[applause] . >> try this one more time. aloha. now we are on the same page. i always want to start conversations with aloha. you cannot say that without smiling first of all, were being transported to the sunny paradise. but most importantly you cannot say aloha without saying love. and during the east times

divisiveness the darkness and hatred and bigotry surrounding us when we need to be surrounded by love. the deepest sense of the word i come to you with an open heart and respect with the recognition we are interconnected and whether i come from hawaii or you are from iowa how you choose to love or where you come from based on these common principles and values of our humanity. it's very easy for us to talk about and get angry and frustrated of destructive policies coming out of the white house to be sucked into

a darkness when you turn on cable news. it is important to recognize also that there are people suffering in your communities that the challenges before us that that comes other opportunities because we know the only way to overcome those challenges is with the power of us of people standing together not in darkness but in love. [applause] unfortunately people confuse love with weakness. they confuse love and aloha to be passive to sit on the

sidelines to fight for that which you love. it is so important to be ourselves and who we love most in our life. what is it we love the most? how far we go to fight for those we love? this is where it comes to the aloha when we think about who we love abraham i love him very much. we think about our families and friends and the people who we work with and communities that we are reminded of the interconnectedness we all have his people and then we realize and remember no force more powerful than love because

that motivates us to fight for our neighbors and living wage so people who are working more than one job can keep a roof over their heads and support their families. to recognize every single one of us who may be sick or in need could have access to the care we need. [applause] and so to deal with and are very real way by these elections are so important in the leaders you elect have an impact on our every day life for clean water and clean air for the future in for our planet because we know without these things it motivates us

to fight for peace peace is what gives us our future. piece for us here at home and other parts of the world understanding the cost of war and the trillions of dollars we have spent of your money since 9/11 alone on the regime change wars of choice. to take a toll on our troops. and then to invest and rebuild our communities right here at home. this is what is at stake and what can be accomplished stand together motivated by the most powerful force of love.

i am inspired by the words of doctor king always when you see those obstacles are just too great at the darkest of times darkness cannot drive out darkness only light can do that. hatred cannot drive out hatred. it is these words that need to be the daily mantra now more than ever. [applause] in these words that inspire us as we gain inspiration from each other to knock on the doors and make those phone calls and how those tough conversations with people who

disagree with you who think i'm on the opposite team i am one of the other guys. but to bring it back in all that we share in common. heading into the next three weeks because you are working hard knocking on doors getting the turnout to recognize the challenges are great but for us that local state and national government of and by and for the people to be accountable to we the people. not special interest if not millions or billions of dollars what lined their pocketbooks with each of our

communities that is taking place that's hurting us and those who need help the most. that we are taking care of our veterans please stand up and allow us to thank you for your service. please. [applause] those who have seen the cost of war fight harder for peace. and to be motivated by the core principle service before self and country before self this is what binds us together

to have such a beautiful diverse country we must be united on these principles of service, love, and freedom. thank you for what you do and inviting me to come back onward to november. thank you so much. aloha. . >> thank you so much now is a democratic treasurer. [applause] many of you may recall jun juned senator jeff merkley went

down to brownsville texas and to say he visited al qaeda. and to show the nation with the cruel separation of children from the families and that trip to help ignite a nationwide outrage of what was going on. senator merkley doesn't just talk the talk. he walks the walk whether fighting for civil rights for clean and renewable energy it is my pleasure to welcome the

united states senator merkley senator merkley. [applause] hello iowa. how are you? ready to create a blue wave to reverberate across the state? i have got to tell you this is what we the people democracy looks like showing it to the world. there is a whole lot that really doesn't look like we the people democracy. for example, the republicans tried to pass a health bill to strip health care from 30 million americans. that isn't we the people democracy. what about health care medicare for the sick and

