the senate returns that same day with lawmakers planning to work on costar programs in the nomination for the federal reserve board. follow the house life on c-span, and life on c-span2. last week in iowa, the johnson county democratic party held a barbecue fundraiser. speaking of together, j tinsley, oregon senator jeff in hawaii congresswoman. from iowa city, iowa. our and ten minutes. [applause] >> let's try this one more time. loja. their ego hot. you are on the same page. i always love to start conversations with the -- you can't say a loja without smiling. first of all, you can't say it without being transported to a beautiful sunny paradise. most important thing you can't say a loja that same love. during these times of chaos of

divisiveness, darkness, hatred and bigotry, seemingly surrounding us, never is there a time more that we need to be surrounded by love. it's the deepest sense of the word, i come to you with an open heart. i come to you with respect and with love and a recognition that we are all interconnected. that whether i'm coming from hawaii and you're from iowa, no matter how you choose to worship, who you choose to love or where you come from, we are all insert interconnected. based on these common principles and values of our humanity. it's very easy for us to talk about and getting angry and frustrated about a lot of the destructive policies that are coming out of the white house these days. it's easy to get sucked into kind of the darkness that you

see a lot of times when you turn on the news. but it's important for us to recognize also, that there are people suffering in our communities before the election in 2016. the challenges before us are systemic, long-standing and they are great. but with those challenges, comes our opportunity because we know that the only way to overcome those challenges is with the power of us. the power of the people standing together, not in hatred and in darkness but in love. [applause] so unfortunately, sometimes, too often people confuse love with weakness. people confuse love and a aloha with being passive and sitting on the sidelines and doing nothing to fight for that which you love.

it's so important for us to think ourselves. about who we love most in our lives. what is it that we love the most? what is it just drives us? how far would be go to fight for those we love? this is where comes to a aloha. this internet connectedness. when we think about who we love, my husband, abraham, i love him very much. [applause] [cheering] we think about our family. we think about our friends. we think about the people who we work with, the people who are in our communities, but when we realize i'm a we are reminded of the interconnectedness that we all have as people, then we brought in those who we are fighting for. we realize and remember there is no more force powerful than love.

it is that love that motivates us to fight for our neighbor. to fight for our living wage. to make it so that people are working one full-time job are able to support their families and keep a roof over their head. it's love that motivates us to recognize that every single one of us who maybe sick or in need can get access to the care we need. [applause] this is something that you especially in iowa, dealing with an a really real way. why the kinds of leaders you elect have an impact on our everyday life. it is this love that motivates us to fight for clean water. for clean air, to fight for our planet and our future. because we know. [applause] without these things, there is no life. it is this love that motivates us to fight for peace.

pieces what gives us our future. peace for us here at home, he's for people in other parts of the world, understanding the cost of war and the trillions of dollars that our country has sent, your money since 9/11 alone. disastrous regime changes of wars of choice, other points part of the word. wreaking havoc in those people. taking a on our troops and veterans. when we are reminded every day, how the trillions of dollars could have been spent in rebuilding our communities right here at home. [applause] this is what is at stake. this is what can be accomplished. when we stand together, motivated by this most powerful force of love.

i am inspired by the words of doctor king, always. especially in those moments when you feel like the obstacles are too great. civil rights champion when the darkest of time, said that darkness cannot drive out darkness, only light can do that. i hatred cannot drive out hatred. only love can do that. it is these words that need to be our daily mantra, now more than ever. [applause] is these words that inspire us as we gain inspiration from each other, the amazing energy and it is in this room tonight. to go out and knock on the stores and make those phone calls and sometimes have those conversations with people who

disagree with you. may think, i'm on the opposite team. i'm one of the other guys. but we have to have those conversations, always bringing it back to our humanity and all that we share in common. as we head into the next three weeks, i want to say thank you to all of you because i know you're working hard, you are here because you are working hard. you're supporting the folks out there, dialing, knocking on doors, getting the turnout, recognizing that the challenges are great. but for us, we need to stand together to make it so our government, local, state and national as a government of, by and for the people. a government that is accountable to, we the people. not some special interest were dumping millions, if not billions of dollars into trying to influence the policies that will line their pocketbooks rather than policies that benefit each and everyone of us and our families and communiti

communities. understanding this legal corruption and bribery that's taking place, that is her to hurting us. it is hurting those who need help the most. standing together to make sure that we are taking care of our veterans. i know there are some of you here today, please stand up and allow us to thank you for your service. please -- [applause] [cheering] those who have seen the cost of war, bite hardest for peace. peace over there and peace here at home. motivated by this core principle of putting service before self. putting country before self. while this is what binds us together as veterans, this is

what binds us together as americans. we have such a beautiful diverse country. but we must be united on these principles. of service. of love and of freedom. thank you all for your what you do, things for inviting me to come back here. november and beyond. thank you so much. a aloha. [applause] [applause] >> thank you so much. next up, introduce our next speaker. democrat treasurer emma -- >> good afternoon. many of you may recall back on june 3. it was senator jeff who took a trip down to brownsville, texas.

