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NATION/WORLD
East Oregonian
Tuesday, September 13, 2016
In historic move, California
Trump stands up for backers
even as rally scufle breaks out expands overtime to farmworkers
BALTIMORE (AP) —
Donald Trump stood up for his
supporters Monday against
Hillary Clinton’s remark
that half of his supporters
belonged in “a basket of
deplorables,”
denouncing
the comment as “an explicit
attack on the American voter”
and suggesting that it makes
her unit for the presidency.
But even as Trump
defended his backers, one
lashed out at protesters in the
hall by appearing to punch
and slap them. Trump talked
through the scufle.
“While my opponent
calls you deplorable and
irredeemable,” he said in
Asheville, North Carolina, “I
call you hard-working Amer-
ican patriots who love their
country and want a better
future for all our people.”
But his rally was inter-
rupted several times by
demonstrators and, at one
moment, brief violence. As
several protesters were being
escorted out by security, a
man in the crowd grabbed
a male protester around the
neck and then punched him.
He then slapped at a woman
being led out. The Trump
supporter was not ejected by
security.
The celebrity businessman
AP Photo/Evan Vucci
Supporters of Republican presidential candidate
Donald Trump cheer as he speaks during a rally, Mon-
day in Asheville, N.C.
talked through the scufle but
cracked after the disturbance,
“Is there any place more fun
than a Trump rally?”
No stranger to making his
own sweeping negative char-
acterizations of large groups
of people, Trump nonetheless
deployed Clinton’s remark
as the foundation for a
new campaign theme. The
message: Clinton is divisive,
while Trump is the only
candidate representing “all
Americans.”
“You cannot run for
president if you have such
contempt in your heart for the
American voter,” Trump said.
“You can’t lead this nation if
you have such a low opinion
of its citizens.”
In a speech earlier Monday
to the National Guard
Association
conference
in Baltimore, Trump said
Clinton’s comments were
aimed at those in uniform,
whether in the military or in
law enforcement.
“These were the people
Hillary Clinton so viciously
demonized,” said Trump,
who demanded that Clinton
issue a full apology. “She
divides people into baskets as
though they were objects not
human beings.”
Clinton feels good, says she
didn’t pass out during stumble
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y.
(AP) — Democratic pres-
idential candidate Hillary
Clinton said Monday that
she’s feeling better since
falling ill at a 9/11 memorial
ceremony, but she never lost
consciousness and didn’t
think her pneumonia diag-
nosis was signiicant enough
to disclose beforehand.
“I just didn’t think it was
going to be that big a deal,”
she said of the pneumonia
diagnosis she received Friday.
She told CNN’s “Anderson
Cooper 360” that despite
doctor’s orders to rest for ive
days, she thought she could
“just keep going forward and
power through it and that
didn’t work out so well.”
Clinton abruptly left the
ceremony and appeared
to stumble while she was
waiting for her motorcade.
Asked whether she fainted,
Clinton replied: “No, I didn’t.
I felt dizzy and I did lose my
balance for a minute. But I
got in, once I could sit down,
once I could cool off, once
I got some water, I immedi-
ately started feeling better.”
Later Tuesday, Clinton
told supporters via text
message and Facebook,
“I’m feeling ine and getting
better,” adding, “Like anyone
who’s ever been home sick
from work, I’m just anxious
to get back out there.”
AP Photo/Andrew Harnik
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton ar-
rives to attend a ceremony at the National September 11
Memorial, in New York, Sunday on the 15th anniversary
of the Sept. 11 attacks.
Clinton’s evening inter-
view, in which she promised
to release more information
at some point, came as her
campaign scrambled to head
off lasting damage from a
dificult weekend. Aides are
promising to release more of
her medical records following
her bout of pneumonia and
conceding they were too slow
in providing information
about her condition.
An outbreak of respira-
tory illness swept through
Hillary Clinton’s campaign
in the weeks before she was
diagnosed with pneumonia,
campaign aides said Monday.
The Democratic presiden-
tial candidate abruptly left
SACRAMENTO, Calif.
(AP) — Farmworkers in the
nation’s largest agricultural
state will be entitled to the
same overtime pay as most
other hourly workers under
a law that California Gov.
Jerry Brown said Monday
that he had signed.
The new law, which
will be phased in beginning
in 2019, is the irst of its
kind in the nation to end
the 80-year-old practice of
applying separate labor rules
to agricultural laborers.
