Hillary Clinton To Speak At East LA College, Hold Fundraisers
LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com) — Protesters will be ready to meet Hillary Clinton when she speaks Thursday at East Los Angeles College.
Clinton will discuss her plans to raise incomes for families, break down the barriers that hold Californians back, keep American safe and bring the country together, an aide said.
At least two other presidential candidates have spoken at East Los Angeles College and gone on to be elected – John F. Kennedy in 1960 and Clinton's husband, Bill, in 1992, according to Maria Iacobo of the Los Angeles Community College District.
Members of Union del Barrio, MEXA of East Los Angeles College, LA Brown Berets and several other student and community-based organizations plan to march seven blocks from Belvedere Park to East Los Angeles College in Monterey Park to protest what organizers call Clinton's attacks on working-class communities of color and her 2002 vote as a senator in favor of the resolution authorizing military action against Iraq.
"We will let the community know that either Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton would make terrible presidents," said organizer Ron Gochez, referring to the real estate tycoon and television personality who is the presumptive Republican presidential nominee. "This action is strictly to protest against Hillary Clinton and not in support of any party and/or candidates."
Clinton will also hold two fundraisers in downtown Los Angeles Thursday, according to Political Party Time, a website that tracks political fundraisers.
Tickets for an afternoon fundraiser hosted by Los Angeles City Councilman Jose Huizar are $2,700, the maximum individual contribution under federal law to a candidate seeking a party's presidential nomination.
Individuals who have raised $10,000 are designated as co-hosts and will be able to have their pictures taken with Clinton. Those raising $27,000 are designated as event hosts and received an invitation to a host reception with Clinton and receive membership in the Hillary for America Finance Committee.
Tickets for a second downtown fundraiser are also $2,700, with couples donating $5,400 for Clinton's primary campaign getting a photo with her.
Individuals raising $27,000 are designated as event co-hosts and received an invitation to a host reception with Clinton and receive membership in the Hillary for America Finance Committee.
A third fundraiser for the Clinton campaign is also planned for today in downtown Los Angeles, a $1,000 per person event featuring the campaign's vice chair Huma Abedin, a longtime Clinton aide and wife of former Rep. Anthony Weiner, D-New York.
The trip is the 68-year-old Clinton's eleventh to the Los Angeles area since declaring her candidacy for the Democratic presidential nomination last April.
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