he went into an abandoned kmart, or he tried to get, he visited a banded kmart. where he showed the nation what was going on with the cruel separation of children from their families. really, that trip is really what first help ignite a nationwide outrage on what was going on. senator berkley, he doesn't just talk the talk. he walks the walk. really whether, fighting for civil rights or clean and renewable energy, or standing up for climate chaos. it's my pleasure to welcome united states senator, jeff

buckley. [applause] >> hello iowa. how are you doing? [cheering] ready for me to blue away this all across the state? i've got to tell you, this is what we the people democracy looks like. show it to the world. as a whole lot we've been seeing that, it doesn't look like we the people democracy. for example, the republican is trying to pass a health bill that will drip healthcare from 30 million americans, that's not we the people democracy. how about instead, we have simple healthcare medicare for all for sick injured and know you'll be cared for. your loved ones will be cared for.

[cheering] in the process, we take on the opioid epidemic in a serious way. we take on the drug companies, america shouldn't pay more for drugs than europeans or canadians with those drugs are invented here in america. [applause] second thing they were determined to do, pass the tax bill and they did. borrowed and took a trillion and a half dollars out of the national treasury. gave it to the wealthiest americans and most powerful corporations. i can tell you, i do a lot of town halls. 360 -- i've been a u.s. senator about every ten days and the majority, they've been publicans counties. i can tell you, not the blue county, on the red counties, that's anybody come up to me and said i had this great idea. let's take money out of our national treasury given to the richest among us. [laughter] we have enough income inequality

already? that we have enough wealth and inequality already? how about fighting for the middle class in america lifting up the middle class. let's take that chilling and a half dollars back, let's invest in healthcare, and education, and infrastructure and create jobs. we the people, democracy does not look like but the divorce. having somebody as in public education secretary who doesn't believe in public education. it doesn't look like scott pruitt who we have kicked out and it took a long time to do it. here's the thing, he petted on what happens. now just 23 days from now, the democrats can take the u.s. senate, there will be no betty betty's, there will be no more scott pruitt's. [cheering]

there will be no more taxing of the court, individuals like mr. kavanaugh. [cheering] i have to tell you, i was so deeply disturbed by what happened asked week. his individual, mr. kavanaugh, first he didn't have his full record, because the president privilege on a 100,000 documents prevented us from reviewing the record. the judiciary did not stand up for the senate insisted that we get the documents. that is a huge -- well, damage to the u.s. senate. our process of confirmation. so, i would like you to send a message to one of your senators and say, next time, stand up for the senate, get those documents so we can have a real review of a supreme court nominee. [cheering]

so i filed to say this is a first time in our u.s. history, this is happened. that the president reached out and prevented the senate from reviewing the record of the nominee. it was taken seriously by the court and we had a hearing scheduled for last tuesday. unfortunately, the vote was three days earlier on saturday. but let us never again under the separation of the power of the constitution, let the president prevent the senate from doing its job and letting anybody like kavanaugh on to the court. [cheering] another thing, it doesn't look like we the part people democracy, to have our government go down to the border and perceive to criminalize families fleeing persecution, ripping the children out of their arms and sending the parents off to prison. that is not the vision of lady liberty. you remember the words.

give us your tired, your poor huddled masses. yearning to break free. so many of us, almost all of us, our ancestors, they fled persecution. they fled famine. they fled conflict. they came here to build a stronger, better more beautiful nation, let's treat immigrants, persecution, awaiting the hearings, with respect. [cheering] and dignity. so after i went down to the border, and exposed what was going on, the administration came up with a new plan. the president did an executive order and said, congress, you have an opportunity to authorize separations that are already happening. we stopped that. that was good. then the president said, authorize internment camps. the house of representatives actually passed that bill and

there are 35 senators signed onto a bill to allow camps. how about we have every democrat in the country stand up and say, no internment camp. [cheering] so this last week, i filed a bill and it straightforward, no internment camps in the united states of america. we have to pass it to stop the president, let's do it in january after congress comes back in. [cheering] i come from a blue-collar family, my dad was a mechanic and he believes so much in the power of education. public education. that vision, that vision that if you walk through the doors of schoolhouse, you're in america, you work hard, you could do almost anything. that's what he would preach. but that's not true if we don't invest in education.

here in iowa, the investment in education pens -- let's take over the iowa house in the iowa senate on november 6. [applause] that's so much that can be done here in the state. it reminds me of oregon when the republicans controlled the house and senate, i put my -- quit my day job. tobacco senate, we took the house and we changed and had an agenda. it fought for these things. housing, education, healthcare, living wage jobs and would ship of our planet. me tell you, we have an enormous challenge with robin pollution and it's damaging our planet with climate chaos, we see in the fires in the west, with hurricanes in the south, we see it with the greater flooding and greater droughts and the heartland, let's work together

on behalf of this generation, the next generation and generations to come to completely transition one 100% from fossil fuel to clean renewable energy. save our planet. [applause] if you -- all of the things, we have to take seriously our constitution. the corruption is something we have really been in full strength. photo suppression. you see that right here in iowa. it's dark money in citizens united money, you see it flooding right here into iowa. it's also gerrymandering. here i must say, complement to iowa because you all have a nonpartisan commission that's a model for the nation. let the nation adopt the iowa model. [applause] we have to do everything else we can in that dark money issue and

