Reality Check: “Working families like mine don't give a damn about Hillary's emails” [View all]

Peter Daou ‏@peterdaou 42m42 minutes ago
Worth the time to read these moving stories:



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Reality Check: “Working families like mine don't give a damn about Hillary's emails”
September 25, 2015
ANALYSIS

By Peter Daou and Tom Watson

While the media and commentariat assail Hillary Clinton’s character by seizing on abstruse details of email servers and classification disputes, there are millions of Americans who don’t give a damn about her emails and who worry about paying their bills and caring for their families. Millions of those Americans love and support Hillary.

Following are three stories from among millions that illustrate how Hillary inspires her supporters.

First, self-described Hillary Man Fergal Murphy, who sent us this moving letter:

Working families like mine don't give a damn about Hillary Clinton’s emails. We're struggling to get by. My wife lost her job with a non-profit last month when their grant funding dried up. I bust my back 40+ hours a week at a lumber yard. We’re getting by on one paycheck and we have a mortgage to pay and kids to feed. I want to hear about the ISSUES – plans to create good paying jobs with health benefits. Paid leave. Work schedules I can rely upon.

My 14 year old daughter is a great writer - clever - creative - but we have zero $$ saved for her and my son's education.

I have a bright, sweet 12 year old son who was born with developmental delays – he didn’t sit up until he was 13 months old or walk until he was 2. By the time he was 18 months old he was getting help from physical and speech therapists, and he got 3 years of special ed preschool.

There was a time when my sweet son would never have gotten a proper education. Now he’s in 7th grade and making honor roll. He’ll earn his high school diploma, maybe even go to college some day because Hillary fought to pass laws that required schools to accommodate his special needs. Thanks to Hillary, he got the early intervention that was so vital to his early development. ................