injured? and in that process take that opioid epidemic and take on the drug companies american should not pay more than europeans or canadians and they are invented right here in the united states of america. [applause] the second thing republicans are determined to do to borrow and take one train and a half dollars out of the treasury to give it to the wealthiest americans in the most powerful corporations. i do a lot of town halls i've done 316 while i've been a senator. one every ten days and the majority of the republican counties not in the blue counties is anyone ever said i have a great idea let's take money out of the national treasury to give it to the richest among us. don't we have enough income

inequality already? how about fighting for the middle class america and lifting up the middle class to take back that 1 trillion and a half back invest in health care and education and infrastructure. [applause] we the people democracy does not look like betsy t five. >> it doesn't look like scott pruitt fortunately we kicked out but it took a long time to do it but here's the thing. depending on what happens 23 days from now if democrats can take the u.s. senate there is no more betsy devoss or scott pruitt.

[applause] and no more packing the court like brett kavanaugh. [applause] i have to tell you i was so deeply disturbed by what happened last week first we didn't have his full record because the president took privilege on 100,000 documents to prevent us from reviewing the record and the judiciary did not stand up for the senate to insist we get the documents. that is a damage to the u.s. senate and our process for confirmation. i would like you all to send a message to one of your senators to say next time stand up for the sun and get the documents to have a real review of a supreme court nominee. [applause]

this is the first time in us history this has happened that the president has reached out to prevent the senate from reviewing the record of the nominee and taken seriously by the court we had a hurt on - - a hearing scheduled last tuesday but the vote was three days earlier on saturday but let us never again under the separation of powers of the constitution let the president prevent the senate from doing his job or anybody from letting people like brett kavanaugh onto the court. [applause] another thing that doesn't look like we the people democracy is to have our government go to the border and criminalize families fleeing persecution ripping children out of their arms to send the parents off to prison. that is not the vision of lady liberty.

give us your tired and you're poor and huddled masses almost all of us our ancestors fled religious persecution and famine and conflict and came here to build a stronger better your beautiful nation with immigrants fleeing persecution awaiting asylum hearings with respect and dignity. i exposed what was going on with the child separation the administration came up with a new plan with an executive order tuesday to authorize what was happening so we stopped that in congress than the president said authorize

internment camps we can lock up the whole family. the house of representatives actually passed that bill there are 35 senators that signed on to a bill to allow internment camps how about we have every democrat in the country to say no internment camps? [applause] so this last week i filed a bill it is straightforward no internment camps in the united states of america act. let's do that in january when congress comes back let's do that in january when congress comes back i come from a blue-collar family my dad was a mechanic believing so much in the power of education and that vision if you walk through the doors of the school house here in america and work hard you can do almost anything and that is what he would preach but that isn't true if we don't invest

in education. here in iowa the investment of education has been slipping so let's take over the iowa house and iowa senate on novembe nove. [applause] there is so much that can be done here in the state it reminds me of oregon when the republicans controlled the house and senate i organize democrats we took back the senate and the house and we had an agenda to fought for housing, education, living wage jobs and stewardship of our planet. let me tell you, we have an enormous challenge with carbon pollution damaging our planet with climate chaos. we see it in the fires in the west and the hurricanes in the south and greater flooding and

routes in the heartland. let's work together on behalf of this generation and the next generations to come to completely transition 100 percent fossil fuels of clean and renewable energy to save our planet. to do all these things we have to take seriously our constitution and this is in full swing it is voter suppression and you see that right here in iowa had dark money from citizens united it floods into iowa and it is also gerrymandering and here is a complement to iowa because you have a nonpartisan commission that is a model for the nation let the nation adopt the iowa model. [applause]

we have to do everything we can with that dark money issue and with voter suppression because those are the tools of 1 percent to steal the we the people democracy from us do it through legislation by taking the house and senate at the national level and you are in a position to spend additional but dave needs company send him more democrats. [applause] what a beautiful thing that would be and a statewide election is here and then we can celebrate to reclaim our democracy we will take on the corruption. we have to and that and the generation is coming to that i feel so privileged to be a part of this federal discussion as a blue-collar kid and sees the challenge for working families every day. we can do better let's aim our