in the voters suppression. those are the tools, the 1% are going to spew, and we the people democracy from us. this do it through legislation by taking the house and senate at the national level and to take the house and senate, you are in a position to send three additional initial today, dave, somewhere. over here. he needs company. seventy-three more democrats. send him cindy. would've -- statewide elective here. then, when we can celebrate reclaiming our democracy, we will take on that corruption i'm a we have to end it and the generations, depend on it. i feel so privileged to be able to be part of the federal national discussion as a blue-collar candidate. sees the challenge for working families every day. we can do better. let's aim our sites high and

let's know that when we work together, nothing is unachievable. you can do it here in the united states for education, for healthcare, for our planet, for a living wage job and let's start with a powerful wave on november 6. right here and i will. thank you very much, but god bless you. [applause] >> introducing our next speaker, mike. [applause] >> good afternoon. my name is mike and i'm the current chair of the johnson county board of supervisors.

what an op at some event this is. i'm honored to share this stage with all of these candidates and all these other elected officials. it's also been a great pride for me to serve as a supervisor for the last four years. [applause] we have a wealth of opportunity in this state and an awesome response building. that wealth of opportunity, we are first in the nation. we will continue to be first in the nation. but that comes with an awesome responsibility for us to choose a great candidate to move forward. somebody like barack obama. we launched him, we need to launch the next challenger to our current president. we have 447 days to the iowa caucuses. that's a lot of shopping days until christmas. so i'm asking everybody to keep an open mind. we have a lot of great people here today. we're going to have a lot more. there maybe 20 to 25 people running for the democratic nomination.

that's a lot. it's our job to start reading them out. so let's listen to the what they have the say, their policies and every thing else. that best matches your heart and values. i have met this gentleman about two months ago and i was very impressed with his out-of-the-box thinking. his name is andrew, he's a 43-year-old serial entrepreneur from new york city. he has an idea called universal basic income unit. don't anybody else will running on it. nothing anybody is going to run on the metric system either. i thank you should listen to what this gentleman has to say because it's very important. so without further a do, i would like to introduce you to enter. [applause] thank you all thank you for the privilege of this opportunity to address well. i have to say, i will, you don't

know how good you have it. the rest of the country and vegas and admires this place were democracy actually works. the way it was intended. i have to say, what a joy it's been to hang out with jack and jodi and the other candidates. let's make sure they win in november. congratulations to all of them. [applause] you have phenomenal leaders. i'm hear from new york. i'm here the question that's been plaguing many americans. a question that you've all been thinking about, too. the question is this. the hard question to ask. it's a hard question to answer. why did donald trip when i went by nine points? why did he win michigan? ohio? and vania? missouri? even wisconsin? why did he win all of the states in 26 in? when many of the states were blue or purple prior to that

year. i'm an entrepreneur and i like numbers and math. so what i did, i dug into the numbers as to why donald trump is our president today and is a very strong correlation between the adoption of industrial robots in a voting district in the movement toward donald trump and the republicans for the last eight years. the reason why donald trump is our president today, we automated a way 4 million any fracturing jobs in michigan, ohio, pennsylvania, wisconsin, missouri and 40000 right here in iowa over that. how many of you personally know who lost their job over the last number of jobs due to robots? i talked to mitch and he told me what happened in his town. we know what happens in those communities, blue turns to red. that's happening in more and more places around the country. how many of you noticed the storefronts closing in your town?

you all have lost 12000 retail jobs over the last eight years. why is that? why are they closing? it used to be walmart but what's the new answer? amazon. $20 billion or is going to e-commerce and amazon each year end it is now pushing your mainstream stores into oblivion. what happened to the manufacturing jobs, will soon happen to retail jobs, call-center jobs, truck driving jobs, i was just and the biggest truck stop in the country. it was great. as you know, you know and they talk about how 5000 truckers and customers stopped their everyday. 30,000 truck drivers here in iowa. my friends in silicon valley -- trucks to drive themselves. they are this close to getting there. they are chasing the dream, it's not a drink, it will be reality soon. they are there in tentative tens of billions of dollars.

one side, you $160 billion in senate lives to automate truck driving, on the side, you have three and a half million truck drivers including at least 30,000 islands, and another 5 million americans who work in the truck stop or hotels and diners, truckers usually stop. if you reflect for a moment what's going to happen to those businesses when the trucks no longer stop because they don't have driver's? we are in the third inning of the greatest economic technological transformation in the history of our country. the third inning has brought us donald trump. the question is, what will for, five, six and seven bring? it's one to get worse before it gets better. artificial intelligence is real and coming online, autonomous cars and trucks are coming. retail, call centers, fast food, truck driving and manufacturing are going to shrink. your communities in iowa are under attack. it's except in the cloud.

