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*​**Correct The Record Thursday October 16, 2014 Afternoon Roundup:* *Tweets:* *Correct The Record* @CorrectRecord: .@HillaryClinton <https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton> empowered women to drive agricultural growth via @FeedtheFuture <https://twitter.com/FeedtheFuture> #RuralWomen <https://twitter.com/hashtag/RuralWomen?src=hash> #HRC365 <https://twitter.com/hashtag/HRC365?src=hash> http://www.feedthefuture.gov/about <http://t.co/HyI37b95Iv>[10/15/14, 4:54 p.m. EDT <https://twitter.com/CorrectRecord/status/522490641721221121>] *Headlines:* *Associated Press, via WXYZ Detroit: “Hillary Clinton to campaign for Michigan Democrats Schauer & Peters during Oakland University visit” <http://www.wxyz.com/news/political/hillary-clinton-to-campaign-for-michigan-democrats-schauer-peters-during-oakland-university-visit>* “Michigan Democrats hope to make the most of Hillary Rodham Clinton's visit by dispatching her to a bellwether county to keep an open Senate seat and upend the state's Republican governor.” *Bloomberg: “Hollywood McCain Is Ready For Hillary Clinton” <http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2014-10-16/hollywood-mccain-is-ready-for-hillary-clinton>* “‘Game Change’ actress Sandy Bainum wrote a $25,000 check to the Ready for Hillary PAC, one of the 38,000 donors who are financing the group that is laying the foundation for Clinton to run for president in 2016.” *AFP, via Business Insider: “John Kerry's Plane Just Broke Down ... Again” <http://www.businessinsider.com/afp-kerrys-plane-grounded-...-again-2014-10>* “Since taking up his post in February 2013, Kerry has flown some 566,000 miles (911,000 kilometres) around the globe and visited 55 countries -- many of them multiple times -- spending some 249 days on the road. He's well on his way to overtaking his predecessor Hillary Clinton who flew just short of a million miles in her four years in office, visiting a record 112 countries.” *Time: “White House Works To Get Poor Parents to Speak More to Kids” <http://time.com/3512967/white-house-works-to-get-poor-parents-to-speak-more-to-kids/>* “A little over a year ago, Too Small to Fail was started with the goal of getting more parents talking, singing, and reading to their kids starting from birth. Studies have shown children born to higher-income families are exposed to some 30 million more words than their counterparts on welfare before the reach kindergarten.” *Articles:* *Associated Press, via WXYZ Detroit: “Hillary Clinton to campaign for Michigan Democrats Schauer & Peters during Oakland University visit” <http://www.wxyz.com/news/political/hillary-clinton-to-campaign-for-michigan-democrats-schauer-peters-during-oakland-university-visit>* [No Writer Mentioned] October 16, 2014, 8:45 a.m. EDT Michigan Democrats hope to make the most of Hillary Rodham Clinton's visit by dispatching her to a bellwether county to keep an open Senate seat and upend the state's Republican governor. Clinton on Thursday will campaign for Senate candidate Gary Peters and gubernatorial candidate Mark Schauer in Oakland County in suburban Detroit. It's not only an attempt to excite the base but also to persuade middle-of-the-road voters in the swing county. Gov. Rick Snyder won nearly 100,000 more votes there in 2010 than his opponent. But two years later President Barack Obama had a 52,000-vote advantage in the county, which benefited from the federal government's rescue of the auto industry. Clinton supported the bailout as a senator, and the loans remain a political issue in Michigan even five years later. *Bloomberg: “Hollywood McCain Is Ready For Hillary Clinton” <http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2014-10-16/hollywood-mccain-is-ready-for-hillary-clinton>* By Annie Linskey and Greg Giroux October 16, 2014, 6:34 a.m. EDT [Subtitle:] Actress Sandy Bainum gives to Ready For Hillary as Republican Ben Carson draws more quarterly cash for the 2016 draft. Hillary Clinton just got a vote of support from Cindy McCain — the fictional version as played in a movie recounting the 2008 presidential campaign. “Game Change” actress Sandy Bainum wrote a $25,000 check to the Ready for Hillary PAC, one of the 38,000 donors who are financing the group that is laying the foundation for Clinton to run for president in 2016. Others include ESPN executive Marie Donoghue, who cut a check for $25,000; investment banker Roger Altman, who gave $20,000; and former diplomat Stuart Eizenstat, who donated $1,000. The fundraising factoids started rolling in Wednesday as political committees large and small filed disclosure reports to the Federal Election Commission that were due at midnight. By far, the most watched group is Ready For Hillary. It's organized volunteers to cheer for the potential candidate at multiple public events from Iowa to Kentucky and has a bus with “Ready for Hillary” emblazoned on the side. But it's not the best-funded for the 2014 third quarter. A group trying to convince retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson, a Republican, to run for president raised $3.3 million from July through September — the most of any contender from either party. Ready for Hillary collected $2 million. That's a slowdown in both cash flow and donors from the group's last quarter, when it collected $2.5 million from 43,000 people. The group has a self-imposed cap of $25,000. Ninety-eight percent of the checks were for amounts less than $100, according to spokesman Seth Bringman, which means the super-PAC can continue to tap those supporters in coming fundraising pitches. It's early to be looking at 2016 cash, though how prospective candidates and groups raise and spend money can be telling. Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee, for example, spread his cash around to Republican candidates, while Rick Santorum, the former Pennsylvania senator, hasn't done much at all. Here's a look at some of the groups likely to be active as 2016 presidential season approaches. * America Rising: Republicans are far from sorting out their field, but they do have an opposition research team digging up nuggets that Democrats would prefer stay buried. The group's super-PAC raised $190,000 this quarter — mostly from a $100,000 contribution from Restore Our Future, the super-PAC that supported Republican Mitt Romney's presidential bid in 2012. * Martin O'Malley: Democrat O'Malley, Maryland's soon to be ex-governor, raised about $710,000 during the quarter when the receipts from his two political organizations are combined. Checks included $25,000 from Florida Crystals Corporation, a West Palm Beach sugar company that is closely held. He also rounded up a $10,000 gift from Richard Holland of Omaha, Neb. — one of Warren Buffett's early investors. Holland was in the front row at a recent state party fundraiser that O'Malley headlined in July and gushed about how much he enjoyed the governor's speech as he left the event. * Elizabeth Warren: Senator Warren of Massachusetts has disavowed the super-PAC that is pushing her to run for president in 2016 and it shows: The Ready For Warren PAC brought in $60,000 this quarter, and that includes in-kind donations. The biggest backer so far is Daniel Buk, a Washington political consultant who gave $25,000 to the effort. Warren's leadership committee, PAC for a Level Playing Field, raised $557,000 in the third quarter and donated $146,400 to Democratic candidates and committees where Senate elections could determine partisan control of the chamber after the Nov. 4 midterm elections. * Ben Carson: The committee promoting Carson, a Republican doctor, to run for president raised an eye-popping $3.3 million in the third quarter — besting Ready for Hillary for a second quarter in a row. The retired neurosurgeon is a conservative darling taking top spots in polls, as the Bloomberg Politics/Des Moines Register Iowa Poll showed this week and colleague Phil Mattingly recently reported. Much of the cash came from donors who gave less than $200. The larger chunks of change included $10,000 from fellow doctor Robert G. Burlingame from Texas and $30,000 from Harry Bettis, an Idaho rancher. * Marco Rubio: Senator Marco Rubio raised almost $1.5 million for his Rubio Victory Committee. Notable contributions include $1,000 from the Ohio Gun Collectors Association, which is far afield from his Florida constituency but in a prime swing presidential state. * Mike Huckabee: The Huck-PAC saw nearly $1 million in contributions this quarter, from mostly small donors giving hundreds of dollars. The former Arkansas governor was fairly generous with his committee's cash, donating $1,000 to Republican Mike Rounds of South Dakota, who is locked in an unexpectedly tight Senate contest. Other top-tier Senate races where he contributed to the Republican contender include Kansas, Georgia, Alaska and North Carolina. * Rand Paul: Just under $500,000 in checks came in the door for Paul's Kentucky's Victory Fund. That includes $5,000 from Goldman Sachs' political action committee and $5,000 from Koch Industries. Straddling Wall Street and the Tea Party base is a strategic aim that could set Paul apart from what's shaping up to be a crowded primary field. * Rick Perry: Texas Governor Perry's federal PAC raised $181,000 from donors including Shaun McCutcheon, an Alabama businessman who was on the winning side of a Supreme Court campaign-finance case earlier this year. RickPAC, which Perry formed in August, donated to 13 Iowa Republican candidates, including Joni Ernst, a state senator in a close race with Democratic Representative Bruce Braley for the U.S. Senate seat of retiring Democrat Tom Harkin. Iowa's caucuses traditionally kick off the presidential nominating contests. * Rick Santorum: Santorum's federal committee pulled in about $15,000 this quarter — entirely from renting out his list of political supporters. *AFP, via Business Insider: “John Kerry's Plane Just Broke Down ... Again” <http://www.businessinsider.com/afp-kerrys-plane-grounded-...-again-2014-10>* [No Writer Mentioned] October 16, 2014, 4:35 a.m. EDT Globe-trotting top US diplomat John Kerry was left hoofing it back on a commercial flight from Vienna Thursday, after his ageing Air Force plane broke down for the fourth time this year. After marathon talks on Iran's nuclear programme in the Austrian capital Wednesday, Kerry's party of more than 40 State Department staff and journalists were checking out of their hotel rooms before dawn Thursday when the news came that his Boeing 757 needed unspecified repairs -- again. Since taking up his post in February 2013, Kerry has flown some 566,000 miles (911,000 kilometres) around the globe and visited 55 countries -- many of them multiple times -- spending some 249 days on the road. He's well on his way to overtaking his predecessor Hillary Clinton who flew just short of a million miles in her four years in office, visiting a record 112 countries. But despite a normally well-planned, slick logistical operation to move Kerry and his posse of staff, security agents and the travelling press as he jumps from country to country, he has been beset this year by a frustrating number of glitches. In August, the US secretary of state was forced to take a commercial nine-hour flight back to Washington from Hawaii when the plane suffered electrical problems after a trip which had seen him literally fly around the globe. Earlier this year, a new transponder had to be flown from the United States to Switzerland when in the middle of international talks on the Syrian conflict in January his aircraft was grounded. And in London in March, a similar mechanical problem was hastily fixed -- after a few nerve-wrecking hours which saw his party anxiously