sites high and know that when we work together nothing is unachievable. we can do it here in the united states for education and health care and the planet and living wage jobs let's start with a powerful way novemh right here in the state of iowa. thank you very much. god bless you. [applause] . >> thank you senator. we appreciate your leadership in our next speaker is next. >> good afternoon. my name is mike and the chair of the johnson county board of supervisors what an awesome event of this is i am so

honored to share the stage with all of these candidates and elected officials. it's also been a great source of pride for me to serve as the county supervisor the last four years. [applause] we have a wealth of opportunity in this day and an awesome responsibility that wealth of opportunity is that we are first in the nation and 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 like barack obama. we launched him we need to launch the next challenger to the current president. we have 447 days until the iowa caucuses that is a lot of shopping days until christmas so i'm asking everyone to keep an open mind we have a lot of great people here today we will have a lot more may be between 20 and 25 people

running for the democratic nomination. that's a lot. it's our job to start weeding them out so listen to what they have to say with their policies make the decision that best matches your hearts and values i met this gentleman to you on - - months ago i was impressed with his out-of-the-box thinking with a 43 -year-old serial entrepreneur from new york city and he has an idea called universal basic income that is very unique i don't think anybody else will run on it or anybody else won't run on the metric system either but listen to what he has to say because it's very important so without further ado andrew yang. [applause] . >> thank you mike.

thank you for the privilege of this opportunity to address you all. iowa you don't know how good you have it here is a place where democracy works the way it was originally intended. what a joy it has been i know the other candidates that you are supporting this november make sure they win in november but congratulations to everyone running for office. [applause] your phenomenally dollars i'm here from new york city and i'm here with a question that has been plaguing many americans that you have been thinking about, a hard question to ask and answer. why did donald trump win iowa by nine points? why did he win michigan? ohio? pennsylvania? missouri? wisconsin? why did he win all of those states in 2016 when many were

blue or purple prior? i am a serial entrepreneur i like numbers. i like math so i dug into the numbers asking why he is our president today and there is a very strong correlation between the adoption of industrial robots in the voting district in the movement toward the republicans over the last eight years the reason why donald trump is our president today we automated away for a million manufacturing jobs in michigan, ohio, pennsylvani michigan, ohio, pennsylvania, wi and 40000 right here in iowa over that. hmmm if you personally know they have lost his or her job in the last number of years? mitch told me what happened in his town when the factory closed. we know what happens in those communities that blue turns to red that happens more and more around the country how many of you have noticed or friends closing in your town here in

iowa? you have lost 12000 retail jobs over the last eight years why is that? why are your storefronts closing? it used to be walmart but what's the new answer? amazon. $20million going to e-commerce each year are now pushing your mainstream stores into oblivion what happens to the manufacturing jobs will happen to retail and call centers truck driving's i was thrust into the biggest truck stop in the country. [laughter] [applause] and they talk about 5000 truckers come in every day there are over 30000 truck drivers here in iowa my friends in silicon valley are working on trucks that drive themselves and they are this close to getting there they are chasing that dream. it isn't a dream it is reality because it is tens of billions

of dollars on one side you have $168 billion of annual incentives to automate truck driving in on this side you have three.5 million truck drivers including 30000 iowans another 5 million who work in the truck stops or hotels or diners that they use when they stop so if you reflect what will happen to those businesses when the trucks no longer stop because they don't have drivers? we are in the third inning of the greatest transformation in the history of our country and the third inning brought us donald trump what about innings four and five and six and seven? it will get worse before it gets better artificial intelligence is real artificial intelligence and retail and call centers truck driving and manufacturing will shrink there are communities in iowa under attack you are

sucked up into the cloud to go off to the coast and that is why you are losing and donald trump is our president today. i dug into the numbers and said what are we going to do about it? the guy who used to run the largest labor union in the united states said the future of labor is called raising the floor if you like books about labor he said the future of labor is no labor we need to evolve and adapt i have adopted his plan as a centerpiece for the presidency which is the freedom dividend were every american gets $1000 a month free and clear paid for by a new tax that benefits from technology and automation. every adult gets $1000 a month free and clear how many of you think that's too good to be true?