that's why you are losing and donald trump is our president today. so i saw this, i dug into the numbers and i said, what are we going to do about it? i met with a guy named andy who ran the largest union in the state. he said to me, the future of labor, if you were to book on this, raising the floors, about labor, have you read it? he said, the future of labor is no labor, we need to evolve and adapt. so i have adopted his plan, for the presidency, that is, the freedom dividend. every american gets $1000 a month free and clear, paid for and new tax in the companies that benefit most from technology and automation. again, every adult it's a thousand dollars a month free and clear. how many of you think that's too good to be true? that's not going to happen. most of you think it is not too

good to be true. how many of you knew that like this, the 1971 under richard nixon, martin luther king was for, martin free was for it? this would be great for the economy and society. there is one state in our country today, where every citizen gets between one to $2000 a year, no questions asked. how to find it? what is the oil of the 21st century? technology. software, artificial intelligence, we are going to do, we are going to do what alaska did. for the people here in iowa and around the country, $1000 a month for every adult in iowa would be $16 billion in your hands every year. it would strengthen families, mainstream businesses, it would create 40000 new jobs in

perpetuity. right now, 57% of our fellow americans cannot afford an unexpected 500-dollar bill. you know neighbors were in that situation you know if they get $1000 a month, where is it going to go? healthcare. car repairs. it's going to stay here in iowa. that is how we build a new trickle up economy. from our people up, families up in our communities up. the opposite of that trickle-down nonsense that they been peddling for years, and we know it does work. we need to build a human centered economy from the ground up. play number one. play number two, just like jeff, we need to move to medicare for all, single healthcare. : : : even as more and more of us get left. i will ask you all, how would you measure the economy if i would say gdp is a worthless measurement let's come up with

something new? cost-of-living and affordability. i like it. what else? prosperity. i will take it! chuck? sorry? how about life expectancy, quality adjusted life expectancy, childhood success rates. how many of you all the parents? childhood success rates, mental health and freedom from substance abuse. environmental sustainability, level of engagement with work. we invented gdp less than 100 years ago during the great depression. the avengers said a few thing. he said one, there's a terrible measurement for national well-being we should not use it as that. number two, we should include parenthood and motherhood. number three we should not could national defense spending because it has no value. of course we ignored all of those things. and i have to say, my wife is at home with our two boys. one of whom has special needs. and she works much much harder than i do. and right now gdp evaluates her value at what?

zero. and we know that is nonsense. we know she's doing more than the average hedge fund analyst or corporate lawyer. [applause] we need to evolve our measurements to a new economy that focuses on us. and our well-being. and that is a challenge you all as mike said, you all have a unique response ability as the democrats of iowa. i know it does not feel this way but your nuclear powerful. you can change the course of history. you have done it before and you will do it again. i'm going to close with a story of washington d.c.. i was there and i went to these numbers with people i wrote a book on the subject called the war on north people. and i went through it with a senior government officials and look we have automated way for -- is the same for retail, 30 percent of malls will close, etc. dear they said to me? i want you to take this to heart. they said, you are in the wrong place, andrew. because washington is not a town of leaders. it is a town of laggards and

followers. we will never do anything about this. the only way we will wake up is if you create a way that other parts of the country and the wave comes crashing on our head in dc. and that is why i'm with you all tonight. to create the wave. can we create that wave, democrats of iowa? [cheering] yes we can! we can build a new economy for the families and people in the communities up. we need to solve it this is a responsibility. i hate to bestow this uponyou but it is totally the case . it is up to you, democrats of iowa to actually address the problems that got donald trump elected. it is up to you. no one else would do it. and the opposite of donald trump is an asian man who likes math. [laughter] [applause] together let's create that blue wave starting november of next year in iowa. then win in 2020! thank you all democrats !

[applause] >> thank you so much! so, speaking of that blue wave, we are all here tonight because road johnson county democrats. we are proud to be johnson county democrats. johnson county something special. we like to think of ourselves as the blue berry in the tomato soup. the one blue county. there is a small group of you that reminds me every week that johnson county is not entirely blue. that there is one house district that is represented by a republican. our next speaker is the person who will change all of that, jodi clemens, candidate for house district 73. [applause] [cheers and

applause] >> thank you all so much, i was not expecting that kind of a welcome! for those of you that have not met me yet, my name is jodi clemens and i live over in west branch. where i have grown up since i was little. actually little bitty town called springdale. we have about 100 people over there. my husband and i, we briefly lived in the des moines area and renewed before our daughter start kindergarten want to back to my hometown so she could go to school where we did. that is what brought us back over here we start out as team parents and when i look back over the years, when she was born, shall be 18 this december, i don't think there's ever been a time. where we haven't just been rolling with the punches. going for whatever job we could get. i stayed home with our daughter when my husband went off to

college to become an automotive technician and his been able to support us fantastically doing that. until a few years ago when a workers comp injury completed took her shoulder out of commission. there was one thing that brought me was watching the workers comp rates this last year. basically this candidacy, i never imagined i would ever run for office. it was definitely not on my bucket list of things to do. but 2016 changed a lot of things for a lot of people. this candidacy was born out of my frustration for the current political climate. we went from not being able to talk about politics to not talking to each other at all because of politics. i am hearing all the time that family members are not speaking to each other just because they supported somebody differently in the 2016 election. this candidacy was also born out of my desire to increase civic engagement in a local and state levels. one thing that came out of 2016

