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0:60 ad announced March 7, 2016 run in MI.
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[Music]
Male Announcer: It
wasn’t long ago. The auto industry was on the verge of
collapse. Major
American companies about to be liquidated. Millions of jobs
at
risk. Michigan's economy teetering.
America’s auto companies
asked
for help. And President Obama came though.
Now in Sunday’s debate we learn only one candidate for president supported him. Hillary Clinton.
Hillary
Clinton: When it came down to it, you were either for
saving the auto
industry or you were against it. I voted to save the auto
industry.
Male Announcer:
And she was right. Today the auto industry is thriving and
millions of
people have jobs who could have lost them, jobs in manufacturing,
technology, jobs up and down the supply chain.
On Tuesday, March 8th, vote for the one candidate who stood up for the auto industry and came through for Michigan when it really mattered. Hillary Clinton.
Hillary Clinton:
I'm
Hillary
Clinton,
candidate for president, and I approve this message.
Male Announcer: Paid for by Hillary for America.
Notes: The March 7
press release...
New Michigan Radio Ad on Key
Debate Moment: Hillary Clinton Only
Candidate to Support Auto Rescue
DETROIT, MI – Hillary for America today began
airing
a new radio ad in Michigan, “Came
Through,” highlighting that Hillary Clinton is the only
candidate who voted to fund the rescue of the auto industry. The
ad features Clinton in a key moment of the debate last night saying,
“When it came down to it, you were either for saving the auto industry
or you were against it. … I voted to save the auto
industry.” Senator Sanders opposed the measure.
The
ad refers to President-elect Obama's call to Congress in January
2009
to approve the release of funding to help stabilize the economy and,
among other things, rescue the failing automotive industry. While
Clinton supported the measure, Senator Sanders voted to block the funds.
Michigan Senators Stabenow and Levin both argued on behalf
of the funding specifically because of its impact on the auto
industry.
After the debate, the Detroit Free Press wrote:
"In short, a Senator or congressman could not vote to rescue GM and
Chrysler without voting to provide the money to keep the nation's
largest investment banks from failing. Sen. Clinton voted yes. Sen.
Sanders voted no."
In addition after the debate, Michigan Senator Debbie
Stabenow
highlighted the differences in the records of the two candidates on MSNBC saying,
“It was very clear that in order to do what we needed to do for the
auto industry, we had to have that pass and so she's absolutely right
and she was there with us every step of the way. In fact, I co-chaired
the bipartisan manufacturing caucus, and Hillary was one of the very
first members when we formed that caucus, because she really
understood, and really understands today the fundamental nature of
making things in America. We don't have a middle class unless we make
things. When the choice was there, she voted with us and he did not.”
Listen to the ad HERE.
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The Sanders campaign rejected Clinton's "dishonest
distortion of his record."
March 7, 2016
Contact: Michael Briggs
Clinton’s
Claims on Auto Industry ‘Not True’
KALAMAZOO, Mich. – One day before Michigan Democrats go to
the
polls,
Bernie Sanders on Monday campaigned for president in Michigan and set
the record straight on Hillary Clinton’s dishonest distortion of his
record on an automobile industry rescue package.
Clinton, who has struggled to downplay her support for
job-killing
trade deals, used a Sunday night debate in Flint, Michigan, to
disingenuously mischaracterize Sanders record on the auto
industry. In
fact, Sanders voted for the carmaker bailout. He supported a
$14 billion aid package which passed the House on Dec. 10, 2008.
When
that bill ran into a Senate Republican roadblock, the White House
turned to a separate Wall Street bailout fund for loans to the auto
industry.
In an interview on Monday with WOOD-TV, Sanders called
Clinton's
claim
“not true” and said it was part of a "disingenuous" attempt to deflect
attention from her trade record. “It is absolutely untrue to say I
voted against helping the automobile industry and workers," Sanders
told the Grand Rapids, Michigan, television station.
During a rally at a hockey rink here in Kalamazoo, Sanders
also
spoke
to more than 3,200 supporters about Clinton’s record on trade and his
support for workers in the auto industry. “She has supported virtually
every one of these disastrous trade agreements which have wreaked
havoc,” Sanders told the rally. The North American Free Trade Agreement
and other business-backed trade deals contributed to the loss of more
than 230,000 manufacturing jobs in Michigan since 1994.
To deflect attention from her own record, Sanders said,
Clinton
“went
out of her way to mischaracterize” his record of support for auto
workers. “There was one vote in the United States Senate to support the
automobile industry and, of course, I voted for it. To say otherwise is
simply not telling the truth,” he said. “I understand that Secretary
Clinton wants to deflect attention away from her record supporting
trade agreements like NAFTA and normal trade relations with China but
she shouldn’t do that by mischaracterizing my record. What I did not
vote for is the bailout of the crooks on Wall Street whose illegal
behavior and greed brought this economy into the worst downturn since
the 1930s.”
Before the debate in Flint, Michigan, Sanders on Sunday met
in
Detroit
with Dennis Williams, the United Auto Workers union president. In a
statement afterward, Sanders said: “I met with UAW President Dennis
Williams and we discussed the many bad trade deals that have decimated
the manufacturing industry here in Michigan. In particular, we talked
about what the UAW now considers a mistake — the Korea trade deal that
cost tens of thousands of jobs – a trade agreement that Secretary
Clinton worked to negotiate and, as president, I would work to
re-negotiate.”
After the Kalamazoo rally, Sanders was headed to campaign
stops in
Dearborn, Detroit and Ann Arbor in advance of Tuesday’s primary
election in Michigan. Over the weekend, Sanders notched three,
double-digit wins in caucuses in Maine, Nebraska and Kansas.
To read more on Sanders' record of supporting the auto bailout, click here.