that's fantastic most of you don't. [laughter] how many of you knew a law just like this passed in 1971 under nixon milton friedman and mlk was for it thousand economist said this to be great for the economy there is one state biggest between one and $2000 per year how do they fund that? what is the oil of the 21st century? technology. software and artificial intelligence we will do what alaska did for the people here in iowa and around the country $1000 a month for every adult is $16 billion is in your hands every year with main street businesses to create 40000 new jobs in perpetuity because right now 50 percent of an percent of fellow americans cannot afford an

unexpected 500-dollar bill they get $1000 a month where will it go? health care. car repairs it will stay right here in iowa that is how we build the trickle up economy from the people and families and communities go up that trickle-down nonsense that we know does not work. we need to build a human centered economy. number two moved to medicare for all. [applause] in the richest country in the history of the world when we get sick we worry more about our health care than getting well and then third to measure the economy differently right now gdp will keep going up even though more of us are left behind so i will ask you how would you like to measure the economy if i say gdp is a worthless measurement?

. >> cost of living and affordability. what else? prosperity. i will take it. life expectancy childhood success rates. hmmm if you are parents? mental health and freedom from substance abuse environmental sustainability, label one - - level of engagement we invented gdp less than 100 years ago one it is a terrible measure it on - - measurement we should not use that number to include parenthood and motherhood do not include national defense because it has no value of course, we ignored all of those and i have to say my wife is at home with our two boys and one has special needs and she works much harder than i do right now gdp evaluates are at what?

zero we know that's nonsense she's doing more than the hedge fund analyst. [cheers and applause] we need to evolve our measurements to a new economy that represents our well-being and that is a challenge you have a unique responsibility as the democrats of iowa it doesn't feel this way but you are uniquely powerful to change the course of history you have done it before and you'll do it again and i will close with a story from washington d.c. i went to the numbers with senior government officials to say we have automated away our jobs 30 percent of malls will close do you know, what they said? take this to heart they said you are in the wrong place because washington is not a town of leaders but followers

they will never do anything about this the only way we will wake up as if you create a wave in other parts of the country to bring that crashing down on her head in dc that is why i'm with you tonight to create that wave can we create that wave democrats of iowa? [cheers and applause] yes we can. we can build a new economy for our communities. we need to solve it i hate to bestow this upon you but it is the case it is up to you the democrats of iowa to address the problem that got donald trump elected no one else will do it the opposite of donald trump is an asian man who likes math. [laughter] [applause] so together let's create that blue wave here in iowa and in 2020 thank you all democrats.

[applause] . >> talking about blue waves the johnson county democrats tonight johnson county is something special we like to think ourselves as the blueberry the one blue county in the santa suit but there is a small group of you that reminds me every week johnson county is not entirely blue there is one house district represented by a republican the next speaker will change all of that jody is candidate for house district 73. [applause]

. >> thank you so much i was not expecting that kind of a welcome. so those of you who have not met me yet i live in west branch where i have grown up since i was little in a little town called springdale of 100 people my husband and i lived in the des moines area and we knew before my child started kindergarten we want to be back in the hometown so that brought us back over here we started off as teen parents it when i look back over the years she will be 18 this december there is no time. when we have not been rolling with the punches whatever job we could get. i stayed home with our daughter while my husband went

to college to be an automotive technician. he has supported us tremendously but then he took his shoulder out of commission. that also brought me into this fight. so with this candidacy had never imagined i would run for office. definitely not on my bucket list 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 hear family members are not speaking to each other because they supported somebody differently in 2016. also born out of my desire to increase civic engagement at the local and state level.

