Hillary for America

"Came Through" +

0:60 ad announced March 7, 2016 run in MI.

Radio

[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.

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