, urging her
"forward" in Spanish.
In appealing to Hispanics, Clinton,
of New York, pledged improvements in
education and health care and added
that she would seek relief for
homeowners at risk of losing their
residences in what she labeled the
nation's mortgage crisis.
"You're the fastest growing state
but you're also the highest
foreclosure rate," Clinton said to
about 200 Nevada supporters and
precinct captains.
Some participants later visited Las
Vegas neighborhoods to encourage
voters to attend the state's
caucuses Saturday.
In one example of how Clinton and
Obama are battling in Nevada, one
Clinton canvasser, Irma Miller, was
working in a North Las Vegas
neighborhood when she happened upon
a house where two Obama volunteers
were already inside.
"The lady answered the door and
said, 'Oh, Hillary, Hillary! I'm
going to vote for her.' There were
two Obama people inside and they got
up and left," Miller, 67, a retired
travel agent, recounted to a
reporter following her and other
volunteers, who confirmed the
account.
Later, another voter approached by
the canvassers, Rosa Montes, said
she would vote for Clinton, but
Montes added that she was impressed
by the thousands of Obama supporters
who turned out the night before at
Del Sol High School.
"The place was packed. I saw all
kinds of people, Hispanic, Asian,
white. I thought it would just be
African-American people," said
Montes, who's Puerto Rican. "I think
it's going to be close."
More than 1,000 people were unable
Friday night to enter the school
gym, which was filled with more than
2,000 people. "We're in a defining
moment of our history. Our nation is
at war, our planet is at peril. This
is our chance," Obama said.
Elsewhere, Obama, of Illinois, is
promising health-care reform in an
ad running in Arizona that's notable
for being his first in a state
participating in "Tsunami Tuesday,"
when more than 20 states will hold
primaries or caucuses.
Meanwhile, Rep. James Clyburn (D-S.C.),
the highest-ranking African-American
in Congress, whose state will hold a
Democratic primary later this month,
issued a written statement
expressing displeasure with the
Clintons over comments they have
made about the importance of Martin
Luther King Jr.'s civil rights
movement and Obama's candidacy. In
Reno on Saturday, Clinton faulted
Obama's campaign for twisting her
comments about King.
Clinton was scheduled late Saturday
to fly to South Carolina, where
rival John Edwards has been
campaigning since Wednesday.
"Nobody has to tell me what's
happening in South Carolina. I don't
jet in here and hold a political
event and go back somewhere else.
I'm not from Chicago or New York.
I'm from South Carolina," Edwards
said after a town hall meeting
Saturday in Barnwell, S.C.
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