checking for flights home. Kerry was Thursday flying back from a whirlwind six-day trip which saw him first travel to Cairo for an international donor's conference for Gaza, and then head to Paris for talks with his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov. He had arrived in Vienna early Wednesday and went straight into talks with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and EU foreign policy chief Cathy Ashton on Iran's nuclear programme. Zarif chuckled Thursday when he heard Kerry's plane was grounded due to apparent mechanical issues. "So it is not just our planes," he told the online news site al-Monitor. *Time: “White House Works To Get Poor Parents to Speak More to Kids” <http://time.com/3512967/white-house-works-to-get-poor-parents-to-speak-more-to-kids/>* By Maya Rhodan October 16, 2014, 12:11 p.m. EDT [Subtitle:] By reading and talking to babies from birth, research has shown kids can enter school better prepared for success At UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital in Oakland, a new program is about to get underway that serves a purpose near to both the Obama White House and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton care a great deal about. Benioff is one of two locations where Too Small to Fail, a joint venture between the Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation and Next Generation, is launching a pilot program that will expand their efforts to close the so-called word gap. A little over a year ago, Too Small to Fail was started with the goal of getting more parents talking, singing, and reading to their kids starting from birth. Studies have shown children born to higher-income families are exposed to some 30 million more words than their counterparts on welfare before the reach kindergarten. About 73% of the families served by Benioff Children’s Hospital utilize Medicaid, says the hospital’s President and CEO Dr. Bert Lubin, making it the ideal setting to test the benefits of providing tools and support to families and communities that encourage them to interact with their babies. “It’s such a simple thing,” Lubin says . “The parents who are not talking, singing and reading. They love their children, but they don’t know that not doing it is something that really permanently effects the child.” On Thursday, representatives from the Oakland program will be at the White House sharing their stories with other community leaders, including the Mayor of Providence, Rhode Island where a Bloomberg Philanthropies funded program that records and tracks the words spoken to babies has been underway for a little over a year. Too Small is joining with the White House to use the nation’s most powerful bully pulpit to spread the message that learning is important and support local communities working to get their children and babies best prepared for school. The White House will announce an investment to fund a research coalition to build more research around the word gap. The federal government will also be working with the tech community to get their input in the effort to close the word gap. Some apps, like the Text4Baby mobile application, are already in use, helping provide mothers with information on the development of their child throughout pregnancy and infancy. Over the next year at Benioff and around Oakland, parents will receive books, clothing and reading materials from birth to remind them to get chatty with their bundles of joy. They’ll be reminded of the benefits of speaking to their kids on billboards and in advertisements, at community-based programs and in churches. The hospital also plans to track and record the development of babies who are being interacted with regularly to gauge the benefits and encourage other cities to do the same. “The reality is if we address this word gap, everyone is more likely to stay in school, get a job afterwards and contribute to society,” Lubin says. “The investment is small in terms of the impact it will have on our society.” Almost half of infants and toddlers come from low-income families and about 25% live in poverty, according to the National Center for Infants and Toddlers. Though having enough food and shelter is extremely important to a child’s health, cognitive development is equally important. Families play a pivotal role in children’s early development, but only about 48% of parents read to their kids every day. That lack of interaction is detrimental to children who’s way out of poverty is through school. According to research from Rice University, children from low income families heard about 30 million fewer words by age 4 than their high income peers. Kids from working class families heard about 15 million fewer. “This word gap turns into an achievement gap once children reach school,” says Ann O’Leary, the director of the children and families program at Next Generation. Too Small to Fail’s first year was spent increasing public awareness on the importance of closing the word gap. A partnership with Univision ensured ads appeared in Spanish and English. The topic came up on television shows including The Fosters and Orange is the New Black—this year, the issue is expected to come up on more shows including Modern Family and Criminal Minds. The American Academy of Pediatrics adopted a policy message that speaks to the importance of early literacy. And last March, Tulsa became the first city to launch a partnership with Too Small to Fail, similar to what’s happening in Oakland. O’Leary says reading and speaking to children should be as important as brushing their teeth.“When you imagine that this is not an optional activity, but that this is a must-do activity it becomes kind of shocking that only half of families are doing this,” O’Leary says. “What if half were only brushing their teeth? We think it’s just as urgent to get this information out. These are not optional activities.”