Jenna Buzzacco-Foerster
Hillary Clinton is hoping to highlight her work on behalf of children in a new advertisement.
The 30-second spot called “Kayla” — is part of a previously announced eight-figure, six-week television buy, according to the Democrat’s campaign. The advertisement began airing Saturday in eight states, including Florida.
The ad features the mother of a young girl who was diagnosed with two chronic illnesses at 9 years old. The mother, Amanda Strine, explains how her family used the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) to provide coverage for her daughter.
CHIP was created in 1997. According to the Clinton campaign, the uninsured rate for children was cut from about 14 percent to 5 percent between 1997 and 2014.
“When Hillary Clinton was first lady she was instrumental in passing the Children’s Health Insurance Program, and because she did, Kayla and millions of other kids have coverage,” says Strine in the advertisement. “That’s what Hillary Clinton did, and that tells you a lot about the kind of president she’ll be.”
In addition to Florida, the ad will air in Colorado, Iowa, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Ohio and Virginia.
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Hip2BSquare
June 27, 2016 at 7:07 pm
“The problem with Clinton’s claims, however, is that she betrayed children as First Lady. Under the guise of welfare reform, the Clinton administration worked with Republicans to gut social services, ignoring their own senior officials’ warnings that, by doing so, they would be plunging over a million children into poverty. Bill Clinton ran in 1992 on the campaign promise to “end welfare as we know it.” In 1996, he – with the wholehearted support of Hillary – succeeded, passing the personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act (PRWORA).” http://www.salon.com/2015/10/15/the_worst_thing_hillary_clinton_has_ever_done/
AMY GOODMAN: “Marian Wright Edelman, we just heard Hillary Rodham Clinton. She used to be the head of the board of the Children’s Defense Fund, of the organization that you founded. But you were extremely critical of the Clintons. I mean, when President Clinton signed off on the, well, so-called welfare reform bill, you said, “His signature on this pernicious bill makes a mockery of his pledge not to hurt children.” So what are your hopes right now for these Democrats? And what are your thoughts about Hillary Rodham Clinton?”
MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN: “Well, you know, Hillary Clinton is an old friend, but they are not friends in politics. We have to build a constituency, and you don’t—and we profoundly disagreed with the forms of the welfare reform bill, and we said so. And yet, you know, many years after that, when many people are pronouncing welfare reform a great success, you know, we’ve got growing child poverty, we have more children in poverty and in extreme poverty over the last six years than we had earlier in the year. Well, the poor are suffering, the gap between rich and poor widening. We have what I consider one of—a growing national catastrophe of what we call the cradle-to-prison pipeline.
That is a staggering indictment, from the woman Hillary Clinton regularly mentions as her mentor, of a gap between Hillary Clinton’s words and her record. It reflects upon a political decision that she and Bill made to leave many children behind in order to ensure a second term. (The “Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act,” as it was cynically called, was signed in August of 1996, just about three months before the ’96 presidential election.) More: http://www.truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/how-hillary-clinton-betrayed-the-childrens-defense-fund-for-political-gain
“The White House wasn’t for it. We really roughed them up” in trying to get it approved over the Clinton administration’s objections, Hatch said in an interview. “She may have done some advocacy [privately] over at the White House, but I’m not aware of it.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2016/06/20/clintons-claim-of-working-with-democrats-and-republicans-to-create-a-child-health-program/?tid=a_inl
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