Speaking of compromising votes, what about the Headlines in 'The Hill' July 16, 2007: BLACK BUSINESS GROUP BLASTS CLINTON'S STANCE
By Jeffrey Young
July 13, 2007
A group of black business owners strongly criticized Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) Friday for her position on funding for federal HIV/AIDS programs. In a statement issued Friday and a letter sent to Clinton's presidential campaign-and copied to Sen. Barack Obama's (D-Ill.) campaign-Nation Black Chamber of Commerce President and Chief Executive Harry Alford accused Clinton of "pandering" to African Americans during the presidential debate at Howard University in Washington last month. During the event at the historically black university, Clinton called for stronger measures to prevent and treat HIV/AIDS in the blck community and vowed to boost funding for programs that provide care to low-income patients under the Ryan White CARE Act. "I'm working to raise the budget for Ryan White, which the Bush administration has kep flat, disgracefully so, because there are a lot of women particularly who are becoming infected in poor rural areas as well as under-served urban areas in states where, frankly, their state governments won't give them medical care, "Clinton said. Clinton's statements are at odds with her Senate record, Alford wrote. "I found it interesting that you chose a presidential debate, held before a largely African-American audience to speak out on the fact that HIV/AIDS funding does not fairly reach African Americans with HIV. I only wish you had voted the same way last year in the United State Senate, when we really needed you, "Alford wrote.
Speaking of compromising votes, what about the Headlines in 'The Hill' July 16, 2007: BLACK BUSINESS GROUP BLASTS CLINTON'S STANCE
By Jeffrey Young
July 13, 2007
A group of black business owners strongly criticized Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) Friday for her position on funding for federal HIV/AIDS programs. In a statement issued Friday and a letter sent to Clinton's presidential campaign-and copied to Sen. Barack Obama's (D-Ill.) campaign-Nation Black Chamber of Commerce President and Chief Executive Harry Alford accused Clinton of "pandering" to African Americans during the presidential debate at Howard University in Washington last month. During the event at the historically black university, Clinton called for stronger measures to prevent and treat HIV/AIDS in the blck community and vowed to boost funding for programs that provide care to low-income patients under the Ryan White CARE Act. "I'm working to raise the budget for Ryan White, which the Bush administration has kep flat, disgracefully so, because there are a lot of women particularly who are becoming infected in poor rural areas as well as under-served urban areas in states where, frankly, their state governments won't give them medical care, "Clinton said. Clinton's statements are at odds with her Senate record, Alford wrote. "I found it interesting that you chose a presidential debate, held before a largely African-American audience to speak out on the fact that HIV/AIDS funding does not fairly reach African Americans with HIV. I only wish you had voted the same way last year in the United State Senate, when we really needed you, "Alford wrote.