Correct The Record Monday October 13, 2014 Roundup

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*​**Correct The Record Monday October 13, 2014 Roundup:* *Headlines:* *Lexington Herald-Leader: “Rand Paul predicts 'big' Republican wave in November elections” <http://www.kentucky.com/2014/10/11/3475827_rand-paul-predicts-big-republican.html?rh=1>* “Mary Rutherford Jennings, a spokeswoman for the pro-Hillary Clinton super PAC Correct the Record, said Saturday that ‘the only one who's fooled himself is Rand Paul thinking Americans are interested in taking a step backward with his extremist policies. Hillary Clinton's focus on moving our country forward is what makes Americans, and Kentuckians, so excited about her.’” *KFMB-AM: “Heckler interrupts Hillary Clinton speech” <http://www.760kfmb.com/story/26767032/live-stream-hillary-clinton-speaks-at-american-academy-of-pediatrics-annual-meeting>* “Hillary Clinton visits San Diego but is rudely welcomed by a heckler who interrupts her speech.” *San Diego Union-Tribune: “Hillary Clinton says no iPad time for babies” <http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/220533-clinton-heckled-by-man-with-bullhorn-at-event>* “Hillary Clinton was heckled by a man with a bullhorn at a speech in San Diego late Sunday.” *The Hill blog: Briefing Room: “Clinton heckled in San Diego” <http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/220533-clinton-heckled-by-man-with-bullhorn-at-event>* “Hillary Clinton was heckled by a man with a bullhorn at a speech in San Diego late Sunday.” *New York Times: First Draft: “Midterm Results Could Speed a Possible Clinton Announcement” <http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2014/10/13/?entry=2176>* “If Democrats lose control of the Senate in the midterm elections, the party may need to quickly pivot to the presidential campaign, several people close to Mrs. Clinton said.” *Bloomberg: “Julian Castro Does Not Want to be President, Now or 'Ever'” <http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2014-10-12/julian-castro-does-not-want-to-be-president-now-or-ever>* “Julian Castro, a rising star in the Democratic Party, dismissed speculation on Sunday that he is being groomed for the White House, saying he had no plans to run for president – ‘probably ever.’” *Washington Post blog: Reliable Source: “Polish filmmaker Agnieszka Holland says she hopes Hillary Clinton becomes president” <http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/reliable-source/wp/2014/10/13/polish-filmmaker-agnieszka-holland-says-she-hopes-hillary-clinton-becomes-president/>* “When asked if she thought calculating first lady [House of Cards’] Claire Underwood, the series’ close approximation of Lady Macbeth, might make a run for president in seasons to come, Holland said that television ‘often predicts real life,’ adding that she hoped former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton would one day be president. *The Daily Beast: “How Red-State Democrats Can Throw Obama Under the Bus” <http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/10/12/how-red-state-democrats-can-throw-obama-under-the-bus.html>* “Russert’s over-aggressive question helped Clinton, as did Lazio’s subsequent pushiness. Grimes can’t count on that.” *Articles:* *Lexington Herald-Leader: “Rand Paul predicts 'big' Republican wave in November elections” <http://www.kentucky.com/2014/10/11/3475827_rand-paul-predicts-big-republican.html?rh=1>* By Sam Youngman October 11, 2014 U.S. Sen. Rand Paul took a break from his Lexington weekend to offer some free advice to Kentucky media who sponsored a poll showing U.S. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell trailing Democrat Alison Lundergan Grimes. "I'd re-check it if I were y'all, because I think you're probably an outlier," Paul said. In an interview Saturday morning before he headed to Commonwealth Stadium for the Kentucky Wildcats football game, Paul voiced confidence that McConnell will win in November and took a few swipes at Grimes and Bill and Hillary Clinton. Joining in on the media and Republican onslaught over Grimes' recent refusal to tell the Louisville Courier-Journal's editorial board whether she voted for President Barack Obama, Paul called Grimes' evasion "bizarre" and "really unbelievable." "Everybody knows who she voted for," Paul said. "She knows who she voted for, and she's not going to tell us, and I think that's an unacceptable answer. I think she still could have a chance when she acknowledges it, but it just shows you how unpopular the leader of her party is and how unpopular her party is nationally." Grimes spokesman Preston Maddock replied, "What's really bizarre is that Rand Paul has had an impossible time explaining why he supports Mitch McConnell in this race." Paul also took aim at the Clintons, something he does with regularity as he continues to consider a 2016 run for the White House. Paul has been intensely critical of