was realizing that everyone put all of this focus on the top of that ticket. and we lost so badly all the way down. i truly believe the worst thing to happen to the state of iowa was not president trump. it was granted and publicans a trifecta in the statehouse. [applause] and when we handed them the trifecta they had the opportunity to do so many good things. they could have fixed healthcare for us. they could have given more funding to education and instead, they decided to pass the bills in the middle of the night taking away women's right to choose from a dead bill that they resurrected, they decided to go after workers rights. they literally put billboards on the outside of the state of iowa saying cheap labor here. going after work comp is one of the best in the nation. they made it so much worse. that is not the kind of iowa that we believe in.that we

think that we definitely going in the wrong direction there. and then also i am up here because of my advocacy for getting money out of politics. [applause] i jumped into this race early. like i said, not in intention of running after the 2016 election we started and indivisible iowa group in west branch. we expanded and included all of district 73. and it just kept growing and we made it one of our number one priorities to find someone against my opponent, who i shall not mention his name, he does not need the recognition. [laughter] because he had been unopposed in 2016. and so we made it one of their top arteries and i started following him around. getting to know him as my representative and the more i saw the way he treated the constituents in our district and after i tried talking to him about the way he treated people and he reassured me that

it was just him, he was proud of it, i decided i had to step in. because -- [applause] thank you. when one of my main goals was to give people more involved -- get people more about the politics and the very time they reach out to their representative, if they read greeted with rudeness, had teachers feel like they had no right to ask him questions because of the way he responded back to them. and so, it was after one of our forums i got out of the car with my husband i said i think i'm going to run against coffman. and he looks at me and says well, i was wondering when you were going to figure that out! so here we are! that was 19 months ago. and i have had so much fun over the last 19 months getting to know people in the district. getting to hear the stories that tell a completely different story than the numbers that our republican opponents are saying from the top of iowa. tell me how the unemployment rate is affecting people are not making enough to make ends meet? tell me how our revenues

rising, where they are cutting taxes we had a revenue crisis two years and in a row. then i have a sudden bump in revenue when they borrow from the general fund. it is like they think we forget. what is happened in the last year. and so, in the last 19 months we have been proving that politics can be civil. you don't have to run a negative campaign. you just have to show people who you're fighting for and the policies you're fighting to put in place. we are proving that politics, citizens can enact change on a local and state level. i've taken several groups to the statehouse and we have advocated for alzheimer's, dyslexia, school funding, we have gotten things passed but also, every time we can get more people to step into the statehouse and realize this is our house, these are our people, they were sent there to

represent us, we've got to get more people involved in politics and we have to keep letting them know their voice can be heard. and so i'm ready for district 73 because i'm going to be a voice for everyone in our district. regardless of which party they belong to. i truly believe that if we can agree on the issues affecting all of us, there is room for us to find common ground and timely solutions to fix them. i went have the ability to fix iowan -- finally with help from so many of you we have proven of the last 19 months that campaigns can be run by people. we have had no pac money in this and we have surpassed all of our fundraising goals. and because of generosity of you in the room and so many in my district and beyond, i have not had to spend hardly any time fundraising. i've been able to spend all of my time at the doors. knocked over 12,000 doors in the campaign and we are not slowing down now.

[applause] i am sure some of you have seen our yard signs up. we are in radio, we are in the newspaper, we've had a fantastic letter to the editor. showing in all the local newspapers and we will keep fighting in these last 23 days and we would love for you guys to get more involved. we are set up every day over in the office, it is a pink castle in cedar street in tipton. can't miss it! we have a nice -- on the main stretch but also and west branch. please come out and knock doors with us, help us from the top of the ticket all the data we need to elect everybody on the ballot. [applause] and so it is my pleasure to get introduced the next speaker really does not need any introductions at all!

dave has been an absolute fixture here for us. in the johnson county area and the second district and he has spent far too long being alone over there in dc. and it is up to all of us here in iowa to make sure that we can send -- to go join him in dc. thank you. >> thank you. [applause] thanks everybody! thanks everybody! really appreciate it, thank you! wow! what a great crowd! i think i saw a lot of your three weeks ago by bruise and barbecue, didn't i? i think a whole bunch of you were there. that was a great event! it is so good to be here tonight i do want to thank jodi, give it up for another time. thank you!

