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Hillary Clinton to speak in Houston in April

Hillary Clinton is coming to Texas for one of her first political appearances since her devastating defeat in the presidential election last year.

Clinton is set to speak at a luncheon on April 7 in Houston for Annie's List, a group that works to elect Democratic women in Texas. Annie's List announced Clinton as a speaker Wednesday night.

The luncheon will honor Amber Mostyn, a top Democratic donor who has long been involved with Annie's List, and "distinguished guests working to turn Texas blue," according to an invitation.

Clinton has kept a low profile since losing to Donald Trump on Nov. 8. She made her first public appearance since the election about a week later, when she spoke at a charity event in Washington, D.C.

This article originally appeared in The Texas Tribune on March 1 at https://www.texastribune.org/2017/03/01/clinton-speak-houston-april/.

The Texas Tribune is a nonprofit, nonpartisan media organization that informs Texans and engages with them about public policy, politics, government and statewide issues.

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The Bill and Hillary Clinton National Airport in Little Rock could be renamed if an Arkansas state senators bill becomes law.

On Wednesday, the State Senate held a hearing on SB 430, a bill proposed by State Senator Jason Rapert (R-Maynard) that would forbid any state airports built with public funds from being named after a living person.

Although the bill does not specifically mention the Clintons, the most prominent airport that would be affected by the legislation is the Bill and Hillary Clinton National Airport, which is Arkansass largest commercial service airport with two million passengers a year. If passed, the bill would require the airport to be renamed by January 1, 2018.

Rapert says the bill was written in response to a Twitter poll he conducted, asking his followers if they would support a bill removing the names Bill & Hillary Clinton from the Little Rock Airport? Rapert tweeted. Arkansas does not support them.

Rapert also said that he received complaints from pilots and constituents who did not think that Arkansas should honor a former president who was impeached in 1998 for lying under oath to a federal grand jury and obstructing justice over an affair with a White House intern. Clinton was acquitted of those charges in a Senate trial the next year.

You have a president who was impeached for having an affair with an intern in the Oval Office and then disbarred, Rapert told Reuters.

"Frankly, Bill Clinton is a very similar story to Bill Cosby, Rapert said, according to KTBS. Bill Cosby has paid a tremendous price for what we now know he did, taking advantage of women all over the country. Why is Bill Clinton not having to pay the same price?"

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The airport was originally named Adams Field, after Arkansas National Guard Captain George Geyer Adams, a Little Rock councilman who was killed in the line of duty in 1937. The name was later changed in 2012, when Democrats controlled the state legislature and the governors office.

Rapert says Little Rock's Airport Commission unanimously voted to rename the airport when, political friends of the Clintons decided to strip Adams of the honor, according to the Associated Press.

Little Rock Mayor Mark Stodola (D) says the city will fight the bill.

"Where does he get off thinking that's a negative? Stodola told the Arkansas Times. We've had billions of dollars of benefit from of the Clinton Presidential Library. That name hasn't hurt our city nor has the name of the airport."

Governor Asa Hutchinson (R), who helped prosecute the impeachment case against former President Clinton, said the decision to rename the airport should remain with the owners.

"I respect that decision, and I do not think that the legislative body should interfere with that," Hutchinson told reporters, according to the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.

Rapert has also recently proposed legislation that would amend the Constitution by defining marriage as a union between a man and a woman, as well as a bill that would prohibit a person from smoking medical marijuana "in any location in Arkansas."

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Hillary Clinton returns to Wellesley College on Thursday for a private question-and-answer session with Wellesley community members.

It's a rare post-election public appearance for the 2016 Democratic presidential nominee, and it's Clinton's first visit to her alma mater in Wellesley, Massachusetts, since Nov. 9.

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The 90-minute event will begin with a conversation between the former secretary of state and Wellesley President Paula A. Johnson, followed by a lively question and answer session in Alumnae Hall, according to a copy of the invitation sent to Wellesley students and staff, obtained by POLITICO Massachusetts.

It is a pleasure and a privilege for me to take part in a meaningful, unfiltered dialogue with a remarkable alumna and leader and to be part of a community that values such important interactions between women, Johnson said in the invitation.

The event begins at 5 p.m. and is closed to press, visitors and guests of Wellesley students.

Clinton will also deliver this springs commencement address to Wellesleys graduating class.

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The Clintons attend a 2011 dedication ceremony for a pedestrian bridge in Little Rock, Ark., located adjacent to former President Bill Clinton's presidential library. Brian Chilson/Associated Press hide caption

The Clintons attend a 2011 dedication ceremony for a pedestrian bridge in Little Rock, Ark., located adjacent to former President Bill Clinton's presidential library.

Bill and Hillary Clinton's political careers took off in Arkansas and the state capital, Little Rock, is filled with tributes to the former president, the only native of the Natural State who has made it to the Oval Office.

Now a state lawmaker wants to erase the Clintons' names from the Little Rock airport.

"The state of Arkansas would just like to forget the Clinton era," said state Sen. Jason Rapert, a Republican.

On Wednesday, the state Senate will hold a hearing about a bill Rapert has submitted that forbids the state from naming facilities built with public money after people who are still alive. The Bill and Hillary Clinton National Airport in Little Rock would be the most prominent facility affected by the proposed law.

Although Bill is 16 years removed from the White House and Hillary's own presidential dreams were smashed in November, Rapert cites a familiar list of reasons why the Clintons' names should be removed from the busiest airport in Arkansas, including allegations of impropriety at the Clinton Foundation, Hillary Clinton's emails as secretary of state and Bill Clinton's impeachment by Congress.

"When people realized there really was fire where there was all that smoke with the Clintons, they really don't want to have anything to do with them at all," said Rapert.