Hillary Clinton's tenure as secretary of state, specifically how her department responded to a terrorist attack on the U.S. Embassy in Benghazi, Libya. When asked whether he thought Hillary Clinton would be of help to Grimes when she comes to the state to campaign Wednesday, Paul argued that the popularity of the Clintons in Kentucky has been overstated. "I think they've fooled themselves on the whole popularity of the Clintons in Kentucky," Paul said. "You know Clinton won Kentucky when there were three candidates in the race." Bill Clinton won Kentucky in 1992 with 45 percent over former President George H.W. Bush and Ross Perot. In 1996, Clinton won the state with about 46 percent of the vote over Perot and former Kansas Sen. Bob Dole. "I don't think that really means he's that popular," Paul said. "I think they've fooled themselves to think that he — or she — will help Alison in the end." Mary Rutherford Jennings, a spokeswoman for the pro-Hillary Clinton super PAC Correct the Record, said Saturday that "the only one who's fooled himself is Rand Paul thinking Americans are interested in taking a step backward with his extremist policies. Hillary Clinton's focus on moving our country forward is what makes Americans, and Kentuckians, so excited about her." In May, the Herald-Leader, along with the Courier-Journal, WHAS-TV and WKYT-TV, polled a hypothetical showdown between Paul and Clinton and found Paul leading the former secretary of state 48 percent to 44 percent. Paul, who is drawing increasingly larger media crowds as he continues his tour of states that hold early contests in presidential races, making stops to help Republicans along the way, said he anticipates a "big" Republican wave this year, similar to what Republicans enjoyed in 2010 in what Obama later referred to as a "shellacking." "I think the wind is at our back," Paul said. "We're a fairly evenly divided country, and so sometimes if the wind's blowing strongly at the end you can pick up quite a few seats, sometimes even more than anybody predicts." He continued: "My sense is it's going to be big, and that we are going to take over the Senate. But we're not taking anything for granted. I'm trying to help as many candidates as I can get across the finish line." Paul's travel schedule is hectic. On Friday, he took in the horse races at Keeneland after meeting with community leaders in Ferguson, Mo. On Saturday, he attended the football game as part of the University of Kentucky's parents' weekend. Two of the senator's sons attend UK. A relative by marriage, Jesse Benton, was Paul's campaign manager during his successful 2010 race, but resigned as McConnell's campaign chief in late August after his name was connected to a bribery scandal in the closing days of the 2012 Iowa presidential caucuses. "I don't really have any comment on that," Paul said. "He's been a good friend and he's married to my niece, and I'm supportive of him, and I believe that everything will work out in the end." McConnell and a number of other top Republicans in the state are scheduled to gather in Bowling Green on Sunday for Paul's "Barnburner and BBQ" event, a fundraiser for the Rand Paul Victory Committee. Paul reiterated that he is still mulling a White House run, with a spring decision likely. The senator said that even as he travels around the country building support and trying to grow the Republican Party's brand, he gets back to Kentucky almost every weekend and feels confident he will win his Senate re-election bid regardless of whether he pursues the presidency. "I haven't sensed any real problems with people thinking I'm not doing a good job," Paul said. *KFMB-AM: “Heckler interrupts Hillary Clinton speech” <http://www.760kfmb.com/story/26767032/live-stream-hillary-clinton-speaks-at-american-academy-of-pediatrics-annual-meeting>* By Shannon Handy October 12, 2014, 9:13 p.m. EDT SAN DIEGO (CBS 8) - Hillary Clinton visits San Diego but is rudely welcomed by a heckler who interrupts her speech. Clinton was in San Diego Sunday to address the annual meeting of the American Academy of Pediatrics. Hundreds lined up at the Convention Center to see the former first lady and secretary of state. Hillary Clinton was just minutes into her talk Sunday when someone in the 3,000 plus crowd began to heckle her using a bullhorn. Without flinching, the former secretary of state made a joke and moved on. "You know, there are some people who miss important developmental stages," Clinton said. Clinton, who spoke for nearly 30 minutes, was at the annual conference to promote early literacy. She referred to her daughter Chelsea and her first granddaughter born just two weeks ago. "When I look into the eyes of my baby granddaughter, that's what I see, and I'm so grateful," she said. Clinton commended the room full of pediatricians, and their role in making sure government doesn't get in the way of medical care for children. "Your letter to Washington really