![]() ![]() Two days after Meena Harris first tweet and the backlash that ensued, the 36-year-old activist has defended her support for the farmers. She happens to be the niece of the ‘second most powerful person’ in the world, the Vice-President of the United States, Kamala Devi Harris. Yet, she seemed to have rattled supporters of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi who thought it fit to burn her poster after she tweeted support for protesting Indian farmers and decried Indian government’s “assault” on democracy. She is not even a celebrity in a conventional sense. I'm two years behind on Mad Men.She is not an elected official. This tweet foreshadowed a spate of media stories sizing up Clinton's leftward shift on a range of policy matters, and which the Washington Post summed up two weeks later by noting she's running as "the most liberal Democratic presidential front-runner in decades." My favorite campaign read of the day! Hillary: No Need to Prove She’s a Populist O'Leary's tweet cites a New York Times story about how this "small if vocal movement" is active in New York, Colorado and New Jersey - and although it doesn't imply an answer, it does suggest the Clinton campaign is searching for a fix. Here's a growing education-themed controversy that's spreading across the country - parents pulling their kids out of standardized testing. ‘Opt Out’ Becomes Anti-Test Rallying Cry in New York State It posted just as House Republicans were advancing an amendment to discourage so-called 'Dreamers' from enlisting.Ĭlinton herself has embraced legalizing same sex-marriage, and her policy aides keep reinforcing that message with posts like this response to Ireland's historic vote Saturday. ![]() Harris was just itching for a fight with this tweet, which linked to a Huffington Post story about Clinton's support for young and undocumented immigrants who want to serve in the military. If DREAMers want to serve in the military, they should be honored and celebrated, not discriminated against. This O'Leary tweet - she lives in Oakland - linked to a story by The New York Times showing how Americans are contributing to the drought thanks to their insatiable appetite for food produced in California's heavily irrigated fields. Water management doesn't normally exactly scream out as a top question for a presidential debate, but this year it's different: the Western drought looms over the 2016 race, like forcing difficult tradeoffs between industrial farming and households. Shorter showers I can do, but I may have to go drastic & give up almonds: Your Contribution to the California Drought Here, she trumpets a New York Times story that featured the success of an Orlando millionaire's two-plus decade effort funding free day care and pre-kindergarten programs in central Florida. O'Leary's wheelhouse for decades has been work-family issues It's what she specialized in at the left-leaning Center for American Progress and on the Obama-Biden transition team. Love the connection here between early ed & higher ed: One Man’s Millions Turn a Community in Florida Around Here are some recent highlights (note, Clinton's third primary policy adviser, Jake Sullivan, doesn't tweet - at least under a verified personal handle): īut there's another way to answer the question, or at least game it a little: Twitter.Ĭlinton campaign senior policy advisers Maya Harris and Ann O'Leary are both avid tweeters, and though they steer away from making obvious headlines - mainly sharing short personal notes and links to friendly media reports - their 140-characters-or-less messages occasionally open a window into the campaign's thinking on everything from same-sex marriage to immigration. Reporters desperate for answers are scavenging everything from the Democrat's roundtables to her rare media scrum for hints of a stance on free trade or the Keystone pipeline. The question has been swirling around her highly controlled campaign since before it launched, and was even splashed across a recent cover of the Economist. ![]()
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