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Julián Castro in Fox News town hall: Let’s talk about me, not Hillary

By NOLAN D. MCCASKILL 06/13/2019 09:18 PM EDT

Julián Castro all but told Fox News on Thursday that he wasn’t there to talk about his rivals and couldn’t understand why the network is still obsessed with Hillary Clinton in 2019.

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At an hourlong town hall in Tempe, Ariz., with Fox News hosts Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum, the former Housing and Urban Development secretary and San Antonio mayor declined to comment on Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand’s likening people who are against abortion to racists or anti-Semites, or former Vice President Joe Biden’s recent reversal on the Hyde Amendment, which essentially banned publicly funded abortions.

“I don’t understand why on this network and in so many, you know, conservative circles, people are still talking about Hillary Clinton,” Castro said. “Hillary Clinton is not on the ballot. Those of us who are running are on the ballot, and I can tell you that those of us who are running want to focus on the issues that are important to Americans and their families.”

Despite appearing on a conservative network, Castro embraced his “People First” immigration plan and policing reform, which would hold officers accountable and create more transparency.

“Why did @JulianCastro come to AZ for a FOX town hall?” tweeted Jennifer Fiore, his senior adviser. “He’s not afraid to talk about Trump’s most important issue in a historically red border state. Let’s push back against this Republican domination of an American issue.”

Castro said the only crisis at the southern border with Mexico was one of leadership, noting that “when he came into office, Donald Trump said that he was gonna solve this, as he put it, this immigration problem, and he’s completely failed.”

In talking about the need for policing reform, Castro contrasted the arrest of Dylann Roof, a white supremacist who killed nine people at a black church in Charleston, S.C., with police-involved fatal shootings of people of color, rattling off names like Eric Garner, Sandra Bland, Jason Pero, Tamir Rice, Laquan McDonald, Pamela Turner and Tempe’s Antonio Arce.

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“Too oftentimes, we have seen police mistreat especially young men of color, a lot of young black men. How many videos do we have to watch?” he asked. “I don’t care what your politics is. … We’re in an age of technology where you see the video now. How many of these videos do you have to watch before we understand that even though we have some great police officers … this is not a problem of a few bad apples? The system itself is broken, and we need to fix it.”

Castro said he agreed with Thursday’s recommendation by the Office of Special Counsel that White House counselor Kellyanne Conway be removed for repeatedly violating the Hatch Act. Castro was found to be in violation of it at HUD for his remarks about Clinton in 2016, but suggested the difference was that he was a one-time offender who owned up to his mistake while Conway has not held herself accountable for her multiple violations.

But he saved his biggest criticism for Trump, whom he blamed for ruining relationships with allies. “I mean, who gets in a fight with Canada?” Castro asked, prompting some laughter from the audience. “Somehow, this president did.”

Ultimately, he said, “a few years from now — whether it’s 10 years from now, 20 years from now — we’re gonna look back on this as Americans, not Republicans or Democrats or liberals or conservatives, and say, ‘What in the hell was wrong with that president?’”

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https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/6/14/18678099/elizabeth-warren-2020...

Elizabeth Warren isn’t Hillary Clinton
How Warren is using many policies to reinforce one message, and a few other notes from our conversation.

By Ezra Klein@ezraklein  Updated Jun 14, 2019, 11:31am EDT

My old American Prospect editor Mark Schmitt had a maxim I always liked: “It’s not what you say about the issues; it’s what the issues say about you.”

Mark’s line came to mind while I was interviewing Elizabeth Warren (you can listen to our conversation on my podcast, or read it here). I’ve seen a lot of nervous Democrats compare Warren to Hillary Clinton. After all, Clinton had plans too. Clinton was the most prepared candidate on the stage, too. And look how that ended.

I think the analogy is flawed. Clinton had a lot of plans but no clear message. Warren’s genius has been to turn a lot of plans into a clear message. Clinton’s plans couldn’t dispel the sense that she was complicit in the status quo. Warren’s plans underscore her longstanding loathing of what American capitalism has curdled into.

It’s common for Democrats to talk about income inequality. Warren fixates on wealth inequality. During our conversation, she used the word “wealth” 23 times but mentioned “income” only four times. There’s a reason for that. Wealth is where income pools into power and privilege. When your money comes from income, it is, at least in theory, being earned through work. When it’s just wealth creating more wealth, it’s a hoarding of resources divorced from the labor and innovation that drives economies forward.

“Think of it this way,” she told me. “The bottom 99 percent last year paid all-in on their taxes 7.2 percent of their total wealth. Top 1 percent? They paid 3.2 percent of their total wealth.” Those huge fortunes, she continued, “are growing on their own. They are now capital. You don’t have to work if you’ve got one of those big fortunes. Those things are managed by professional managers.” Listen to how Warren talks about this. It offends her.

Over and over again, Warren turned the conversation back to her wealth tax, and everything it could buy. Like here:

Two cents on the one-tenth of 1 percent, the greatest fortunes in this country, $50 million and above, and for 2 cents we can provide universal child care, universal pre-K, raise the wages of all our child care workers and pre-K workers, universal technical school, two-year college, four-year college, and cancel student loan debt for 95 percent of the people who’ve got it. We cancel student loan debt for 43 million Americans across this country. The vision of what government can do and whose side government is on changes just like that.

And here:

I was talking a minute ago about the 2-cent wealth tax. My proposal is a tax on the 75,000 biggest fortunes in this country. If you’ve got more than $50 million, the 50 millionth and first dollar gets taxed at 2 cents. And then 2 cents on every dollar after that. Two cents. What could we do with 2 cents? Look at the opportunity it builds in child care and early childhood education and technical school and college and freeing up people from huge debt burdens.

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But notice how much you get from the wealth tax. The 2-cent wealth tax is enough to do all those things I talked about, plus have $100 billion to put into opioids and still have nearly half a trillion dollars left over. It’s a staggering amount of money that it produces because there is such extraordinary concentrated wealth in this country. Getting that 2 cents opens up real opportunity for everybody else.

Warren’s tagline is “I have a plan for that.” And on one level, it’s true: She has a lot of plans. But a clearer way of understanding her pitch is she’s got one plan that she applies over and over again.

As Warren sees it, there’s been a massive hoarding of wealth — and thus of power and opportunity — in this country. She wants to tax the wealth and redistribute both the money and the opportunity. She wants to break up concentrations of economic power by putting workers on corporate boards and unleashing antitrust regulators on Amazon and Facebook and ending Washington’s revolving door. These are different policies, yes, but they all say the same thing: The wealthy have too much money and power, and Warren wants to change that.

That’s the difference between her and Clinton. Clinton had a lot of plans and just as many messages. Warren has a lot of plans, but they reinforce one message. Warren has her weaknesses, but the way she talks through policy is a defining strength.

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