makes clear the stakes of this -- congress must not gamble with our children's future," Clinton said. Attendees we spoke with were impressed with her words. One woman said, "She talked very naturally, and she reached out to everybody as a professional, as a politician and as a grandmother...new grandmother. I think that touched our hearts." Another attendee said, "I thought it was spectacular, just spectacular. She did phenomenal job in both the political side of things, and the reading literacy emphasis. I thought she did a spectacular job." *San Diego Union-Tribune: “Hillary Clinton says no iPad time for babies” <http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/220533-clinton-heckled-by-man-with-bullhorn-at-event>* By Peter Sullivan October 13, 2014, 7:37 a.m. EDT Hillary Clinton was heckled by a man with a bullhorn at a speech in San Diego late Sunday. The man sounded an alarm on the device in the middle of Clinton's speech to the American Academy of Pediatrics. Clinton flinched and stopped speaking as the shouting man was quickly taken away by security. Clinton, who was speaking about early childhood development, came back with a joke. "You know there are some people who miss important developmental stages," she said. It is not clear what the man was shouting about. Clinton announced a new partnership between the Clinton Foundation's "Too Small to Fail" program and the Academy to provide toolkits for doctors to encourage parents to read to their children from an early age. “As we have learned in the last 15 years, scientists can literally watch the synapses and the neurons firing when parents are reading and talking with children from their very earliest days,” Clinton said, according to the San Diego Union-Tribune. “We don’t have enough research, but I think what we are learning is that the earliest years before a child is 2, televisions, iPads and screens are no substitute for actual parent-child interactions like talking, reading and singing," she added. *San Diego Union-Tribune: “Hillary Clinton says no iPad time for babies” <http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2014/oct/12/hillary-clinton-ipad-babies/>* [No Writer Mentioned] October 12, 2014, 9:08 p.m. EDT Hillary Clinton lent encouragement Sunday to pediatricians who are trying to promote parents reading to children, while weighing in on the debate over how much electronic screen time is healthy for infants and toddlers. At the San Diego Convention Center, Clinton announced the distribution of an early literacy tool kit to help promote the verbal development of young children. The effort capitalizes on the trusted role of pediatricians in encouraging parents to read out loud, chat freely and even sing more with their young children from day one. The tool kits will be shared with 62,000 members of the American Academy of Pediatrics, which is holding a conference in San Diego this week. “As we have learned in the last 15 years, scientists can literally watch the synapses and the neurons firing when parents are reading and talking with children from their very earliest days,” said Clinton, a former U.S. Secretary of State. The Academy of Pediatrics touched off a national debate about the use of electronic devices by young children in June when it recommended no TV or electronic screen time for children under the age of 2, and less than two hours for older children. Clinton, the author of “It Takes a Village: And Other Lessons Children Teach Us” and “Dear Socks, Dear Buddy: Kids’ Letters to Their First Pets,” embraced those concerns during extended comments about the “word gap” among children whose vocabulary development falters in early life. “Now technology is of course changing how Americans read and in many ways it is opening up exciting new avenues for learning,” Clinton said. “We don’t have enough research, but I think what we are learning is that the earliest years before a child is 2, televisions, iPads and screens are no substitute for actual parent-child interactions like talking, reading and singing.” The academy has joined forces on literacy development with the Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation and Next Generation, the California-based policy group on Climate change and childhood issues. Their initiative, dubbed “Too Small to Fail,” responds to a growing body of research highlighting language sensitivity starting in infancy. Speaking for nearly 30 minutes on stage without a Teleprompter or notes, Clinton touched on health care policy milestones of the 1990s, including the defeat of her own health care reform initiative as First Lady. Clinton brushed off a jarring interruption by a man with a megaphone and siren who was escorted out of the room. “You know there are some people who miss important developmental stages,” she said to applause. Among those in the audience, Clinton’s prospects as a possible presidential candidate in 2016 were on almost everyone’s mind. “I