and for all this focus and we lost so badly the worst thing in the state of iowa was not present tropic giving republicans the trifecta in the statehouse. [applause] when we handed her that we had the opportunity to do so many things and give more funding to education bed instead to pass bills in the middle of the night taking away a woman's right to choose from a dead bill they resurrected. may literally put up billboards around the state where premiums were decreasing for employers with health care and they made it worse. so that isn't the kind of iowa

but we think we're going in the other direction also i'm up here because of my advocacy getting money out of politics. [applause] and not the intention of writing but we started this group in west branch all of district 73 and it kept growing it was one of our number one priorities to find someone to run against my opponent and i shall not mention his name. he does not need the recognition. he has been unopposed in 2016 and to start following him around getting to know him as my representative seeing how he treated the constituents and i try to talk to him about it he reassured me that his

him and he is proud of it i have to step in. [applause] when one of my main goals is to get people more involved in politics in the very first time they are greeted teachers felt like they have no right to ask questions the way he responded back to them. after a forum i said i think i'm going to run against my incumbent and he looked at me and said i was wondering when you were going to figure that out. that was 19 months ago and i have had so much fun getting to know people in the district people that tell a completely different story than the numbers that our opponents are saying from the top of iowa tell me how the unemployment rate is affecting people not making enough to make ends meet.

how the revenue is rising and then they try to say with revenue when they borrowed from the general fund? they think that we forget what has happened. and that politics can be civil you don't have to run a negative campaign to show who you are fighting for in the policies to put in place. that they can enact change taking several groups to the statehouse advocating for alzheimer's, dyslexia, school funding and to get more people to step into the statehouse that this is our house and our people we have to get more people involved in politics.

i am running for district 73 regardless of which party they belong to i truly believe if we can agree on those issues there is room to find the solutions to fix them. iowans have the ability to fix iowans solutions. [applause] . >> we have proven that campaign can be run by people texting all of the fundraising goals and because of the generosity of you in the room and in my district i have not had to spend hardly any time fundraising all of my time at the doors we have not done over 12000 doors and we are not slowing down now.

i am sure you have seen our yard sides - - signs letter to the editor, radio, showing the local newspapers we will keep fighting these last 23 days we would love for you to get more involved. we are set up every day in the tipton office the pink castle on cedar street. you cannot miss it we have a nice turret and also wednesday night in west branch if you would like to get more involved please help us get out the vote from the top of the ticket on the way down. it is my pleasure to get to introduce our next speaker who does not need any introduction at all.

and in the johnson county area spending far too long being alone in dc. thank you. [applause] . >> thank you. thank you everybody. i really appreciate it. thank you. [applause] i saw you a few weeks ago that my bruise and barbecue? it is so good to be here tonight. thanks to jody she is doing a great job.

and then to find the most important person in the room my wife back over there. so i the driver i don't get to take the nap but she does. the drivers don't get to take a nap we went down south west of here got home late last night and we started off in cedar county but trying to do what i can for as many candidates as i can. thank you very much i appreciate that donald trump

one my congressional district by four.1 percent none of this is given at all. but thanks for all of the great work and to appreciate it all and the round of applause. . >> in johnson county we always do really well. always. there is no exception to that rule. that we know we will win the johnson county races with the

help of the people outside of johnson county. and you have a lot of events for those running for the legislative seats outside of johnson county. for everything they are doing. we have some people running in johnson county but we do have at the supervisor level to democrats and one republican running for these positions. make sure you vote in the race. okay? [applause] we cannot overlook that. and in no small measure because of the way the current secretary of state in the current legislature decided to

do these elections. twenty-nine days ahead of the election instead of 40 but there is no straight party voting any longer. i am at the top of the ballot and it would be great if you could push a button or fill in a box we are all democrats but you cannot do that this time. you have to fill in all. so don't forget those other races. vote for me. vote for all of the other folks but you have to do individually it is very important. . . . .