before i get too far down the road had to think the most important person in the room tonight. that is my wonderful wife over there. [applause] all right. the only problem will begin around the district together is, i am the driver and i don't get to take a nap. she does, you know? because i usually get to take a nap time to time but not the last few days. i've been getting a lot. we went to davis county, yesterday and i got home pretty late last night. then we started out in cedar county than in clinton county. now we are here only three events if you like i am slouching off today doing three things. but it is so much fun just getting out and trying to do what i can for as many candidates as i can. not take my race for granted at all. you're not taking mine for granted, are you? all right, thank you very much i appreciate that! don't forget the donald trump

won by four percent so nothing is a given. at all! this time around i have to tell you, but i do want to thank chris and all of the democrats for all of the great work today. i know a lot of people put a lot of work into this and i really appreciate all that they did. give a big round of applause. thank you![applause] i take up most of my speech thanking people quite honestly! but you know, in johnson county, we always do really well for democrats, always. and this year is not going to be any exception to that rule. and i gotta tell you, this group flip it, i don't know if it's been talked about or not. i mean, what a great group! all right? it's like we know we are going to win our johnson county races so let's try to help other

people outside johnson county. and what a great idea that has been. having a lot of events for a lot of folks running for state legislative seats outside johnson county. i just think it's been wonderful doing that i think it's fantastic. i want to thank them so much for everything they are doing. we have some people running in johnson county have opponents. and i will try to overlook those folks but we do have at the supervisor level, we do have two democrats and one republican running for two positions. so do not forget, make sure that you vote in that race. and that you vote for pat and janelle. really, we cannot -- [applause] we cannot overlook that. and look, that is in no small measure, because of the way that the current secretary of state in the current

legislature decided to do these elections. not only just 29 days ahead of the election can you vote absentee instead of 40. but there is no straight party voting any longer. i will be at the top of the ballot that after the first time around in 06 too. it would be great if we could push a button or fill in a box there and for all democrats. you cannot do that this time. you have to make sure that you fill in all of the -- right travis? travis knows, he is our auditor, he knows how it works. so don't forget the other races. vote for me, please. vote for hubble and heart and all of these other folks but then keep going and you have to do it individually. it is really important. i'm really happy that we got so many folks here tonight. speaking. i have not heard andrew yang before. thank you for being here, wherever he is.

[applause] and -- made my event a huge success two years ago then part of it this year as well. i don't know -- there she is! thank you so much. i will see on november 13. maybe even before that, thank you! so wonderful. oh my gosh. and certainly, you know, senator merkley, he's just a great progressive voice. just so fantastic. let's give him another round of applause too. [applause] i'm not overlooking our other one, i will introduce him in just a minute. what i want to say tonight, i do talk about a lot of issues when i am doing speeches like this. and i probably talk about the same issues that everybody else talked about. there are so many things that we have to be concerned about as a country. because of who our president is in because of who is in control

in washington d.c. and in iowa. it is the same party with no answers but only in ideology. that is what, it is in ideology. it is an ideology that basically says, government good, free market or government-backed, free market good. okay? that is why at the federal level, republicans cut taxes by over $1 trillion. and 83 percent of that went to the richest among us and corporations. all in anticipation that they would then cut social security and medicare. that is the idea! that is really what they know that they want to do. in fact, they've even stated that on occasion. all right?it is the same group that in the state of iowa, decided they are going to take this medicaid pot of money that comes from the federal

government, i'm talking about this because it's a federal program folks, okay? take the same pot of money and instead of giving 3 to 5 percent, to the state that was administering medicaid, they're going to give 12 to 14 percent to private insurance companies because somehow, the government can't do it as well as the market. we know better than that because it is like arithmetic. if your $500 billion, and you're going to give these insurance companies three times as much to administer it, that means you have that much less money for the providers. that much less money for the children. that much less money for really the least powerful among us, the disabled. all of those folks who were on medicaid. all of those folks who need that health insurance. as far as i'm concerned, this election is about the same thing. at both the federal and the state level folks. it is about making sure that the middle class and those who want to get into the middle

class, have the opportunity to thrive in this country. that is what this is all about folks. [applause] that's what this is about. and we have a lot of things we can talk about. a lot of things to talk about tonight. but for me, i got to tell you, the overarching, overriding theme of all of this is opportunity. and i don't need to go through all of my story you know the about me growing up in poverty with my single-parent mother 1/11 grade education. i wouldn't be here if it weren't for the opportunities that i got provided to me. not just by my family and my community and my teachers, public schools, all the rest. but by the democrats who are responsible for social security and medicare. because i got social security survivor benefits after my dad died to get me through iowa state university. that is why i'm running for this job folks. to provide those opportunities

for folks. [applause] that is what this is about. and look, at the state level it is the same thing. they cut the taxes, most of it went to the rich and then they gave one percent allowable growth education. i mean that is completely unacceptable as far as i'm concerned. and look what happened at the university here. cutting the labor center, all of these things. this is totally unacceptable for me folks. is it unacceptable for you? [applause] we have to change us. all right? we have to change it. we have these great candidates. great candidates! i've been doing this since 2006 but i have been involved in a lot longer than that. -- in 1982 i moved to mount vernon, iowa. remember david osberg? i truly have never seen anything like what we are seeing right now in terms of

how great these candidates are. we have 95 i think it is, 95 or 96 of the 100 house seats, leave a democrat running in those seats. that is astounding folks! [applause] that is astounding! and by the way, i am going to do what i can to help as many of those people as i can. we have to do that. we have to come together on this. in the state senate is a tough one too. but boy oh boy, we one person here did not me to leave him out because he is part of johnson county. that is kevin kenny. we made to make sure he stays in there. [applause] thank you, kevin! thank you! and look, i am leaving somebody out. i'm sorry about that. zach has an appointment, i know. i was not trying to leave him up at hopefully it will all work out for zach really well. right? okay? all right? it is going to work out.

