New Ad Highlights Clinton's Support for Bronx's Eagle Academy
Brooklyn, NY - Following Hillary Clinton's debate victory last night in New York City where she outlined her record of getting results for New Yorkers, Hillary for America released a new television ad today highlighting Clinton's work to help start the Eagle Academy, a public school for young African American men in the Bronx.
"The kind of leader who I think the country really needs is somebody who believes in people, cares about people, will fight for people," Eagle Academy Principal David Banks says in the ad. "For me and what I've known about Hillary Clinton, she's as good as it gets."
The ad, Came Through, features the story of Alonzo Sanchez who graduated from the Eagle Academy. "With her you get results," Alonzo's mother, Kelly Sanchez says of Clinton. "People talk about doing stuff and you never see the results. Especially people like us, the neighborhoods that people seem to forget about. The politicians can come through the neighborhoods and they can shake our hands, but when it comes down to it, that stuff that they promised us, they never come through with. Hillary was one of the few that came through the neighborhood, came into our schools, and actually came through with what she promised to do."
Came Through is running in the New York City media market and features the principal, a student, and a parent from Eagle Academy. As a senator, Clinton worked with the New York Chapter of 100 Black Men, elected officials and local leaders, to establish the Eagle Academy in the Bronx. There are now six public Eagle Academies with UFT union teachers that serve more than 2,000 scholars in all five boroughs of New York City and Newark, New Jersey.