certainly senator merkley is a great voice let's give him another round of applause. [applause] i've talked about the same issue as anybody elsissues anybody el. there are so many things we have to be concerned about as a country because of who our president is and because of who is in a control in washington,

d.c. and here in iowa. it's the same party with no answers but only in ideology. it's an ideology that basically says government good, or government bad, free-market good. at the end republicans cut taxes by over a trillion dollars and 83% of that went through the richest among us and corporations all in anticipation that they would then cut social security and medicare. that's the idea. that's what they know they want to do. in fact he even stated that on occasion. it's the same group who here in the state of iowa decided they were going to take this medicare or medicaid money that comes from the federal government,

take that same pot of money and instead of giving three to 5% they are going to get 12 to 14% to private insurance companies because somehow the government can't do that as well as the market you will get three times as much to the minister that means he will have that much less money for the providers, that much less for the children, that much less for a the least powerful among us, the disabled, all of those folks on medicaid and who need health insurance. as far as i am concerned, this is a the same thing at both the federal and state level. it's about making sure that the middle-clasmiddle class and thot

to get into the middle class have the opportunity to thrive in this country. that's what this is all about, folks. [applause] and we have a lot of things we can talk about, but for me i've got to tell you kind of the overarching overriding theme of all of this is opportunity. maybe i will do my whole story of growing up in poverty and my single-parent mom and 11th grade education. i wouldn't be here if it were not for the opportunity is like opportunities i gotprovided to y family and teacher teachers in e public schools and all the rest. i got social security survivor benefits after my dad died to get me through iowa state university. that's why i'm running for this job, to provide those opportunities for folks.

that's what this is about. that is completely unacceptable as far as i am concerned, and look at the university. cuttinuniversity. cutting to the labor center this is totally unacceptable for me. is it unacceptable for you? we've got to change this. i've been doing this since 2006 but i've been involved a lot longer than that. a lot of you know david and i've got to tell you no offense to anybody else who's going t run e different jobs but all levels of state government in the past. truly i have ever seen anything

like what we are seeing right now in terms of how great these candidates are. we have 95 or 96 of the 100 house seats. we have a democrat running in those seats and that is astounding. i'm going to do what i can to help as many of those people. we've got to come together on this. the state senate we've got one person here i didn't mean to leave him out because he has more jobs in the county. i'm leaving somebody out, no doubt about that. he's got an opponent but hopefully that's all going to work out really well.

i'm going to be in big trouble when this is all over. a couple more things on that. tim gannon was just here talking and he is fantastic. he comes from a farmer background. they've got the qualifications and the drive to. also the state auditor knows what the job entails.

whatever the case may be because this ticket is so strong she has her own following and is going to get the payouts so we go back to the 48 election could come so that we don't b have these silly laws that restrict the rights. these are great leaders who are going to do great things. and then finally you've got to think about the power of a

governor as in the state and what the governor has done with that power. we have to make sure -- i am not happy that they agreed but i'm happy that the it read that thet because she's absolutely fabulous. we can get the house back here in iowa i believe.

when the presidential's, peru anscumthrough and they want to t down with you and have coffee and you have to do it three or four times before you decide. thanks everybody. [applause] i'm not giving another speech. i'm going to introduce jay inslee right now. when i first came to congress, he was there. he knows a lot about a lot of things. he's an expert on the

environment and he will talk about that. i'm happy that he happens to be my daughter's governor as well in the state of washington. a couple things you need to know, when this president tried to crack down on immigration affecting muslims coming from other countries, jay inslee was there to lead the charge against sex discrimination. and then when the president invited some leaders and to talk about guns and safety and all the rest you know what his response was? i've got it right here how about acting more.

i'm not going to spend anymore e time introducing him except to say that he abandoned us in the house of representatives when he decided to run for governor but he has been absolutely contested governor. he is welcome jay inslee. [applause] can we get a round of applause for my friend and our veterans i appreciate that. i've enjoyed the speakers tonight. i like these speeches are.

