Thursday, September 01, 2016

There's a Big Problem With One of Hillary Clinton's Favorite Campaign Stories

There's a Big Problem With One of Hillary Clinton's Favorite Campaign Stories | Mother Jones:
"...But Hillary Clinton's campaign has been invoking DeLay's name a lot lately to demonstrate that she can reach across the aisle to work productively with anyone—even Tom DeLay.
It's a great narrative.
As the story goes, Clinton, as first lady, set aside partisan differences to find common ground with DeLay even as he was mercilessly attacking her husband and obstructing his agenda.
By the campaign's telling, the pair first worked together on an adoption bill that became law in 1997 and helped thousands of foster children find loving homes.
Clinton has been telling the story on the stump for more than a decade now, but it's been especially prominent during this presidential campaign, emphasized repeatedly by the candidate and her surrogates, most notably by her husband Bill, who brought it to prime-time TV during his Democratic National Convention speech last month.
"I don't remember ever working with her" on that bill, DeLay told Mother Jones.
There's just one problem with the story: 
It isn't accurate. 
Over the years, the tale of Tom and Hillary has grown in mythic proportions, as Bill and others have conflated dates and confused events in a way that makes a better story but vastly overstates the relationship between DeLay and Hillary Clinton..."

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