you know about me, he has an opponent, make sure you vote for joel, okay? [applause] thank you. i'm going to be in big trouble when this is all over. hopefully you will forgive me. but look, a couple of more things on that. we need to make sure that we get these statewide -- tim was just here talking to that guy was fantastic! he comes from a former background, a great family, his dad was in the state legislature. as he said, he worked for usda, this guy ought to be the next secretary of agriculture. there's no question about that. tim gannon has the qualifications, he's got the drive, he knows how to take care not only of agriculture but water and all the rest. also, rob, he is going to be the state auditor.he knows what the job entails, right?

okay? and then, who do have run for secretary of state? i bet everyone here knows. deirdre. i'm going to hitch my wagon to anybody and everybody. whether they are down ballot or whatever the case may be because this ticket is so strong. deirdre has her own following too. and she's going to get -- to be go back to a 40 day pre-election. for all absentee ballots. so we don't have these silly id laws. that restrict our right to vote. she is absently fantastic. what i'm saying about them is that you know, some of us have been around a little while, right? we will be around forever. we have a heckuva bench on the democratic party side. i really believe that. these are great leaders who are going to do great things. they really are. and then finally, look -- you have to think about the power

that the governor has in the state. and what this governor has done with that power. wouldn't it be nice if we had a democrat who is going to appoint a board of regions for these institutions? wouldn't that be fabulous? [applause] i think that would be great. we have to make sure, i mean i'm not happy that they took heart for my district we have to fill her seat now but i'm happy because she's absolutely fabulous. i have no doubt that if we do our job, if we get the vote out, we can get out there, we can make sure that fred hubbell and rita hart are elected next governor lieutenant governor and then, we can get the house back here in iowa i believe. i think we actually have a shot at the senate. and then i can get two maybe even three more colleagues i am a lonely guy in the u.s. congress being the only democrat. and then we can set the stage

for 2020 when all of the presidential come to iowa and they want to sit down with you and have coffee and you have to do it three or four times before you decide who you will support. that's what this is going to be about after november 6. setting the stage to get this guy the heck out of the white house. thanks everybody! thank you. [applause] thank you! [cheers and applause] thanks, thank you! all right. thanks everybody! no, i'm not giving of the speech. you are lucky. i'm going to introduce governor inslee. i did some the things he wanted me to do but not all of them. which committee i was going to be on and that kind of thing. jay is a smart guy. he knows a lot about a lot of

things. you know, he's an expert on the environment, he will talk about that. i'm really happy that he happens to be my daughter's governor as well. in the state of washington. that is pretty cool. the congresswoman, but look, a couple of things about jay that you need to know. when this president, when this president tried to crack down on immigration affecting muslims, coming from other countries, jay was there. and then, and then when the president invited some leaders and to talk about guns and safety in all of the rest, do you know what his response to him directly was? do you know what it was? i have it right here. how about tweeting less and acting more? less tweeting and more action. that is what jay, jay has

courage, okay? i'm not going to spend anymore time introducing him except to say that he abandoned us in the house of representatives when he decided to run for governor. but he's been absently fantastic governor. please welcome governor jay inslee. [applause] >> thank you dave! think you for the invite. can we get a round of applause for our veterans, dave, thank you. i appreciate that. i was figures tonight, i have enjoyed them i've been around for 25 years. i've been a legislator and the governor. and i like the speeches. i like the speech. i liked it. i like that when she said in hawaii they have a word, aloha.

in washington we have a word. and that word is vote. vote republicans out of office, anyway. just like the register you should do. i am a son of a biology teacher and a coach and a retail clerk. i want to share with your vision that i believe this iowa, this washington and this united states. it is based on three principles. number one, just as sure as there is corn in iowa, fred hubbell is going to be the next governor of the state of iowa. that is number one. number two, number two, because johnson county has the most

scientifically literate people in the united states, and because it believes in science, i know this county understands the climate change is the existential threat to our civilization and we will defeat it starting right here in johnson county. that is number two. number three. number three, i have learned something and i will share with you. and fred hubbell is going to come to enjoy, that is this. it doesn't matter how much donald trump tweets. it doesn't matter how chaotic he is. he cannot stop us in the states for making progress to help working families and stop getting all the benefits the rich in the nation. he cannot stop us from doing this. i want to talk a little about the first principle, about fred. the reason i'm here is i'm chairman of the national governors association.

annotated, their governors races across america this year. i'm quite confident and i am feeling good about fred's race and i want to tell you why this is.he is running against an accidental governor. who has done nothing but cause accidents in iowa since she's been governor. okay? this medicaid scandal is a train wreck. she has not helped build an educational system. she is not helped get clean energy jobs. and she needs to be retired to public life. that is just a simple statement.and we have a candidate, i've come to know fred. and i know little bit about governors. this guy has what it takes to be a great governor. i will tell you why. number one, he has always stood for values.planned parenthood, even when he was not a candidate for office. he has stood up helping clean water, constitutional amendment. even when he was not running for office. he has been a great executive.

