[OFFICIAL] Kristen Gillibrand for President thread

Gillibrand loves NASCAR, who knew?

In Iowa, Gillibrand Uses Small-Town Roots to Sell Electability


Senator Kirsten Gillibrand on Saturday visited The Livery Deli in Boone, Iowa, a town of about 12,500 people. In the early days of her presidential campaign, she has emphasized her familiarity with rural America.CreditCreditRachel Mummey for The New York Times
By Shane Goldmacher
Jan. 19, 2019

BOONE, Iowa — Senator Kirsten Gillibrand represents one of the biggest and bluest states in America, anchored by the nation’s largest urban metropolis. But as she made her way across snowy Iowa during her first visit as a presidential candidate, Ms. Gillibrand put far more emphasis on her upstate New York roots, bipartisanship and small-town political ancestry.

She talked about her love of RVs and her family vacation last summer to see a Nascar race — and suggested she could make an RV trip in Iowa this year. She spoke of her faith and finding common ground with Republicans. And she harked back repeatedly to her first run for Congress, in 2006, when she ousted a Republican incumbent in a seat that her pollster warned she couldn’t win because there were “more cows than Democrats.”

“I grew up in upstate New York, a community not unlike this one,” Ms. Gillibrand said as she introduced herself at a house party in Sioux City on Friday evening. Of her first race, she said, “It was a two-to-one Republican district, a lot like the district we’re in today.”

The next morning, inside a cafe in Boone, she told the dozen or so people there: “I really appreciate being in a rural place. I’m from a rural place. I grew up in a rural place. I represented a rural place for Congress.”

At a political moment when many Democratic voters are desperate to find a winner who can beat President Trump, Ms. Gillibrand’s emphasis on her past representing a conservative House seat seemed an effort to ensure she is not pigeonholed as just another blue-state Democrat, or someone who does not understand rural America.
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more at the link

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https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/19/...html?action=click&module=News&pgtype=Homepage

 

well that's inconvenient

 

Ethics complaint filed against Gillibrand for tweeting a fundraising appeal during the State of the Union address:

The Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust (FACT), a non-partisan ethics watchdog group, filed a complaint with the Senate Select Committee on Ethics on Monday against Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY). At issue is the senator's using "footage of herself on the House floor during the President’s State of the Union address to improperly solicit campaign donations," the group explained in a new statement.

During Trump's second State of the Union speech last Tuesday, Gillibrand's Twitter account posted a message asking followers to “chip in $5 so we can put an end to this.” It included official House video footage of a joint session of the United States Congress. FACT cited federal law and Senate ethics rules that both prohibit the use of taxpayer-funded resources that cannot be used for campaign or other political purposes to include “broadcast coverage and recordings of the House floor proceedings.”​

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/cortn...s-ethics-investigation-of-gillibrand-n2541171

 

I guess this puts one small check mark in the Gillibrand column

https://theweek.com/speedreads/8259...ary-clinton-are-reportedly-not-speaking-terms

 

you know your campaign is in trouble when you accuse Rachel Maddow of echoing Republican talking points.

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D., N.Y.) dismissed liberal MSNBC host Rachel Maddow and other media members's coverage of her prior conservative views, rejecting their characterization in an interview published Wednesday as 'talking points from the Republican Party.'"​

https://freebeacon.com/politics/gil...epublican-party-when-she-detailed-flip-flops/

 

this is big

 

"Gillibrand is first 2020 candidate to offer written pledge never to seek, accept or weaponize stolen or hacked information from foreign adversaries, like Russia"

"like Russia"?? "like" is for comparisons, whereas "such as" grammatically signifies inclusion. Is she implying she'll accept hacked information from Russia?