think they would be lying if they weren’t interested,” said Maria Fung, a Boston-area pediatrician in her mid-30s. Beth Pollard, a history professor at San Diego State University, heard notes of politicking in Clinton’s remarks. “She started to talk about the erosion in our leaders and people working hard to make ends meet,” said Pollard, who watched with her father, a pediatrician, and her own 7-year-old daughter. “She was beginning to distance herself from this administration.” *The Hill blog: Briefing Room: “Clinton heckled in San Diego” <http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/220533-clinton-heckled-by-man-with-bullhorn-at-event>* By Peter Sullivan October 13, 2014, 7:37 a.m. EDT Hillary Clinton was heckled by a man with a bullhorn at a speech in San Diego late Sunday. The man sounded an alarm on the device in the middle of Clinton's speech to the American Academy of Pediatrics. Clinton flinched and stopped speaking as the shouting man was quickly taken away by security. Clinton, who was speaking about early childhood development, came back with a joke. "You know there are some people who miss important developmental stages," she said. It is not clear what the man was shouting about. Clinton announced a new partnership between the Clinton Foundation's "Too Small to Fail" program and the Academy to provide toolkits for doctors to encourage parents to read to their children from an early age. “As we have learned in the last 15 years, scientists can literally watch the synapses and the neurons firing when parents are reading and talking with children from their very earliest days,” Clinton said, according to the San Diego Union-Tribune. “We don’t have enough research, but I think what we are learning is that the earliest years before a child is 2, televisions, iPads and screens are no substitute for actual parent-child interactions like talking, reading and singing," she added. *New York Times: First Draft: “Midterm Results Could Speed a Possible Clinton Announcement” <http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2014/10/13/?entry=2176>* By Amy Chozick October 13, 2014, 7:20 a.m. EDT Hillary Rodham Clinton may not have the luxury of waiting until early next year to declare her intentions to run for president in 2016. If Democrats lose control of the Senate in the midterm elections, the party may need to quickly pivot to the presidential campaign, several people close to Mrs. Clinton said. The Democratic Party would look to Mrs. Clinton “as its Noah’s ark,” a vessel on which voters and donors could channel their enthusiasm and frustration, said one of these people, who could discuss the internal deliberations only on the condition of anonymity. Until recently, Mrs. Clinton was expected to announce around Feb. 15, 2015, which would give her campaign plenty of time to staff up and raise money. But that timing is now being reconsidered as Democrats contemplate a scenario in which they suffer significant losses. Mrs. Clinton could feel pressure to at least file the requisite paperwork to start an exploratory committee before the end of this year. The committee would allow her to start to raise money, and she could still delay an official announcement until early next year. Mrs. Clinton has a packed schedule this week, campaigning for Democratic candidates in Colorado, Kentucky, Michigan and Nevada. *Bloomberg: “Julian Castro Does Not Want to be President, Now or 'Ever'” <http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2014-10-12/julian-castro-does-not-want-to-be-president-now-or-ever>* By Steven Yaccino October 12, 2014, 12:04 p.m. EDT [Subtitle:] The 40-year-old rising star in the Democratic Party was unequivocal on the question of a White House bid. Julian Castro, a rising star in the Democratic Party, dismissed speculation on Sunday that he is being groomed for the White House, saying he had no plans to run for president – “probably ever.” “I guarantee you I'm not going to run for president,” he said in an interview with ABC’s "This Week" that aired Sunday morning. “I have never woken up in the morning and seen in my future, when I look in the mirror, and said, 'Oh, I think I could be president,'” Castro added. Castro left his job as the mayor of San Antonio to work as head of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development earlier this year. He's been traversing the country in recent months, meeting with state and local housing officials, and lending a hand to Democratic candidates like Senator Mark Begich, who is trailing his Republican challenger in Alaska. On Sunday, Castro also tried to dampen rumors that he will be on the short list of possible running mates for Hillary Clinton if she decides to run for president in 2016. “I don't believe that I'm going to be vice president,” he said, adding that he planned to stay in Washington until Obama's term ends, then return to Texas. All of this isn't to say that Castro hasn't