Clinton Pledges to Fight On Despite Split Primary Result
With her hopes for fresh political momentum deflated by Tuesday night’s primary results and with signs of mounting financial problems, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton nonetheless vowed on Wednesday to fight on. She began her campaign for the May 13 primary in West Virginia while her advisers huddled privately to assess her options.
Highlighting the difficulties Mrs. Clinton has had in financing her high-spending battle against Senator Barack Obama for the Democratic presidential nomination, officials from her campaign disclosed on Wednesday that she had lent her campaign more than $6 million over the last month. She did so, they said, in three installments: $5 million on April 11, $1 million on May 1, and $425,000 on May 5.
Mrs. Clinton is willing to put more money into her campaign going forward, said Terry McAuliffe, her campaign’s chairman. “Senator Clinton has anted up and is fighting on,” he said. . .
SAN DIEGO — U.S. border authorities no longer apprehend illegal immigrants only as they enter the country. Now they’re catching them on the way out.
At random times near the Tijuana-San Diego border, U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers have been setting up checkpoints, boarding buses destined for Mexico and pulling off people who don’t have proper documentation.
The operation appears to be an expansion of a broader federal crackdown targeting illegal immigrants in jails, airports and workplaces across the country.
The checkpoints, which are not announced in advance, are set up on southbound Interstate 5 about 100 yards north of the border. Vehicles in all lanes must stop. . .
New Assembly speaker wants tax code review
SACRAMENTO – Incoming state Assembly Speaker Karen Bass on Tuesday said one way to solve California’s continual budget mess is to revamp the state’s tax code, possibly raising income taxes on the wealthy, levying sales taxes on services and closing tax loopholes.
In an interview with The Associated Press, the Los Angeles Democrat said she wants a bipartisan panel to examine the code and recommend ways to change it.
“The state of California is in a crisis,” Bass said. “I want to set up a commission outside of the Legislature that will look at more long-term solutions and evaluate whether the tax structure we have now makes sense given that it was devised in the 1930s when we had an entirely different economy. . .
