Pulitzer Prize winning Las Vegas Sun’s editorial board has endorsed Hillary Clinton (read here)
Some reasons why
On National Security
Our next president must wield a command of the world stage and all its dynamic, shifting intricacies……
… In Clinton we also have a savvy stateswoman with an established understanding of world affairs and building allegiances. She is widely applauded for shaping and executing — with the support of Russia, China and the European Union — economic sanctions against Iran that crippled the nation and were used as leverage to bring Iran to the negotiating table. Clinton’s diplomacy also dissuaded Hamas from firing rockets into Israel. While Clinton was traveling to 112 countries, her campaign for gender equality has been woven into our foreign-policy mission.
Oh Health Care
We prefer the pragmatism embraced by Clinton: to further develop the foundation of Obamacare that already is law. It has extended the security of health insurance to 17.6 million Americans and brought down to 10 percent the number of Americans without insurance, thanks in part to the law’s requirement that everyone be allowed coverage no matter what their pre-existing conditions might be. Honing the law is more achievable than starting anew with a plan that would be dead on arrival on Capitol Hill.
Clinton is no newcomer to the plight of the uninsured. As first lady, she played a crucial early, inside role in shaping and winning bipartisan support for the State Children’s Health Insurance Program, which delivers health care to millions of children.
On Gun Control
Our society has gone irrationally bonkers for personal weapons. It makes no sense, the amount of killing power we keep in our homes, too often within easy reach of those who need only the slightest nudge to commit suicide.
For her part, Clinton supports comprehensive background checks, closing loopholes in purchasing weapons at gun shows and online, keeping weapons away from domestic abusers and those with serious mental health issues, and banning people on no-fly lists from acquiring weapons. None of these regulatory measures would violate the Second Amendment.
As an aside, the grassroots organization, Newton Action Alliance endorsed Hillary Clinton on 2/5/2016. I did a diary on it, but this was when dailyKos was having issues with rec’s and comments. It did, however, cause over 4500 shares on Facebook.
On the Economy
On every front, Clinton seeks more measured, realistic approaches to effectively keep Wall Street reined in.
Shifting to Main Street, we applaud Clinton’s efforts for working Americans, especially in addressing labor law and leveling the playing field for female workers as well as advocating for child care, paid sick leave and improved hourly wages — especially for tip workers in low-wage jobs.
On Vision
Clinton comes from a generation that fought the really tough fights — for civil rights, for women’s rights, for reliable health care, for protection of workers, for the frail environment, for a safer world. To suggest in any manner that Clinton lacks vision is to fall prey to disingenuous campaign rhetoric. She has always clung to a vision of a better America when those beliefs could cost a person dearly.
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Clinton, though, has a history of achievements and moving our country forward through coalition-building. She understands, too — having done this as a senator and secretary of state — the necessity of compromise or deferring on some parts of a vision in order to achieve the larger ones.
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Ours is a complex world brimming with challenges and opportunities. It is crucial that our next president not only bring vision and leadership to the job, but the experience of dealing with Congress on the home front and world leaders abroad.
Only one candidate among Democratic and Republican candidates alike can claim that experience. We confidently endorse Hillary Clinton as the Democratic nominee for president.