senators guillory explained that the chickens can engage in their sport without hurting each other. they put little boxing gloves on them and they fight in rounds so they can get water and cool off. if they're hot they get water and if they're losing they get olive oil, salt and pepper and a squeeze of lemon. plus chicken boxing has strict rules like each combatant shall wear standard fowl safety boxing gear. yes, just your standard fowl safety boxing gear. just check the poultry counter at the sports authority. personally i do hope that includes a mouth guard because i have seen too many chickens without any teeth. sadly, folks, the louisiana senate has rejected this reasonable chicken boxing amendment. but i want to salute guillory for trying to keep big government out of our chicken sporting events. because where does it end? first it's cock-fighting, now chicken boxing, am i going to have to close my chicken dojo? (laughter) what's next, no more poul trie jousting? you tell me, louisiana senate, what manner of chicken combat shall your law allow? just tell us the way we can have

elbert guillory is a republican member of the louisiana state senate. he switched to the democratic party in 2007 and went back to being republican in 2013. he is the first african-american republican in the louisiana legislature since the reconstruction era. he spoke at the annual leadership program of the rockies retreat, a colorado institute that provides economic and political research training. us is 45 minutes. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2014] an honor to introduce our next speaker, who made a bold political move, switching his party, his affiliation, as a sitting state senator, from democrat to republican. senator elbert guillory defended his party transformation in an inspirational youtube video that received over one million viewers. those, by the way. i watched it. i was stunned and moved. it was brilliantly done. i don't forward a lot of things on facebook, but this one i did send to everyone. it was very powerful. his message in the video focused on putting principles before quick results and freedom above all else. s

names like guillory and thibodeau and font know all originate in this area. and i welcome you to upper luces. let me just put my powerpoint away, please. [laughter] [applause] i would like to tell you just a little bit about my family. my dad died at 102, six years ago. he was an educator, among many, many other things, but a very serious educator. my mom died two months ago at 104. she spent 44 years as an educator and teacher and principal. and as you know, i spent one year at rutgers law school, teaching. so education, teaching is an important part of our family and an important part of what we do. today, i would like to do what teachers do, and that is to analyze and grade the performance of our president's administration in one aspect, and that is the american dream. thousands of people every day try to get into this country because they want to live the american dream. how is it working for us who are here? is it being protected? is it being uplifted, or not? so why will present to you a report card -- i will present you a report card of the mayor can d

[applause] now, i can see it on your faces, a lot of you saying elbert guillory you just chose a bunch of subjects where you knew our president was going to get an f. you just came in here to beat up on a real good man. . saw that on somebody's face [laughter] well, i'm a fair and balanced kind of guy. so i look at some topics where he would receive better grades than f's. and here's one. lying. [laughter] the lies of benghazi, the lies of the i.r.s. the lies of military death benefits and you've got an a for that. let me give you something better than that. i know you remember this one. you may keep your health plan, period. a-plus for that one, mr. president. surely there are some other topics where he's excelled and i certainly did search out one. , an a. and vacations a, mr. president. now, you're going to have to work with me on this one. want you to take a look at old photographs and old video of the present president and if you see them and you look at him walk this is what you see. ow, if you look today at him walking, watch when he gets off the helicopter. he's walking up to t

in the wheezy and i will republican senator elbert guillory rates the obama administration. after that, michael lomax on the united negro college fund. glenn greenwald, laura poitras, and others appeared at the sources and secrets conference in march. they have not