In the state where Cesar
Chavez successfully rallied
farmworkers to demand
union rights and more digni-
ied working conditions, the
legislation, AB1066, will
gradually lower the number
of hours that ranch hands
and people who tend crops
must work before accruing
additional compensation.
Farmworkers will be
entitled to time-and-a-half
pay after eight hours in a
day or 40 hours in a week,
up from 10 hours a day or 60
a week. The new rules will
take full effect in 2022 for
most businesses and in 2025
for farms with 25 or fewer
employees.
“The hundreds of thou-
sands of men and women
who work in California’s
ields, dairies and ranches
feed the world and anchor
our economy,” Assembly-
woman Lorena Gonzalez,
D-San Diego, the bill’s
author, said in a statement.
“They will inally be treated
equally under the law.”
The measure passed after
a strong push by the politi-
cally powerful United Farm
Workers. Farming groups
warned it will cause severe
hardships for one of Califor-
nia’s largest industries.
Farm work, marked by
crushing workloads during
speciic periods, has long
been exempted from some of
the labor standards enacted
by the federal government
beginning in the 1930s,
including overtime pay.
Beginning in the 1960s,
Chavez brought laborers
together and formed the
United Farm Workers in
California’s Central Valley,
making California the
epicenter of their struggle.
He used the rallying cry “si
se puede,” or “yes we can,”
and became a celebrated
civil rights leader, particu-
larly among Latinos.
Brown, a Democrat,
signed the historic bill
granting farmworkers the
right to unionize when he
was governor in 1975. He
has declined to comment
on the overtime legislation
all year and declined again
Monday through spokes-
woman Deborah Hoffman.
California was the irst
state to give farmworkers
collective bargaining rights,
workers compensation and
unemployment
service.
The state also requires that
employers provide rest
breaks and access to water
and shade.
However, farmworkers
were again exempted when
the state guaranteed over-
time pay after eight hours in
a day, not just 40 hours in a
week, in 1999.
Opponents argued the
seasonal nature of farm
labor, with long hours
crucial to sow and harvest
during speciic weather and
growing periods, does not
lend itself to overtime.
They said the legislation
would raise costs for farmers
and make it more dificult for
them to compete with rivals
in other states and countries.
The obligation to care
for animals “doesn’t always
adhere to an eight-hour
day, 40-hour work week,”
said Justin Oldield, vice
president of government
relations for the California
Cattlemen’s Association.
Producers can’t afford
to pay workers overtime
for 60-hour weeks and stay
competitive, he said.
They are likely to hire
more employees rather
than pay overtime, he said,
resulting in a pay cut for
existing employees.
Syria cease-ire goes into effect, but rebels don’t commit
BEIRUT (AP) — A
cease-ire came into effect
in Syria at sunset Monday
in the latest attempt led by
the United States and Russia
to bring some quiet in the 5
1/2-year civil war.
Residents and observers
reported quiet in most of the
country hours after the truce
came into effect, though
activists said airstrikes took
place on contested areas
around the northern city of
Aleppo.
But the most powerful
rebel groups have shown
deep misgivings over the
cease-ire deal, which was
crafted without their input
last weekend in Geneva
between the top U.S. and
Russian diplomats. Hours
after it came into force, a
coalition of rebel factions
put out a statement that
stopped short of committing
to the cease-ire, a relection
of their distrust of the
government.
The irst week of the truce
will be crucial. During that
time, all ighting between
the military of President
Bashar Assad and rebels is to
stop. But, Assad’s forces can
continue air strikes against
the Islamic State group and
al-Qaida-linked insurgents
from the group once known
as the Nusra Front.
However, the al-Qaida
linked insurgents are closely
allied to many rebel factions
and are a powerful force
in the defense of Aleppo
in particular. That raises
the danger that continued
airstrikes will draw rebels
into retaliation, eventually
leading to the cease-ire’s
collapse, much as previous
attempts earlier this year fell
apart.
Sunday’s event after feeling
“overheated.” A video later
posted on Twitter showed
her staggering and eventually
slumping forward before
being held up by three people
as she was helped into a van.
On Sunday, her campaign
answered questions about
Clinton’s
health
and
whereabouts with two short
statements, both issued hours
after she left the memorial in
lower Manhattan. More than
20 hours later, her campaign
gave a fuller accounting of
the episode, which sparked
a wave of bipartisan concern
about her health and ques-
tions about her political
transparency.
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