thought about higher office. When asked if he would be interested in become the executive of his home state, Castro finally gave the calculated non-answer you'd expect from a young, ambitious politician. “There were definitely mornings where I work up and wished there was a different governor of Texas, that's fair to say,” he said. “I'm 40 years old right now, and so I feel like I have a lot of time to figure out where the opportunities are.” *Washington Post blog: Reliable Source: “Polish filmmaker Agnieszka Holland says she hopes Hillary Clinton becomes president” <http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/reliable-source/wp/2014/10/13/polish-filmmaker-agnieszka-holland-says-she-hopes-hillary-clinton-becomes-president/>* By Helena Andrews October 13, 2014, 8:38 a.m. EDT On Friday night, Oscar-nominated Polish filmmaker Agnieszka Holland made a pit stop in Washington, taking a tiny break from directing two episodes of Netflix’s “House of Cards” in Baltimore. Speaking at an event at the Polish ambassador’s residence in Forest Hills, the semi-suburban Northwest D.C. neighborhood that many foreign diplomats call home, Holland wouldn’t reveal too much about the show, of course. But she did call out one of Ambassador Ryszard Schnepf’s famous neighbors. When asked if she thought calculating first lady Claire Underwood, the series’ close approximation of Lady Macbeth, might make a run for president in seasons to come, Holland said that television “often predicts real life,” adding that she hoped former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton would one day be president. The Clintons have a home around the corner, on Whitehaven Street. The “Cards” production is not Holland’s first time filming in Baltimore. She directed five episodes of David Simon’s “The Wire” there. In 1992, Holland’s Holocaust film, “Europa, Europa,” was nominated for an Academy Award. “She’s maybe the most political filmmaker they’re having direct ‘House of Cards,’ ” said Washington-based filmmaker Aviva Kempner, who plans to film a documentary on Holland’s career. *The Daily Beast: “How Red-State Democrats Can Throw Obama Under the Bus” <http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/10/12/how-red-state-democrats-can-throw-obama-under-the-bus.html>* By Michael Tomasky October 12, 2014 [Subtitle:] Let’s be blunt: Democratic Senate candidates in red states—like Alison Lundergan Grimes in Kentucky—need to say ‘Barack who?’ But doing so can look craven, or it can be crafty. Monday night’s a big night in this campaign season. In Kentucky, Alison Lundergan Grimes gets her one shot at Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell in a debate. I know most of the smart people have written the Democrat off. But a major Kentucky poll last week put her up two points. And she seems to be drawing big and enthusiastic crowds. And McConnell keeps making mistakes. In other words, there’s oxygen. Grimes is going to hit her themes—that McConnell hasn’t delivered jobs to the state and that he’s a big part of the Washington problem. McConnell will hit his—that GrimesObama isObama aObama shiftyObama DemocratObama by the way did I mention this guy Obama? But as we all know, if there ever is a clear victory in any of these debates, it usually come down to a moment, one good or bad moment that gets replayed over and over on local TV news and masticated on the state’s political radio shows. And for Grimes, unless she has a great putdown stocked away she’s been working on, fate has recently decreed what that moment is likely to be. As you should know by now, Grimes has been refusing to say whether she voted for President Obama. It’s been embarrassing. Chuck Todd even said she’d “disqualified herself.” That’s a bit over the top, but it was plenty bad. And of course she is going to be asked this question on Monday night, and of course everyone is going to be waiting, and of course she is going to have to be ready. I’ve been a reporter covering these things. In 2000, when Hillary Clinton was debating Rick Lazio in Buffalo, we all knew that she was only partially debating Lazio. She was also debating Tim Russert, the moderator who had been a Javert-like figure in his capacity as Meet the Press host vis-à-vis the Clintons and the Lewinsky scandal. So all the reporters gathered in the studio of Buffalo’s public television station that September night were waiting for the moment when Russert would hit Hillary with the Monica question. When it happened, interestingly, it was Russert, not Hillary, who blew it. He asked her if she regretted “misleading the American people” that first morning she went on the Today show to talk about the “vast right-wing conspiracy” out to get Bill. But she believed what she was saying at the time, and everyone accepted that. So Russert’s over-aggressive question helped Clinton, as did Lazio’s subsequent pushiness. Grimes can’t count on that. She will likely get a tough but