Hillary Clinton REPEATEDLY heckled at Maryland campaign stop: Protesters strike again and again at rally in Democratic stronghold
Clinton was heckled a half-dozen times today during a rally for Maryland’s Democratic nominee for governor, current Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown
A few minutes into her remarks a group of five protesters holding signs that said ‘choose families over politics’ began shouting at her
When the commotion died down, Clinton said, ‘You know if they had just waited a little while I was getting to the DREAM Act’
Clinton was introduced by Brown as ‘Charlotte’s grandmother’ in reference to birth of her first grandchild a month ago
Hillary Clinton was heckled a half-dozen times today during a campaign stop for Maryland Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown, who is seeking the state’s top job.
Clinton was just a few minutes into her remarks at the University of Maryland’s College Park campus when a group of five protesters holding signs that said ‘choose families over politics’ began shouting at her about immigration.
‘You know immigration’s an important issue,’ Clinton told them.
The presumed 2016 presidential candidate tried to talk over the noisy group. But the crowd of several hundred people came to her aid and drowned the protesters out by cheering and chanting, ‘HILLARY! HILLARY!’
When the commotion died down, Clinton said, ‘You know if they had just waited a little while I was getting to the DREAM Act.’
After the group was escorted out, Clinton said she was ‘proud to be in state that has opened the doors of opportunity to students who work and study hard, regardless of their parents’ immigration status’.
As a Senator, Hillary said she was proud to sponsor federal DREAM Act legislation, which would have granted legal status to people who were brought to the U.S. illegally as children.
The legislation failed to pass, but President Obama enacted much of its language unilaterally in 2012.
‘I’m a strong supporter of comprehensive immigration reform, and I believe that we have to fix our broken immigration system,’ she explained.
‘We have to treat everyone with dignity and compassion, uphold the rule of law and respect our heritage as a nation of immigrants, [trying] to build a better life, bringing millions of hard-working people out of the shadows…’
No Clinton got back on track, she was interrupted again.
‘You know when you’ve been doing this as long as I have or [Maryland Sen. Barbara] Mikulski or [Maryland Sen. Ben] Cardin, it’s important to keep moving forward, and yes, of course we want people to be advocates,’ she tried to say, but she was cut off a third time.
The former first lady then attempted to shift topics to her support for equal pay for equal work, but the hecklers, spread throughout the gymnasium, wouldn’t let her.
Throughout the 20 minute speech, Clinton was heckled six separate times, though it was not immediately clear if all of her critics were immigration reform advocates working together, or if they were supporting different causes.
President Barack Obama was similarly interrupted when he appeared in Maryland on Brown’s behalf two weeks ago at an early vote rally.
