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Log on to: ChicagoPeoplesVoice.com November 2016 The Heart & Soul of Chicago TM First Edition Volume 20 Issue 11 FREE Lake County Edition Page 2 Chicago People’s Voice November 2016 The Chicago Peoples Voice The Heart & Soul of Chicago tm E. Reed Report Lake County, Illinois Edition Regional • State • Federal E-mail: [email protected] Business • Social • Legislative ChicagoPeoplesVoice.com Activity That Affects You PeoplesVoice-Site. Org Chicago Peoples Voice PO Box 1038 • Waukegan, Illinois 60079 e Case for Hillary Clinton 847-473-5501 When people run for office, the media, and dividual. She is from and for working class families Once I was invited to the White House people in general think-up, make-up, exaggerate and she believes in a safety net for families and in - under the Clinton Administration and they pre - and say everything negative that they can imagine dividuals who fall upon hard times. sented me with some keepsakes, a hand engraved about the person running and say it. Especially if She is well red, widely traveled, brilliant, and goblet with President Clinton’s signature, and an of - that person has a good heart and genuinely wants even able to take a jab from the likes of a well- ficial White House Christmas Tree Ornament. to make positive change. heeded Trump called this mother and grandmother These items I will always treasure. In this election cycle, everything negative a “nasty” woman. She took the punch with grace. I am honored to recommend and support that anyone could image was said about Hillary Hillary not only is qualified to be president, Hillary Rodham Clinton as the Chief Executive Of - Clinton. But she is not alone, they made up, insinu - she deserves it. ficer of our great nation and as President of the ated, and out right lied on Barack Obama, Ben Car - I have had the pleasure of being in Hillary United States of America. son, Bill Clinton, and even John F. Kennedy. Clinton’s presence on Anyone who has a positive agenda is like flying three occasions. While I geese, everyone with a rifle is going to try and am from Arkansas, where shoot them down. she lived most of her pro - Until the last few weeks, we really didn’t fessional life, I saw her up hear a lot of negatives about Donald Trump’s dark close at a conference in secrets, his tryst with women, tax evasion, etc. Chicago when she was What we could see was his child-like temper First Lady nearly 18 years tantrums and clear racist attitudes. No one had to ago. We held an interest - make that up, it was clear to all. ing conversation and she What the media doesn’t harp on is how graciously agreed to take a qualified Hillary Clinton is. She is a Wellesley grad - photo with three individu - uate. She earned a J.D. from Yale Law School in als which I had invited to 1973. She married Bill Clinton in 1975 and co- travel to the event with founded Arkansas Advocates for Children and me, those individuals were Families. She was the first woman partner of the Dr. Patricia Pickles, Dr. Rose Law Firm of Arkansas and served as Wadell and Dr. Daisy Arkansas’s First Lady during the governorship of Brooks. I still have that Bill Clinton, and then served as first lady with Pres - photo that I took. I met ident William Jefferson Clinton for eight years. with her on two additional An accomplished lawyer, She worked for occasions, she was always more than 30 years with the Children’s Defense kind, humorous and gra - fund. She was elected as a New York Senator serv - cious. For years, I received ing two terms from 2001- 2009. She is a former Christmas Cards from the Secretary of State from 2009 to 2013. Clinton Family and I She has endured hard times, media scandals treasured each and every - and survived. She even surfaced stronger as an in - one of them. 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