fair and straightforward question: i.e., Why won’t you answer the question? You’re a Democrat, what are you ashamed of? And at that moment—that pivotal moment in her career and life, and potentially that crucial moment for the contemporary Democratic Party and indeed for Obama himself, inasmuch as how Grimes handles the moment could help decide whether Obama has to deal with Harry Reid or McConnell for the last two years of his public life—what must she do? The temptation here for people like me is to insist that she should stand up and say “you’re damn right I did,” and Obamacare this and Kynect that. I’d love for her to say that, but alas the reality is such these days that the opposite might be better. All the McConnell campaign wants at this point is a three-second clip of her saying, “OK, maybe I did vote for him, but...” That would be edited down to “I did vote for him” and replayed nine jillion times in attack ads. One can see the argument that she shouldn’t give McConnell the satisfaction of having that clip. So maybe she has to throw the president under the bus. Obama got 41 percent of the vote in Kentucky in 2008, and 38 percent in 2012. His approval rating right now is 30 percent. Behind numbers like that, it’s kind of hard for her to say, “You’re damn right I did.” But what exactly should she say? Here we arrive at what I believe to be a central tenet of campaigning that lots of candidates forget when they’re under the klieg lights: When you have to deal with an uncomfortable reality, you can do it in a way that suggests to voters that you’re weak and waffle-ish, or you can do it a way that makes you look like you have “character.” What would character mean in this case? It means answering the question in a way that reduces it to the importance it deserves. Because it’s an unimportant question. We all know Grimes voted for Obama. Of course she did. She’s a Democratic office-holder. There is a way for her to acknowledge this winkingly without really admitting it while saying to voters, “Isn’t this whole thing kind of ridiculous?” That’s the best play she has: Turn the whole question into an indictment of McConnell and the gotcha media and the whole electoral process. This was done masterfully by Newt Gingrich in the debate before the South Carolina primary. I was in that hall. The rage of the crowd—on his behalf, as he answered CNN’s John King’s question about his alleged open marriage, was as palpable as anything I’ve ever felt. Gingrich emerged that night looking bigger than King, bigger than everyone on stage, and he won the primary. Granted, voters tend to see the personal life as more off limits. But if Grimes can summon some outrage within her that’s something like what Newt did that night, she can take the Obama question out of the conversation once and for all. *Calendar:* *Sec. Clinton's upcoming appearances as reported online. Not an official schedule.* · October 13 – Las Vegas, NV: Sec. Clinton and Sen. Reid fundraise for the Reid Nevada Fund (Ralston Reports <http://www.ralstonreports.com/blog/hillary-raise-money-state-democrats-reid-next-month> ) · October 13 – Las Vegas, NV: Sec. Clinton keynotes the UNLV Foundation Annual Dinner (UNLV <http://www.unlv.edu/event/unlv-foundation-annual-dinner?delta=0>) · October 14 – San Francisco, CA: Sec. Clinton keynotes salesforce.com Dreamforce conference (salesforce.com <http://www.salesforce.com/dreamforce/DF14/highlights.jsp#tuesday>) · October 15 – Louisville, KY: Sec. Clinton campaigns for Alison Lundergan Grimes (Politico <http://www.politico.com/story/2014/10/alison-lundergan-grimes-hillary-clinton-111779.html> ) · October 16 – MI: Sec. Clinton campaigns for Rep. Gary Peters and Mark Schauer in Michigan (AP <https://twitter.com/KThomasDC/status/520243743170236416>) · October 20 – San Francisco, CA: Sec. Clinton fundraises for House Democratic women candidates with Nancy Pelosi (Politico <http://www.politico.com/story/2014/08/hillary-clinton-nancy-pelosi-110387.html?hp=r7> ) · October 20 – San Francisco, CA: Sec. Clinton fundraises for Senate Democrats (AP <http://bigstory.ap.org/article/03fe478acd0344bab983323d3fb353e2/clinton-planning-lengthy-campaign-push-month> ) · October 24 – RI: Sec. Clinton campaigns for Rhode Island gubernatorial nominee Gina Raimondo (Politico <http://www.politico.com/story/2014/10/hillary-clinton-gina-raimondo-rhode-island-elections-111750.html> ) · November 2 – NH: Sec. Clinton appears at a GOTV rally for Gov. Hassan and Sen. Shaheen (AP <http://bigstory.ap.org/article/03fe478acd0344bab983323d3fb353e2/clinton-planning-lengthy-campaign-push-month> ) · December 1 – New York, NY: Sec. Clinton keynotes a League of Conservation Voters dinner (Politico <http://www.politico.com/story/2014/09/hillary-clinton-green-groups-las-vegas-111430.html?hp=l11> ) · December 4 – Boston, MA: Sec. Clinton speaks at the Massachusetts Conference for Women (MCFW <http://www.maconferenceforwomen.org/speakers/>)