Stark Says Her Case is Clear
The Balancing Act
What will running for president mean for Hillary Clinton's job in the Senate?
Hillary Clinton's decision to form a presidential exploratory committee was hardly a surprise.
Growing up, Bronx Borough President Adolfo Carrión’s (D) parents held close to their culture. His house was filled with the sounds of Puerto Rican music and the scent of Puerto Rican food. But even deeper than his family’s love of the island, Carrión said, was the love of their new home.
Now that New Yorkers have twice elected her to do a job in the Senate, the question becomes real: how does a woman who will presumably need to be touching down in every corner of most states in the nation find time for the minutiae of legislative work?
Like it or not, we are about to find out the answer.
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Who Will Be the Latino Driving Force?
Next stop: Winning statewide and citywide
“To be American is really a philosophical passion,” Carrión said, one that hinges so importantly on the idea of personal freedom that the commitment to the adopted country “supersedes everything, including your love for a motherland.”
In slightly more than one quarter of a century, the Latino community has gone from inaugurating the first elected mayor of a large American city—Henry Cisneros in San Antonio—to being represented by approximately 5,000 Latino elected officials across the country.
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