in washington we have a word and that word is boat. vote the republicans out of office anywhere you can find them just like "the des moines register" said you should do. i'm the son of a biology teacher and they told me a couple things number one stop talking so much and actually do stuff. i want to share with you a vision that i believe this iowa and washington and the united states. fred hubble is going to be the next governor in the state of iowa. that's number one. number two, because some of the

most scientifically literate people in the united states and because it believes in science, i know the county understand that climate change is the existential threat to civilization and we are going to defeat it right here in johnson county. that's number two. number three, i've learned something i'm going to share with you and get something fred hubble is going to come to enjoy. it doesn't matter how much donald trump tweets or how chaotic he is. to stop getting all the benefits of ric rich in the nation he cat stop us from doing it. if i want to talk about the first one. ththe reasoning here is the chairman of the national governors association, and i'm telling you we have a lot of

governors races all across america this year. i'm quite confident of that and i feel good about the race and i want to tell you why this is. he is running against an accidental governor who's done nothing but cause accidents in iowa since she's been governor. this medicaid scandal is a train wreck. she hasn't helped build an educational symptom and hasn't helped get clean energy jobs and she needs to be retired to public life. now that is just a simple statement. we have a candidate. i've come to know fred and i know a little bit about governors. he has what it takes to be a great governor. he always stood up for values even when he wasn't running for office he's been a great

executive and this guy has the smarts to be the next great governor like tom vilsack in the state of iowa. there is a reality that we have come to understand. to be stunned by climate change we are the last generation that can do something about it. there are several reasons. first, we need to understand we have a noble task before us. i was too young to march with john lewis and martin luther king, but i am not too young to

help rescue a planet for our grandchildren. we are trustees of this earth for our children and this is a moral cause in which we cannot fail so whenever you think of the science i believe we are in a very precious moment so being allied with people who are willing to take on a tough challenge together and realize d they dedicated themselves to a moral cause so they are willing to stand up and beat climate change and i want to thank you for being with me on that journey. [applause] we are lucky to live in this moment. it's the perfect moment to be alive and we know at the moment we are the only party that

provides hope for iowa or washington or the united states for that matter the world. the second reason, we note that this is a great moment of peril of the darkness having a climate denier in washington, d.c. that it's also a moment of promise. this is a time of peril and promise because while the forests are burning in my state they've come down 85%. by the supervisor read my book ten years ago about this and said you were the only limits of her read my. [laughter]

there is promise by growing jobs by the bucket full. it is in clean energy jobs that is true as well. [applause] one reason we are to be confident about this after a decade and a half. anne-marie lalonde helped in the race, how about a round of applause for tonight. [applause] now a forest fire with smoke so bad for kids can't go outside in

seattle. send them to me and we can win races on this issue. i want them to have what i had. i remember one day i was fishing with my dad, about 5-years-old we ran a fall day an fault and e anything. all of a sudden i heard this and i said what's that. he said i think those are killer whales and i said killer whales, what is a killer whale that doesn't sound good to me. he told me they are organized into organizing apretty soon cad

if you've ever heard a whale breathing, you are connected to the planet for. i'm dedicated to the propositi proposition. he was a beautiful iowa and beautiful washington because it is our responsibility. last thing i want to finish with you and fred is going to learn this. donald trump is a nightmare but he can't stop us in our states. we've blown up the republican myth in our states if you take care of working people or have clean air it hurts your economy with what we've done in our

state. i'm the first governor to make net neutrality laws in the united states and the state of washington. [applause] i passed the best policy in the united states, and i'm proud of that. we've raised our minimum wage. we passed the best voting rights measures in the united states to defeat the voter suppression efforts of the republican party. we are moving in our state, we passed the biggest infrastructure package $70 billion wort$70 million worr machinists and electricians and chip laborers and carpenters when they can't build a birdhouse in the white house. he cannot stop us from

protecting the clean air visits and climate change. you can't be stopped, i can't be stopped. early to bed, early to rise, work like hell and organize. [applause] [cheering]