this guy has the chops, the smart and find to be the next great governor in the state of iowa. i fundamentally believe that. [applause] if i can, let me address this issue of climate change. want to take a minute to talk with you in a sober sided way about this. there is a reality that we have come to understand. we are the first generation to be stunned by climate change. and we are the last generation that can do something about it. i'm here to tell you why i am excited about that challenge. my i feel lucky about that challenge. and why i am in undaunted on the challenge. there are several reasons. first, we need to understand we have a noble task before us. i was too young to really march with john lewis and martin luther king. but i'm not too young to help

rescue a planet for our grandchildren. we are trustees of the earth for our children. this is a moral cause. and it is a moral cause which we cannot fail. so whatever you think of this science, i believe that we live in a very precious moment. because there is nothing better in life than being allies with people who are willing to take on a tough challenge together and realize they have dedicated themselves to a moral cause so they do not live in the tri-lights of a timid but are willing to stand up with the bold and beat climate change. i want to thank you for being with me on that journey. [applause] we are lucky, we are lucky to live in this moment. this is a perfect moment to be alive. and we know that at the moment where the only party that

provides hope iowa or washington or the united states and for that matter, the world. the second reason is this. we know this is a great moment if peril, of the darkness and the climate in washington d.c.. but also a moment of promise. this is a time of peril and promise. because while the forest are burning in my state, we also have the promise up solar costs have come down. by the way mike, your supervisor read my book. i wrote a book about this the only guy ever met that actually read my book. thank you, mike! thank you! it turns out i was right. solar costs has come down 85 percent. this is peril and the oceans are citified. but it is promise were not getting commercially available electric cars.there is peril all over in hurricanes and our hearts go out to hurricane

victims in florida, throughout the states. but there is promise by growing jobs by the bucket full. isn't it great that we can say here tonight, that the fastest growing segment of the united states economy is in clean energy jobs.and right here in iowa it is true as well. the fourth reason that we ought to be confident about this. i've been at this for about a decade and 1/2. i was with some people in this room, with al gore.by the way, anne-marie helped me in my 1998 race. how about a round of applause for annamarie for tonight and get them elected. 1998. [applause] what used to be a graph on a chart about climate change, is now a forest fire with smokes about your kids can't go outside in seattle.

ash on the hood of your car. hurricanes it seems like every week. mudslides, the public is ready for this. if you find a democrat that says we can't win, send them to me. we can win races on this issue. and this must be a front burner issue for the democratic party. i believe that. last point i just want to make. this is personal with me. i live in a beautiful state like iowa. i have three of the cutest kids in the state of washington. and i want them to have what i have. one day i was out fishing with my dad, i was five years old. we were in the fog couldn't see anything. then i heard this -- i said dad, what's that? and he said, i think those are killer whales. and i said, killer whales? what is a killer whale? that did not sound good to me. he told me they are orcas.

if you ever heard a will breathing you are part of the earth. my children, and my grandchildren and those of i will have a beautiful iowa and beautiful washington because it is a beautiful and i want to thank you for that. thank you for helping me. this year, this year, we got on my ballot and initiative for the first carbon pollution in the united states. i intend to get it passed. we are moving, last thing i want to finish with you. and the fed is going to learn this. donald trump is a nightmare. but he cannot stop us in our states. think about what we have done. we have blown up the republican myth in my state that if you take care of working people, it will hurt your economy. or if you have clean air it will hurt your economy. baloney! look at what we have done in my

state. i am the first governor to make net neutrality law in the united states, the state of washington. i have the best, i passed the best family policy in the united states and i am proud of that. we have raised our minimum wage.we have passed the best voting rights measures in the united states to defeat the voter suppression efforts of the republican party. we are moving, we are moving in our state. we have passed the biggest infrastructure package $70 billion worth of jobs for machinists and electricians and laborers and carpenters when they cannot build a birdhouse in the white house. so we are ready to move forward. and what we know is this, donald trump cannot stop fred or me in a progressive politics. he cannot stop us. from policies that will help the middle class. he cannot stop us from

protecting our clean air against climate change. he cannot stop us from getting health care for the people he deserves. he knows he cannot be stopped. you cannot be stopped. i cannot be stopped. early to bed, early to rise, work like hell and organize. let's go elect some democrats this year. good luck to everybody! thanks a lot. let's go and win! thank you. [cheers and applause] >> with midterm elections just days away, watch the competition for the control of congress. on c-span. see for yourself, the candidates and the debates from key house and senate races. make c-span your primary source. for campaign 2018. cracks two life campaign 2018 debates coming up later today on our companion network c-span

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or harry truman. and there is not going to be an objective history done on this administration for a long time. it is not too soon to judge on some aspects of his legacy. i mean it is not too soon to judge on the war in iraq. why? because it did not accomplish what he thought it was going to accomplish before he started the war. it cost 4000+ american lives, it cost $2 trillion and i think i write my book and i don't think that this judgment will change. that it was one of the biggest strategic blunders in american history. >> james mann, sunday night at eight eastern on c-span q&a. up next, remarks and former new jersey governor, chris