Shift away from Democrats

A controversial figure himself, Rapert has most recently attempted to revive the abolition of same-sex marriage, criminalize abortion and install a monument to the Ten Commandments on the grounds of the state Capitol. He is on the far right in a state that has become increasingly dominated by Republicans in the past decade.

By 2014, the GOP controlled the state Legislature and every constitutional office in Arkansas as white, socially conservative voters migrated away from the Democratic Party. Bill Clinton said in 2015 that he would perhaps lose in Arkansas were he running now.

The William Jefferson Clinton Presidential Library in Little Rock shortly before its 2004 dedication ceremony. Veronica Bandrowsky/Getty Images hide caption

The William Jefferson Clinton Presidential Library in Little Rock shortly before its 2004 dedication ceremony.

Last year, Hillary Clinton didn't bother to contest Arkansas and lost the state by 27 points. After the election, a billboard on a highway leading into Little Rock read: "The Witch is Dead. Establishment Fired. Time to drain the swamp."

Hillary, who was raised in Illinois and educated on the East Coast, had a complicated relationship with her husband's home state. In her autobiography, Living History, she wrote, "I was an oddity because of my dress, my Northern ways, and the use of my maiden name."

Still, as the state's first lady, Hillary started the Home Instruction for Parents of Preschool Youngsters program, a popular early education program that continues to have bipartisan support today.

Although Bill's presidential library was built in Arkansas, the couple relocated to New York after his presidency so that Hillary could pursue her own political career representing that state in the Senate.

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In 2012, while Hillary was serving as secretary of state in the Obama administration, the Little Rock airport commission voted unanimously to rename it in honor of the Clintons.

"The Clintons did a tremendous amount for this state," said Little Rock Mayor Mark Stodola, a Democrat. Stodola says that the Clinton presidential library has brought billions of dollars to Arkansas and that Bill Clinton remains an active presence, staying in the apartment atop the library nearly every month.

Little Rock was one of the few parts of the state to back Hillary Clinton's presidential bid last year. Stodola hopes the bill won't proceed in the state Senate, but if it succeeds, the city is prepared to challenge it or reject state funding so that the law doesn't apply to the airport.

Gov. Asa Hutchinson, a Republican, is staying out of the fray. Hutchinson says the decision is up to the airport commission, although he emphasized that Arkansas remains proud of the Clintons.

"Even today, I was at the mansion with some guests from a foreign country and I was, with great pride, pointing out the balcony from which Bill Clinton made one of his announcements for president," he said during a news conference on Tuesday.

When asked whether renaming the airport pushes the boundaries of political decorum too far, Rapert conceded that perhaps the bill, which bans naming airports after a living person, should make an exception for living presidents.

"Therefore, Hillary's name would be removed," he said.

Meanwhile, Rapert has gotten some blowback from Clinton supporters in the state. In response to his bill, a petition on Facebook proposes renaming several municipal sewage tanks after Rapert.

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One of the most widely circulated post-election rumors about theClintonsis that HillaryClintonwill resume her political career by running for Mayor of New York City against incumbent Bill de Blasio. With an FBIinvestigationintohis campaign fundraising looming large over his bid forre-election, the opportunity could be Clintons saving grace after her embarrassing defeat in November.

De Blasio has taken hits forClintonbefore. During her presidential campaign, de Blasio took the blame for a racist joke the two made during an annual New York City Press Dinner. Well, look, it was Mayor de Blasios skit. He has addressed it, and I will really defer to him because it is something that hes already talked about,Clinton told Cosmopolitan.

Since Clintons election loss, her loyalists have been desperate to revive the Clinton image.Though Clintons presidential campaign ended in defeat months ago, the arrogance her campaign injected into the Democratic Party has yet to subside as her loyalist supporters fail to recognize thelessons that the defeat should have taught them. These Democrats remain blind to the damage Clinton has inflicted on the party and are eager to continue with their unabated praise and admiration. Every tweet Clinton has sent from her account since the election has received coverage from mainstream media outlets. These outlets have also praisedher daughter, ChelseaClinton, for her tweets opposing Trump and have also fueled rumors speculating a futureChelsea Clintoncongressional bid.

In New York City, supporters desperate to resurrect Clintons career have begun postingHillary For Mayor signs. However, if theDemocratic Partywants to optimize their chances of recouping the drastic losses they suffered under the Obama administration, it would be wise to suppress Clintonsfuture political plans. Outside of her cult-like fan base, Clinton remains widely disliked among American voters.

Even some moderate Republicans who have defected to theDemocratic Partydue toTrumpare repelled by Clintonism and the Clintons reputation of corruption and scandal. Hillary Clinton is the only politician who seems to be routinely discussed by fans in terms of what she deserves vs. what the country does, Business Insider Senior Editor Josh Barrotweeted. What the country needs is for the Democrats to get past the Clintons and their toxic brand. So, the best thing for Hillary to do is nothing.

Voxs Matthew Yglesias, who advocated for Clinton throughout her campaign, has called for Democrats to stop elevating the Clintons as spokespersons for the resistance against Trump. Chelsea Clintons Twitter account is Bad For The Democrats, he tweeted. The initial launch of Hillary Clinton into big-time politics made sense because Bill Clinton was super-popular. Leverage a popular brand! But the Clinton brand is currently not popular at all. Time to let it go!

Given the pervading sense of entitlement from Hillary Clinton and her avid followers, they are unlikely to let dreams of a Clinton resurrection go, and the Democratic Partywhose favorability has been trending downwardsince the electionwill continue to suffer.

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Clinton Arrogance Persists as 'Hillary for Mayor' Signs Show Up Around NYC - Observer